Chapter 9: The Confrontation

I had the butterflies in my stomach; my gut was telling me that this was not going to be good. I couldn't face VJ. By recess I had the guts to do it, to end this pointless war. I went up to VJ Alvi, "VJ? I think we should end this, before someone could get hurt."

"Someone get hurt? Do you mean you getting hurt?"

He had made the situation tenser than ever before. "Um, no I mean, stop this stupid fighting."

"You're the one that started it, Malcolm."

This made me furious, how did I start this? "I started this, really? Then how?'

"Malcolm Landgraab the richest boy in town, he has the power to accuse the people he doesn't like."

"That's false. I would never do anything like that."

"But you would so."

The argument was going nowhere, he would backfire every comment I made.

I'm getting really angry that I wanted to beat him up.

"This is going nowhere, so let's go. Are you a coward?"

VJ was fuming. His cheeks started to turn red. "So you want to fight."

"No but I'll use it as a last resort."

I knew this wasn't going to end well. At least I tried. VJ throws a punch. I see it coming and I block it with my arm. Then it was my turn. I swung hard at VJ's stomach. It was super effective. VJ was winded, it must have hurt. I never knew I could punch so hard.

"You don't mess with Malcolm."

"Ow, do you think this is really over? You watch, ow, your back because, ow, I'll be there!"

I just slowly walked away like I was some action hero movie character that had just beaten the main rival. I saw a dark shadow appear behind me, I knew who it was. I knew what was just about to happened. I turned around, Mr Anderson, with dark black and expensive sunglasses stared at me angrily. "MALCOLM LANDGRAAB! Go to my office NOW!" I slowly walked to the principal's office, with Mr Anderson walking slowly behind me. I wondered if he saw everything or just the last moment. But it didn't matter, I caused the incident. I walked into the office, there was Arthur sitting in the seat. Was he in trouble too?

I took the seat next to him. "Oh I didn't see you come in," Arthur looked startled. "I'm a bit sneaky like that," I said jokingly. I was getting suspicious. What was going on? "So are you in trouble?" I asked.

"No, not at all just having a friendly chat with Mr Anderson."

"But I thought you didn't like him?" I asked questioningly.

"Oh! I did? I don't remember saying that."

Mr Anderson walked into the room, the room was silent, "So Mr Landgraab, thinks he can bully kids older than him. And by the way I know about the incident at the arcade."

"What incident?" I say sarcastically.

"Where you injured, poor VJ Alvi."

"How would you know, you weren't there."

"I have connections Mr Landgraab, just like your Mother and Father."

I didn't realise Arthur sitting next to me soaking up every word of this talk.

"Well why is Arthur in the room? I thought this is confidential?"

"It is confidential. He won't tell a word to anyone. Won't you Arthur?"

Arthur replied as if he was a robot, "No Sir."

"Is this connection, Arthur? He is the one that told you about the incident at the arcade. He did. I was there I was with him."

"You finally figured it all out; he was an 'informant' for me most of the time."

"Why do you hate me so much? What have I done wrong, that you would send a spy on me?"

"You're a spoilt brat! The lucky rich kid who gets anything he wishes, there are more less unfortunate people out there!"

I was furious; he thinks I'm a spoilt brat! I don't ask very much from my parents.

"I may be lucky but doesn't mean that you form some sort of hate for me."

Mr Anderson was very quiet after that sudden outburst, he regretted what he had just said.

"Let me tell the story of my life, Malcolm."

"Okay."

"I grew up in the city of Bridgeport, which is very far away from Sunset Valley. So one day my parents decide to go on vacation, just the two of them, it was their late honeymoon, a trip to Sunlit Tides."

"Where is Sunlit Tides?"

"A Tropical Island in the Pasimfic Ocean, a tropical resort is there."

"Oh I've never been there before."

"Well it's beautiful. My parents said that they would be gone for two weeks. They left me alone with a horrible babysitter, Anastasia Smugglesworth. Two weeks felt like ages and when it passed, my parents never came home. I have never known what happened to them, the police didn't find them, so I was taken by the social worker and I was put into what they called a 'loving, caring family' but they were wrong, they were mean and horrible and shouted at me every single day, never gave me enough food, my room looked like it had been in a fire, the house was like a haunted mansion, every time you stepped a creaking sound was made. I lived an unhappy life as a child and teenager. Only until I became an adult, I was finally free. I wanted to move away from the family that took 'care' of me. I ran away to the furthest place I could, Sunset Valley. I took my loving dog, Morpheus with me. I finally became a teacher and look at me now. A school principal."

Mr Anderson was finally nice to me, we decided to end this hatred against each other and I was in his good books for once. I didn't think twice of this friend, I started to feel bad about all the things I said bad about Mr Anderson.

But I still couldn't believe that Arthur betrayed me! Well I just better see Claire before she gets angry. Arthur betraying me, it didn't matter now, Mr Anderson and I are fine now, I just need to find more time to spend with Claire, not just writing...