Back From Break

It was the first day back from winter break and the whole town was filled with snow. Snow was on the road as well as the grass being covered with snow. Even the clouds were raining with snowflakes with the sky being gray.

On the sidewalk, Scott Smith, an eighteen year old high school student, walks to Sunshine High, a school where he enrolled last year believing he can have a second chance after the incident in Des Moines. As he was walking, he used the new wireless earbuds that his mother had given him for Christmas and jammed on some music from his phone.

As he kept walking, he was near his school as many people were in their winter outfits wearing scars, mittens, and beanies. Scott was also wearing his winter outfits as he wore a gray sweater, dark green pants, and brown boots. However, he would still wear the black denim jacket as it was the only thing that reminded him of his father, who left him and his mother due to his anger issues.

In the building, the hallways were crowded as ever as people were happy to see each other again. But Scott would also be happy to see his friends again. 

Walking towards his friends, Jim and Dwayne, he speed walked towards them. "Guys!"

"Scott!" Jim and Dwayne greeted him with a fist bump.

"How has it been, guys? It's been at least two weeks." Scott looked at Jim and Dwayne.

"It was great Scott. I ate a whole turkey on my Christmas holiday." Dwayne rubbing his stomach.

"That's great to know." Scott was surprised that a single man can eat that big of a bird.

"What about you Jim? What did you do for your break?" Scott looked at Jim.

"It was.....okay. I made some hot chocolate for myself in the cafe, and watched old Christmas movies when I found a bunch of DVDs under the desk and had a frozen dinner."

Dwayne and Scott were silent hearing that situation.

"Honestly, I really hope to see my family again. They must be out of the hospital already and praying that I can find a way to come back home."

Scott tries to cheer Jim up. "I promise Jim. I'll find a way to get you back to your family once this school year is over."

Jim smiled a bit as the school bell rang.

"Welcome back from b-break , everyone. R-remember t-to s-study h-hard." Someone walking in the hallway all limp and talking disoriented.

When Jim saw who it was, it was Andrew, the person responsible for the school newspaper. 

"Is that Andrew?" Scott looked at him in disgust.

"Andrew?" Jim questions.

"He's the school photographer and the person leading the newspaper room. But I don't get why he looks so different now. Like he's brainless."

Andrew then passed Scott, Jim and Dwayne as he never noticed them.

"Well one thing's for sure. The newspaper room is gone now." Jim looked at the former newspaper room.

"Wait really?!" Scott was in shock.

"Yeah when I came into the school. I recognized that the newspaper room had become an old closet. Weird for the school to make that transition."

"Yeah. It sure is." Scott being suspicious of the school he's in.

Meanwhile, as Andrew limps towards the end of the hall. He kept walking towards the wall as he wasn't aware that the wall was in front of him. He drooled as he kept walking toward the wall.

"Oh Andrew. We don't walk towards walls. That's just silly!" Andrew's shoulders being messaged by someone behind him.

"Me. Feel. Sad." Andrew tried to connect his words together. 

"Oh what. Are you still upset that your dog has become dog meat? Well guess what Andrew. You should be happy that I didn't kill you back then." 

It was John petting Andrew as if he was his dog.

"You know. I used to have pets, but they died a long time ago. So you should be my new dog. My retarded dog! How is that?"

Andrew kept murmuring words as his frontal lobe was removed from his head.

"I guess that's a yes. So you better behave yourself." John then left Andrew being brain dead as he kept walking towards the wall

It was now Scott's gym class and everyone seemed to be here. Except the gym teacher and the school's football coach. People waited on the bleachers for over ten minutes and we're starting to get bored.

"What's taking the coach so long? Isn't he always early?"

Somebody then walked up towards Scott. "Hey, what did I miss? I was late because I overslept and forgot that we had school today."

"Na you didn't miss anything. It's just that our teacher is late today for some reason. Maybe he's the one who truly overslept."

Scott looked at the person who walked towards him and it was the same guy Laura slapped.

"Hey you're that guy from the second day of school. The one who got slapped."

"Yeah please don't mention that. I didn't even know what I got slapped for. I was complimenting her."

"I didn't mean it in a bad way. I just meant that I recognized you from that situation."

