“Get your skinny white ass down here“ My aunt shouted from down stairs, she was pissed. You probably are wondering why? Well that is a long story but I’ll give you the short version; Last night, my friends and mutual friends were having a pool party and I wasn’t allowed to go but I being me, went against my aunts rules and went to the party. I did have fun though; it was a blast.
Enough about that, right now I have bigger problems, who am I kidding I’m so grounded! I walked down the hallway and stopped by the staircase. My aunt stood with her hand on her hip and boy did she look angry or what? My big brother Arno was standing behind her with a big grin on his face. Oh how I would love to punch that of his ugly face.
“Well, if it aren’t Mrs. Know-it-all, going to a party when I clearly said you shouldn’t.” she shouted angrily. Well, its time to put my clever stupid brain in use, oh how I hate thinking.
“You see, that is explainable…” I said taking small steps down the stairs
“I didn’t ask for your explanation!” she shouted. There was silence for a minute while she glared at me. She turned around making her way toward the kitchen. Okay, something is missing here; she is not just going to walk away like that. Oh as I was thinking, she stopped, turned and looked me straight in my eyes.
“You grounded for a month; NO CELLPHONES, NO ALLOWANCE AND NO PARTIES!” She said with a small evil smirk on her face.
My mouth fell open as I watched her disappear into the kitchen. That stupid ass called my brother told her. How else could she have found out?
“You little brat!” I said rushing down the stairs. My brother was rolling on the floor laughing
“This is way better than watching a cat fight in Gossip girl,” he said rolling around like an idiot that he is.
“You are going to pay for this!” I said hitting him with my bag, wait a minute. He watches Gossip Girl as in the…what. Whoa, I know my brother is a bit of a wacko, but…is he gay? I mean most guys I know don’t watch Gossip Girl.
“You watch Gossip Girl?” I said looking at him weirdly. He stopped laughing then looked at me
“Dah, I watched all the past seasons," he said standing up and dusting himself
“Talk about drama!” He grabbed his bag from the couch then made a way for the door. Did I just I hear him right, he watched all the past seasons. Let me get this straight, Arno + Gossip Girl = weird!
“Dude, are you gay?” I said
“I don’t watch Gossip girl and I’m a girl, you a boy…at least the last time I checked you had balls” He looked at himself then at me
“Hey, I’m not gay” he choked on his breath, I think he is about to have a heart attack.
“Just because I watch Gossip girl, it doesn’t mean I’m gay. Guys do watch Gossip Girl, I mean you also play video games and eat like a pig, it doesn’t mean you lesbian.” He said freaking out. Oh, this is worth watching, I have never seen him like this. I should pull this card every time he gets on my nerves.
“Chill man, it’s just weird, you know,” I said pushing past him. I opened the door and the fresh morning breeze welcomed me.
“Ah, Life is the wind” I said inhaling the fresh air. Arno pushed me away from the doorframe
“Life is not the wind" he said
“Please stop with your stupid quotes of; life is a cupcake, life is this and that. For crying out loud woman, just live life and stop fussing about it! Don’t. You. Ever. Call .Me. Gay. Ever. Again!" he shouted in my face
“Get off my face” I said pushing his face away. Stupid freak.
All the way to school, we were arguing about him being gay and guys watching Gossip girl. The school old gray building soon came into full view. I could see hundreds of students gathered outside chatting with their friends. The sight of everything and the old rotten smell of books touched my thousand of hands that only the lord know what those hands touched before, irritated my nose.
The student’s uniform wasn’t any better; it made us look like old grannies. Not all of us, the girl with the body and attitude spiced it up a little, maybe a little too much for my liking; some of this girl looked like porn stars in a schoolgirl’s uniform. It was disgusting and traumatizing!
Looking beside I realized Arno was no longer standing there, sometimes I wish I had a younger brother. I took my first step to hell they call school. This people think we stupid, sometimes I think school is just another jailhouse the government created, fancied it up with books and called it school. The school does nothing but make our lives miserable. I made my way towards my friends; my best friend Emily, Jason and Jennifer. I’ve been friends with Jason and Emily since middle school, we met Jen a few months ago, she was the new girl.
“Hey guys, how are you?” I said with a big smile while giving Em a tight squeeze.
“We still breathing, not for long I fear” Jason replied with that stupid tone. No, he doesn’t talk like that often, he doesn’t even use proper English, he talks what he call AfriEnglish. It’s a mixture of African and English, I never quite understood half the things he said even when he was speaking proper English.
“Shut up you idiot!” Jen said,
“We fine and nobody is going to die. It’s just a stupid myth, I mean why else would people still go on with life as if the world is no coming to an end in December 2012? It means nobody believes the bull carp these idiots are telling us!”Jason turned and looked at Jen,
“Are you kidding, did you watch the movie 2012?” he asked Jen. They went on arguing about it for like five minutes while Emily and I just stood there, amused. They make such a cute couple. Yep, they seriously crushing on each other, but neither is willing to admit it.
“Prickle-Pear!” Em said aloud, Jason and Jen stopped arguing and turned and looked at Em.
“What?” they both said,
“Ahhh, you heard me, now will you two stop it! Just kiss already!” Em replied. She looked annoyed because her upper lip was twitching. They both looked at each other
“Hell No!” they both said. We call them Prickle pear because Jen hates Prickles while Jason hates pears, I don’t know why, Pears are so good!
“So how are you?” Em asked me,
“Well, I’m grounded for a month.” I replied biting my bottom lip.
“What?” Em said while Jason was laughing like a clown that he is. Jen turned and smacked Jason’s head
“Stop laughing you moron!” she said angrily.
“Sorry, No need for violence, peace woman, peace.“ Jason said rubbing his head.
“The pool party, I wasn’t allowed to go and…you know the rest,” I said.
“I’m not gonna survive a month without my phone, trust me you’ll be burring me in two weeks time.“ I pulled Em to me
“I’m gonna die of boredom!”
Jason was still laughing while the girls felt sorry for me. At that moment, the bell rang. Great, just what I need.
“Agh” we all shouted. Everyone turned and looked at us, sneering and giving nasty glares. What happened to freedom of speech?
"What, never seen anyone frustrated before?” we all said. Geez, you’ll swear these children at this school take special classes for sneering and glaring, not to mention gossiping! We garbed our heavy sacks from the ground and threw them on our backs.
“I swear It feels like I’m carrying a dead body” Jason complained adjusting his bag. We all made our way to class.
