Mark
Moses would corner anyone he could find and steal his or her money on a daily
basis. He’d also humiliate them in any way he could in the process. As if being
robbed by a classmate wouldn’t be bad enough.
Luke
told the story of how, after cleaning out Kyle Michaelson’s wallet and taking
his clothes, Mark Moses then forced him to walk through the cafeteria stark
naked. Kyle, one of the few boys actually comparable to Mark in size, was so
scared of Mark Moses that when he was reprimanded by the principal, he cried
and stuttered his way through explaining that it was all just a stupid joke. He
wound up suspended from school for a week.
“No
doubt best seven days of his life,” Luke proclaimed, “because he was free from
Mark Moses.”
Skylar
thought it was hilarious when Mark Moses set his sights on Samantha Bower, who
Skylar despised on the grounds that one of Skylar’s previous boyfriends had
allegedly cheated on her with Samantha. She was the second in command on the
cheerleading squad and, consequently, part of the popular crowd.
It
was claimed that when Mark, for reasons unfathomable to Skylar, asked Samantha
out she gave him a flat out “no” and proceeded to laugh in his face. As soon as
Skylar had said this, I’d known that the story wouldn’t end well.
“Big
mistake,” Skylar said, rolling her eyes as if to say, “She should have known
better.”
I’d
been unable to stop myself from asking, “What happened?”
“He
decided to make her life a living hell, of course,” Skylar explained. “First,
he broke into her locker and filled it with dead leftover frogs he stole from
the science lab. I swear everyone heard her screaming when they fell out of her
locker.”
After
the scream heard ‘round the school, of course the teachers and principal wanted
to know what was going on. Samantha accused Mark of being the culprit. He
didn’t deny it and was suspended from school for two weeks.
“Samantha
thought that would be the end of it,” Skylar said in the tone that implied
Samantha was an idiot, “but on the third day of his suspension, Mark broke into
her white car, hotwired it and drove it onto the football field and
spray painted the word “slut” all over the car in red.”
“Couldn’t
they get the police involved?” I wondered. That seemed pretty serious in my
opinion.
“Oh,
they were called, but they couldn’t prove that Mark had anything to do with it.
It’s not like anyone was going to rat him out,” Skylar shrugged. “The best
part, though, was Samantha had to drive this slut covered car home, and then
later that night after the sun went down, the car lit up like a fucking
Christmas tree. Mark Moses had used glow in the dark spray paint over the red. Her parents had to cover the thing with a tarp just so people would
stop driving by their house to see it.”
In
the end Samantha didn’t return to Jefferson High. Her parents had opted to home
school her after that.
While
Luke was amused and Skylar was gleeful, Tierney wasn’t nearly as enthused by
Mark Moses’ antics. In fact, she looked downright frightened as she explained
what had happened to Parker McGarvey.
“It
was last year, and Mark set his sights on Parker,” she explained. “He was a
quiet kid. He wasn’t really part of the in crowd, but he wasn’t unpopular
either. He was a pretty smart guy, and his intelligence is what set him in
Mark’s path of destruction.”
“Why?
What happened?” Tegan questioned.
“I
guess one of the teachers called on Mark to answer a question, but he had no
idea what the answer was, which isn’t surprising since he’s a complete imbecile
anyway. When he said he didn’t know, the teacher called on the rest of the
class. Naturally, Parker raised his hand. I’d swear he had all of the books
memorized by heart.”
“He’s
got a little Hermione Granger and Klaus Baudelaire in him, does he?” I smirked.
Tierney
smiled slightly and nodded. “I guess you could say
Moses would corner anyone he could find and steal his or her money on a daily
basis. He’d also humiliate them in any way he could in the process. As if being
robbed by a classmate wouldn’t be bad enough.
Luke
told the story of how, after cleaning out Kyle Michaelson’s wallet and taking
his clothes, Mark Moses then forced him to walk through the cafeteria stark
naked. Kyle, one of the few boys actually comparable to Mark in size, was so
scared of Mark Moses that when he was reprimanded by the principal, he cried
and stuttered his way through explaining that it was all just a stupid joke. He
wound up suspended from school for a week.
“No
doubt best seven days of his life,” Luke proclaimed, “because he was free from
Mark Moses.”
Skylar
thought it was hilarious when Mark Moses set his sights on Samantha Bower, who
Skylar despised on the grounds that one of Skylar’s previous boyfriends had
allegedly cheated on her with Samantha. She was the second in command on the
cheerleading squad and, consequently, part of the popular crowd.
It
was claimed that when Mark, for reasons unfathomable to Skylar, asked Samantha
out she gave him a flat out “no” and proceeded to laugh in his face. As soon as
Skylar had said this, I’d known that the story wouldn’t end well.
“Big
mistake,” Skylar said, rolling her eyes as if to say, “She should have known
better.”
I’d
been unable to stop myself from asking, “What happened?”
“He
decided to make her life a living hell, of course,” Skylar explained. “First,
he broke into her locker and filled it with dead leftover frogs he stole from
the science lab. I swear everyone heard her screaming when they fell out of her
locker.”
After
the scream heard ‘round the school, of course the teachers and principal wanted
to know what was going on. Samantha accused Mark of being the culprit. He
didn’t deny it and was suspended from school for two weeks.
“Samantha
thought that would be the end of it,” Skylar said in the tone that implied
Samantha was an idiot, “but on the third day of his suspension, Mark broke into
her white car, hotwired it and drove it onto the football field and
spray painted the word “slut” all over the car in red.”
“Couldn’t
they get the police involved?” I wondered. That seemed pretty serious in my
opinion.
“Oh,
they were called, but they couldn’t prove that Mark had anything to do with it.
It’s not like anyone was going to rat him out,” Skylar shrugged. “The best
part, though, was Samantha had to drive this slut covered car home, and then
later that night after the sun went down, the car lit up like a fucking
Christmas tree. Mark Moses had used glow in the dark spray paint over the red. Her parents had to cover the thing with a tarp just so people would
stop driving by their house to see it.”
In
the end Samantha didn’t return to Jefferson High. Her parents had opted to home
school her after that.
While
Luke was amused and Skylar was gleeful, Tierney wasn’t nearly as enthused by
Mark Moses’ antics. In fact, she looked downright frightened as she explained
what had happened to Parker McGarvey.
“It
was last year, and Mark set his sights on Parker,” she explained. “He was a
quiet kid. He wasn’t really part of the in crowd, but he wasn’t unpopular
either. He was a pretty smart guy, and his intelligence is what set him in
Mark’s path of destruction.”
“Why?
What happened?” Tegan questioned.
“I
guess one of the teachers called on Mark to answer a question, but he had no
idea what the answer was, which isn’t surprising since he’s a complete imbecile
anyway. When he said he didn’t know, the teacher called on the rest of the
class. Naturally, Parker raised his hand. I’d swear he had all of the books
memorized by heart.”
“He’s
got a little Hermione Granger and Klaus Baudelaire in him, does he?” I smirked.
Tierney
smiled slightly and nodded. “I guess you could say
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