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Chapter: 8
Harley's POV

Days went by and nothing important really happened. Jason didn't kiss me. Which made me kinda sad and we really were just friends. Never once saying I love you. This all changed on a morning when I woke up to a lovely scream. One that could only be Miss. Numb. Did Jason do something to her? I asked myself as I pulled myself out of bed and changes into some jeans and a blue shirt. I brushes out my hair and pulled it into pigtails. Jason ran in and he was laughing. Yep. He did something to Miss. Numb.
"Look Harley Edward locked Miss. Numb in her room!" he yelled as he pulled me out the door. Edward was a tall boy with a mess of brown hair on his head. His face held two brown eyes. When you saw Eddie you thought he was tall then you see Jason I think about how short everyone is. No matter what he says I think there might be something wrong with being so tall. I just stopped bringing it up. I get dragged down to Miss. Numb's room. I sit at the end of the hall with Jason and Selina. Eddie stands by her door with his arms across his chest laughing at Miss. Numb's screams. Edward has always had this thing for puzzles. It's like Pamela and plants. He just can't get enough of it. He loves puzzles riddles and anything  that makes him think like that. He really likes crosswords. He says that every clue is a riddle. Which I guess is true. Eddie smiled and finally spoke, "Why don't you riddle me this Miss. Numb." he says.
"what?" Miss. Numb says through the door. Eddie just goes on.
"There is a girl with long red hair,
Her skin is quite fair,
People say she is not very pretty,
But she is the prettiest thing I have ever seen,
She is my
Sweet
Sweet
Flower.
What is that girls name?" he asks. Miss. Numb paused for a second. I knew who it was. It was Pamela. How could Eddie like that girl she kinda crazy. She is also is overly crazy about keeping the rules. Oh and she is madly in love with pants.
"I don't know!" Miss. Numb yells through the door.
"How could you not know!?" Eddie yells back.
"Because I don't care about you guys!" Miss. Numb was screaming on the top of her lungs now. Soon I heard some footsteps. Then a phone buttons being pushed. I could hear Miss. Numb talking to someone on the phone but I could not tell what she was saying. Edward sat waiting for a reply. He never got one. We all sat waiting. I heard footsteps walking around Miss. Numb's room. I looked at the brown walls in the hallway waiting for someone to say something. Selina broke the weird quietness that was around us.
"So Pammy hu?" she asks Edward. He sighs. "yep." he replied in one simple word. I was sitting next to Jason. Our arms were linked. I could see Pamela peek around the corner at the sound of her name.
"I really like Pamela. I can't believe Miss. Numb didn't get my puzzle. It was so easy. Pamela is my flower, and the prettiest thing I ever saw." if that fact was true then Eddie must have never seen anyone ever. Pam's hair was long and red, but it was frizzy. Her eyes were a single shade of brown. Her skin may be fair but also burned easy and taking the time she spent with her plants I bet you can guess how often she is called tomato face.
"pretty?" Selina asks.
"Yes. I know she has her flaws but she is pretty on the inside which shines through her making her beautiful all over." he smiles at the statement.
"is that a riddle?" Selina asks.
"Maybe, Maybe not." Eddie surges his shoulders. "I do love her with all my heart. I can tell you that much." I heard Pamela gasp at that. No one saw that coming. Edward had friends but he was beaten when he was about four. That's why he got sent here. He is the same age as Jason and he said he could never love or trust again because his own dad would not even show him the love he needed. Miss. Numb has hit him a few times too. Because of all the pain Eddie said he never want to lie again. That's why he is so in love with riddles because he can tell you something in the riddle and if you figure it out then you know what he was saying. At least the answers to the riddles are true. I turned to see Pamela turn around and run with her hands on her mouth. Edward got up and ran after her leaving us behind.
"You know right now would be the best time to throw lemons at Miss. Numb." Selina says. I start to laugh and Jason starts to laugh to. I stand up and Jason joins me. "I would love to stay but I have to spy on Pam and Eddie." I say to Selina and she smiles. She then grabs Jason's arm and pulls him down to sit by her. "Then this boy is staying with me." she smiles at me. Jason nodded his approval and I left. I walked to my room were I know Pam would be.
