Gordon made his way dejectedly into the office; ok so maybe he had gone a little overboard THIS time. The principal had called his farther in…again. He had to be the only 16-year-old in the world to be called into the principles office at least 6 times a day. 'joy somebody call the genius world records because I just broke a world record' Gordon thought miserably trying to cheer himself up with a joke, just like always… but it didn't work, it never did.
"Go in, Gordon" Mrs. Samson smiled
Gordon sighed heavily and made his way slowly past her desk towards the office, pausing outside and smirked. 'might as well know what they're discussing beforehand' he thought. Carefully opening the door without it creaking, a skill that he had perfected after sneaking around his house and pranking his brothers for so many years, he was practically like a ninja when he needed to be.
"..really must learn some control" the principle finished
Jeff Tracy gave a large sigh "I know that Mr. Smith, but there's nothing I can do. I've tried everything, he's got four brothers to compete with, and this is his way of….standing out"
"I understand that Mr. Tracy, but his uncontrollable behavior is disturbing everyone, students and teachers alike. He set up a chemistry set to explode on the teacher for Pete's sake!"
"so you're saying you're expelling him?" Jeff sighed, tired of all these meetings
"no, I'm giving him one last chance, a suspension for two weeks, if he still can't control his behavior by then, well….then yes, he will be expelled."
"I understand," Jeff said standing up
Gordons eyes widened….suspended?! WHY?! Sure there he did make a chemistry set explode in a teacher, and there was that time with the drink fountain….and the zoo excursion. It wasn't his fault! It's just that school is so…boring! Having to sit down the whole day and listen to the teacher drag on and on about a war in a country or whatever. The only time he really concentrated was when he was in the water, his 3 older brothers and younger brother always did their homework on time, showed up to class and other stuff. Then again he was always different from his brothers, while they were smarter than him, he was more active then all of them combined. Not to mention he was the only one who had a deep love for water, it wasn't his fault he was full of energy! It's like the remaining energy from his older brothers had transferred to him. Even when he was sleeping he couldn't stay still, when he woke up in was in a completely different position from the night before.
"Gordon?"
Gordon jumped at his father's voice, he was so lost in his thoughts that he hadn't heard him coming. Waving goodbye to Mr. Smith and Mrs. Samson they walked to the car in silence. On the way home, Gordon broke the awkward silence. "are you disappointed in me, dad?" he asked
"we'll talk about this when we get home"
"I'll take that as a yes" he muttered sadly. He knew what was going to happen next, his dad was going to take him to his office and give the same speech, about he had to focus more on school and that he was banned from the pool. Catch up on school work, then ask him about his behaviour, then drag Scott from where he was stationed at the airforce to help him, which would then turn into an argument which then John would try and intervene and calm Scott down from his 'mother-chicken mode' then the tension between them for the next 2 weeks would be so thick, you could cut it with a knife.
Two days later his head was aching, he couldn't do anymore, it just didn't make sense. He groaned and flopped down on his bed, the speech had gone exactly as he suspected; the forced imprisonment in the house, with no pool time it was killing him. He had promised his father that he would catch up on his assignments, bring his grades up, stop pulling pranks. Everything.
But he just couldn't do it! He walked over to his laptop and switched it on. He was going to look for jobs, one that wouldn't disappoint his family. When the laptop loaded he searched a few sites. He searched up 'swimming' and 'job' and got lots of sites. It was all the same thing 'swimming-instructor, swimming-instructers, swimming-instructers, and more swimming instructors.' He scrolled down and then something caught his eye.
Navy
Interesting
He clicked in it and read it, the more he read, the more interested he got. It appealed to him because of the water activity, it was very physical, and some engineering. He could fix engines, his father and taught all of them when they were younger and he loved it. And there were further opinions; he could get into the navy seal oh, the elite—that he liked. There was no way he could be called a disappointment if he was q navy seal. And it would impress dad and Scott because they were military people, yes, that would do.
And wait... he could join at 16?
He was at the right age, he got excited that was quickly deflated when he found out he needed his dad's signature, there was no way his dad would let him go join the navy without finishing school first. He decided that once he was 18 he would join, but first, he had some planning to do...
ok, so hope you enjoyed this chapter, this is not originally my work, but I edited the original work hope you enjoy this story. I'll let you know when the original author's work is finished.
Also if you love funny movies, you should watch this movie called "Expelled"
