Teenage Antichrist Book One: A Journey of a Sister's Hatred 1991-1992

Chapter Fifty-Four: The Memorial Tree

 It was ten minutes later when John and all the other students had to go inside the school hall for assembly. As he entered the hall he looked around for Natalie and saw her talking to a group of her friends. He was relieved to see that the bruises on her face had healed but he had to know if she was okay since they didn't have a date on Saturday. So he started walking over to her. When it came to her friends Sally was with them and he couldn't understand why Natalie had no problem with her being there considering she had threatened Michelle.

"Hey Natalie," John said.

Natalie looked at him and frowned with confusion as she couldn't understand why he was talking to her.

"Yeah?" Natalie asked confused.

John was a little confused as to why Natalie was talking to him like that because he thought she would have been glad to see him.

"How are you?" John asked as he walked closer to her.

"I'm fine," Natalie said, clearly uncomfortable. "Why do you ask?"

It was obvious to John that she was uncomfortable and he couldn't understand why.

"I just wanted to see if you were okay," he said. "Considering what happened to you on Saturday,"

Natalie instantly went from being uncomfortable to looking and feeling seriously freaked out.

"What are you talking about?" she asked. "Nothing happened to me on Saturday,"

"What do you mean nothing happened?" he asked feeling frustrated.

Natalie had, had enough of talking to him and really wanted him to go away.

"Piss off!" Natalie said sharply.

"Natalie!" John said with surprise.

"She said piss off!" Sally said.

He didn't want to walk away but under the circumstances, he couldn't see that he had any other choice.

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After the assembly, John went to his locker in the locker room to get the books he needed for the day. Michelle's locker wasn't far from his. It didn't bother him that it wasn't being used until he saw something that he didn't expect to see. Another boy walking to it, taking out his locker key out of his pocket and putting they key into the lock. John didn't like that one bit and walked over to him quickly.

"Hey!" John said. "What do you think you're doing?"

The boy looked at him blankly as he thought what he was doing was obvious.

"I'm opening my locker," the boy said.

"That's not your locker," John said sharply.

The boy instantly lost patience with John.

"If it's not my locker then why do I have a key for it, dickhead?" the boy asked aggressively.

"That's Michelle's locker!" John said. "Not yours!"

"Fuck you!" the boy said as he opened his locker. "This is my locker! Take a look, idiot!"

John looked inside and couldn't believe that none of Michelle's possessions were in it.

"How did you get this locker?" he asked.

"I was given this locker by the school," the boy replied. "Now piss off!"

When John arrived at school he had been humiliated by Martin. Before the assembly started he had been humiliated by Natalie. Now he had been humiliated by a boy he didn't even know. Without a doubt, John was on a roll and it was a roll that he didn't like.