The Game

Chapter Fourteen - School

Chapter Fourteen - School

Derek gave a long look at this huge building his parents drove him to. It was going to be his school. From what his parents told him School was somewhere great. It was where he would make friends and learn stuff. Derek didn't need that though, he knew everything. Even how to drive a car. You just turned that wheely thingy the way you wanted it to go and the car went that way.

He knew because he drove a car once, he was on his fathers lap, but it still counts!

He saw other kids rush in to school, big and small. Some were accompanied by their mommies and daddies, but the big kids didn't need their parents. They were big enough to ride a bus with other big kids.

Derek was also a big kid. Maybe not as big as the other kids but one day he would be. He couldn't wait for that day. But his parents told him that he would at least have to wait five years. He hated waiting.

“Here we are.” Derek's mother said she sounded more excited than Derek.

Her name was Natalie, but everyone called her Nat. She had blonde hair like Derek. But she had beautiful green eyes. Her pearl like teeth always showed when she smiled like she was smiling right now.

“Are you excited?” Derek heard his fathers voice come from the drivers seat, and he saw his fathers brown eyes watch him through the mirror. He had brown eyes like Derek.

“No...” Derek avoided his fathers eyes. He wasn't excited, but he was scared. And he was afraid that his father might see that too. He was a big boy now. Big boys are brave!

His father head light brown hair but sometimes it would be darker. Derek always forgot his fathers name as everyone called him something else. Derek would call him, 'Dad' his mom would call him 'your father' or sometimes 'Johnny', his uncle Bruce would call him 'John' and everyone else called him 'Mr. Reynolds.'

He heard his father laugh slightly. “Well, surely your mother is.”

“Of course I am! And I know you are too.” Nat smiled at Derek's father. She opened the cars door and got out, Derek followed her.

“I'll see you two tonight, I guess.” Derek's fathers voice came from the car. He had to go to work, Derek knew.

“Bye.” Derek and his mother waved at his father as he drove off.

“Hi.” a girl voice came from the back seat. Derek ignored it but then he felt a poke. “I'm talking to you.”

Derek turned on his seat to look at the girl. “Hello...” he answered calmly. The girl had dark hair, brown eyes. She was smiling at him.

“I'm Jane. What's your name?” she asked.

Derek was a big boy now, so he remembered what big boys on TV did. He grinned and said “Derek Reynolds...” Then winked.

“It's nice to meet you.” Jane kept smiling.

“Yes, it is...” Derek nodded and turned forward again.

Derek laughed lightly at the memory of his younger self. What an idiot he was. He wondered what Jane was doing. Was she thinking about him?

“Derek... Derek..? Derek?!” Derek heard his boss call his name.

“Oh.. Um... Yes.” Derek answered finally.

“You understand the plan, right?” Nate asked doubtingly. Robert Greeb was behind a computer, typing something.