Screw Up

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"Just don't screw up you've already bunked off the first two days. Your in the same class as Missy you've met her a few times so just find her. Alex is in isolation so she won't see you but tomorrow she will go to school with you . Just be careful Ry. I love you and I don't want you to be a screw up like me your amazing kid." Kyle turned to me he took the lighter from my hand and lit his own fag.

I walked into the now empty playing ground with my fag in hand and entered the reception. 

" No smoking." A voice behind me said. I smirked and turned to see Missy. " Didn't think you'd turn up this day, you've missed so much. Oh you've definitely grown a bit look at those muscles, WOW."

She gestures for me to follow her and she entered an assembly hall filled with other students our age. They all sat on plastic chairs and looked bored.

"Hello Ryan." I turn to see Hayley I take a seat next to her friend. " Razia this is Alex's friend Ryan. Ryan this is Nas's sister."

Before I could say anything a tall man walks in.

"I'm Mr Qureshi. Mate." He said looking at me. "Throw the cigarette away." Standing I walk over  to the window stub out my fag and throw it out the window, I go back to my seat next to Hayley.

"I want to talk to you about safe online interactions. When you send pictures to your boyfriend, your girlfriend, whatever, you gotta remember that picture can end up anywhere." He was interrupted by a woman and a girl entering.

"Couldn't find class." The woman said everyone sniggered at this. The girl went to take a seat next to me.

"Might want to move if you don't want sick all down you." Razia said making gagging noises. Just behind another boy entered holding a duffle bag carefully in the corner of my eye I saw an Asian boy sliding a finger across his throat. 

"I gotta sit next to a racist" said  the girl Razia had said been sick.


Behind me I heard a boy say "Nas Paracha, the year above. Do her and Alex Stefan will do you." That didn't sound like Alex she used to tell me how much she hated the girls who slept with her brother, sometimes even her brother.I remember we used to sit and talk while our brothers and their friends played video games together.

"The way they look at him, the way he looks at them. Like their slabs of meat I hate it."

That is the Alex I know, not an Alex who would sleep with every lad.


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