It's Only A Disco Dilema

Its Only A Disco Dilema

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Proluge

I was looking forward to the school disco on Friday night. My class was in charge of the representive banner for our school . My name is Daniel.. I live in Los Angeles, U.S.A. Im twelve years old and I go to Crossbane School . We do loads of neat things at the disco. We drink punch, play a dress-up competition from grade 1-4. This year it was my turn to judge the costumes. My younger brother Bradley had entered the compititon. I had no idea it was about to lead to the biggest disaster Crossbane School has ever experienced. So I will start two weeks before the party.


Chapter One

I could hear the chirping of birds singing and the tree's leaves rustiling in the soft spring wind . I sat up in bed and looked over at my brother . The duvet had fallen completley off Bradleys sleeping body. I walked stiffly over to my drawers and pulled out a pair of jeans.
* * *
Steam rose up from the frying pan. I could hear bacon sizzling inside it . I sniffed the air. A mix of eggs, bacon and sasuges greeted my nose. I heared the stairs creak . I looked back to see Bradley shuffling down . “ Hey Brad,” I said slapping him a hi-five.
“ Good morning Daniel,” he said wearily. Bradley was only eight years old. He was in room 21 of Crossbane, the same school as me of course.
He pulled out a chair. It made a squeaking sound as he pulled it over the checkered tile floor, Then slumped down inside it.
Mum passed us each a plate of eggs and bacon.
“There you go boys, “ Mum said.
“Eat up you dont want to be late”

Chapter Two

The bus pulled over at the curb.
“Bye mum “ Bradley said as we stepped on.
“Bye sweety” she said . We walked down the isle to find a seat..
“Can you play with me,” Bradley asked.
“Sure I can” I said patting him on the head . He shook it off. He hates when I mess up his hair. I don't know why I guess its just a younger brother thing. We sat at a seat near the back of the bus. It jolted then started to move along the road . Bradley waved goodbye to mum as it passed .
“I wonder what I will wear to the dress-up competition,” Bradley questioned.
“Ill buy you something from Best Buy don't worry its all sorted out” I said .
“Promise” he asked .
“Promise” I said . We shook hands .

* * *

“As you can see class the chemicals combined could make a catostrophic obliteration to the entire school,” our science teacher explanied .
“What is the cause of that,” he asked . I raised my hand .
“Yes Daniel,” he called to me.
“The two chemicals are highly toxic and explosive” I started .
“When combined it detonates the whole system” I said.
“ Very good Daniel, “ he said . The lunch bell rang .
“Ahh we have our assembely after lunch,” he reminded us . We walked out the door into the hall .
“DANIEL” my friend Robert shouted down the hall .
“Whats up,” I said .
“Something terrible,” He replied
“Shaun Evings is beating everyone at swimming and if he gets into the finals and wins that to he gets to go to the Prehistorics concert next week on Thursday for FREE,” he spluttered out.
“Don't worry I won't let him win, their my favouraite band,” I said . We ran down the hall our shoes thumping on the floor.

Chapter Three

“Hey what are yo- “ splash water sprayed the concrete.
“I can't bellive that jerk is swimming” I said
“I didn't even know he knew how to without the teacher diving in after him”. He laughed at my joke. I let a smile cross my face . I stopped laughing when I saw Shaun standing in front of us drenched in cool water. Robert was still laughing so hard his face had turned bright red . I jabbed him with my elbow . His smile faded quickly .
“What was that for” he shouted . I clamped my hands around his cheeks and twisted his head to Shaun .
“Shoot,” he squeaked . Shaun had a deep angry scowl on his face.
“What was it you were talking about,” he snapped .
“We should run,” Robert whispered in my ear.
“What did you say,” he said turning all his attention to Robert.
“N-N-Nothing,” he stuttered .
“What were you taking about!” he repeated loudly. We started to run out the swimming gates . “HEY” he shouted after us angrily . I looked back, was he chasing us, the answer is yes . He was charging towards us in his short speedos . They got caught on a twig sticking out of a bush . They tore off and Shaun stood there dead still . . . . Totally naked .
“Ugghhhhh,” Robert groaned covering his eyes. I laughed and laughed until I started to cough .
“I am so gonna get you for this,” he said extremley angry .
“Sure whatever you say” I chuckled .
“ But first put on some pants”

* * *

RING RING RING the home bell chimed . I walked out the school doors. I looked across the grounds. I could see a small sillouetted figure at the gates . Was that Bradley, Yes it was and Shaun was heading strait for him . I had a sudden urge to move. I didn't have much time Shaun was getting closer by the second .

