Be Careful What You Wish For

Be Careful What You Wish For

Chideha Frost

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Andrew stared at the crowd of kids rushing through the hallways, entering each door to each classroom. A light flickered from the ceiling, along with a few other lights. They were broken. They´ve been broken for weeks. One at the end of the hallway wasn´t even flickering at all. It was dead. Andrew walked slowly, staring up at the lights. It was like looking at a strobe light. He noticed small cracks in the ceiling, as someone crashed into him.
He dropped his laptop and books, and fell. People laughed at him and mocked him as usual, and some just stared at him. Jeremy and Blake ran through the hallway, they´ve always picked on Andrew.
"The hell is this?", he heard Joshua Jones say.
Joshua Jones, one of the kids who constantly picked on him, along with Jeremy and Blake stared at something that had slid across the hallway floor. It was a book with a leather cover and a strap holding it shut.
Josh picked the book up, examining it. It was a plain book, with worn out pages.
"Give it back! It´s my sketchbook, give it back.", Andrew yelled.
"Why? What do you draw in it? Porn?", Blake said.
Andrew stood up, "I just want it back!".
"What are you so afraid of people seeing, huh?", Joshua said.
"Just give it back!!", Andrew yelled.
"Why?"
It went silent. He didn´t know what to say. Joshua went up to him, grabbing him then throwing him into the wall.
"Get off!", Andrew yelled, pushing him away. Joshua stared with a psychotic smirk. Joshua grabbed Andrew, glaring at him.
He then violently slammed Andrew onto the floor.
His vision blurring, he struggled to stand for what seemed like hours. The last thing he knew, he was nailed really hard in the chest by someone´s foot. There were currently no teachers at that part of the hallway, just students who were getting to there classrooms. Down the hallway, footsteps echoed.
"Oh shit, there´s a teacher!", Blake said. Just when they were about to run off to wherever, Andrew stood up, hitting Joshua in the face. It was almost as if in slow motion, that he fell.
Blood dripped on the floor.
Andrew stood there, hands trembling. He didn´t look at his hand, nor the blood dripping from Joshua´s nose. Joshua hit him back, pushing him into the wall.
"Holy shit!", Jeremy said.
Someone grabbed Andrew, pulling him away from Joshua. It was one of the teachers. Joshua went to strike Andrew again, but was pulled away by another teacher.
The lights flickered, then stopped.