A Life That's so Demanding
All the small ones tell tall tales
"Did you or did you not shoot Elena and Cleo with a BB gun." Mr. Way sat at his desk trying to keep the smile from his face.
"Cleo is my sister, what does it matter?" I smiled putting my feet on Sir's neatly ordered desk, I didn't look into his eyes, instead I looked at his bass guitar, it sat in the corner sparkling,
"Riley, Did you shoot them with a BB gun or not" Like literally sparkling it silver glittery body,
"Don't ignore me Riley" the best part was you never see him playing it in school but you could always hear him when you walked past his office during break, he was really good.
"Riley! Listen to me" I was brought out of my thought by his fingers clicking in my face,
"Sorry, Sir"
"Riley, do I have your full attention?"
"honestly Sir, no."
"Riley, if you were any one else I'd have suspended you already" He lent back in his chair,
"Sir, we both know I did, we both know I know I shouldn't have done it so who am I meeting for a detention this lunch Mr Iero?"
"Riley, this is serious, your going to be meeting with Mr. Toro... after school on Friday"
"What? Sir you know I have to pick my brothers up" I removed my feet from the table and stood up,
"Well. I have given you so many warnings and I have tried to avoid it but your really limiting my options, believe me I would love to forgive and forget but my job is to make sure you and all other students are safe on school premises" I stood up from his chair,
"Is there no other time I can talk to this Toro guy"
"Saturday morning"
"What time?"
"7:30"
"Fine, where?"
"here"
"Why here?"
"Because I will be joining you"
"two condition"
"What?"
"I will come on two conditions"
"Okay... and those conditions are"
"You cut out my French, German and half my Science classes and replace them with Art and Music"
"Hang on you timetable says you already 2 full days of art and a full day of music"
"Fine I won't go" I smiled and picked up my bag
"your second"
"What?"
"You said you had two conditions"
"You play bass for me" I pointed the finger towards his guitar
"We'll see how the first session goes"
"First?" What did he mean first, I was going to have to give up
"You have 6 sessions, if the first one goes well and you make it on time I will think about playing for you, If they all go well and you turn up to them all on time and stay until me and Mr. Toro say you can leave in all the sessions go well I'll think about changing your time table" not bad terms I suppose considering I already have an A* in Science and a B+ in French, yeah I'm smarter than people take me for.
"Fine, can I go know I got more duck face's to shoot" I laughed, I turned for the door a second time,
"One more thing" I twisted round, tilting my head,
"Yes?"
"I am going to need to confiscate that BB gun of yours" he held out a hand,
"Fine" If I gave him the BB gun he knew I had that still left the 4 I had in my locker, I slung my bag on the table and unzipped it,
"Here" I said pulling the black pistol from the bag,
"How did you even get this" he said obviously admiring the gun
"that one, my dad"
"he let you get this? my mum didn't let me get this when I was 17 and your like what, 15"
"Yeah, he has his reasons... and I don't want to talk about them" I rubbed my neck awkwardly remembering the situation...
"So how much do you know about this"
"That is a CO2 Blackwater BW1911"
"Why this gun?"
"What do you mean why do I carry it,you can pick up my seemingly empty bag and its so light you wouldn't notice, easily hidden in my jeans and pulling that out of no where is far more scary than pulling something blue out in the middle of a knife fight" Maybe I said to much ,his face dropped,
"So... see you Saturday morning 7:30" He awkwardly opened the door and I walked out as the bell went, I didn't wait to hear the bullet as Mr. Way fired the bun or the high pitched scream as it bounced of something and hit him in the face, I walked slowly along the corridor waiting to be crushed by a mob of people who never seemed to be able to take the world one step at a time.
"Cleo is my sister, what does it matter?" I smiled putting my feet on Sir's neatly ordered desk, I didn't look into his eyes, instead I looked at his bass guitar, it sat in the corner sparkling,
"Riley, Did you shoot them with a BB gun or not" Like literally sparkling it silver glittery body,
"Don't ignore me Riley" the best part was you never see him playing it in school but you could always hear him when you walked past his office during break, he was really good.
"Riley! Listen to me" I was brought out of my thought by his fingers clicking in my face,
"Sorry, Sir"
"Riley, do I have your full attention?"
"honestly Sir, no."
"Riley, if you were any one else I'd have suspended you already" He lent back in his chair,
"Sir, we both know I did, we both know I know I shouldn't have done it so who am I meeting for a detention this lunch Mr Iero?"
"Riley, this is serious, your going to be meeting with Mr. Toro... after school on Friday"
"What? Sir you know I have to pick my brothers up" I removed my feet from the table and stood up,
"Well. I have given you so many warnings and I have tried to avoid it but your really limiting my options, believe me I would love to forgive and forget but my job is to make sure you and all other students are safe on school premises" I stood up from his chair,
"Is there no other time I can talk to this Toro guy"
"Saturday morning"
"What time?"
"7:30"
"Fine, where?"
"here"
"Why here?"
"Because I will be joining you"
"two condition"
"What?"
"I will come on two conditions"
"Okay... and those conditions are"
"You cut out my French, German and half my Science classes and replace them with Art and Music"
"Hang on you timetable says you already 2 full days of art and a full day of music"
"Fine I won't go" I smiled and picked up my bag
"your second"
"What?"
"You said you had two conditions"
"You play bass for me" I pointed the finger towards his guitar
"We'll see how the first session goes"
"First?" What did he mean first, I was going to have to give up
"You have 6 sessions, if the first one goes well and you make it on time I will think about playing for you, If they all go well and you turn up to them all on time and stay until me and Mr. Toro say you can leave in all the sessions go well I'll think about changing your time table" not bad terms I suppose considering I already have an A* in Science and a B+ in French, yeah I'm smarter than people take me for.
"Fine, can I go know I got more duck face's to shoot" I laughed, I turned for the door a second time,
"One more thing" I twisted round, tilting my head,
"Yes?"
"I am going to need to confiscate that BB gun of yours" he held out a hand,
"Fine" If I gave him the BB gun he knew I had that still left the 4 I had in my locker, I slung my bag on the table and unzipped it,
"Here" I said pulling the black pistol from the bag,
"How did you even get this" he said obviously admiring the gun
"that one, my dad"
"he let you get this? my mum didn't let me get this when I was 17 and your like what, 15"
"Yeah, he has his reasons... and I don't want to talk about them" I rubbed my neck awkwardly remembering the situation...
"So how much do you know about this"
"That is a CO2 Blackwater BW1911"
"Why this gun?"
"What do you mean why do I carry it,you can pick up my seemingly empty bag and its so light you wouldn't notice, easily hidden in my jeans and pulling that out of no where is far more scary than pulling something blue out in the middle of a knife fight" Maybe I said to much ,his face dropped,
"So... see you Saturday morning 7:30" He awkwardly opened the door and I walked out as the bell went, I didn't wait to hear the bullet as Mr. Way fired the bun or the high pitched scream as it bounced of something and hit him in the face, I walked slowly along the corridor waiting to be crushed by a mob of people who never seemed to be able to take the world one step at a time.
Notes
Hope you enjoy Xx.P/S. I know they don't have GCSE in America but WTF its a story.
11/5/13