"There are no boys allowed in this room!" I hear Pamela say. When I peeked through the door I saw that her head was stuffed into a pillow. Thats why it sounded so muffled.
"Pamela come please look at me." Edward pleaded stroking her hair.
"No." Pamela says quickly.
"Why?" he asks.
"You know why?" Pamela spat while stuffing her face further into her pillow.
"That was years ago Pam I didn't know the flower met so much to you." he relies sitting on her bed.
"You still didn't need to rip it out if the ground tarring the top half right off the bottom half where the roots were. You ended that flowers life by ripping it in half. It like ripping off our legs it must really hurt!" her little rant was muffled. Oh Pamela if she is going to hold a grudge it would be over a plant.
"I will buy you a new one. I will help take care if it too." Eddie tries to smooth out Pam's frizzy hair.
"But you can't buy back that flowers life." I could not take it poor Eddie has gone through so much! I walk in there and point at Pamela. "Look can't you just forgive the kid! He did one little thing years ago and you can't forgive him! Because if you can't you don't deserve him!" I pulled Edward out of my room and down the hall. "Where is your room?" I ask angrily.
"Same room as Jason." he replies. I pull him to his room and shove him in. I can already see what bed was his. Around his bed was crosswords, puzzles, riddles, and poems.
"Why the poems?" I ask as Edward sits on his bed.
"Teach me to rhyme." he replies. I sit next to him and look around the room. It was just like my room but there were different names on the beds and there were clothes all over the floor. I look over at Jason's messy bed. The brown sheet was on the floor by his bed and he had clothes on his bed to. Shirts, pants, boxers that kind of things. Soon without warning I felt two arms wrap around me and a head slam into my chest. Soon I hear crying and felt fresh tears seep into my shirt. I look down to see a crying Eddie. I put my arms around him and give him a hug. Soon I was rubbing his back and let him cry into my shirt.
"S-she hates me!" he sobs into my shirt. "S-she w-would not even l-look at me!"
"Shhh Eddie you're better than her. If she can't forgive you then your the bigger person and that makes you better."
"B-but I love her! I c-can't just stop. Why c-can't s-she just forgive me?!" I have never seen anymore more hurt in my life.
"I don't even know why you like her Eddie she has a huge stick up her butt." I say. Edward stops and looks at me.
"You fail at making me feel better." he says then whips away his tears. "But I think I can get over this. I just needed to cry it out." he turns to me. "Thanks Harley."
"Your welcome Eddie." I stand up to go when I felt a hand grab my arm. I turn my head to see why Eddie had stopped me.
"No one needs to know I cried got it?" I nod.
"Can I tell Jason?" I ask.
"if I said no you will anyways so.. No. Now go and tell him." he let's go of me and I run out if the room. Jason and Selina were still in the hall that I had left them. Selina was talking about some cat that had come on here and she fell in love with. I sat down by him and asked what is going in with Miss. Numb. Jason tell me how she had called the police department to come and get her. Cheap. When we finally got away from Selina Jason told me that they just talked and he had more fun with me. I told him what happened with Eddie. The rest of the day we played running around the whole place. Miss. Numb never came after us. Which was weird. I'm not complaining about it. I when I went to bed Jason said he love me and Pam asked if she should forgive Eddie. I told her yes. With that I fell asleep.






