Chapter 2 Darker than life

Chapter 2 Strange Dramas1

It was a typical Monday morning at school when the bus arrived at the parking lot of our trashy school. The same doubt feeling in the pit of my stomach hit me; it was school again another long day with full boredom and a long day with full on front attention from other students and teachers asking me how I am. I just wish that they all would leave me alone; if I have depression doesn’t that mean they should all stay away? I had a big group of friendly friends and couple of best friends Jess and Anna, in which I have known since I was little. They were nice and all but sometimes they were too energetic and overcrowded for my liking.2

When I stepped of the bus I shot a quick glance over towards where my friends were standing. Each of them was looking in different directions though Anna with her wild curly brown hair was glaring at me from the distance, I quickly looked away and sped my pace. I tried too speed past them so I wouldn’t catch there attention but I knew that they would soon notice especially Anna, she was always in my face 24/7. I grumbled at myself for being so rude, I never have this sort of attitude towards my friends, they were nice people so their, was no need. I thought to myself that my period must be due and must be gaining PMS.3

“Hey sun!” yelled a high familiar voice from behind me.4

“Great” I whispered to myself I knew exactly who it was and I knew that I wouldn’t escape their notice for long.5

“Guess what sun, I’m going to Thailand, isn’t that exiting like wow Thailand! Wahoo I’m going to Thailand, I’m going to Thailand!” Alycia sang that for like half an hour till I just walked of.6

When the bell went for first period I purposely walked very slowly to math dragging one foot in front the other. Math’s was so boring, all we were learning about was simple trigonometry which was just a simple formula that even monkeys could figure out. When I got their eventually after 5 minutes of slow pacing I sat in my usual seat at the front and started doodling patterns in my exercise book until Mr. Harrop got the class together.7

“Good morning class, oh geez what did you do guys stay up all night, you all look like drowned cats.” Said Mr. Harrop in a very loud tone, trying to wake us up. 8

That’s when Meagan interrupted the class “Actually sir, some of us have a social life that tends to run for a long period time and believe me I would much rather have a late night rather than spending all night confessing because I didn’t get enough sleep for math today”9

It was typical for Meagan to answer back, always trying to get attention in the most dramatized ways. I called her little brown nose, I don’t know why but she always got up my nerves, pretty much like every other person in my math’s class. 10

After about half an hour of hearing Meagan’s whining tone that was it, I had to say something if boredom wasn’t going to do my head in, her whining would sure do the job.11

“Um… Mr. Harrop, I really don’t understand this, it all looks double Dutch to me- 12

“Far out Megan, if you would shut your big fat gob maybe you would get somewhere! I have listened to your whiney tone for about an hour now and I swear I could memorize your voice even if I was buried under a 10 foot grave!” I screamed at Megan while I interrupted her.13

The whole class sat frozen in position staring at me in shock. I looked around and smirked at Meagan where her cheeks were flaming hot in embarrassment and then looked away.14

“Sorry Mr. Harrop, people with whiney voices these days tends to get on my nerves, please do carry on.” I begged before my cheeks started burning.15

I half expected Mr. Harrop to carry on but instead his face turned from pale to pink, I noticed that the hair on the back of his neck was sticking out and his palms were all sweaty. He gave both me and Megan a wild death stare and yelled at the top of his lunges “Well seeming you girls like alot of attention, I will see both of you in my office in your own time at lunch time. Now if you both allow me to, I will carry on teaching the rest of the class who actually want to learn”.16

I quickly went back to drawing patterns on my book to avoid eye contact. I hated Mr. Harrop, he was such a trader and I was sticking up for him until he decided to inflict it on me and little brown nosier. I quickly turned around so I could give a dirty glare towards Megan but she was just having a hysterical giggle with her plastic friends, I grumbled and rolled my eyes then turned back around.17

“Do you want twenty more minutes Megan?” Mr. Harrop said with pure attitude.18

“No sir, my friends and I were just discussing the importance of math… and that’s when Sarah made a funny joke but that is all sir.” Megan smartly answered back.19

