The hairy truth about St. James

by Gage Davis
People have always wanted to know what goes on behind the scenes of St. James high school. Well one dark night, I just happened to be at the high school and uncovered a dark secret. I found out the truth, but it’s a little hairy!


It turns out; nobody else at our school seems to suspect anything. This “hairy” situation seems to have everyone fooled. “I don’t know anything about it, absolutely nothing.” said History teacher Mr. Smalls. Well, I know the truth, and here’s the story.

I was driving around with my friend Jaquez Hemingway, and when we passed the school, the gate was open. As we passed it I asked myself, “Why is the school open at 1 a.m.?” So we turned around and went back to the school. As we pulled into the front parking lot, we saw something red, like maybe blood on the window of what seemed to be a dark blue Cherokee Jeep. As I looked around, Jaquez spotted someone looking out a window at us and we couldn’t quite describe who it was. So we walked up to the front of the school, and we checked the doors. The one that was open just happened to be the last one we checked.

We approached the front desk with caution as we heard noise from behind the counter. We got to the desk and we peaked over when all of a sudden, “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!” yelled Jaquez as he fell to the floor and started freaking out. I yelled “What is it?!” Jaquez quickly crawled away from a tiny black spider in terror. I picked up Jaquez and laughed at him. As we walked down the hallways, we kept hearing footsteps behind us, and they kept getting louder and louder.

Then all of a sudden, it sounded like something was charging at us. Out of nowhere we heard “Hey, you kids get back here!” We kept running and running when suddenly we were tackled and punched rapidly in the face by some type of hairy beast. Then it knocked me out, cold!

As I woke up the next morning in the nurses’ bed, there was blood everywhere around me. Then the nurse said, “Calm down everything is fine.” In walked Mr. Pennell, and I said, “Hey Mr. Pennell. How are you doing?”

“Good,” he responded, “after a crazy night with you.” Now in my mind I was thinking what in the world happened last night? Then with a freaked out face, I asked Mr. Pennell all about last night and he responded with a laugh.

“Last night I was working late to put in some grades. You saw what you thought was blood in the car, which was ketchup from my cheeseburger from Sonic. Which was delicious by the way. Then the nurse saw you in the window and she ran to tell me. I came to track you down, and as I proceeded to confront you both, Jaquez and you knocked heads and that’s what all this blood is from. Now for the hairy situation you are talking about, I really don’t know.”

But if you ask me, I think he is hiding something that we don’t know.

When Mr. Pennell left I started to laugh, thinking everything was just a bad mix up. Then as I put my hand in my pocket I felt something hairy. Ewwwwwww, it’s a moustache. Then as I thought to myself, wait, Pennell didn’t have on a moustache when he walked in here!