Payback by Regina Puckett

Author:Regina Puckett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, ghost, teen angst, short fiction, short story
Publisher: Regina Puckett
Published: 2014-08-31T00:00:00+00:00

WHEN THEY ARRIVED AT the school it was surrounded by police, students, teachers, reporters, gawkers and yellow police tape. No one noticed as they passed through the crowd and into the school. The front entranceway was bathed in blood.

Jeremy remembered that the principal had been at the front door, greeting everyone as usual. He had been smiling until he saw the hunting rifle levelled at him. Jeremy had wanted to laugh at how there hadn’t been time for that smile to vanish completely before Jeremy took the top of his head off with one shot from his dad’s rifle. After that, there had been total pandemonium; people screaming and running. Jeremy had laughed then. It had been the first time in his life he had felt empowered.

He hadn’t stay long, enough time to shoot everyone within range before leaving. There wasn’t any point in going any farther into the school. There was bound to be someone there who thought they were a hero or something. All he had ever wanted to do was to make a point. Now they all knew he existed and no one would ever forget his name.”

“I want to go back home.” A policeman rushed by and so Jeremy took a step back to get out of his way.

His grandmother shook her head. “Not before you tell me why.”

He rolled his eyes. “Pay back of course. They all hated me even though none of them knew the first thing about me. So what that I wasn’t a football or basketball player? So what if I didn’t make straight As or was good-looking or cool. No one ever wanted to know the real me. Not even the teachers. I was invisible to everyone until they needed someone to mock.”

He stared out the front door at the crying mob. “They’ll never mock me again. Today I was someone. Today I made a difference.”

“And how is that?”

“I made them stop and think about what they did and said. Today, I bet they’re out there right now, wondering why and if it’s their fault.”

She shook her head. “No. Right now they’re out there mourning people they loved. You’re still nothing to them. You didn’t solve anything.”

“That’s not true.”

She offered him her hand again. “Let’s go home. Maybe then you’ll understand.”

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