Lucas Thompson was a seventeen year old teenager who was full of expectations from life to him. He lived in West Virgina with his parents and step sister.
His mum, Mrs. Helen Thompson, was a 36 year old accountant. She was a no nonsense lady and always thought that she knew what was best for her children. His dad, Mr. Woods Thompson, was a 39 year old libarian in a library at a Catholic school. He was a devoted father to his children and always wanted to be very free with his step son, Lucas. Mariam on the other hand, was the last child of Mr. and Mrs. Thompson. She was twelve years of age and was a sassy girl. She loved her extroverted lifestyle and was always in for adventure.
Lucas was an ambivert who saw himself as a 'demon possessed teen' who lived in a modern world filled with hate for people of his dark human colour and nature. According to him, he was a 'demon who was accidentally bore by a human'. He attended West Virginia City School which was located at the outskirts of the town and was a grade 12 senior student. There, he had friends, both male and female and was also one of the top players in his basketball team at school.
The sound of the alarm clock on his side drawer got him jumping out of the bed. He sat upright and looked outside the window. The ray from the sun shone directly in his eyes and made him squint his eyes as he turned his face away from the window. He picked up his phone from beside his pillow and looked at the time. It was 06:15am. He sighed as he got up from his bed and walked to the bathroom. Getting to the bathroom, he switched on the tap of the white sink and washed his face with the water that came out from the tap. After washing his face, he looked at himself in the mirror. He noticed that there was a pimple above his left eyebrow and he sighed.
"This nigga wants to ruin my morning!" He said to himself as he walked out of the bathroom. Then, he walked back to his bed and sat on it as he picked up his phone and switched it on. He read the notifications in his lock screen and sighed. Then, he flung the phone back on the bed and left for the bathroom to shower.
In less than twenty minutes, he was out of the bathroom and was already dressed for school. He looked at himself in the mirror in his wardrobe and adjusted his tie. Then, he smirked.
"I'm too handsome not to be dope!" He said to himself as he smiled, picked up his cologne and sprayed it on his body. Then, he kept it where he had picked it from and picked up his school bag from the reading table and dashed out of his room.
Getting downstairs, he sighted a short, chobby lady who seemed to him like someone who was in her late forties, setting the plates for breakfast on the dining table. Just then, his mum rushed into the sitting room juggling her handbag.
"Yo mum, hi, good morning". He said as he walked up to her.
"Morning baby!" She said as she looked up to him and tucked the strand of hair in her face behind her ear.
"Uhh, who's the lady?" He asked looking confused.
"Ohh, that's Nanny Doodlehead. She's the house help for now". She replied.
"Huh? House help?" He said as he frowned his face.
"Yeah, I won't be around most times to prepare food and help you guys with some personal stuffs, so she'll assist in all that while I'm away". She said. Lucas was quiet. Then he looked at the lady who was standing still and looking at him and his mum.
"Fine!" He replied.
"That's more like it, I have to leave now though, the school bus will be here to pick you and your sister soon, so please eat before going to school". His mum said as she rushed up to the door that led to the exit of the house.
"School bus?! Mum? For real? A maid and a school bus? Without telling Mariam and I first?" He said.
"Love you too baby!" His mum said as she rushed out of the house. He sighed, then he went to the dining section and sat on a seat.
"I'll serve you breakfast now sir". Nanny Doodlehead said as she attempted to open one of the plates in front of Lucas.
"Lucas, it's Lucas, not sir. Ma!" Lucas said with his head down.
"Okay Lucas". The lady said as she opened the plate. Just then, Mariam walked in with her hands busy dancing on her phone's screen.
"Morning y'all". She said smiling as she sat on the seat opposite Lucas. Lucas just shook his head, Nanny Doodlehead responded to her greeting.
"Doodle, I have this geek project tomorrow and I haven't done anything about it. My life's messed up!"
"First of all, it's Doodlehead and then..." Nanny Doodlehead said as Lucas cut in.
"What kinda name is that? Don't you have a normal name we can call you? That name's messed up!" Lucas said as Mariam gasped.
"What?" Lucas asked.
"I love the name!" Mariam replied. Lucas sucked his teeth.
"I'm fine with the name, sir, I mean, Lucas". Nanny Doodlehead said.
"Yay!" Mariam replied.
