Queen Luana: Wowy! That's been a while. Here we go another chapter, it's still gonna be pretty boring but that's your problem not mine. Wow, I truelly am a bitch.
Part IV
Cruelty to a kid
"Hey Jenny! Pass the chips!" The bag of chips fell into Siska's chest. "Aw… I wanted it to float!" she wined. Jentl rolled her eyes smiling. "I would if you'd stop calling me Jenny." Luana shrieked at the image of the corpse crawling down the stairs. "God damnit I'm so not going to sleep tonight!" she cried. "Yes, escpecially when I'm gonna croak in exactly the same way in the middle of the night," Jentl said in a very pleased way and took another gulpse of her cola. "Did I already mentioned how much I hate you?" Luana snapped. "Three times today," Jentl said not taking her eyes of the screen, where the corpse was now ready to kill the main actress' boyfriend. "Ooh! He's gonna feel that tomorrow!"
With a final blood curling croak the movie ended and the three of them stretched. "What time is it?" Luana yawned. "Past twelve," Jentl said as she peeked at her watch. "Time to get some sleep. Beds!" The TV slid away into the floor and made room for three beds. "Don't forget to brush your teeth," an electronic voice said. "I really have to ask dad to uninstall that childish programme," Jentl moaned as they started changing clothes.
"What do you think Zino's up to right now?" Siska asked as the three of them crawled into their beds and Jentl switched off the lights. "Dunno," Luana sighed. "Gosh… I really feel sorry for him." "I know," Siska sighed. "But what can we do? It's not like we can go to his place and reprimand his parents." "I'm telling you, of this goes on for a couple of weeks, one day he's gonna be standing at our doors with his suitcase in his hands." They went silent after Luana's comment. "Jentl?" Siska then whispered. "I fucking hate those people!" Jentl cried, obviously mad and nearly crying with rage. "A year ago I went over to their place. They were so incredibly friendly to me and I didn't know why. Afterwards Zino told me it was because he had told them I had excellent grades in school. Can you believe those people? They place a complete stranger above their own child!" The words child was pronounced very high indicating she had now actually started crying.
Siska searched her arm then stroke it. "I know it's hard, Jentl. I don't like this either. If there was anything I could do, I would. I swear to you, I would." Luana swallowed away her tears. "Can you remember the day he told us?" After a moment of hesitation a shared 'yes' was heard.
"Zino, what in the world happened to you!" Siska cried. "I fell down the stairs," Zino mumbled pulling his sleeves over his bruised arms. He could not look at either of them when he said so, so Siska smacked him against his ocker, amazingly powerful for a girl. "You know I don't like liars, Zino." He said nothing only stared at the floor. "Zino, what actually happened?" Luana asked in her normal caring voice. "This is the second time in two weeks… You… You can barely walk!" "And still I'm telling you I fell off the bloody stairs!" he snapped, glaring at her. "Hey, I like you man!" Jentl said grabbing him at his collar. "I honnestly do and that's a very rare thing cause men disgust me. Don't go ruining it by shouting at us alright cause I lose my respect for people easily." "You don't understand…" he mumbled his eyes sparkling with tears. "You would never grasp what…" "Yeah, well, obviously we won't if you won't stop speaking in riddles, just tell us and we'll decide whether we understand or not," Jentl snapped. Zino blinked at each of them then lowered his head. "It's my parents…"
"He was right though, I couldn't grasp first…" Luana muttered. They had all forgotten about the movie and the croaking and were now staring up at the ceiling which was displaying the stars up in the sky. "I just don't understand how you could such a thing as a parent," Siska said. "I can't imagine my parents doing that, all because of a stupid F." "They just want him to get straight A's and they can't accept he's not able to," Jentl whispered. "I just feel like everything he does right now, it's all okay. Because he's going through something so hard." Siska rolled over to face her. "Don't you reckon we should talk to a teacher about this?" "Zino'd kill us if he found out," Jentl replied looking at her as well. "It's best if we keep quiet. At least for now." She turned her back on her friends. "Good night."
"Hey girls," Zino greeted them, not that enthousiastic, but still slightly more cheerful than the previous day. "You gonna check your results?" Siska asked carefully. "I guess I've got no choice. My parents know I had a test yesterday." "What did you tell them?" Luana asked him as they paced through the hall. "Nothing. I told them I'd tell them today." "Well, I've got to check my results as well. And I'm dead!" Siska said jokingly and they halted in front of several screens. Siska spoke into the little microphone hanging in front of one of them: "Laurens S., English." The screen beeped and showed her 61 percent. "Oh, damnit," she cursed. Zino sighed deeply and took her place. "Carlos Z., Math." Siska's results disappeared and after another beep 23 percent was shown.
Zino breathed in deeply and Jentl placed her hand on his shoulder. "It's okay." "No, it's not," he said with a fake smile. "You know why, because 23 percent means I failed the test. And that means my total percentage for math has lowered again and I'll probably fail my year and have to redo it!" He nearly barked the last words and Jentl closed her eyes. "Sorry." He leaned over dangerously and hissed: "I don't want your pitty, Jentl." Then he strode off and the three girls looked after him, helplessly. Jentl madly kicked the wall and cursed. "Looks like Gote is starting to fall apart," Siska mumbled and Luana nodded. The bell went and they all dragged themselves towards their classes.
Queen Luana: Poor Zino. You wanna know if his evil parents beet him up again, review and you'll see! The more reviews I get, the sooner I update! MUAHAHAHAHAA!