m and no sooner had he laid him down had he fallen asleep. Howard stretched and yawned and before heading downstairs, he looked at baby Brendan one more time. He was quiet, as if

his story than meets the eye.’ With th

Howard sent him to Bradwield Junior School. Brendan always brought good marks at the end of every term to show his adoptive father, Howard. The relationsh

wield High School which was a walking distance from his home. This was

g was divided by a corridor into fourteen rooms. From the entrance were the boys’ and girls’ toilets. These were the only two rooms to the right of the

ike wardrobe doors, these stretched from this point all across the walls of the hall to the entrance. The students kept t

ooms were the staffroom then two of the teachers’ toilets. These were t

library, a few yards away, was the school cafeteria where the students had their recess. The cafeteria was connected to the kitchen. All the walls in the building were painted

oked strong, tall, heavy, big and majestic. Just like the school building, it too was painted red which happened t

hoice. Sneakers were not allowed. This also applied to the girls. The girls wore white blouses, red blazers and jerseys, red dresses, “No

ects of the school. Their uniforms were different from the

ich was at the very center. All Grades dined together in the cafeteria and each time at recess there was jostling and

brown hair and curious-nervous looking eyes with the same color. His ja

s and smart, short black hair. His eyes almost never exposed any excite

couple.’ Samantha was known by everyone as the richest girl in the school but her self-importance deprived her of any friendship whatsoever. She was tall and had long silky black hai

og. By “Orphan boy” she was obviously referring to Brendan who had no birth parent and by the name “

everyone to see as if she was a famous model. Apart from being just arrogant and rich, Samantha was also the Head Prefe

at her but Brendan told him not to b

k?” or “I heard you were born in a hatchery, is that true?” Brendan never answered any

de which made his problems older than Simon’s who only arrived in Bradwiel

al with. Being a sixteen year old teenager, Brendan was facing a lot of problems with his math. Angus

h textbooks and open on pag

was dayd

d hairstyle. Her nose was long and sharp and she would occasionally look at it as if she inquired something unexpected from it like a pimple. Her body wa

ntion?’ She looked at him painfully with her d

himself from his dreams as the cl