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By the time second period came around, Vernon had already lost all interest in everything and was already falling asleep in class. As he lay there slouched in his chair, drawing a picture of Chymera, he looked up into the hall. Ignoring everything that his teacher was droning on and on about his gaze was fixed upon what he saw. In the hall a young boy was staggerly walking along, blood trails dripped silently behind the young boy. Vernon’s sleepy gazed turned to terror and shock as the young boy stopped in front of the open class room door and stared at Vernon. Letting out a faint smile the young boy continued to walk away, Vernon jumped out of his chair and tripping over his feet as he ran into the hall, scrambled to get to the young boy. As he stood there in the hall looking in all directions, his teacher came out of the classroom and with a great tug, grabbed Vernon and held him still. “ What is your problem? How dare you interrupt my class and run out into the hall causing all this commotion. Explain your self young man” yelled the teacher, trying to hold Vernon still from running off. “ I saw him. He was walking in the hall, tails of blood; he smiled at me and kept walking. I had to make sure he was ok.” Vernon said in a trembling yet calm voice, as he finally calmed down enough for the teacher to release his grip. The teacher’s gazes on Vernon turned from a sort of rage and anger to concern as he listened to Vernon speak. “ Vernon, There is no blood, there is no kid. Maybe if you didn’t sleep so much in class you wouldn’t have these Delusional nightmares and think that there is a child walking the halls in a bloody mess.” The teacher let out a scoffing laugh as he imagined a child walking around the halls. “ IT WASN’T A DILUSIONAL NIGHTMARE” screamed Vernon. “ HE WAS THERE, I SAW HIM. I WASN’T ASLEEP NOR WAS IT A DILUSION. HE WAS THERE! I SAW HIM, THE BLOOD, THE SMILE EVEN THE CHUNK OF HIS HEAD THAT WAS MISSING.” The louder and angrier Vernon got the more attention it called to the classroom.
Teachers, students and administrators were standing in the hall watching the spectacle. Vernon kept getting more and more upset as the teacher got angrier and angrier. Finally the teacher walked into his classroom and pulled out a referral and wrote Vernon up for insubordination, disruption to class, and walking out of class without a pass, along with other things. Vernon walked back into the class room and gathered his belongings as the teacher handed Vernon the referral and had one of the administrators who were out in the hall escort Vernon to the principals office, incase he decided to skip out of the building or try to get rid of the referral. As they walked through the halls, Vernon kept his head lowered looking towards the floor. He was trying to ignore the administrator’s gaze at him. He was so frustrated that no one would believe him that he saw the child walking through the halls. And now everyone thought he was crazy. The walk to the other side of the building was a very long and quiet one. When they were about half way, Vernon stopped for a drink of water, as he looked up he saw the boy again. His face turned a pale white as he saw the boy stopped at the end of the hall looking at Vernon. The child smiled at Vernon and waved at him in a beckoning manner, as if he wanted him to come closer to tell him something. Vernon took off running toward the child and after four or five steps was yanked back by his book bag by the administrator. “ What is your problem Vernon? You’re usually a fairly good student. I’m disappointed that you would try to run off like that. Especially with me standing right here.” The administrator said in a stern voice. “ I saw him again! He was right there!!” exclaimed Vernon. “ I have been standing right here and I saw nothing. You just better shut up and stop acting stupid. Act your age not your shoe size ya know.” After hearing the administrator say that Vernon lowered his head again and they continued to walk. The whole time Vernon kept quiet as he thought about the child and how much he wished that someone would believe him.
They arrived at the principal’s office. The administrator walked in and handed the principal the referral and talked with her for a moment. As he walked out he looked at Vernon, “ She will see you when she’s done with her appointments. Just sit there and please try to behave.” His gaze changed as he walked out into the hall, looking back at Vernon as he sat there in the chair, hand between his legs, he sighed. Then continued to his office. Vernon sat there looking down at the floor and ignoring the passers by as they talked about how he was the one who caused all the commotion in the hall. As he sat there waiting for his chance to talk to the principal, hoping that she would understand, he thought long and hard about what the boy wanted him for and why no one else saw him. Was the child to fast in movement for the administrator to see? Or was it that the administrator wasn’t paying attention when he saw the boy. Vernon figured it was that the administrator wasn’t paying attention and pawned the viewings off as maybe his mind playing tricks on him. The principal’s door opens and a young girl walks out with tears down her face as her parents fallow behind her. Vernon gulps the air as the principal calls his name. “ Mr. Davis would you please come in and have seat” she said in a comforting yet sincere voice. As Vernon walked in he thought to himself. “ She’s being so pleasant she must be able to see that I’m not lying.” As he sat down in the chair he could sense that the atmosphere had just drastically changed, Vernon sat there with a tremble in his heart as he heard the words she spoke. “ Mr. Davis, this is a first for you to be sent to my office on so many offences. I understand what you are going through at home.” Suddenly she was interrupted by Vernon. “ THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHATS GOING ON AT HOME” he screamed as a tear ran down his face. “ THAT IS ENOUGH. Don’t interrupt me, do you understand. Now I understand what your going through at home, but the school is not a place to take out your aggressions. Do I make myself clear?” A low key “yes ma’am” was heard as the principal continued her speech. “ Good. Now to take care of this referral. Lets see insubordination, walking out of class.” The principal went through everything that the teacher wrote down and stopped at the accusations that Vernon made. As she sat there and read about the account of the boy in the hall, she looked up at Vernon and shook her head, as if in shame. Vernon looked up at her and saw the looks she gave. “ This is what we will do, since you are a fairly good student and the fact that what your “preaching” is complete nonsense. You will finish out the school day. Starting tomorrow you will be in school suspension for 2 weeks.” Vernon went to say something but something stopped him. He looked down at the floor as the principal wrote him a pass to class. He stood up and walked out the door. As he headed down the hall he ended up in the spot where he saw they boy, he looked around and saw nothing. He thought to himself and decided that maybe he was crazy and continued to walk. Halfway to his class the bell rang.

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