The Green - Chapter One Excerpt

Chapter One

Year 2016

Tommy Foley was a short 8 year old about 4 feet tall, with brown eyes, he wore glasses and had a round face. He had spiky hair that was a mixed color of light brown and red. Tommy was heading to the bus stop. He felt a cool breeze pass his face, as he shrugged his shoulders and shivered. Before he got to the bus stop, four boys stepped out into the middle of the street from a driveway. “Hey Fooly! You got my math homework?” A boy slightly taller than Tommy said. His name was Randy Tailor. Randy was 10 years old. He had blonde hair that covered his eyebrows and his ears. He also had buckteeth and blue eyes. “I told you, I’m not doing your homework, Randy!” “Oh really? You wanna play rough? We’ll play rough!”

Behind Tommy there were 3 boys. On the far left, was a Chubby 4 foot, 10 year old Mid-Eastern Indian child with an oval face shape, glasses, a big nose and spiky black hair named Gurpreet Rahat. He was wearing a black Ecco hoodie over a white t-shirt and black satin pants. To his right, was Luis Valero, a skinny 5 foot 10 year old Hispanic boy with a shaved head, he had an oval shaped face and brown eyes. He was wearing an Adidas shirt and black baggy jeans. Then the last boy on the right, was Viktor Strategias, a 4 foot, athletic Greek boy, with dark hair that was slicked back, brown eyes and a big nose. He wore a gray jacket, a white shirt and baggy, light blue jeans.

All 4 boys dragged Tommy across the bright green, freshly cut blades of grass in Randy’s front yard, in front of his 2 story, brown wooden house. There were white curtains on the windows. They opened the dark brown wooden fence. Randy pulled a latch on the fence up and to the left, then pulled the door back. The other 3 boys dragged Tommy into Randy’s backyard. Tommy hated being forced, it made his body feel strange and it jolted his nerves. They shoved him down onto a pile of dog feces. Tommy pulled his head back while they tried to push his face down onto the pile. Tommy hated the smell and started to yell but no parents were around to stop them. Viktor started looking over at Brutus, the Mastiff who was peeking out of his doghouse in the yard. Viktor was afraid of the dog because of his size. The dog could smell Viktor’s fear and started growling. Viktor started to shake, he was holding Tommy’s legs while Gurpreet was holding Tommy’s left arm and Luis was holding his right. Randy was pushing Tommy’s head down. Suddenly Brutus sprung onto all fours and leaped into action, swiftly darting at Viktor as he let out an angry bark. Viktor let go of Tommy’s legs and shoved off the ground with his legs moving faster than he ever moved them before. He darted out of the yard, then darted left and made another left onto a sidewalk, towards the direction of his home. Brutus quickly catching up behind. “Viktor! Come back with my dog!” Randy shouted and bolted off into the same direction. Then Luis and Gurpreet looked at each other and shrugged. They let Tommy go and walked back to the bus stop, with Tommy slowly following behind.