Yesterday's Gone: Season Four (Episodes 19-24) by Sean Platt & David W. Wright

Author:Sean Platt & David W. Wright [Platt, Sean]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: post-apocalyptic serial
Publisher: Collective Inkwell
Published: 2013-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER 2 — Luca Harding

Luca sat on the bleachers staring at his gym classmates as they were having fun playing soccer. He wanted to play, too, but yesterday Johnny Thomas threatened to “kill him” in today’s game.

While Luca didn’t think the bully would actually murder him, he did think it highly likely, if not certain, that Johnny Thomas would use soccer as an excuse to hurt him. He could plead to the coach, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to break Luca’s arm. It was an accident.”

So, Luca lied to the coach and said he’d left his gym shorts and shirt at home, when in truth he had hidden them in his locker. Luca felt bad lying, suffering a knot in his throat that got thick as he told it, so big he was sure the coach could probably see it.

Coach Carmichael was a heavyset, sunburned man in his 40s with thick, sun-bleached blond hair, who, depending on the day, could either be the most intimidating man in school, or the funniest. He was always nice to Luca, which made him feel even guiltier every time the coach looked over at him in the bleachers.

The only other people in the bleachers were Andy Daniels and Trevor Banks, polar opposites on the popularity scale. Andy was the quiet, fat kid who never dressed out, and who didn’t seem to care if he failed the class. He was lost in his own world, reading books and drawing pictures of monsters in his spiral notebook. Trevor was one of the more popular kids in school, tall and athletic, but also super-laid back. Cool. Trevor was one of those kids who everyone — from the jocks to the rich kids to the comic book geeks — seemed to like, especially girls.

Trevor also said he’d forgotten his gym clothes, which had made Luca’s fib seem all the more obvious, like the two had concocted the lie together, even though Trevor had barely ever spoken to Luca, except for one time when he asked if Luca minded him cutting in the lunch line.

Though three of them sat in the bleachers, they couldn’t have been sitting farther apart if they’d tried.

Andy sat on the bottom row, Luca in the middle, and Trevor up top, leaning back against the rails, staring up at the clouds and thinking about whatever it was cool kids thought about. Luca glanced at the field and saw Johnny Thomas staring at him. Luca quickly found his feet, not wanting to make eye contact.

Luca had so far managed to avoid whatever Johnny had planned on doing to him, but he couldn’t avoid it forever. He couldn’t “forget” his gym clothes every class. And there were still several other times during the school day when Johnny could hurt him, even if it wasn’t a sanctioned “accidental hit” during soccer. Eventually, Luca would have to do what his father said: end the torment by standing up to the bully.

In theory, it made sense. Fight back. Don’t be a wimp.

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