bitter memories : the great escape (part I)
related entries :
bitter memories : the underwear incident
bitter memories : the calculator incident
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*I’ve been too free at work as of late, expect more long entries*
If PukeMachine were to clone himself over and over, he’d need to replicate himself an entire population of India to collaboratively reach the IQ that of a lab rat. No shit.
That calculator incident had put our brotherhood into the state of quandary. Like, I’m going be in a real deep shit tomorrow, how am I going to tell my mom about it? I was innocent enough. I didn’t do it. It was that kleptomaniac freak PukeMachine that got me into this. But that’s not important anymore, as I knew my mom would kill me irregardless of the truth being explained, or not.
Being a smarter person I am, I quickly came up with a backup plan, and suggested it to my panic stricken partner-in-crime (who’s about to cry like he’s just lost a kidney) that we should bail school the next day and get out of this. That way, we won’t have to get our parents to meet up with the teacher, and hopefully with all the busy schedule and workload, she would forget all about it the day after that. (Trust me, it sounded very much more plausible back then). It was a brilliant idea.
Now, some of you might be wondering, why should I help PukeMachine with that, after all he had done? Well, I had to. Why? Here’s why
a) If he brought his parents to school, there would be slimmer chance for that teacher to forget about the whole incident, and she would have realized that I was missing from her class.
b) I already had a very ill reputation with PukeMachine’s mom. It’ll be a very BAD idea to let her know that I was involved in this. It’ll only aggravate the situation if she somehow relates that underwear incident to my school teacher.
c) When I’m missing, it’ll be that much easier for PukeMachine to twist the fact and frame me stupid. It’ll be very UNWISE to leave such a volatile character alone by himself.
So, I had to take him with me. I had to make him skip school on that day. Or banish him from existence forever, whichever fits. I had no choice.
And because he’s a guy with not much of a thinking aptitude, it didn’t take him longer than a second to agree with my plan, and we’re at it. That was how my first school skipping act was conceived. It was a choice made out of verge of desperation. For a 9 year old, saving our skin is always more important than anything else.
The next day, we met early at the school entrance, and from there, we walked. A lot. We had to walk because
a) We don’t have much money with us to take a bus home
b) We don’t fucking know how to take a bus home (we’re only 9, we’re supposed to be stupid and stuff)
Destination: My home. That was 8 kilometers (clicks) away. PukeMachine volunteered to walk me back to my place first, then he’ll walk back to his own place, which was another give or take, 6 clicks away (he must have astoundingly walked 14 clicks altogether that day, un-fucking-believable). I’m not sure if he did that out of compunction of his misdeeds, or was he just plain fucking stupid… but I didn’t object his intention. I could use somebody to walk me home anytime, no shit - like maybe, I might be ambushed by some stray dogs, and I could use him to cushion off the attacks… I’m smart.
And so we walked and talked, leaving behind our baggage of troubles at school…
(to be continued…)