Greatness, what a bullshit word?!
The ones who are great had crossed the barrier of life and have left their legend to us, for admiring purposes,
But, the one who doesn't sit for their lifetime admiring, and hence, creating their world, becomes great, and shall rule the world!
*Principle office of Sherinmen Academy, present-day*
"Khrezzzz... Zzzz"
"Abe, Abe... Wake up, son..."
'Now again!', he thought to himself but this time it sounded very familiar and greatly annoying,
"Zzz...Let me sleep or else I will die of sleep depriva...tion..." Lying on the couch in this hub with the flickering light bulbs and the plywood which was all rugged from the surges of years, he cried shooking the aging flimsy hand of this geriatric man as old as this chamber, who had a wrinkled face and well-fitted tux and sat consuming on a minimal space of the exact couch-cum- sofa this sleepy head lay sticking himself onto like a koala bear,
"Die of Sleep deprivation?! Ha! I will certainly die of a heart attack one day and you will still be filling your tanks of sleep! " the old man yelled punching his rusty fist onto this careless sleepy head's spine that was as if the spine had spines and thorns on it, the hit on controversy hit his hand harder,
"And you have become a thin line excessively! What were those good old times when you were still a little chubby boy and I used to pinch your soft cheeks today's generation, just needs to go on dieting and exercising to become a thin line to be attractive?! What a joke?! Ha! " he cried adding up, massaging his punch, but still, there wasn't an effect of anything on the sleepyhead, he was dozing soundly as if another person was humming him a soothing lullaby,
"Tck, You must give me some respect, Abe! I'm your uncle, your guardian, and your principal now!"
"...mm...Good night, Sir... "
"Abe! Ooze!"
His ignorant eyes suddenly flash open, so thick red like blood was clogged inside and he jerked into a sitting posture like Buddha under a bodhi tree leaving even the principal in giant shock,
"What do you need, old man?! "
"Abe, you promised," the old man said desperately but Abe, pushed his palm into the crest of the sofa, on the gap between his cross legs and the pelvis region,
"I'm fulfilling that! I'm coming to school every day, do my homework and submit it before the deadline! What else do you want from me?! "
Hearing this much coming from a teenage boy of seventeen years, the old man leans softly onto the ground crouching next to the feet of his nephew and rose the dried face of his to meet his, as he commences very delicately,
"Your smile, son, can you fulfill that? "
A moment of silence grew, the boy was drawn in deep thinking with his wide eyes open starting the ply of plywood that has jerked out leaving a white spot on the floor,
And then---
An abrupt grin passed onto the boy, that amusement which he find in that old man's words, he started to laugh loudly,
"Ha... Ha... You... Oldman... Haha... Want... What?! "
The old man was baffled thinking 'Did I make a joke of something?'
The boy held his arms around his belly, and laugh like a madperson or someone has sniff him some laughing gas, and he fall onto the couch, with a laughing face and tears rolling down his eyes,
"phew, you are a jokester, uncle drinker! "
"Shush! " the old man pressed his finger onto the young boy's lips with abrupt enforcement!
"You are not supposed to publicize that I was a great drinker once--"
"Great drinker once?! I saw you last night sneaking into Dad's garage with a medium black dog bottle after Aunty went to sleep"
"Oh, my chubby little nephew is now blackmailing me?! "he commented while looking him through the corner of his blinding eyes that he has put a rectangular glass frame over his nose, but in contrast, the young boy stretch his arms westwards and legs in the east,
"Not yet, it'd be good for future reference" and grinned with a little ' I know your secret ' clownish smile, and both giggled,
Until-
The young boy turned his back to the old man and dug his face inside the sofa's back, and yawned enormously-
"Now, can I go to sleep? "
"No," the old man said clearly, twisting his arms but, no impact!
"Zzz... khreeezz... " The sloth bear was back to his sleep, and so fast as in a blink of an eye,
"Abe! " he jolted the young boy trying to disturb his endless sleep by pushing him off the sofa, but once sleep always asleep!
"You have a class to attend!"
"... They are fools! " he commented gripping himself to the sofa like ants to sugar,
"You promised, that you will give them a try "Still pushing, the old man's bond was deprived of calcium but still he attempted with all he had, however,
"1 try, 2 try, 3 try... Total 10 tries! Still fools!" he cried sticking with all his strength resisting any more partition,
Nevertheless, the hand pushing him slipped away uncertainly, and the old man fall to the ground taking irregular breaths as if all the air has been sucked out of him- "Huff! Huff! "
"Uncle...?" sleepyhead turned his head around to the light of the flickering bulb glowing onto his face and unlocked one lazy eye of his to inspect the situation,
The situation that could have been worst,
"Uncle! Uncle, you alright?! " he jumped off the sofa that he was trying to hold on to, however, on the ground his Uncle drinker lay paralyzed with dilating pupils and a vibrating, shivering body of his,
"Someone! Help him! " the young boy at the brink of busting into tears, cried out terrified, his hands trembling as he tried to compress his uncle's chest, who was still unresponsive but his eyes opened, sweating extensively
' Maybe it's a heart attack ' he thought to himself, and hysteria flooded into his brain, and his nerves started to block and tears broke their barriers,
"Someone...please... " and his throat chocked as he scream which never left his surrounding but suddenly,
"Congratulation, you saved your uncle! " his uncle stop trembling all of a sudden and said with a wide big smile on his face, and then busted into endless laughter pointing his finger to the young boy who has endless tears flooding down his big round red eyes that he inherited from his mother,
"Ha! Hoodwick, how do you like it?! "
But, trust me he didn't like any of that! The young boy abruptly stand from his knees and took the plain black bag off the table and hung it around his broad shoulder, without a word but in the background, the old man was giggling like a mania rolling on the floor!
