Chapter 1 - Joe’s memory
Get up Joe, get up”. Joe opened his eyes and sat up. His body was aching and his legs were stiff. His slippers were visible waiting there to be put on. Joe stretched his arms as hard as he could but they were sore too.
How do you not know what that means?” Joe replied to his mother as if she should know why he done the gesture. Joe ran into the kitchen and poured some milk into his favourite cereal which his mother was so kind as to put out for him. The cereal was called cereal puffs. Cereal puffs were like doughballs but they were crispy and yellow like cornflakes and they melt in your mouth like chocolate mousse. His mother wasn’t interested and walked upstairs leaving the conversation.
“Oh, so you’re patching me now, great mother, great” Joe growled. Joe sighed and went back to up to his room to get changed. On his way his sister Sophie was ready to go to out the door.
“Have a nice day at school Sophie” Joe said to her.
“Thank you, you too” she replied as she pulled the oak wood door behind her. Joe pulled out a Black and blue t-shirt with the abbreviation BLM.
“BLM what’s that?” Joe questioned himself. His new phone was sitting on a yellow and red sprayed spruce wood it was perfectly carved in a singular desktop with his digital clock that said “9:45” right in the centre. He picked his phone up from the desk and turned it on and went on the internet to discover if there was any traffic this morning. Thankfully there wasn’t this time.
“Phew! That was close” Joe said to his mother
“What! What happened? are you safe?” His mother panicked and rushed to see him.
“I’m alright mother, it’s the traffic that I’m on about” Joe replied easing the apprehension off of his mother’s face.
Joe replied to his mother again and had a satisfied look on his face when his opened.
“The traffic is light so we will be there in 6 mins at the maximum”
“That’s wonderful news. We can get to school relatively early since the time is 9:45!”
“Woah you don’t need to shout MOTHER!”
“I need to shout because we are going to be late again”
Joe sighed and went upstairs into the bathroom.
The bathroom was red and complete with these strange symbols mother had put on. On the right-hand side there was a bath tub which was empty and the knob was stiff so that no one could turn it on without mother to pull it down. On the left was the toilet: it was white and derelict. The toilet was broken and had been for years. The sink was attached to the wall with a desk beside it for the sink to be stable and not fall. There was a top shelf with deodorant and air freshener. They were blue and solid so that the sprays didn’t leak. Joe then found a plastic long thing.
“What’s this?” he said.
“That’s your toothbrush. You use it to clean your teeth.”
“How?”
“You make swirling action with your hand and go from left to right”
“Thanks”
“What about this tube? What am I supposed to do with that?”
“That’s toothpaste, you put it on to brush your teeth”
“Thank you” Joe replied and opened the cap. He looked inside and there was a slushy liquid inside. He squashed the front of the tube and the liquid had started to squirt out
“Eww, it’s all coming out”
“Oh, that’s just the toothpaste itself, you put it on the toothbrush” mother said imminently after.
“Oh okay, thanks mother” Joe replied then squeezing the tube again and got it on the toothbrush. Joe started to brush his teeth when there was a knock on the door. There was a rose gold car with a badge on the front sitting in the driveway. The badge had a V on the top and a W on the bottom. Joe opened the window to see who it was. He couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw that it was. It was his brother who had moved nearby. His brother’s name was Liam. Liam had blonde, short hair that he had flicked back. Liam had bold lips and blue eyes. His skin looked more tanned than usual.
“Do you like my car?” Liam asked Mother
“Yes dear, I love it” Mother smiled
“Thanks mother, I was desperate to hear a compliment today” Liam replies “my girlfriend doesn’t approve”
“Well, I think it’s great”
“Hurry up Joe I haven’t got all day”
“Alright, I will hurry up”. Joe finished brushing his teeth and found his coat lying on his doorhandle. The coat was dark blue with fur on its side. Joe put it on and went back downstairs to get his bag.
His bag was lying at the side of the door with the handle facing outwards. The bag was grey and black with Relic on the front. Joe picked his bag up of the floor and went outside.
There were 10 diverse houses in his estate. Joe scanned the first house. It looked dull, grey and mossy on the outside and on the inside a luxury palace.
