The Un-Happy Ending / Beginning
The Un-Happy Ending / Beginning
The Un-Happy Ending / Beginning
Ending / Beginning
by Ruby Sadhu aka. Pez De. Spenzer
Just like most mornings they dont actually ever begin my day. They end
them. Which brings up the question what is morning? You can have a
breakfest meal at any time of the day.
So many classifcations for every day things.
Good morning class, said Ms. Passe with a silly look on her face.
The students suspicion grew as the teacher walked into the class.
Was this an april fools joke? It was February 8th, 2008. It was def-
nitely not april at all.
Joe looked at over his friends desk to to see him slaving away at his
previous nights homework while I just sat at mine trying to think of rea-
sons why I will ace the test.
Slam - wham and whoop was heard from the front of the class as
small bird came fying through the window. The boys ran towards the birds
at the girls stepped back.
The teacher was absent. Almost in shock. Too much shock. She stood
motionless in the corner with an unwaivering gaze on the whole in the win-
dow.
George, my childhood best friend punched me in my arm and laughed,
do you think she is thinking about the hole in the window as a metaphor
the gapping hole in her own life?
Stupid. I responded.
Sally the silly looking girl that always sat in the back of the room was
the frst girl to step out passed the boys and attempt to pick up the dead
bird. She picked it up with her bare hands and threw it in the hallway.
She always had a thing for making more havoc.
Haphazardly I ran to the teacher to shake her into being a human
again. With a few hard shakes that were almost enough to knock an older
kid off his toes, but she was big and huge woman.
Scat! Run, hide, look! Wait no, sit doggy! Eek ahh! She exclaimed.
What happened to me?
You were in a coma - its been 8 years... I told her with my saddest
voice possible.
She seemed to believe it as the children scurried out of the class-
room. George ran along side his new crush Sally. They were a thing - I
heard it at lunch because everyone was talking about it.
morning.
Yelling and laughing the kids ran out of the classroom and into the hallway
where the other classrooms had setup a food-day.
The teacher now acting as a human. To realize she was trapped in a
world she hated. The frst step in the door was a step into her own hell. The
bird was a symbol of her inability to change.
The whole was the lack of responbility to make any difference in her
own life and the life of the children. The glass is the mirror. The mirror of
her life - the children.
She was unable to bear children.
The lifeless bird that layed in the hallway was the laughing effgy of
her pain that the children hung in the hallway chanting, hey ha, hey ha.
As Ms. Posse ran in circles in her head.
Where are you? What year is it? I asked - hoping this was the best
time to get in her head and really mess her up. I was evil kid. This was
when I was only 7 years old.
Can you really hate on a kid? I mean really?
Mrs. Posse answered, 1984 - on an island. In a very robotic voice.
The room grew colder and her stare became like that of night.
I shuttered.
I shuttered again.
Again, and again.
I was on repeat. The pianos that rang in my head were like pounding
drums that would ring for hours in only second. The pain was immense.
Her robot look became even less human.
The bird that was hanging dead in the hallway started to futter.
Flutter again.
Again, and again.
It was on repeat. The children were on repeat. Everything was the
the same moment for hours, days and years in only a second.
Shoowshaka wahata doota dolittle.
What was that! Shouted from the hallway.
* * *
... Sa.. Sally? Sss. saa. Sally!? George yelled in terror as he stood
alone in a dark hallway that had been plunged into darkness. The bird that
he onced laughed at (and his main reason for liking Sally) had borrowed
itself inside of Sally and Sally became bird-human.
Bird. Bird. Bird. Sally replied mimic the sounds of a bird.
The hallway was dark as some sort of something happened that no
one knew it was like everyone had been in a trance and then died in hor-
rible ways all over the school.
Ms. Posse crawled from the classroom and began yelling at Sally as she was
literally fying at least 3 inches from the ground.
Stop - come now!
Stop - Come NOW!
She yelled and cursed and was furious. I was terrifed I sat in the
classroom with my fngers in my ears singing, this little light of mine over
and over again.
Sally bent down and sat beside Ms. Posse.
Let me feed you my pretty, you hungry? Yes.. Whos hungry? Yeah
you are.. yehuh youu. aww you so cute when you eat. She said in a de-
monic voice that sent George into a dizzy.
Why! What is happening? We were supposed to go to the park after
school? Sally! No! George yelled in terror, again.
In just a matter of seconds Sally swooped down and bite off Georges
head and few out the window. Ms. Posse died in her sleep - she had a great
sleep for about 5 minutes before she died.
***
That is the story about two loves. The love of kids who just met and
biggest concerns what they are doing after supper and the love of a mother.
Even demon bird mothers.
Fin.
Ruby Sadhu