Damien got into the basketball team; at least he got the opportunity to come for the tryouts, all to the displeasure of the team and many others.
“Ashton was not going to like this” was the main litany on their lips. Mr Bruce, a new coach, just resumed work that semester after the last coach was dismissed by the school board due to a complaint from a student whose mother happened to be part of the board. Mr Bruce still didn’t know how the school system works or it could be that he choose not to let their ways affect him as he insisted on doing what he felt was right for the students.
All the team’s protests seemed unfounded without any tangible reason and he dismissed them as he allowed Damien to join the team. If he could pass the tryouts of course. Jax Meyer thought the same as well and Sky automatically approved that Damien would be a great addition.
Damien would have laughed out loud at Sky’s expression when he peaked out from beneath his paint-drenched eyelids before he quickly shut his eyes again. Especially when the latter wanted to rush over to Damien and he was also conscious of splattering his white sneakers with the pool of red paint that looked more like congealed blood on the floor.Yes, it would have been hilarious if he was not drenched in the same paint that threatened to choke him as he felt it dried up beneath his nose, over his closed eyelids, the weight weighing down his ruined uniform. Spitting mad was an understatement of what he was feeling at the moment.Helios' statement sparked his fury more and he could feel the invisible Ring of Origins heated up on his finger and a desire to unleash all it could do on these idiots, his sense heightened and he could hear the bastards that drenched him as they hooted down the hallways as they left the building.Those idiots. “He would get them good” the threat rang true and
“What happened to you?” Damien’s head jerked towards the direction where the querying voice came from and he sighed inwardly when he saw that it was the tawny-eyed girl.What is she doing here now? Her timely appearance reminded him of the girl called Morgan and he wished she would just leave him be because he was in no mood to be civil to anyone!He was about to pass her by when she snapped at him “I am talking to you!” she yelled in a tone he had never heard her use with him before. The “I am the head girl and you have to listen to me” tone.Well, that was it!“I heard you. I do not want to answer you” he replied as civilly as he could and he gave no damn that her eyes widened a bit.She looked around as if expecting someone then looked back at him “Who did this to you?”What did she want with him? She was one of the reasons for his trouble after all. He thought in anger before he shrugged nonchalantly. He wanted to pass her by again but then she held his hand.Damien was surprised
Sky lend Damien a spare cloth since the school uniform was beyond repair now. Sky advised him to get under the shower for a hosing down, which did not help much. If nothing else, it made the uniform look like something that had been dragged through a graffiti war and back.Michael was not around at The Abode when Damien followed Sky home and he didn't wait long after getting spare clothing to change into. Sky talked about getting him a new uniform and Damien agreed that getting spare ones would help especially now that it would be hard to put on the one that had been dealt many blows already. The clothes were given to Solara and she promised to do her best to get them cleaned up. Throwing all caution to the wind, Damien activated his teleporting mechanism and in no time, he was at the edge of the Macmillan’s property. He made himself visible and he walked briskly to the house. He did not attempt to greet those on the porch at all since he knew they wouldn’t answer him anyway.“Did yo
“Just follow me and stop acting like an idiot” Sonia snapped at Damien after Smith had zoomed off in his car.Damien wiped off the blood on his mouth. The slight pain infuriated him as he followed the girl. Do they have to put him amid their issues? He wondered in amazement then he looked up in surprise when the girl shut the door firmly in his face.What now? Was he supposed to follow her or wait for her out here? He wondered as he looked around and then back at the shut door. He decided to open the door before he got scolded but his hand barely grazed the door before it was jerked open again.He hurriedly moved back as the girl glared at him then she threw her limited edition bag hard at his chest before she strutted past him on the way to her car.Da
Damien could check the meaning of a tour guide on his phone when the girl was not paying him much attention. Just as Sky had taught him to check on Google, he typed: What is a toor guard?After many wrong trials, he finally got a person employed to show tourists around places of interest.What? He wondered in apprehension. No wonder Andrea had told Sonia that he did not know anywhere. He wished Sonia had listened because how was he supposed to take her anywhere when he only knew a few places himself? He thought in panic. It did not take long before he realised that Sonia did not need him to take her anywhere after all.She did need him but only as a pack mule. Damien regretted ever twisting the girl’s ha
Damien was queasy and he knew it had nothing to do with the chain-smoking that Rox and his friends had been doing since they got to the inner room of the house.The room was dimly listed compared to the main floor where music was still blasting and shouts of laughter could be heard from time to time as booze passed freely in the party. Young men and women were sniffing nose candy like it was a regular powder and even though Damien had no idea of what they have all huddled around on a low stool with different silver funnels, exotic looking needles since some of them prefer injecting theirs instead of taking it orally, he knew though that it couldn’t be anything healthy because of the way some of them lay sprawled like they are half dead and most became hyperactive.He was amazed by the way Sonia had been throwing shots of alcohol back since they entered the house and her friend was no different. The friend’s giggle had increased in tempo as she got squished amid three guys that seemed
Damien’s head felt heavy as the world around him seemed to be on a spin, well at least the room around him. Laughter rose and he was instantly reminded of the derisive laughter that he had been enduring since he got to Santa Eyre. he remembered what happened at school that day and the semi-dark room seemed to be flooded with light and suddenly he could see the faces of the boys that bathed him with paint as they shouted heads up!Oh, he would kill them! He thought as anger rose in him. Yet a part of him seemed intent on dragging him back to reality. No, that was before. This is now, he was not covered with paint now, was he? He tried to pull at his clothes to confirm if he still had the sticky paints all over him but then he realised that he couldn’t even feel his hands.Nor did he seem to have any clothes on. Did he pull his clothes? Everything? In
Barechested and only cloaked in the little pants that Sky had called boxers, Damien walked groggily towards the entrance of the brightly-lit Police station. He was held by the arm by the female police officer and he wondered if she was doing it because she knew that he was not steady on his feet or because she did not want him to run away. Either way, he was grateful for her because after puking his guts out, the sensation in his stomach seemed to have worsened and he regretted ever collecting anything from that man…Rox.“Where was he?” Damien thought suddenly when he realised that he did not see him as well. Just as he did not see Sonia. He was tempted to look around to see if they came with the other vehicles that the police officers rode in but he was uncertain if his head would survive it or if it would simply spin off his neck. So, he simply concentrated on taking one step after the