“Wow, really smart” Joe opened with.
“Yeah, looks bad on the outside to divert the robbers”
“Yeah” Joe replied rotating back towards Joe’s house. “Our house looks like your typical house”
“White sandstone at the top and red bricks at the bottom, yeah sure” Liam said sarcastically. Joe couldn’t remember what sarcasm was and replied with
“yeah, it is” Joe and Liam paused for a moment, then entered Liam’s car.
Joe got in the front of car, Liam sitting beside him. Liam put his index finger on a button that said “Press to start”. Joe pushed it right in and heard a thundery roar from the engine.
“Woah, that’s a big roar” Joe muttered however Liam had amazing hearing in that moment he replied
“Yeah, I got the new engine the company has been working on, cool isn’t it?”
“Yeah. When I grow up, I’m going to get an engine like that”
“Someday you will”
“I hope so because that would mean that I can make it roar all the time”
“Well, you need to proceed to being careful and not ruin it, you might break it”
“Oh, yes I was being a wee bit sarcastic there”
“wow great, you’re learning” Liam said before forcing the handbrake down. Joe brought out his mobile and played a game called “Tetris”. You have to move the blocks to the right spaces achieve the removal of that row. It’s all about precision. Liam smirked and replied with
“TETRIS, That’s a shit game. It’s about being precise what’s good about that”
“Well for starters it’s very addictive. You can’t stop looking at it”
“That GAME gets you being a perfectionist”. Liam moved his head back to look at the driveway.
“OH NO! you made me lose that”
“You made yourself lose that, idiot”
“Oi, don’t call me an idiot”
“Okay, Butthead”
“Touché”. Joe pressed the play button again. Liam put the gear into drive and slid he foot slowly onto the accelerator.
Liam drove out of the drive way and came to a stop before turning his head to the left. There was nothing coming. He switched sides. There was a white van coming towards them.
Joe looked terrified and Liam appeared to be acting normal. Joe then looked at Liam thinking that Liam was going to get them both killed by driving next to a white van. The sweat coming off Joe’s face was horrific it was like he’d been practising cannon balls in a pool twice. Liam had a firm grip on the wheel. He concentrated on the road. Then glanced at the vehicle driving extremely fast. Liam then realised what white vans can do and slammed on the brake.
“WATCH IT MATE!” He shouted “Plonker”. Liam took a deep breath and drove onto the curb.
“I’m so sorr…. Oh my god you’re boiling” Liam turned to Joe.
Joe hesitated to speak. There was a pull up button to open the window, Joe yanked it and threw up.
“Ugh, disgusting” Liam said “He was such an arsehole”.
“Yeah, I stand by that statement” Joe replied wiping the sweat off. Liam pressed the start button and gain and pressed the handle down. The outside looked different than usual, it had been spray-painted inky and grey. It used to be cyan and grey. There were white clouds and a new object which was round, bright and yellow living in the sky.
“Liam, what’s the object in the sky?”
“Uhh you mean THE SUN!” Liam said yelled sarcastically
“Oh that’s what that is?” Joe replied but was still puzzled
“That’s what gets us up in the morning”
“I still don’t understand how can a son be in the sky?”
“No, not that son its S-U-N not S-O-N”
“There, now I understand” Joe smiled and looked back at his game.
“Dun” he said “Dun DUUUUNNNNN!” he repeated.
“Ow you’re bursting my eardrum, shut THE FUCK UP!”
“Oi, don’t yell at me just because I have good music taste”. Liam opened his mouthed and burst out laughing about that last comment.
“Ahahahaha, I’m sorry who died and proceed to endure your awful taste”. Joe was speechless. His jaw opened and he started to stare right into Liam’s eyes.
“Miss Apprell in kindergarten”.
“I’m sorry, Miss Apprell isn’t even a qualify teacher how can she have that horrific a taste. She would to be either on drugs or drunk”
“Miss Apprell was kind and thoughtful. She was inevitably the one who taught us singing”
“Well Miss Apprell can go into the bin and find a CD that isn’t from the 1800’s and it’d still be better than hers. Case closed”.