"And I recognized you when Laura challenged you in her obstacle record."

"Hey man. I was just lacking after not being physically active for a few months."

Scott raised his hands towards the guy. "I'm Scott by the way."

"Bryan. Bryan Santos." Bryan shook Scott's hand.

"So maybe if the teacher doesn't come in five minutes do you wanna di-"

"Hey guys!" It was Laura who came in all excited and smiling at her teammates as it was the middle of the afternoon.

Scott and Bryan had a small heart attack as Laura's entrance shook their bodies.

"How are y'all doing! Did you guys have a good break!"

Bryan then walked towards Laura. "Hey Laura. Do you know where the teacher is? He hasn't been here for around fifteen minutes.

"Well he had an early retirement silly! You know, since football season is over, we decided to put him in early retirement for his thirty years of hard work!"

"But who's going to be our new teacher? It's not like we can change substitute teachers every day."

"Well I'm going to be the teacher! I'm the captain of the cheerleading team and my sweetheart believes that I'll also be a great teacher! So he let the principal approve of my teachings for this class!"

"But aren't you too young to be a teacher?"

Laura's tone then went down as she gave Bryan a serious look. "Are you questioning me? Me the princess of Sunshine High?"

Bryan feared that she would slap him again so he tried not to agitate her. "No."

"Great! Since we're back from break, I'll dismiss you guys early so you can see your friends again! So you guys enjoy your day!"

Everyone in the gym left to either get some lunch or just take some time to catch up with their work. As Scott was walking to the locker room to change his gym uniform, he was stopped by Laura as he pulled on his ear and pulled him towards the bleachers forcing him to sit down.

"Okay Scott Smith. Confess." Laura being really close to Scott's face.

"Confess what?"

"You know what you did last year. You killed my best friend, Troy Watanabe."

"How would you know that I did it and not what John said during his memorial. You know that he got hit by a truck."

"That's just a lie so the school wouldn't be suspicious of the situation."

Laura then pushed Scott down as her hand was pushing on the seats of the bleachers.

"Scott Smith. If you don't confess about Troy's death and that you've caused it, then I swear I'm going to do what Troy couldn't and kill you before spring break. And I'm going to do it in a way where people in this school will humiliate you. The same stunt that you and your friends did to him."

Scott's ear still felt the pressure from Laura as she had a very strong grip. "We had no choice. Troy was causing trouble for the other students and the adults weren't doing anything, so we had to step in and let other people know his action."

"Bullshit. Troy was just being an outgoing person."

"An outgoing person that breaks people's knees and noses. How is that an outgoing person?"

Laura started to feel frustrated towards the situation. "GRH."

Laura then let go of Scott's ear. "You have until spring break to confess in the school's auditorium or else I'm coming after you."

She then left the gym leaving Scott by himself. Scott just sat on the bleachers of what he was going to do. He just came back from winter break and this is how he starts the day off coming back.

Meanwhile, someone in the main office rang the bell wanting someone to help her.

"Hello. Hello!"

"May I help you with something?" John appeared behind her.

"Fuck off kid. I want the manager of this school here. I want to know where the nearby gas station is because this stupid town doesn't have one."

"If you're looking for our principal, then I think he's busy in his office and can't answer you at the moment. However, I can help you find your way out of the town and at a nearby gas station.

"NO! I want the manager of the school here!"

"Ma'am, I can help you but-"

"NOW!" The woman was screaming in John's ears.

Internally frustrated, John took a deep breath and tried to be calm about the situation. "Ma'am, unfortunately, we don't have a manager in this school so I suggest you go somewhere else please."

Being all grouchy, the woman, who was very fat and grumpy, had taken her purse from the office table and walked out of the school, while John watched her leave.

In the car, the woman rested her purse on the passenger seat and started her car. "Stupid kids these days, thinking they can tell adults what to do."

However, John was behind the women in the back seat. And snapped her neck causing her to die and her body landing on the steering wheel pressing the horn.

"You should've been nice and I could've let you go. But instead you wanted to be a fat bitch and insult me."

John then looked around the car, liking it. "And I'm going to take your car because fat bitches like you don't deserve to drive such a beauty."

John kicked the dead woman out of the car leaving her body in the snow as he drove home.