"When you get back from school, I'll see what I can do to help about your project". Nanny Doodlehead said. Just then, the horn from a vehicle was heard.
"That should be the school bus". Nanny Doodlehead said.
Lucas got up from the seat and dashed out of the house immediately...
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Lucas arrived at school feeling weird. Earlier at the bus, he noticed his usual new day longer nails and wider hand, he was very quiet in the bus and looked outside the window all through his trip to school.
The bus came to a halt at the parking lot of the school and all the students alighted from the bus. Lucas made his way into the school after taking several deep breaths and saying several positive words of affirmation. The girls in the school, as usual, gave him the enticing stare and he just smiled at them til he got to his classroom.
"What's up bro?!" Philip, one of his friends said to him as they shook hands.
"All good,you?" He replied.
"Man's good!" Philip replied as Lucas sat on his chair.
"Where are the others?" Lucas asked as he dropped his bag on the table.
"Don't really know, they've been gone for a while". Philip replied.
"Cool". Lucas said.
"Bro, Gabrielle was here not quite long". Philip said.
"The hell? What for?" Lucas asked.
"She wanted to see you". Philip replied.
"Why?" Lucas asked.
"How do you expect me to know?" Philip asked as he sucked his teeth.
"I told her to leave me the fuck alone and stay out of my way". Lucas said to himself.
"You guys hooked up yet?" Philip asked.
"Bro?!" Lucas said angrily. Philip became frightened when he saw how angry Lucas looked and how he wrapped his hands tightly.
"Bro chill. Thought you guys were into the friends with benefits kind of relationship!" Philip said. Lucas then closed his eyes, took some deep breaths and became calm.
"We're not even friends, not to talk of being friends with benefits". Lucas said.
"That would have been very easy to say than you getting so angry like the world was on your shoulders". Philip said in a calm tone.
"Sorry about that". Lucas said as he brought out a sketch book from his bag.
"Bro, don't tell me you have a diary!" Philip said.
"Hell no! It's a sketch book nigga!" Lucas replied.
"Much better". Philip said. Just then, the bell was rang for classes to begin. Lucas and Philip sighed in frustration.
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It was lunch break. The canteen was filled with the voices of students and the noises of plates, spoons and forks. Lucas and his friends sat at a table in the last row of the canteen. They had been chatting and eating for a while.
"It's not like I even like the guy or something, I decided to have a quickie with him at the bathroom for staffs one day and he just screamed and dashed out of the bathroom like I wanted to rape him!" Phoebe said as she drank water from the water bottle beside her plate of food.
"Yoo!! Having a quickie in the staffs bathroom?!" Max said.
"That's wild!" Annabelle said.
"And crazy!" Lucas said.
"It isn't crazy, you're trying to tell me that if you had the chance to hook up with a girl somewhere free, you wouldn't do it?" Philip asked.
"Hell no bro!" Lucas replied.
"Nigga's talking like he wants to do that anytime soon". Max said as they all burst into laughter.
"He's tryna be a good mama's boy y'all". Annabelle said as they burst into laughter again.
"Y'all should stop shaming me for being a virgin!" Lucas said in a shy tone.
"We have to let Gabrielle hear this". Phoebe said.
"Gabrielle isn't anything to me so stop mentioning her name when it has to do with teasing!" Lucas said in a low angry tone.
"Or what? You're gonna cum here?" Max asked as they all, except Philip, started laughing.
"I said stop teasing me with her!" Lucas yelled angrily as he hit the table with his broad palm. Everyone in the canteen became quiet and their gazes were fixed on him. He looked at everyone as he took in some deep breaths. Just then, he got up from the seat immediately and dashed out of the canteen. Everyone began to whisper amongst themselves as soon as he left.
Lucas swung the males' bathroom door wide open as his breath increased steadily. He could feel his palms become wider and his head seemed like it was spinning. He wondered amidst his angry state, why he was so angry at a very slight joke about Gabrielle and he couldn't help but convince himself that he was indeed a demon. He walked up to the mirror in the bathroom slowly and looked at himself in the mirror. He noticed that his eyeballs were green and not black. He cleaned his face with his palms quickly and looked at himself in the mirror again. His eyes were still green.
"Shit!" He yelled angrily as he walked to the sink. He opened the tap and washed his face. Then, he sat on the floor and was playing with his long, thick fingers....