After an hour of listening how to get an angle from a triangle class was dismissed. I rose from my seat and literally ran from the class room that is when I spotted Anna leaning against the port rack. Again as I did before I strode pass her, pretending not to notice her.20

“If this is going to become a regular pattern Ms. Sunday Mossicaorn, I am going to have to make strong orders!” Anna yelled catching my pace and throwing herself in front of me.21

She didn’t ignore me like I wanted her she just continued on, “Anyway how was math class sun and did that little brown nose get up your nerves again” 22

“Yep and I yelled at her today and that is why you have to get out my way so I can go to Mr. Harrop’s office for detention.” I nudged her out the way and walked the other way.23

“Well by sun I will see you later then!” Anna yelled not bothering too catch up to me again. 24

I just waved over my shoulder following the direction to Mr. Harrop’s office. I briefly knocked lightly on Mr. Harrop’s door and waited for what seemed like for ages. That’s when I decided I had enough so I walked in to see Mrs. Green and him sharing a little kiss, I gasped in shock and just stood their trying to trap the giggle that was about to escape my lips. Mr. Harrop quickly and nervously released her and straightened up into a more professional posture.25

“Mrs. Mossicaorn, haven’t you heard of knocking before entering?” Mr. Harrop addressed to me only.26

“Um sir… I did knock maybe if you weren’t to busy sharing saliva with Mrs. Green instead of doing your job well maybe you would’ve noticed my attendance.” I let out another giggle “The school boards are sure going to want to know abut this!” I giggled again but this time I couldn’t stop.27

“You wouldn’t dare too Mrs. Mossicaorn, otherwise you will be seriously expelled.” Mr. Harrop yelled wiping his saliva covered face. 28

“Well… umm… actually Mr. Harrop I don’t mean to be rude but I think you missed a bit of dribble on the side of your mouth. I smirked again, tightening my mouth, tiring to hide the laughter. 29

Mr. Harrop gave me the biggest death stare. His stare was so daring that his nostrils were flaring, ‘Bring on the chainsaw’ I could even see the hairs poking out at the back of his nostril holes which in fact nearly made me puke!30

“Aright, Alright I will make a deal. If you let me of the detention today and you swear to never give me a detention again I will not share this humorous secret to anyone ever, Deal?” 31

“Deal but you have to promise and swear that you will never spit out this secret to no one and I mean no one otherwise their will be huge consequences Mrs.” Mr. Harrop addressed nervously.32

“Deal!” I said and I walked out his office laughing in hysterics.33

I couldn’t get the sight of Mr. Harrop and Mrs. Green out of my head. What on earth was a sixty year old man doing dating such a feminine lady like Mrs. Green , my god what was our world coming too and so help me I am not going to the wedding. I wish I had filmed it though, I could play it in math class on Mr. Harrops birthday then Megan would for sure have something to smirk about.34

“Hey guys, what’s up?” I said happily because of my good mood, thanks to the situation I just faced.35

My group sat all in a big circle, chatting about our newest English assignment on the American recession. We had to write an essay report about what our opinion is on the recession and what we thought caused the drama. I already new what my topic was, In my opinion I believed that the whole money lost thing was caused by Celebrities to much money leaving little for the rest of the world. Anyway moving on I had to spit out the dummy and break my promise a bit because I had to tell my friend’s about Mr. Mrs. Slobber faces.36

“Hey Sun, didn’t you have detention?” asked Jessica asked in a suspicious tone.37

“Nope because you know why, I had just faced the most daunting but funniest situation in my life.” I sat down throwing my bag on the floor, rushing to carry on. 38

“Anyway I was walking into detention, walked through the door and saw Mr. Harrop and Mrs. Green making out. It was so disgusting!” I let out a vomit sound, because I had to admit it was pretty gross.39

“Omg! That is horrible, like gross, Mr. Harrop is like fifty years younger than Mrs. Green.” Nessitly spoke for the first time; Nessitly was my other good friend.40

“Hey Ness, where’s Anna?” I asked suspiciously.41

“Oh Anna, she fated in Marine a few minutes ago. I’m pretty sure it was because they were dissecting a cow’s heart today.” said Nessitly while scrunching her nose.42

