My Crazy Life As A Royal

Chapter 8

“Lynn!” I heard a familiar voice call.

I looked up from the game I was playing on my phone. Running up to me was… Justin?

“Hi. What are you doing here?” I asked, eager to get back to playing the game.

“How’s life?” he replied. Wait, what? He replied to my question with a question? That’s just weird…

“It’s okay, I guess”, I said, shrugging my shoulders. “Why?”

“Nothing”, said Justin with a grin. “You just looked like a loner, that’s all.”

I stood up angrily. Did I mention that I was sitting down before? Well, I was. ‘Was’ being the keyword. Justin was about a few centimetres taller than me, but that didn’t really matter.

“You’re calling me a loner?” I asked.

Justin slipped his hands into his shorts’ pockets. “Yep”, he said triumphantly.

“You make me cry!” I said, wiping a fake tear from the corner of my eye. Justin smirked at me. But I hadn’t finished yet.

“You’re all grown up!” I said tearfully, patting him on the head.

His face filled with confusion. “What?” he asked, one eyebrow so high up I was betting it would fly off his forehead.

“You know what, I once watched this thing”, I said, going back to normal. “And it was like a guy moves in to his ‘friends’ house. Then the ‘friend’ wants him out, right, so he thinks that if he punishes the guys’ kids, then the guy will be so horrified that he would leave. And then when the ‘friend’ punishes the kids and the guy comes into the room, the guy says, ‘what are you doing?!’ and then the friend thinks this is when the guy gets out of the house. But then the guy says, ‘Now I know that you’re not my friend, but my BROTHER! You punished my kids when they did something wrong!’ and then the ‘friend’ goes ‘WHAT?!?!’ It was really funny.” I made air quotations every time I said the word ‘friend’.

“And what does that have to do with what you just said before?” asked Justin.

I glared at him. “Gosh, you are dense”, I puffed angrily.

“Well, sorry for not being a mind reader”, said Justin sarcastically before walking off.

“Yeah, goodbye to you too!” I called to him.

 I looked around the playground. I couldn’t see my friends anywhere.

Maybe that was because I came ultra early to school and was the only other kid there other than Justin and a bunch of other kids scattered around the school grounds.

I waited for a few minutes, looking at my ‘watch’ (that didn’t exist) every few seconds. Then my patience grew so thin that it soon became as thin as a... thing of cotton. You know, one of those little strand stuff.

Fibre, that’s it!

Then my patience disappeared altogether and I ran off to see if one of my friends had arrived and somehow appeared somewhere else.

Because of my extremely high levels of luck, I bumped into Zain.

Wow, aren’t I lucky!

Note the sarcasm.

“Wow, someone’s in a rush”, he smirked at me.

“Exactly, so au revoir!” I shot at him, starting to run off again. But then Zain put his arm out in front of me and I would’ve fallen flat on my face!