It had been two weeks since I had started CHERUB. I had acclimatized to the hectic schedule of lessons, acquired my Red belt in Karate after a week, a large amount of people are accepting me a friend and I seem to have learnt a few descriptive words beginning with the letter A(I'm reading through the dictionary purely for the hell of it.). But thankfully, it has been two and I am turning round the last corner of my Punishment Laps.
Rod is slightly in front of me. I power myself up, and go flying forward in front of Rod and pass the finishing line. I say that like it's an achievement. Yay! I've completed my first punishment.
That's exactly what Will had in mind.
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Back in the changing rooms, me and Rod dived into the showers. Will had finished long before us and was pulling on his red CHERUB T-Shirt. Will hadn't performed any of his tests on me since the Art class incident. This was very weird. But the he called me over to the blurred window.
"Can you see them Kyle?" Will pointed at a group of 14-15 year old girls all making there way of the track and into the changing room.
"Now Kyle," Will said, starring into my eyes. "What is in your mind right now?"
I closed my eyes. I could imagine them running in and ripping there navy and black T-Shirts off and I diving into the shower together.
To be quite honest. That image is really quite grotesque in my mind.
URGHH! URGHH! Horrible straight thoughts. I shuddered.
Will understood my expression and pulled out a notepad and jotted something in side it. I turned to Rod and he smiled and nodded because he could also understand what I was thinking.
"Anyway!" Will bellowed, snapping his notebook shut and at the same time snapping me out of my little trance. "Me and all the guys here-"
"Apart from me!" Rod shouted, obviously annoyed.
"Yes apart from the homosexuals." I can really imagine Will being Southern. "Were going to go spy on the girls in the shower. You coming?"
YOU FUCKING PERVERTS!
"Sorry" I said, acting like I was genuinely upset. "That really doesn't take my biscuit."
"Come on, it'll be like a celebration of completing your first punishment."
There it is.
I turned my head. "I don't actually like woman's body OK." I looked over to Rod. His face was rather blank before. But when I said that, his face lit up.
"WILL, you coming?" A boy shouted fro the other side of the changing room.
"Nearly there Mike" Will shouted back. "Suit your self queer." He said to me. The he ran off.
"Bloody charming." I muttered. I walked over to Rod who was still in the shower. I hung up my towel and switched on the hose. "Bloody hell. What the heck is up with Will?" I asked Rod.
Rod smirked. "This is al part of his tests. Oh and come to mention it, how do you feel about girls physically?"
"Not being mean, but personally I think they look kinda sick."
"I understand."
"Of course you understand, Your Gay."
Now it hits me. I'm standing naked in a shower with my naked best friend who coincidently is gay. And you know what. I love it.
"What are you thinking about?" Rod asked.
NO MR. P! DON'T DO THIS NOW! I turned away fro Rod. But I turned my head back. Rod raised and eyebrow.
"It's Okay Kyle. It happens to the best of us."
"Please don't patronise me."
"Fine, but Kyle, my question."
I stepped out the shower and grabbed my towel but just as I was about to open my mouth. An echo of screams erupted from the girls changing room. And all that was yelled repeatedly was
"PERV ALERT! PERV ALERT!"
Me and Rod grinned.
