Chapter Thirteen
"Look, me and Justin are gonna skive, so you can come with us or you can go to lesson with Kevin" Mark spoke with a grin.
"I got to go to lesson" Amy replied nervously.
"No you haven't like, just skive, whats the worst that can happen; come on" Mark pressured, Amy was quite naïve in her young age.
Justin looked across the side as he watched Becca walk down the hallway. She avoiding his gaze, after all she is in a perfectly happy relationship with Jake Dean. She must be, she loves Jake surely.
"I don't won't to get into trouble and I need to know where everything is" Amy insisted.
"Exactly you're new so if the teachers see ya, just say that I lied to you and that I said it was a free" Mark answered quickly.
"I don't want to get anyone else in trouble either" Amy was cut of.
"I don't mind; come on Amy, the last thing we need is a female Kevin" Mark laughed, he always did like to offend Kevin.
"Okay" Amy finally said.
Mark nodded, he knew he could eventually lure her into a false sense of security. If any teacher does come along, he will not being taken the fall for it. Justin wouldn't either, so Amy would have to take the blame no doubt.
"Don't go getting me involved, Sophie already told mum everything else" Justin piped up.
Sophie was his sister. He has two twin sisters Sophie and Mel, there both older than him and has left school now.
"Why? Was Sophie in when the school sent your mum a letter?" Mark asked, Justin just nodded.
"Yeah, she read it first" Justin spoke with a sigh.
"We won't get caught this time, Ste you coming?" Mark asked him, as he was still sat with Brendan.
"Yeah, Brendan is coming too" Ste told them.
"Great" Justin muttered sarcastic under his breath.
Mark and Justin never really liked Brendan, they honestly don't understand what Ste see's in him. They think he is a little too vile and very strange. Brendan has started to grow a moustache, you could see it slowly growing.
"Right where we going?" Justin asked, Amy walked besides Mark.
"I know the perfect place" Ste insisted, he skives so much that he knows where the best places are. He got skill in it.
"Where?" Justin asked him.
"Just follow me" Ste insisted, as he was leading them slowly outside of the school building towards the bike sheds.
"The bike sheds?" Mark asked, he didn't sound happy.
As they all walked into the bike sheds, shutting the door tight behind themselves. Sitting down on the bikes.
"We won't get caught here" Ste insisted, getting out his circular CD player again. He had another CD, Mark looked at it and laughed.
"James Blunt? You got a James Blunt CD?" Mark asked with a laugh.
"I stole it alright, I was gonna get caught so I had to take the first CDs I could find" Ste told him, chucking a can at his head.
"I bet you cry when you listen to it Ste, proper sad and that" Mark mocked slightly.
"Shut it" Ste hissed.
Amy looked across the bike shed. It was filled with a lot of second-hand bikes, they were the only bikes these kids could afford. Second-hand ones, though it didn't matter to them. As long as they got one, there alright.
"Have you heard that I swear song by NDubz or NDabz; I forget, there like this new band I think; I don't know but they got a song called I swear" Mark spoke as he got out his Nokia slide phone.
"Yeah, I watch the late night show that always play music like that" Ste answered, he did stay up late to watch some late night television.
"Really? Don't you like Mozart?" Brendan asked, they looked at him like he said something shocking.
"Mozart? Nah, I feel creeped out listening to dead guys" Mark replied, thinking he was smart as he forgot about a certain fact.
"You only listen to his pieces, they never have recordings back in the 1700s Mark; of cause you wouldn't know that, so you're not listening to a dead guy" Brendan replied, Ste smiled. He liked it when Mark got out-smarted.
"Shut up, why are you even here?" Mark asked, Justin eyes widened.
"If you don't want my company, you know where the door is" Brendan spoke, as he placed his arm around Steven.
"Seriously Brendan, nobody cares about your macho image; I seen your dad once in parents evening and I can see where you get it from; nobody cares" Mark spoke with a slightly sarcastic tone.
"Dodger, just be quite" Justin muttered under his breath.
"I never asked for anybody to care Mark, I think you care more than me" Brendan hissed.
"I'm gonna say something right now Brendan, I think the only reason Ste is going out with ya is because nobody else would want to" Mark spoke, Justin put his head down. Mark is asking for a smack.
"You don't know anything" Ste piped up, he didn't like the way Mark was speaking to his boyfriend.
