David Vincent Johnson (I have no literary knowledge or skill but I still wright, oops) from TURTLE IN THE TUB..

David Vincent Johnson ---

 

( part of "Assembly day", from, "TURTLE IN THE TUB", my life story.)

 

"(It was a warm Friday in spring near the end of the semester and the sun was shining. And after lunch we had a full school assembly in the auditorium. Nobody wanted to stay in class that day and everyone was there, which was unusual in it self on a Friday. So we started smoking weed and pooling lunch money for beer and 40's of malt liquor. There was literally trails of students crossing the street to go in to the lane behind the row of houses to toke up. That lane is where most the partying went on in those days. But something was different today. It wasn't just the usual group of stoner guys going over there, the preps, the geeno guys, everyone seemed to be even, the snobby girls who usually took off to smoke their weed were there. I think some people were just curious what the commotion was across the street and got caught up in the fun of ditching class. But when the lunch bell rang it would become the most notorious day in the history of the school.

 

I think when everyone heard about the assembly day that was what started it all. You could smell it in the warm air, everyone wanted to have fun. The principal had to keep coming out of his office to chase kids back to class or off the property. The cafe we sat in across the street was jammed. The lane had about a hundred student in it at one point. Near the end of lunch the principal came running out to find everyone and get us back into the school. I think he was trying to help us, I think he knew the cops were already called. And a home owner did call the cops, and reported seeing my buddy Ty with a gun. He didn't have one, none of us did.

 

When we heard the sirens kids ran for the school, in the halls it was chaos. Kids were drunk, they had to cling to the lockers to stand up. A preppy girl was rolling around on a bench trying to keep from throwing up. The whole school stunk of pot and all you could hear was laughing and yelling as the staff rounded us in to the auditorium. The cops grabbed Ty at the door and took him in the office to strip search him, that shut everyone up. Nobody wanted them to find what they had on them while looking for a gun. Now it was quiet as a mouse as every one slumped down in their seats as high as can be in the dark auditorium. I don't even know what the people on stage were talking about, but I hope it wasn't drugs.

 

My head was spinning. I notice Ty coming in, he sits in the row behind us and says over my shoulder, “they freaking stripped searched me”, everyone already knew and had already heard about the gun too. We were near the back listening to him, he was pissed. Then he said “I'm out guys” and stood up. Reaching under his shirt we could see a bulge, our eyes widened knowing what was coming next, a loud BANG that lets out an echo and pauses everything. Immediately comes the loudest yelp I ever heard as hundreds of students gasp in their seats. I swear some of the teachers almost fainted as Ty walked out with the entire student body watching him. We were laughing so hard we couldn't control ourselves. We were almost crying. Ty had grabbed a balloon off the wall before coming in and hid it under his shirt, I guess it was his way of saying "there's your gun", and getting back at everyone for the way they thought about him and treated him. It worked.)"

 

D. Vince Johnson.

 

Done