Chapter 6:

-School Accident-

The recess bell rang to for the afternoon break. Children stormed full of joy on the big playground and played the most different games or romped about at the appliances. The swings, they were busy and they queued at the slide. Only Alex wasn't in a hurry.He sat quite alone on a step at the beginning of the stairway and ate his banana, at which he could already look no more. Alex had any real friends at the school. Many held him for mummy's boy and slowpoke, because he always was quiet and for his age strangely politely and far in mind. He was often teased and was thrashed by other classmates or they played bad jokes on him.Once, they had put mousetraps into his satchel and what happened as he wanted to get out the book, well, he was lucky that his tender fingers weren't broken. The students got an admonition and Alex cried. Today was a beautiful day, anyway at the moment, because dark rain-clouds came from the north and covered the sun slowly. Soon the recess was over and they had to go again into the classrooms. Today, nothing particular was on.The last two lessons until 17.00 o'clock they had history, however, the second half was sooner about mythologies. Dracula was on the plan today. How boring. Everyone knew that Vladislav Dracula was no vampire. There were often war's rituals in the past where the winners drunk the blood of their sacrifices and they were never represented as vampires. As the bell rang, Alex was the first who sat at his desk and had already opened his book.History was boring. The topic: the conquest of America. The teacher stood at the blackboard, drew a map and then the way from Spain to America. Christopher Columbus never had planned this way. His actual aim, was India and wanted consequently to begin a herbal-trade to Europe. Probably, he had no idea in which direction India was.The idiot had gotten lost. Alex grinned in himself in and listened no more. He was only glad, as this afternoon past and he could go home. All children ran as fast as they could cheering from the school. Outdoors Alex's so-called uncles were already waiting. Alex became rammed and then, two guys from the upper class came and forced the helpless Alex back to the wall. One pressed him against the wall, and the other emptied Alex's bag.

"Can't you simply leave me?" Alex pled.

"Leave you? Gladly, but you have to pay for it and as I can see, you don't have any money with you. No money, no protection." the boy snapped with the bag of Alex.

"How much do you want?"

"Let's think...50 per week."

" I don't have that much."

"Such a bad luck." Alex was still pressed against the wall and tried despaired to free himself from these thugs and there he got already a beat into his stomach of the other fellow. "If you cannot pay, you become that experience daily." Her rose his hand for a second time, however, Alex started to scream and pushed the two with his two hands with one powerful bump from itself, so that the two schoolboys fell four meters further on the ground. Alex took his bag crying and packed his matters and ran fast from it. The students who saw this, were perplexed and looked after Alex. Probably the most shocked were the two older schoolboys.

"What was that?" asked the one who held Alex.The other twitched only their shoulders.A headmaster came in hurry as he saw from far away how these two troublemakers annoyed a helpless student once again. He still could see Alex run down the street and then saw to the ground and saw the two idiots lying on the ground.

"What happened?" the headmaster wanted to know

"No idea." they stuttered.

"I warned you. To threaten the young students once again, or you fly from the school, is that clear! I repeat myself no more and this was the last warning."

"But Alex has..." they wanted to quibble.

"The boy seems to know how to defended itself. Leave him." that was the last warning words of the headmaster and then he returned again into the building.

Long, the boys looked at each other.

Zed and Caleb also saw it and were also somewhat perplexed, but definitely some less than this two poor guys. Alex had run past at them without only to perceive them. Alex sat crying and distressed in the next-situated city-park on a swing as Zed and Caleb finally found him. Caleb went to him and stopped the swing, that he could try to talk to him, and that Alex got his attention to them, however, he held his head lowered and cried further.

"Hey, hey Alex. What's wrong?" asked Caleb carefully however first came no answer. Alex tried to calm down however he only sobbed. "Alex, what is it?"

"I was afraid." he sobbed.

"Afraid? Of what? These braggarts get their punishes, probably they get thrown from the school. What did they actually want?"

"They wanted money from me so that they thrash me no more. I don't want that they constantly thrash me. (Sniff sniff) Why must all trample on me? Why can't they simply leave me?"

Caleb looked back highly to Zed and again to Alex. He attached his hand quite softly onto the shoulders of the boy. "Believe me, they want nothing more of you. You have frightened them quite intensely today and this they won't forget that fast." he smiled"However, those are only jealous on you, because you are superior for them in many things at school even if you are only nine. Come on, get up, let's go hoe. A hot chocolate will cheer you up again, I'm sure. "

Alex wiped his weeps with his sleeve away, then, he jumped from the swing and he went with the two home where already his aunt was waiting too.