Did I Die?

By Gareth Parker

At only 14 years old, John Malcolm finds school tough taking every hit on the chin (literally). John finally retaliates and the bully ends up violently injured. This attack causes John to go on the run making life even more difficult.

On the run - John barely makes it out of his home town when a friendly stranger takes him in. With no escape John endures things that are far beyond imagination and holding onto hope keeps him going, or does it?

“A bone chilling short story.”

About the Author

Gareth Parker - educated at a military boarding school, always telling stories and with a proved vivid imagination finally decided to put pen to paper to create thrilling short stories for eBook readers. Parker - now enjoying the Welsh life in Cardiff works for a blue-chip company, even though he's always on the go spends his spare time enduring creativity for others to enjoy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gareth Parker
• Release date: Nov 14, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466060142

Gareth Parker

Gareth Parker - educated at a military boarding school, always telling stories and with a proved vivid imagination finally decided to put pen to paper to create thrilling short stories for eBook readers. Parker - now enjoying the Welsh life in Cardiff works for a blue-chip company, even though he's always on the go spends his spare time enduring creativity for others to enjoy. I'm continuously writing and have many more books to come. Please keep checking my profile for updates or if you prefer have a look at my website: www.gpbookshelf.com and tell me what you think. I am happy to review your books, just ask. Please feel free to contact me on [e-mail] for any questions feedback etc... Thank you for your interest

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Copyright 2011 Gareth Parker

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Did I Die?

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Chapter 1

Getting punched in the face hurts like hell, it hurts even more when it’s in front the rest of the classroom with the other fourteen year old kids laughing about how I fell to the floor. I get up off the floor, deciding retaliating would only result in another blow to the face, I take it as gracefully as I can and head to the toilets.

I look at myself in the tall mirror situated on the wall of the grubby school toilets. I see this short, skinny, runt of a kid staring back at me, it’s no wonder I'm such an easy target for the typical bully. My eye is swollen, it throbs, and it feels as though it’s on the brink of explosion. I decide there’s not much I can do about it so I head back to the classroom feeling completely humiliated.

As I walk in all eyes are on me, I can feel everyone staring at me, I feel emotion starting to well up inside and I just know my mum will ask how I got another black eye. I try hard not to cry and to make out to everyone else it doesn’t hurt, but only being fourteen years old myself it’s kind of hard to control that emotion. The tears roll down my face, all I could wish was that I was back living with my dad in my old school with my old friends.

I sit there holding my eye trying to hide my face as the teacher walks in.

‘John!’ Mr Brown shouts.

‘Yes sir?’

‘What have you been up to?’

‘Nothing sir, I fell off my chair!’

‘Do you need to see the school nurse?’

‘No sir I’ll be fine.’

‘Good, right class,’ he says clearly seeing that I could do with medical attention but bypassing that fact, hoping that I will muddle through his rubbish maths class so he doesn’t have any wasted time. ‘Today is algebra.’ I hate maths I hate school for that matter and to top things off I hate my life.

I’ve only been in this school six weeks, I have no friends. I live with my mum, younger brother, sister and my mum’s vile boyfriend Mark with his son visiting on weekends. We recently moved here, to Portsmouth, from a small town in Wales eight weeks ago. My mum met this guy and fell in love with him instantly. We moved in with him about three weeks ago, since then my life turned from medico to an absolute nightmare within that time.

My parents split up a few years back, my siblings and I miss our dad like crazy. We feel like nothing to our mum now she has Mark in her life and that’s all that’s important to her now. All she seems to care about are the fine things in life he can give her like the posh car, the nice four bedroom house and the expensive jewellery.

After maths I exit the class room still holding my swollen eye when I get approached by the guy who punched me, Martin Soil. He is a bastard and takes the piss out of me