Chapter Four

“BRADLEY” I shouted .
“Look out.”
“Huh” he said .
“BEHIND YOU” I shrieked . He spun around just as Shaun picked him up by the waist .
“Hey let go of me,” he said .
“Why,” Shaun said aggresively. Bradley thrashed around in Shauns muscular arms.
“Stop moving so much,” Shaun said .
“Let go” he screamed . I rammed into Shaun knocking him on the sidewalk . SMACK, he hit it hard . Shaun groaned .
The bus pulled over . Shaun rolled his head to the side and made a grab for my ankle. I zipped out of his reach and started to drag Bradley to the bus. Shaun made a leap for us and the door slammed in his face. We walked to the back of the bus and sat down.
“Whew” I said relived . I wiped sweat from my forehead .
“So why was Shaun after you” I asked .
“ I don't know but he said something about his little brother,” Bradley said . He's going to perswade the teachers into changing him into the judge so he can let his brother win I thought to myself. I
couldn't let it happen, I decided . I had to stop him . . . somehow.
* * *
I unlocked the back door and walked inside dropping my bag on the floor.
“Can I fix you something” I asked Bradley.
“No thanks Dan,” he said .
“Do you want to play a board game” I tried again.
“Ok we can play Monopoly,” He agreed . I walked upstairs and prepared the board . Bradley came up just as I finished organinizing the Community Chest and Chance cards. He picked up a bean bag and dragged it to the board then slumped down inside it.
“ Here” I said passing him the dice. Before he had a chance to roll the dice we heard the door unlocking.
“Mum,” Bradley said . He ran out of the room kicking over the tokens . I followed him out. Mum stood at the bottom of the stairs with her arms streched out.
“Hello Bradley,” she said, wrapping him in a hug. I started to turn my head and walk up the stairs when mum called me. I took a step back and stared at her.
“Yes” I replied
“Its about the disco,” she started .
“What about it” I asked in confusion. Had something gone wrong. Had it been canceled . Thousands of thoughts raced through my mind .
She stood there silenced . She was waiting for an answer. She finally realized I had given up. She held up a yellow bag with the Best Buy logo on the side. I realized it was Bradleys costume. I grew curious.
“What is it” I asked slowly walking down the stairs. She pulled it out revealing some plastic fangs, a dark black cape and a contanier of fake blood . At least I thought it was fake.
“Awesome,” Bradley exclamied .
“How do I look he said sticking the fake fangs into his mouth and doing his best Dracular impression.
“Pretty extreme Bradster,” I said . Then the telephone rang.
“ I got it” I said diving for the recivier.
“Hello” I said speaking into the phone.
“Your'e gonna get it now Daniel” a voice rasped in my ear.
“Who is this” I said clearly.
“You don't need to know you will find out soon enough,” the mysterious voice continued . I heared a click then nothing.
I started to think about who it was. Then I found out.


Chapter Five

I nervously walked into class the next morning. I glanced around the class desprately for Shaun. I could have sworn it was him on the phone the other day. Then I spotted him in the far corner. He looked at me then grinned . I took a seat in the front row trying to make it look like I hadn't seen him. The teacher had just started talking about the deadliest type of bacteria when Shaun sent a paper ball hurtiling towards him. It hit him in the back of the head . He spun around and looked directly at me. Why was he looking at me like that I thought. Then I glanced down and found out why. A pile of scrunched up paper balls were piled on my lap.
“DANIEL” he boomed . “Your'e in sixth grade act your age”.
“B-But I” I stuttered
“Don't act innocent YOU threw the paper ball at my head,” he allegated .
“Just look at the pile on your lap”.
“But I didn't do it” I started to explain.
“Shaun he-”
“SILENCE” he ordered .
“I will talk to you after school,” he said finally calming down . I brushed the pile off my lap onto the floor.
“This bacteria is highly toxic-”.