“Wait, I just saw her on my way to detention a few minutes ago” I informed confused. Anna was in my face 24/7 lately so it was weird for her not to be present at this precise moment.43

“Yeah, she was here a few minutes ago then went all woozy on us so Maggie took her to the Nurses office.” Nessitly reassured me calmly not seeming to worry.44

“Oh my, where is she how on earth can u faint over a cows heart its not even alive!” I yelled over my shoulder running to the nurse’s office.45

When I entered the nurse’s office, I peeked over the open door and saw Maggie, which was a girl in her Marine class by her side. Anna face which was hiding behind a pumping gas mask was flashing from white to purple, her palms and arms were covered in thick sweat and she looked very woozy and fragile laying as still as possible on the long nurses bed. The nurse was injecting some sort of needle on her left arm while the other nurse was blotching her face with a wet tea towel.46

“Is she ok?” I quietly asked the nurse, walking beside Maggie.47

“She will be ok; she just has a high blood pressure and is suffering with dizziness. She will be fine after I finish injecting this fluid into her arm, it will take a good ten minutes before it works.48

After five minutes of waiting Maggie left and it was just Anna the nurse and I in the small emergency room. I sat their, for what seemed like ages nibbling on my nails, It seemed to be more than ten minutes and the fluid hadn’t done its cycle yet. 49

“Nurse, I swear it has been more than twenty minutes and the fluid has still not worked. I feel even woozier as the clock ticks by.” Anna complained in a croaky tone.50

The nurse checked the fluid packet and then touched Anna’s forehead feeling her temputure then quickly jerking her hand away.51

“Oh my! Your temputure is fuming what the hell is wrong with you dear?” The nurse yelled.52

“The fluid will work eventually dear and your temputure seems just a little high, so I guess our only choice is to wait honey.” the nurse said calmly trying not to scare Anna.53

“Why don’t you let me try to feel her temputure?” I asked patiently walking up to Anna and touching her forehead with the lightest touch. The nurse looked at me hesitating before dropping the towel and walking by my side.54

I touched Anna’s forehead and felt her hot sweaty head slowly cool down from boiling hot to icy cold in a split second. Her pale white face was changing back to its normal colour, and her before sweaty palms were as dry as crusty sand paper while her lips were trembling and shivering from coldness which was coming from nowhere. I gasped and very quickly pulled my hand away from her forehead. Anna sat up from her uncomfortable position and stared at me in astonishment.55

“How on earth did u do that?” asked the nurse staring at me in as much confusion as I was.56

Anna spoke interrupting the nurses thick stare “I feel better now and believe me it was not the fluid. Sun I think I felt better after you touched my head, when you touched my forehead, I felt a strange surge go through my head. It was like I had a headache at first but then it felt like my insides had left my body and then I felt even more better than when I woke up this morning. Wow how did you do that?” Anna said while she grabbed her school bag then washing the before wet towel. She stopped and hesitated staring at me waiting for an answer, I didn’t say anything though because what was I meant to say? I was confused and scared as much as they were possibly more and I couldn’t believe what I just did. 57

Did I really heal Anna? I couldn’t have had, I was a normal human being not a weird mythical healer and i was only a normal fifteen year old teenager. Anyway it was properly just the fluid kicking in anyway. 58

Anna suddenly closed her eyes into a tight grimace while her puckered mouth turned into a long smile across her dial. On the other hand the nurse was standing very still; her delicate features turning into a sad frown while she was staring horrifically into the bold pupils of my eyes which brought burning tears to my eyes. I decided I needed to quickly escape the view and wary eyes from both Anna and the nurse so I ran from the nurse’s office as quickly as possible, not even glancing a second glimpse in their direction before leaving. I didn’t stop to get my back pack because I knew from personal experience that if someone spotted me at this particular moment that they wouldn’t leave me alone assuming that I was depressed. Running as fast as I could nearly running into everyone I saw, I finally reached the girl’s school toilets were I could sit in one of the many cubicles with some piece and quite that I really needed for the moment.59

