THE CLOTHES SALEJust a little story loosely inspired by a scene from a TV show (https://youtu.be/W8vIR53U2VU), that I thought I’d expand to cover an alternative route.
CHAPTER 1
Shane Shelley was never one for making a scene, much preferring to let his words and polite “yes-man” attitude do the work for him instead. This is the story of the one terrible afternoon that forced him to rethink that strategy.
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Shane’s day began identically to any other school morning — shower, breakfast, pills, get dressed, take the bus to school, lessons, break, more lessons, lunch — but it was at that point that everything started to go wrong, and it was all thanks to his fellow gym student Jack Jenkins and his team of bullies.
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“Everything ready?” Jack asked his eternal co-conspirators Tim and Terry Thompson, as they returned to the gym classroom after putting the very final touches to their plan.
“All exactly as it should be. Now we’re just waiting for the little brat to finish showering and we can begin,” Tim confirmed.
“Great, bro. But remember to be quiet. He must not be allowed to know what’s coming until it’s too late or he might just run away and ruin it,” Jack warned them both.
“He’s coming! Places, everyone!” whispered Terry as loudly as he could so Shane still wouldn’t hear.
Wearing only a towel, and nervous about who had taken all his things from the locker room (and having received special permission to use the showers after everyone else had gone), Shane carefully peered into the darkened gym class.
“Hello? Anyone there?”
As soon as he had passed the threshold of the doorframe, it was quietly snuck closed behind him using a concealed string attached to Terry’s finger.
Once the door was firmly closed and locked, Tim hit the light switches to reveal…