Zero Part 1

ZERO

This story also took place in year 11 but this was towards the end of my time at Stockwell Park, a month before final exams I think.

By this time most people in my class were more interested in girls and smoking than football. I was hanging around with 11K more often.. the dweebs… at least they played football.

We had started a football game between what remained of year 11s VS year 7. The game was well underway when this little year 7 came picked up the ball and said he wanted to play football against his class. He had presumed because the dweebs were playing for the year 11s that this would be easy to disrupt. I was outraged and approached this little kid standing tall. I knocked the ball out of his hand and told everyone to continue playing. The rest of the footballers look amazed that I had done that and were in awe. I thought to myself, was I supposed to know who this kid was?

We continued playing and then the kid came up to me and asked me what I was doing and barged into me. I was not having any of it and I pushed the kid firmly on his face to the ground. He realised he was no match for me and stood there for a while contemplating what to do next.

I continued playing football… no year 7 little kid was gonna bully me.. pfft! The kid went off and joined a couple of girls, who were in my brother’s class that, I could not stand. I remember one of them was called Christine. She was a really stunning Jamaican girl, just a little over weight. I heard her from a distance encourage the kid to go and tell his brother. I thought nothing of it.

Lunch break finished and we retired to our forms. Me back to 11L. Our tutor Mr Barrett began taking the register when all of a sudden the door burst open and an angry year 10 burst into the room. He pointed at me and said.. ‘You are dead.. No one slaps my little brother and gets away with it’. I gulped internally.. The little boy was the brother of Stanley.. one of the year 10 gangsters known for being in a gang with his 5 older brothers. ‘what had I done’ I thought.