"No but I know if me and Brendan were alone than he smack me right now" Mark replied.
Amy regretted coming here as she was slightly shaking. She felt uncomfortable and she feared that a fight might emerge and she would get caught in the crossfire.
"I'm going to lesson; not staying here" Justin told them as he stood up.
Amy stood up as well.
"Justin we find somewhere else then" Mark spoke, as he placed his arm around Amy.
She didn't brush him of this time, mainly because she just wanted to leave as quickly as possible. As Justin opened the door, all three walked in. Leaving Brendan and Ste alone with each other. Mark slammed the door behind himself in a mood.
"I'm leaving this damn school" Justin spoke, he wouldn't go through with it.
Mark just watched him go towards the exit, he counted to ten and Justin came back when he spoke ten just as expected.
"I would have done it" Justin insisted, as they walked away.
Back towards the school.
"You alright Amy?" Mark asked her.
"Yeah" Amy replied half-heartily.
Justin didn't look too pleased, as they had to find another place. Justin knew that Mark didn't get on with Kevin or Ste that much. Though since him and Justin were mates, Mark just happened to meet his other mates.
"Where we gonna go?" Mark asked Justin with his arms crossed now.
"I don't know Dodger; we were perfectly okay with Ste and Brendan; until you had to shout ya mouth of" Justin snarled.
"I don't like Brendan; someone had to tell him like" Mark replied with anger in his voice.
"What's wrong with him?" Amy asked them.
"Have you seen him Amy? He looks a like a right weirdo and he speaks he like a right weirdo; what's to like" Mark cleared his throat after it.
"Alright, we don't need to drag Amy into this; all you need to know Amy; is that you should never cross Brendan, Walker, Danny or Trevor; their like this sort of gang; I mean Dodger said one comment about Walker's girlfriend and got a smack" Justin informed her, he didn't know them all that well.
"You know what, I think his girlfriend Shawnee would look alright if she dressed like a girl" Dodger was too shallow.
"She does wear girl's clothes" Amy piped up.
"Yeah I know but you couldn't tell the difference, if I worn the 'girl' clothes she wears I would get away with it; that's all I'm saying" Mark replied.
"Just shut up Dodger; no wonder you keep getting smacks; you got no right to offend anyone, you're hardly Mr perfect are ya" Justin replied, as they walked down the hallway.
"So, Walker had to no right to smack me" Mark insisted.
"I mean it Dodger, shut up" Justin was sick of hearing his shallow, offensive comments now.
They all sat down on the bar across the door again. Amy wished she went to lesson now, this was much worst and Kevin seems a lot nicer than Mark, Ste and Brendan. So she would have must rather spoke to him instead. Though Justin seems alright.
"Next time we see Ste; you better say sorry like" Justin spoke.
"You what?" Mark asked, he wasn't going to say sorry.
"I mean it Dodger; say sorry otherwise none of us wanna hang out with ya" Justin informed him, Mark shook his head.
"Were not girls Justin" Mark replied with a disbelieving look.
"You're behaving like one though, stop being so bloody stubborn" Justin replied, as he moved up slightly.
"I'm not being bloody stubborn" Mark hissed at him in an angry tone.
Amy really wished she went to lesson now as she stood up. Sorting out her red blazer and blonde plats.
"Amy; do you wanna go somewhere else like?" Mark asked, she just nodded.
Justin just stayed sitting. As Mark walked down the hallways, they didn't know but Shawnee and Walker were down here as well.
"Oh shite, let's go back" Mark spoke as he seen Shawnee looking over with a sly smile.
"No, sit here" Shawnee spoke, Walker laughed.
"Get lost, I had enough of ya already; you hit me" Mark snarled. Amy tugging at him to leave as she stood behind him quietly.
"Mark lets just go" Amy spoke, she calls him Mark rather than Dodger.
"Cute, isn't she" Walker smirked, as he drank a bit of his Pepsi.
Mark turned around as he started walking back with Amy, who had her arms crossed, was feeling slightly relived he listened to her before things escalated deeper. They returned to Justin who looked calmer.
"Look we both need to calm down" Justin spoke, as Amy and Mark both sat back down besides him.
"Yeah I know; look I'm sorry about before" Mark finally said.
"It's not me you should be saying sorry to" Justin reminded him.
"I'm not saying sorry to Ste alright; I got nowt to say to him" Mark crossed his arms.