Chapter: 9
Miss. Numb POV

I walk down the empty hall. This area was blocked off so I could have some quite time away from all the screaming kids. I heard the sound of my heals clicking the black wooden floor. I stare straight in front of me at the white door I was coming to. I soon come to it and pull out my keys to unlock the door. I try to stick the key into the lock but fumble with it missing the slot.  I was shaking because of the trick that Edward kid just pulled. Soon the key slipped in and I ran in the room locking the door behind me. I take in my calming surroundings. The room was painted a soft yellow. Pictures lined the walls, there was a brown desk with a brown chair by it. On the desk was papers I needed to fill out. There was a cream color couch with little pillows, by the couch was a full length mirror. On the left wall was a door that lead to a bathroom. I smiled and walked to the mirror gasping at how I looked. My hair was frizzing and my face looked like the make up had washed away from silent tears, which it had. My lips red color had faded and my black dress was not fitted right. I rush to the bathroom and turn on a strainer. I grab a wash cloth and run it under some warm water. After I scrub my face clean with it. I straighten my hair and reapply my make up. After, I wiggled around in my dress till it fit me right. I sigh as I walk out of my bathroom and back into the main room and look into my mirror for approval. I see a woman who is almost 40 staring back at me. Her brown hair freshly straitened barley fell past her shoulders. Her oval face held a hard cold look but if you looked deep into her light brown eyes you could see pain. This woman was skinny. Very skinny. Not like she was starving herself but just not eating enough. I nod my head in approval knowing that woman looking at me was me. I turn around and look at my photos. I come to one of me and Suzy when we were little together playing in the mud. It was sad Suzy left. One she gave me this place full of crazy kids that I did not care for. Two I missed her. She was my favorite sibling. Well my only sibling. It was sad when father died but suzy is taking care of mother. I get this hell instead. I look at my other photos and a tear ran down my face when I came to one. It was of me when I was 21 and my husband Kaiden with a 16 year old boy named Connor. I sit on the couch and I think about the past and why kids hurt me so bad.
*flashback*
"Amanda? Where are you?" a sweet but strong voice called to me.
"In the kitchen sweetie!" I yell back. My face held joy. I had never been happier in my life.
"Honey have you seen Conner?" my husband Kaiden looked worried. All the happiness drained from my face. Kaiden's brown hair was messy as if he had been running his hands through it while thinking hard. His blue eye were filled with worry. I stopped pulling down things for dinner and ran into his arms.
"I have not seen him." I relied.
"Then we need to find him." Kaiden says while he pulls away from me. Conner was me and Kaiden's son. He was adopted and was 17. He had black hair and hazel eyes. How I missed that boy already. He was so sweet to us. Me and Kaiden drove around the city looking for him. Soon my phone rang. It was Suzy.
"Hello?" I asked when I picked up the phone.
"Amanda come to the school now. I love you by!" she hung up.
"Kaiden we need to go to the school now. Suzy is there she might know where Conner is." he just nodded his head and turned the car around so we could go to the school. When we got there I saw police cars. I ran out to door to see Suzy and crashed into her arms.
"What's going on?" I ask.
"Conner.... They... Umm... Found his body." she says her voice full of sadness.
"What?!" I screamed.
"He OD and left a note see." she stuffed it in front of my face.
HERE I WILL DIE FOR HERE IS MY HELL.
My face went white. His hell? What does he mean by that?
"how did you find out?" I ask Suzy.
"well I always walk down here because you know it's close to the kids and well he was here." she pulled me into another hug. My own boy killed himself. Why? Why did he do that? I felt a tap on my shoulder and saw the school board leader.
"Good day mam." he says to me.
"Good day? My son is dead and you saying good day?" I pulled myself out of suzy's arms.
"Sorry mam I just wanted to talk about your son in school." he replied.
"he told me school was great. What is there to talk about?" I ask.
"well that's not the case. See he was bullied a lot and we told him he needed to come to us if it kept happening. We saw it but he never came to us. Instead he took his anger out on other kids bullying them. He does it to kids in school after school so we can't stop him. Last week the boy he was bullying killed himself. I guess now that there was no boy for him to beat on he could not handle what kids said to him and left the world. The bullying was about his parents not loving him so that's why they gave him up so his new parents could have him." I gasped.
"What? This is not true." I heard someone say behind me. The voice belonged to Kaiden.
"It is." the man replied. I could not take all of this. I ran. Ran far far away running as fast as my legs could take me. When I was far away I cried. Not only were kids rude to my son but my son was rude to others. Can you even trust kids anymore? I guess not. After that day i was different. So different that Kaiden saw that we were not met for one another. He left me. Years past and kids killed themselves over bullying, drugs, and other things. I stayed locked up letting no one in my life. Not letting kids in my life.
*end of flashback*
Around 15 years after that Suzy moved giving me this place. I have never been more miserable having kids who I can't trust hate me and be rude to me. They are worthless brats I tell myself. Nothing more nothing less. I stand up and walk to my wall turning that photo around so I could not see it. I go back to the couch and collapse onto it. I needed time to think. Time to breath. I fall into a restless sleep.
This is Chapters 8 and 9 of my story.
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