Detention

‘Buzz buzz buzz’ the sound of the alarm bell echoed through the bedroom but David kept still. Laying helplessly on his wooden framed bed and rubbing his hands on his silken mattress, he pressed his cheeks on the velvet pillows and sighed.

‘David, wake up you're going to be late for your first day at your new school,’ bellowed his mum. ‘David, David, David, David!! Don’t let me come up there.’ As his mum started to ascend the curved oaken stairs, David jumped of his bed and sprinted to the bathroom ‘David!’ cried his mum.

‘I’m in the bathroom mum,’ shouted David.

David’s mum started to descend the stairs.

After some time, there was a knock at the door.

‘Who’s in there?’ shouted Moji.

David was about to exit the bathroom when he heard the knock on the door, he stayed put to annoy his older sister. 30 minutes went past and he finally came out to shouts of ‘you did it on purpose,’ from Moji. She was a young dark skin teenage girl with long black kinky hair.

David ran down the stairs and into the kitchen…

He opened the fridge and brought out the milk, as he was about to pour the milk in the bowl of cereal, his mum shouted that he should get dress and eat a croissant in the car or he’ll be late. David ran back up the stairs and into his room he put on his uniform: black shirt, his onyx black tie, and his blazer, on the breast pocket of the school blazer was a raven carrying the branch of a mistletoe. David looked in the mirror to see a young 12-year-old boy staring back at him, his hair was locked in equal patterns of cornrows.

David sat at the front seat of the car. His sister came out of the house looking like a half-baked brownie. She looked at him with a death stare and, in the blink of an eye, he moved to the back seat of the car and stayed quiet, his mum started the engine of the grey Honda Accord that she liked to call ‘flex’.

The car was silent for a long time until his mum said, ‘I don’t want a repeat of what happened last time in your old school. Try to make better friends David.’ The car came to a quick stop as David mum drove into the school car park. David got out the car said bye to his mum but chose to ignore his sister who was waiting patiently for her mum to start the car again. They drove off, the car getting smaller and smaller very quickly until it completely disappeared. By this time David was already in school but there was no one around. David was late. Really late.

David started to walk up towards the school gate and, as he did so, a tall, dark figure approached him. David stopped. He looked up at the figure in shock. He was petrified…

To be Continued…