Johnathan Pitt

The Sound of Silence

It seemed like everything changed in a flash as I began my last year as a kid, or so I believed. My thirteenth year would be next, and I already knew everything about life, and what's wrong and right. I begged my mom to switch me to our current district's public school. I pleaded and cried that the private school I attended was too small and cramped for me, somewhere in my mind I believed this lie, another year at the private school and I might just die. No results? Plan B is now fully in effect, and I've began acting out in class, in utter disrespect, anyone could see trouble would come next, which was sadly correct, such a foolish decision in retrospect. I never got in trouble, now I'm suspended at home doing chores for my bad behavior, but my next lesson would be far greater, and I thought switching to public schools was doing myself a favor, and I would realize the truth much later. So I switched to the public school in our district and was happy to be going there. The bus pulled up and we took a 20 min drive in the country, a landscape dotted by tractors and farms, my mind should have been sounding off alarms, but I was strangely charmed.