Le Schoolboy Miserable

Click. The car door unlocked as I stepped onto the newly paved sidewalk, as I tucked my pressed jumper. I looked ahead, no cranes, no builders, no annoying fence, no nothing. I opened my mouth, but was interrupted by a loud knock-knock from the car. "I want to go to school!" The door handles were about to fly off, and Heein and Jeein face planted onto the ground. They scrambled up and waddled into the new gate, as the pale, blameless blue sky was suddenly filled with blue hats. A new school building - complete! Crisp paint filled my lungs. The new building means a new world.

The gates exploded, and white blinded me. Check out the cleaner bathrooms, looking so pristine. Or how about the classrooms? So neat, tidy, and clean! Or what about the common room, where everybody shares, and the breakout rooms, where all the space is to care! Butterflies pounded inside. The crowd formed a smile on heaven, as the happy virus spread. I was lucky I started this school just in time as I overheard Oliver: "You know that I have been waiting for over 2 long years for this moment in my long, long life?!" The bell rang, and two angles on a straight line formed. I usually dreaded this moment, for it marked 6 long hours of studying, but my heart raced in anticipation to burst through the elegant classroom!

When we entered, we just had to touch, smell, and a few licked everything. I interviewed those who licked it and always the same response: new. Ultimately, after relishing the new build, us students were led into each learning space - Miss Lee led us into ours. Our shoes lay on the floor, our feet relaxing on the crystal table, we hung back, and chilled out. Then, an air raid siren rang and it was raining dreaded paper. Students' faces twisted as: "NOOOOO!" I yawned. My classmates' jaws fell as the 1 metre pile of work in front of me diminished in under 15 minutes. Kainen shifted his head: "Ein? What are you?!" Then, I crossed my arms with my chin up. I also scribbled on some worthless tissue my cubist self portrait and tossed it into the bin. Everyone poked their heads into the bin. James, his shaking fingers pointing at me: "Eincasso!"

The metallic shrieking of the recess bell echoed throughout hallways and classrooms as the blue and yellows filed out, the wind carrying their whistles. My stomach grumbled as I clutched it and threw my head into my bag. Then, a heavenly smell activated my sensors and guided me to the teacher's lounge room. Mr Lee had skinny strands edged on a steaming Bowl Noodle, holding on for dear life, as Mr Lee turned impressionist atmospheric. My stomach lurched. Mr Song had his lips shutting up and down on steak. I closed my eyes and groped for it. Ms Haddenfield opened a microwave and took out a set of butter chicken PREMIUM! as I glanced at my inferior lunchbox. Mrs Garden took out a lovely tissue wrapped container and blew on it. Red strands waved at her. My nostrils danced as the ambrosial scent conquered me. Morning dew hung on my nose. My eyes were expanding. I was now a crying and drooling extremist as my knees sank. I rolled side to side, my lunchbox was forlorn and abandoned, until I came to my senses and reached for the door. The EPA mumbled, and blue and yellow armies stampeded me in flying colours. Then, everything turned black.


Heein and Jeein were circling my mother with their upper teeth biting their lips, participating in the "Who can be the cutest brother?" competition. "Today, mummy, I asked Dean if he was going to join my own creme dela creme group! He said I don't wanna be a cream!" Heein’s hands held his belly: "Ho! Ho! Ho!" I apparate out of the new building. I had dark bags hanging under my delirious eyes as I pointed towards the car to be unlocked. I sat down and the waterworks came as the car was flooding. "What happened, Ein?" chorused my family. Then, I unleashed my horrible story about food demons and cruel lounges. Everyone's eyes drooped, then my kind and thoughtful mother said: "What about forgetting your day and shall we go to a steakhouse?" The children: "Yay!" Mum: "But after you shower!"
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