* * *
I stuffed the paper into my locker. I looked down the hallway at Shaun. Then looked back at the pile. I grabbed a ball then heaved it at him. THWACK it hit him on the head .
“Yes” I said pumping my hands into the air. He twisted his head to me then started to run down the hall .
“Uh oh”. I ran down the hall at him . Maybe if I got close enough he would leap the I would jump away and he would go skidding .
“Your'e gonna wish you never did that,” he said violently. He jumped . He flew . He missed and faceplanted on the floor. I didn't stop running I ran out the doors and saw Bradley on the monkey bars. I lept up and pulled him down. I flung him over my shoulder.
“Daniel your'e gonna make me feel sick” Bradley complanied .
“No Bradley its Shaun he's chasing-”. The doors flew open and Shaun came running out.
“Daniellllllll” Bradley groaned . Shaun caught up to us just as Bradley let out a jetstream of puke. Then we saw Shaun covered in mucky green glop.
“I am so gonna KILL YOU!,” he yelled . He punched me in the stomach then ran down the road leaving a trail of vomit behind him.
“That was way too close” I said to Bradley.
“Uhhggg” he groaned . He staggered to the bus as it came over. He tugged at the doors. Poor guy, that vomit was pretty effective to his mind it seemed like he was dillusional . The doors slid open and he fell forwards and landed on the stairs. The bus driver had a puzzled look on his face when he saw Bradley.
“He's been sick” I said . The bus driver nodded at me. I picked Bradley up. He flopped like a ragdoll . I threw him onto the seat .



* * *
“Goodnight sweety,” mum said kissing Bradley on the forehead . She walked out of the room closing the door behind her.
I heared snoring. I turned my head and saw Bradley fast asleep. I don't know how he does it but he gets to sleep in less than a minute. After about five minutes I dozed off to sleep. I had a dream about the disco. It was only in a week and a half. Anyway so I was at the disco. I saw Bradley smiling with a paper cup full of punch in his hand . I dreamed that Shaun bounded towards him. He snatched the punch from his hand and slurped it down. Bradley started to cry and cry. Shaun laughed wickedly while giving him a mocking expression. I ran towards him and tried to hit him but he picked me up and threw me away and I fell into darkness. . . . . . . .
“Ahh” I screamed shooting up in bed . I was panting hard . Sunlight stretched in through the window. Mum came up the stairs.
“Good morning sleepyhead”. She said .
“I had a dream about the-” I started .
“Disco” she finished .
“Yep” I said .
“I'll let you get changed then come down for breakfeast” she instructed .
After I was dressed I walked down the stairs and saw Bradley on the couch laughing at cartoons on the TV.
I recognized it. . It was Tom and Jerry. Then I looked at the table, my eyes grew wide. I saw Shaun sitting in one of the chairs.
“What's HE doing here” I asked .
“Honey Shaun's dog ate his breakfeast and his mother dosn't have time to make another helping” she said . Shaun dosn't have a dog I thought.
“But mom he a-a-a a menace” I cried .
“Shush, stop insulting him” she scolded . It was no use. No way I could argue with the adorable but not so adorable Shaun. I walked over to the table when Shaun stuck out his foot and tripped me over onto the floor. He peeked down at me and whispered,
“now we are even”.

Chapter Six

It didn't get much better for the rest of the morning. First he gulped down MY breakfeast along with Bradleys. Second he switched the tv off when Bradley was still watching cartoons, and lucky last he broke all of Bradleys Fantasy's Kingdom knight action figures. Shaun was a real pain when it came to his EXISTANCE . His personality isn't much better because every house he goes to he seems to accidentally delete evryones homework on their computers, break all their possesions, ruins their fun and makes them look like a clutz. It also appears that his hobby for a lifetime is annoying people and being a total jerk. It's tough when it comes to Shaun. When I finally arrived at school I had to change into my gym clothes.


