5th December Friday
The first part week was horrible I hate the flu, hate
it. With a vengeance, a gruelling vengeance. Most of the week I had to stay in
bed because I was ill but I'm better now and today I can go back to school;
joy. No I am actually keen to go to school today, I want to know what happened
last Sunday. The news hasn't been any
help at all and neither has my older brother; Eddie. He was even at the bonfire
but he wouldn't tell me anything about it apparently he never saw strange
flashes in the sky. Even my parents said it could have just been a
hallucination cause by the flu which is so unfair since everyone believed Eddie
when he thought there were gremlins in the attic. There weren't it was just
mice.
But hopefully today I’ll be able to ask my friends if
they saw anything strange to do with the sky Friday. They never did phone me
back but crazy visions or not they’d believe me. Well they’d have a good laugh
first.
I walked to Alice’s house as usual to wait for her
then we’d usually meet Louis by the bus stop before meeting Lucy, Sammy and
Greg at the school gates since they lived on the other side of town. Well say
town we’re on the outskirts of a city. Wait does that technically makes this
the suburbs, it does, doesn't it? I dunno, Sammy would know.
Alice lives in
a semi detached like me; the house is nice the front garden is full of petunias
and gnomes. Alice has a younger brother and sister both twins they’re in the
run around screaming stage at the moment. Alice said she’s had to put her
comics and cameras under lock and key to stop them getting damaged. Alice is
very wise.
I knocked on the red door and waited for Alice to answer,
instead it was her mother holding Alice’s little sister on her hip in one hand
and a bottle of gunk in the other.
‘Oh, Hello Demi, it’s good to see you’re well again’
said Alice’s mum smiling; she had a smooth voice, ’was it the flu?’
‘Thanks, um yes it was’ I watched the little girl pull
a face as she drank the liquidised muck better her than me.
‘Ah, yes. The flu, nasty’ Alice’s mum nodded, ‘Oh I'm
sorry your here for Alice, oh I'm afraid she’s already left’
‘Oh’ I didn't know what to say, I was slightly
disappointed but then again no one’s been answering my calls so they wouldn't
have known I’d got better.
‘I'm sure she would have waited f she knew you’d
gotten better’ reassured Alice’s mum. I thanked her again and made my way to
school, I did stop by Louis’s bus stop to see if Louis was there; we only call
it Louis’s bus stop because he doesn't really like people coming round his
house much, he only recently found out he was adopted as a baby. Needless to
say he wasn't at the bus stop; Alice probably met up with him first and made
their way to school without me.
I began the lonely walk to school.
***
By the time I got to school the first bell was ringing
for registration, I couldn't see Lucy, Sammy or Greg anywhere in the corridor
by the lockers. They must already be in the classroom. I climbed the stairs and
ran down a corridor past colourful boards of work. As I got to room 3a our
teacher Miss Marwick lectured me for being late then told me it was assembly.
Everyone had already gone down to the hall.
Most of the school was already in there as I got to
the hall so I had to sit in a random row at the back of the hall. I tried to
scan the mass heads of hair for my friends but I couldn't see them. Once everyone
had settled the teachers all walked down the middle of the hall and climbed the
steps of the stage in silence, once they had all seated on chairs. I was
jealous we had to sit cross-legged on the floor. The head teacher remained
standing when he was certain there was silence he spoke in a loud and clear
voice that filled the cavernous room.
‘On the 30th of November, last Sunday a
meteor shower passed the Earth. This meteor shower passed the closest to Earth
in a long time, as you would have known the meteors were visible to the naked
eye.’ The head teacher paused, ‘In order to document this rare phenomenon the
school placed a digital camera on the top of Creeks Hill, where the annual
bonfire was held.
‘During the bonfire there was an incident and during
the commotion the camera was lost, if anyone knows where this camera is or are
in possession of this camera, please inform a member of staff as it can help
the police who are currently investigating the case.’ The head teacher’s gaze
turned cold ‘If anyone is caught with the camera or withheld information will
be prosecuted and charged with theft of school property. We do not take these
matters lightly and the culprit will be dealt with ’
And like that the head teacher just walked off stage
and left the hall. The rest of the staff seemed as surprised as the students at
the head teacher’s sudden departure, everyone just sat in silence for a few
moments before getting up. Ow, my legs fell stiff. The bell rang for the second
lesson, time to limp to science.
