Chapter 3 - Amanda's Rath

As our last class nears it's end so does our life me and same knows all too well what Amanda is capable of, and we could still remember that tone in her voice after she let sam go it was like the ticking of the clock in our classroom was deafening. I turned and look to sam and I saw him make these gestures with his eyes as we would so often use to get out of a situation without "showing our hand" as the saying goes, I saw him look at me and like flash he looked at the door as to say "As soon as the bell rings I'm gonna phase out this so fast people gonna think I died, my body turned to dust and my cloths and everything died too."

As the clock makes his final few orbits me and sam start to pack away our stuff nth much going on in class our teacher was grading papers and usually in time like this all three of us would be up to no good, but on this specific day it was just me and sam Amanda was just doodling in her book as I would always call it. She likes to draw and if I'm honest she's good at it oh wait or should I say she's immaculate at it and I can't even draw a stick man that good, as we watch the clock I already know what Sam's plan already gonna be which is turn into flash basically teleports out the class or so it would seem to us human, so that leaves me because I know I am not getting left behind to face Amanda alone because I know my story might have seemed believable then but if she proceeded to interrogate me I feel I just might crack under pressure because she's good at that stuff like really good, when we were smaller and use to play detective solving mysterious crimes our brains use to make up we would always call her Miss. Holmes. And as the bell is about to ring to signify out deaths I turn to look at Sam and I give him the look which signified "Shits about to go down".

As soon as the bell goes off we bolted out of our seats so fast I could see remanence of my being trying to catch up to my body we took off so fast it sounded like we broke the sound barrier, usually when we leave class the hallway is always crowdie with other students leaving their classroom and we would just take our time waking and chatting till we eventually reach outside. But no not today ohh no "not today" today we were the first to be in those normally crowdie hallways as we pass the other classrooms it was like time stood still as passed, so on the final stretch we bolted through the door passing our vice-principal Mr. Williams at the free door I could hear him utter something out of his mouth but as we were moving faster than the speed of light his words were slower than a one-footed turtle,

We dashed over the steps at the entrance that normally we would walk down but there was nothing normal about this situation "It's code red this is not a drill lives are at stake here." We glided in the air as if we were birds cruising in the air boom, as we landed its like we had the same escape plan in our minds we both headed towards the park as there was a short cut there to go into town but some way long our plan sam took the longer way through the park as I was now in front of him which at the start of our dash we were neck and neck but now I was leading.

As we made our way through the park we could see the town on the horizon as we moved through time itself, we made our way to the arcade where we usually go after school to chill a little before going home it's our lil hotspot to just relax and forget about the stress of life with good music, games and if your feeling a lil low in the tank there is a snap counter in the next room where you could sit and eat as well, and as the speed we were moving through time we knew it was a must we had to tank up as my dad usually says so after been there a couple a mins chatting we totally forgot about school and what we were running from we just there vybzing not a care in the world.

As our backs were facing the door we felt this feeling coming toward us, we both felt it and with that feeling getting closer it made no sense to even try and escape because in that moment everything came crashing back to us and we basically trapped our self's in a one way in and out room, I felt a hand gently rested on my shoulder and a calm yet menacing voice saying "Hello boys I knew I would find you both here it's like clockwork even the blind could find you after school without effort." And in that moment I swallowed my last piece of pizza and in that moment I saw how stupid our plan was to come here after school as she nicely said it while mocking us at the same time, and in that instance she grabbed our ears and I kid you not the moment I felt her fingers grabbed my ear my like flashed in front me like a movie because I've been on the receiving end of this a few times before, we both have so I know Sam was going through the same exact experience and the moment she started to twist I was pulled back to reality with the pain and trust me the sound that left our mouth brought one of the staff back in the room her name was Shelley she came and saw what was happening and asked Amanda the silliest question what did they do now?.

I mean it was silly to me at the moment Shelley was use to us and our madness after we came from school and the first time Amanda did this it was to Sam and Shelley ran over and stopped her midway, I miss that Shelley but after Amanda explained that is was a norm and we told her yea it usually happens when we do something we shouldn't have she kind of got used to us she was like one of the few adults that tolerated our crazy behaviours, but this time she only asked what we did and Amanda told her we wanted to pick a fight with this bully "We.. WEEEE... How did it move from Sam to we I guess she didn't believe my story." So all she did this time is give us a look of disappointment and told us that we know better than that as Sam was about to say something she twisted both our ears even more "God take meeee now please", after she was finished she sat in front us and started her speech but to be honest anytime I'm on the receiving of this life flashing torture I usually zone out not because I wanted to but the pain in that ear always deafened both to a level where everything sounded muffled, and in moments like this it's like my ear had a heart and it was pounding like crazy I could even feel heat coming from my ear like it was just cooked.

After a while Shelley brought some ice packs for me and sam I gave her a look as if to say "now you want to help huh?" she asked me to fix my face before she took it back, my face was like sunshine and roses in a instance and told her thanks and by this moment Amanda was kind of cooling down and in that moment I could see that she was really disappointed with us but hey boy's will always be boy's in the end, after awhile I just admitted that I wasn't trying to stop Sam just there as a helping hand "I don't know why I thought that would be funny to her now" i put on a serious face and start the long road back to good graces and on that journey I guess Sam finally found back his soul and chipped in also started apologizing, we going round the table taking turns to talk and I mean we can't really blame Jeremy for the way he was brought up but that still doesn't mean we are going to be his lil toy to do as he wishes. We said all we had to say and by the end we decided to leave him be but knowing me and sam that wasn't gonna be for too long but we made a promise not to be in his path for like a month or so, now it was time to go home so we all got our stuff and headed out Sam usually goes to his moms store a few block down from the arcade and me and Amanda walked the same path heading home, we all lived in the same community but it was a very big one and while on our walk I felt Amanda's hand gently held mine and she pulled close to me and softly said "Anthony why do you always put me through these situations my heart can't handle it I know you can do better but why do you choose to ignore the right and do the wrong?.