* * *

“Hup hup hup hup,” our gym teacher chanted . We jogged around the blue gym mats. The coach blew into his whistle letting out a high pitched scream.
“Ok I will be splitting up teams for dogeball,” he said .
“Daniel, left side, Robert, right side, Shaun, left side. . . . . . . . “. After he had finished splitting us into groups he handed us each red dodgeballs.
“DODGEBALL”. Balls flew across the gym. They bounced on floors. They hit the walls and they soared into peoples hands. A ball rolled on the floor. I picked it up and threw it when Shaun lept in front . The ball hit him in the stomach and he fell to the floor. He had definatly lept in front on purpose.
“TIME OUT,” yelled coach . He bounded over to me.
“Out” he said pointing to the benches.
“But coach I-I”
OUT” he repeated . I walked over to the benches and sat down.
“What a jerk” I mumbled under my breath. A ball came hurtiling towards me and hit me in the jaw. PANG.
“Sorry” Shaun called . I rubbed my cheek. PANG. I looked back up at Shaun.
“Pass” he said motioning with his hands. I picked it up and hurled it back at Shaun. Five minutes later it hit me again. “AGHHHHHH” I screamed angrily then struck coach in the head .
“Why did you do that Shaun” I asked pointing at him. Coach grabbed Shaun by the collar.
“Shaun you better start behaving yourself otherwise your outta here and into detention” he asserted . Coach lowered Shaun. Then Shaun looked at me and mouthed the words : Your'e dead meat . After gym we walked to the science lab. We were disecting frogs. I walked to the back row and sat down beside Robert. The teacher passed us knifes. You know what will happen next. How about I skip this bit. It gets pretty detalied. I walked out into the hall. Dark red stains clung to my coat . I slipped it off and chucked it in the laundry bin outside the door. I shivered .
“Yuck that was gross” I said .
“Tell me about it,” Robert said chucking his coat in after mine. I stopped when something touched the back of my neck. Something wet and slimy and hot .
“Hey” I said swiping the air behind me. I heard a WHACK.
“Ughh,” Shaun moaned . He stumbled backwards and dropped something pink and curly on the floor. I gazed at it .
“Ohhhh yuucckk” I said gagging .
Ok you probably don't want to hear this either. So lets start again two nights away from the disco. Something hit me in the back of the head. I looked back to see Shaun grinning at me. “DANIEL” the teacher yelled.
“Huh” I said, turning to face M.r Jenks.
“Please come up and solve the equation”. As I walked by I picked up the paper ball Shaun had thrown at me and pretended to throw it back at him. He flinched and fell off his chair. A few kids chuckled. Some gasped. Shaun mocked the kids faces and brushed himself off. I went up to the board to solve the equation. Unfourtunatley when I tried to stand up my chair stood up with me. Shaun started to giggle but it came out a lot more like a snort.. I leant my face to him and whispered. “Nice pig immitation, probably because your the same species”. He slapped me in the face. I tugged the chair off my pants. Oops as I pulled it off it ripped the bottom of my pants. Then Shaun laughed until he got a coughing fit.. “DANIEL PLEASE COME UP TO THE BOARD”.
“Umm but my pants kinda-”. “Ohhhhhhh” Robert antagonized. “Okay Daniel you are to go up to the office and see if they have any spare pants”, Okay that was it . The disco is in 5 hours and this is still happening to me. All of a sudden the staff intercom switched on and Mr. Grugh announced: “All banner artists report to the gym for finalization”. That meant I could finally get away from Shaun. Until I stepped into the gym I got a break.