***
All through the day I thought about what the head
teacher had said; there was an incident on Creeks Hill... could it have
anything to do with the lights in the sky I saw? Well at moments like this when
I'm burning to have a question answered I would ask my dear good friends. Yes.
The same friends that are in a few words;
Currently skiving
Playing hooky
Inexplicably absent from school.
It isn't usually like them to miss school unless they
were ill but I know Alice isn’t ill yet here I am sat at an empty table while
Mr Kane tries to explain chemical equations on a power point presentation. Why
do I always miss the interesting things? First it was this bonfire incident and
now it’s whatever my friends are finding more interesting than school.
WHAM!! The door slammed open as Judy burst into the
classroom in frenzy.
‘SIR! SIR! GO ON THE INTERNET! QUICK! QUICK! QUICK!’
she yelled, her hand clenched her phone so tightly it looked like she might crush
it. Hadn't she only just left the room to go to the toilet, and she couldn't
have gone already.
‘What on earth;’ began Mr Kane but Judy cut him off.
‘It’s all over the news! Quick, go on the internet or
whatever the website for the news. Now!’ she screeched jumping up and down like
a kangaroo, what happened did she eat too much sugar? Mr Kane slightly startled didn't argue he
jumped straight to the computer and brought up an internet page for the news. On the homepage there was a shaky video
streaming live from the city centre, most likely from a mobile phone. I
recognised the main high street in the back ground, around the bank chaos reigned as
people ran for cover and screamed. There was a car
smoking on its side as the person filming dashed out into the open square
darted past a terrified woman and hid behind the car with a perfect view of the
glass doors to the bank.
Inside blurry shapes could be seen but the phone was
shaking too much to tell what was going on. Everyone in the classroom was silent
as we watched the side of the bank explode outwards. The screen went black for
a moment then came back as smoke cleared. Bricks were strewn everywhere and
loads of people were injured; heads wounds and broken bones. It was starting to
look like a view from an apocalyptic film.
A tall figure strolled out of the smoke carrying large
sacks of cash over each shoulder as they got closer to the camera I could see
they were wearing a blue monster Halloween mask with buck teeth, a shock of
dark brown hair and yellow eyes. They wore a large leather jacket over a tatty
T shirt and black jeans. It was only when the robber noticed the camera filming
them did they smile and using their inflamed index fingers and thumbs they
pulled at the mask around their mouth. It wasn't a mask, it was their skin! The
robber chuckled and spat at the back wheel of the car, it instantly began to
melt and sizzle as the acidic spit ate away at the rubber.
Whoever was holding the camera was rooted to the spot
with fear, I couldn't look away from it, and it had to be fake right? But then
again this was live and that was the real bank, no way would the bank allow for
it to be exploded for a joke.
The blue robber walked up to the camera phone and
snarled in a gravelly voice he said the words ‘cheese’ reached for the camera with one chunky blue hand then the
video link was lost and the screen turned into static. No one spoke for a while until someone broke
the silence.
‘Out of all the things to say why say cheese?’ there
were a few feeble laughs.
‘It’s happening everywhere.’ Judy said in a broken
whisper.
Mr Kane scrolled down the web page, more videos and
comments showed TV and video shops being robbed. Police riot forces swooping in
to deal with the opposing force of people. They were just people, yet they
weren't all blue but they still managed to hold their own in the fights. One woman knotted a truncheon into a bow and
snapped an officer’s arm in half. At the point Mr Kane switched the computed
off and some kids threw up onto their textbooks.
After a very quick emergency staff meeting and an
abundance of parents at the school gates, everyone was allowed to go home
early. My parents would be at work still luckily they don’t work in a bank or
in the city centre. Eddie would still be at college. So I didn't go home
straight away I needed to see my friends.
I know where they would be of course, the tree house.
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