I opened one of the vacant cubicles sitting down on the cold, hard surface of the toilet seat. It was nice here; it was my type of place, nice and quiet except for the sound of the pestering crows cooing from the trees outside. The peace didn’t last for very long though, not long after a large group of girls came in talking among one another with loud, voices echoing through the room. I peeked through a thin gab through the cubical door to see each girl in the group lined up on each basin fixing their hair and adding eyeliner to there already black eyelids. I tatted at their useful effort and quickly pulled my legs up, sitting in an uncomfortable crossed leggered position so the group wouldn’t notice my attendance, while listening to their obvious private conversation.60

“Hey Sarah, you know that cute guy I spotted at the Jamaica café at town square last week?” One of the girls said in a deep, husky voice.61

“Yea he was kind of cute… for he’s age I mean but anyway what about him?” 62

“Well he came over to my house last night with his mum. Mum says she’s really good friends with he’s mum, apparently they do salsa dancing together. Anyways he stayed over for dinner last night and we really had a good time.”63

“Oh my, tell me everything! I want to know every single wary detail and every word he said and every word you said. Oh my, did you hook up with him? Oh my god did he have soft lips, oh please tell me he did because their is nothing worse than a sloppy uneven snogg!64

“No! Stop guessing everything; I hate it when you do that Mandy. Anyway we sort of got talking about all kind of stuff actually I don’t think there was anything we didn’t talk about! He told me what school he went to, who he’s friends are and Mandy by description he’s friends sound kind of hot, so you might have some luck too”. 65

Their conversation about this apparently ‘hot’ guy seemed to go on for hours until they decided to cut the chatter and to continue abruptly making there selves over. In fact without there chatter it got a bit too quiet I had thought they had gone until I nearly had a coughing fit from the cloud of fumes that were overpowering the toilet block and blowing up my nose every time I breathed in. I peeked through the small gab again to see the same group of girls lighting matches to deodorant fumes and sharing around cigarettes like pass the parcel. I reached into my school bag grabbing two tampon’s from the front pocket of my school bag; I shoved each tampon up my nose abruptly and tried to breath in through my mouth without catching a puff of smoke on my way in. 66

“Sun, are you in here?” Yelled a familiar voice from outside the cubical door.67

I quickly pulled out each tampon shoving them back into my school bag and quietly I held my curled up legs tighter on top of the toilet seat. I heard Anna asking the stoner girls if they noticed my presence but I didn’t here any sort of answer in reply. I decided to give up hiding but only because I knew that this once upon a time peaceful room would definitely not be silent again and I also knew that the smoke wasn’t going to clear any time soon., instead I pretended to flush the toilet and then slammed the cubical door open. 68

“There you are Sun! What were you doing in the girls toilets? I mean the toilets aren’t really a nice place to hang in fact I think our school is now using the toilets as a smuggling meeting” Anna whispered while beckoning me to look at the gang of girls that didn’t even seem to notice our presence at the moment.69

I pretended to wash my hands and then walked straight past Anna not really in the mood to here her lecture about what happened in the nurse’s room.70

“Oh cheer up Sun, what happened in the nurses room was nothing!” Anna screamed at me while grabbing my shoulders and shaking me to death. I escaped her tight hold and walked away from her once again but this time I sped my pace.71

“Look, I know you are confused but there are some things in life that you don’t understand and you need to accept that just trust me on this, Just take what happened before as a wake up call ok?” Anna yelled even louder catching my pace with effort.72

“Anna why I have I suddenly got the feeling you knew about what happened back there” I asked not understanding what she was getting at.73

“I don’t know maybe you are going mental after all. Anyway I have to go because Mr. Thompson his highly overrated when it comes to being late for class, see you”. Anna yelled acting nervously to my response. She waved back at me over her shoulder in reply while she was half power walking in the other direction to her next class on the agenda.74

The rest of the school day was a drag it seemed like we had been at school for about a decade, In fact I was so board that I had thought over Anna confusing words for about a hundred times trying to figure out what she meant by them. Then I decided to make a promise to myself by taking in the words Anna had spoken, I made a promise to myself that I would not let this healing nonsense get to me and that I would convince my mother when I get home to send me to a physiatrist to get ‘major’ help.75