Chapter Seven

I pushed open the doors and out of the corner of my eye I saw a paintbrush, hurtling towards me. A fat splotch of blue paint was smeared over my cheek . “Oops. Did I hit you?” Shaun asked sarcasticly. I wiped the paint off my cheek and gazed at it for three seconds with a smirk look on my face. “Yes you did. By the way you should take a shower when you get home!” I exclamied with a scheming smile that cut into my face. “Wha-Why” He said confused. I quickly grabbed the paint bucket beside me and heaved it at Shaun. It closed over his head and spat out about 2 litres of brown paint over his face. “Oh” I said. “Did a giant bird do its buisness on you at lunch?” I joked. “Oh just wait until the disco” he said as angry as ever. “YOU WILL GET WHAT YOU DESERVE!”
“Oh so tremendously frightning” I sarcasticly cried. “YOU!” He warned. He charged towards me and..........
* * *
I slapped a third ice pack on my eye and I shifted another pillow under my sprained leg. Yeah you know what happened. You never thoght Shaun would get absolutley physical about it. . I don't feel like describling what he did. At least it wasn't enough to stop me from going to the disco. But at the time those punches he gave me seemed lethaly damaging.
Later I was walking down the school hall listning to the nearby music. My teacher Mr. Jenks stood by the door and gasped when he saw me. “Don't ask” I mumbled. I saw Bradley at the food table placing some potato chips and brownies on his plastic plate. Then he started to pour a cup of Coke. But thats when it happened. Shaun delibretley bumped Bradley so his food and drink would spill onto the floor. And he had certainly suceeded. “Hey you idiot . What was that for” Bradley said sternly to Shaun. “I felt like it” He shot back .
“And I always need a midjet to play with don't I” He insulted. “What are you gonna do about it anyway” he said as if Bradley was the height of half a school desk standing up strait.. “Nothing” He cried sorrowfully. “Yeah but I will” I muttered. “HEY” I yellled. “Pick on someone your own size”. Shaun turned around and grabbed me just as I was about to get a bullseye right on his back. He threw me onto the punch table. As I landed I bowled over the cups and punch stained my clothes. Then the table capsized and dust flew out from underneath me. A kid who was about to pour himself a cup staggered bach and tripped over the microphone cord and it squealed in delight . People covered their ears to drain out the horrible scream of a stages #1 fan. Some of the punch poured into the back of the stereos and sparks aggresivley jumped around the room. The christmas type lights above fizzled out and each individual bulb shattered every second. People were almost showered with glass. The lights ripped themselves down and flung around the room. And each light ripped partial pieces of the celing. The awesome banner I spent so much time on caught aflame and perished. Then the school headmaster commanded us for silence. “Unexpectedley I know this disco had tragicly been cancelled but I do still think the one responsible for this shall be suspended from school for ONE MONTH”. He decided. He was about to continue when he saw me sprawled on the floor. “Daniel. What happened?”. “It was Shaun” I protested “At school all I have received from him it humilliation and disapointment . Ever since 1st grade me and Shaun have been enimies and we havn't gotten along.” The one unfortunate time in the gym he had aparentley lost his temper and had beaten me up. Most of the time all he does is countlessley attempt to get me in trouble or pay me back for what I havn't done completley as he says I have. And sadly our lifelong argument has disrupted school tradition and spoiled the night . I wish I could take everything back but I know most of you cannot forgive me. But sometimes you have to see what is actually happening in occasions like this-” He raised his hand to silence me. “You have said enough” He said quietly. “Shaun I would like to see you in my office please” He said in a mildly stern tone. Bradley helped me up. “Was that whole fight now for me?” He asked. “Why wouldn't it be” I groaned in pain. Bradley hugged me tightly as I passed out

Chapter Eight

The school hospital heart radar woke me up. “Huh” I gasped loudly. Sitting up in the bed. Glancing down at the covers I saw a note from Bradley. It Read: Dear Daniel
Thank you for the tremendous amount of effort you put into
that debate with Shaun last night. Today I saw him coming down the
hall. I turned around to run but then he apoligized to me
and told me to pass it on to you too!
Hope You Feel Better Soon

Bradley.

The door opened and Shaun stepped inside. “Hi” he greeted me.
“Hi” I said weakly.
“Sorry about the little beat up the other day” He said.
“Well as long as we don't argue 24-7 anymore I can accept that”
“Deal” He said. “Friends?”
“Friends” I said.