Now, 5 years later, things didn't remain the same, and Cody's life was anything but normal.
Chapter 6: Un-mistake
5 years later....
It's been 5 years since Cody's birth and also his father's and in the years that followed, Cody's life went a little more bumpy with several kinds of ways of being different from every other rockhopper penguin in Shiverpool and he's been known to be an outcast, simply because of not-so normal moments.
One day, the penguins in the school were all turning five, and it means it's time to graduate from school and into the fish pile. Most of them were ready to take the challenge to see how fish-piling goes as almost every other rockhopper penguin in Shiverpool does every single year.
However, one rockhopper penguin has been growing a little, but not as taller yet. Cody has remained the same since day one of his birth that he's different from everyone else.
Throughout the course of his life in 5 years, he's been tormented, teased by and ridiculed of because he was very smaller from everyone else and even Glen tormented him a lot, simply because that's what big brothers do. His childhood was anything but normal.
Then, one day, all the penguins were all ready to participate in the school picture where they're graduating from kindergarten and into the fish pile, minus one penguin in the crowd.
Back at the igloo, Cody was sleeping in his room, totally oversleeping and not knowing the fact that there was something important that day, but he was sleeping away and dreaming about what he wanted to do in his life.
Suddenly, he opened his tired, blurry brown eyes, groaned softly and yawned. Then, he scratched his neck and sighed sluggishly and then, all of a sudden, it hit him hard that there was something very important happening. His eyes opened up quickly and said, "The graduation ceremony! I completely forgot!"
He hopped out of bed, then ran as fast as he could to get in the picture with the other rockhopper penguins as they graduated from the school to the fish pile-up.
As he ran outside in a hurry, he sees all the penguins, including his brother, Glen, all together for the ceremony.
He panted as hard as he could and said, "Wait! Don't start without me!"
The entire colony turned around and saw him run towards them. They all groaned, "Not Cody....please."
"Sorry I'm late! I--whoa!"
Then, he slipped towards the snowy ice and slid down the snow, heading towards them. The crowd ultimately dispersed and Cody ran into some piles of fish and all of them were loose and most likely scattered around the snow. Then, more piles were scattered across the ice and Cody immediately stopped. He got up and saw the entire fish all messed up and out of place. The entire colony started at him and then Cody explained everything about it.
"I am so sorry about this! I overslept and I completely forgot that this was the graduation ceremony!"
"Cody."
"I tried to make it as fast as I could, but I couldn't run fast enough to keep up with everyone else."
"Cody..."
"And I am really, really sorry about this fish. It was just an . I didn't mean to make the fish fall down. I slipped and fell on the ice and then it just---"
"CODY!!!!!"
Then, Cody stopped talking and the teacher sighed heavily and said, "Just pick up the fish, please. You've already caused enough damage for today."
The teacher walked away, nodding his head in disbelief leaving Cody speechless. He also told him, "I am really sorry about this. I overslept, that's it."
"I don't want to hear it. Just....pick up these fish, please."
"But I--"
"NOW!!!!" he snapped.
Leaving the other penguins just laughing at him and picking at him as they walked away. Glen went over to his brother and told him, "Why couldn't you just be born a normal penguin for once?"
Then, he walked away without saying a word leaving Cody behind to pick up all the mess. It just seemed as though it's gonna take a long time to pick up the fish, let alone graduate. Cody sighed heavily as one icy-tear fell from his eye, knowing that his size really gave everyone else a much more harder time.
Maybe he became more different than he thought he was.
Very brutal, I know. Stay tuned for the next chapter!