"Where are you going? " taking a second of breath,
"To the hell class! " he grunted and when he took a step outside that chamber as old as his uncle, then bang the exit door as hard he could with all his strength,
"Hey, respect the door!" the voice from inside yelled,
"Sorry sir" he whispers knowing he has entered a world outside those gates that shouldn't know his relationship with the principal, or else they will not stop judging him, and he hates judgment!
*****
Outside it was already, a whole new world, the sky was turned mesmerizing with the bluest of the sky and grey-white clouds like sheep running on the rift, and the sun was taking rest in the blanket of that wool,
The wind rushed like the one in the autumn beginning, but it was still summer to be precise, maybe the rainy season was on its way for tonight and... In the Academy, it was the period of lunch going on in the tin-less shed of the cafeteria,
"What is this mess?! " the king was fighting like the action star hero of the high school movie with the chief chef and a bunch of boys- 'dangerous boys who very fondly called jacks with nose pins, earrings, rings(oh they are common) and most luxurious tattoos on biceps, abbs or where else only they know ' and the cutest girls those with dyed hairs of red, pink, purple and skin fairest of all the pimples and acne, spiral in that protest rally, against the type of 'ordinary food' they provided the students,
"We demand food, not salad or rubbish! " the girl with long nails that looked as if another finger has grown on another, cried throwing her plate full of radishes, cabbage, and a tight bun of bread with gel like yogurt,
Although, in the rest of the cafeteria, the ones who have decided their faith sat eating their food with a delighted smile and chit-chatting with their friends... However, there was one- the rarest of all, who was in neither of both!
"Khreeezzzz... mmm... " The sleepy head sat on the bench and spreading his whole upper body on the cemented table like butter on bread, sleeping peacefully as usual,
"This man sleeps for the whole day, how is he even human? " one of the commoners, who was dripping his fingers into his yogurt commented looking very amusingly at the sleeping boy,
"Maybe he's a sloth bear disguised as a human?! " the girl with pink hair chuckled, of course, she read too many of those werewolf stories,
"But we all saw what he did in class today, that took me in the air for a whole second! "
"Why a second?! I'm still disturbed! "
However,
"I'd bet he is doing it on purpose! " The boy with the black cap who was silent for the whole time, abruptly banged his fist and everyone was looking at him now with those questioning eyes,
"look at those dark circles under his eyes, he surely is studying at night and sleeping in days to look dumb but he is the master player! He's hoodwinking us all! So that he could be Valedictorian at the end and we all will be standing clapping like idiots in the corner!" he cried mightily and everyone has the glee of conviction flickering inside,
"How dare he?! " the girl with pink hair jumped off her seat almost as if to cut the throat of such a peaceful sleeping boy,
But,
"Please...sit down" A hand appear to the side of the pink-haired girl which pushed her down gently, and...
A lady beautiful as a goddess of beauty, with her thick golden hair one like those Greek goddesses up to her pelvis length, stood behind no one knew where did she come from or did she just appear out of nowhere, the mouth was left open for all even the fight going on counter shut to look at such a beauty, the beauty in the dress of any commoner but still, look elegant,
"Who art thou? (Who are you?) " the boy whose fingers are still stuck in the yogurt mumbled The lines of the Shakespeare Times,
But without a word, and frown on her stunning golden face, she dropped the book as thick as any encyclopedia onto the cement table that even the ground seem to shake from that weight,
Every one of those seven looked puzzled and looked at the lady again as if like kids asking their mother to tell a bedtime story,
She leans on the table still with a grimace no one can understand this time, but her perfume and fruity aroma filled all their nostrils that the drool started to rise inside their mouths,
Nevertheless, she shifted the book to face herself and started to turn the pages- which looked like an album that contains pictures and pictures but... The hell's Sleepyheads album is marked with time labels!
1 am
2 am
3 am
.....
However... What a coincidence?!
He was dozing in every single picture as she twists the page one after another, so swiftly that it looked like she would tear the album apart but then she stopped, and-
"Agh- let me go! " the girl with pink hair, the hair that she had gotten dyed after so request from her mother, the goddess pulled her with those hairs and pushed her face to an open page of the encyclopedia (Still sleeping), very ferociously!
"Do you think he can swindle any of you?! "
"No, No, No...Lt g (let go)! " the girl chants and ask for forgiveness, however,
"Em...what's the matter here? " the king puts his hands on her bare shoulder of the goddess through her golden silk-like hairs that he felt like his heart, hand, and his whole soul melting at such a touch,
'What a radiance, she has' he thought
But, the goddess let go of the girl at one go who hurried off with her life to the corner of the cafeteria, and the goddess?!
Oh, she was furious, she raise her head grinding her teeth together, those pearly teeth, that boy with yogurt fainted at such an exquisite look straight onto his cabbage salad and nose into yogurt,
"Take your hand off me! Or else I will cut those hands off myself! "