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[Age 10] Harvey: "Payback."
"You ass!" I shoved Gideon with both hands from behind, and he almost fell face-first into the grass before he regained his balance and straightened.
He had such excellent balance, that jerk.
"What now?" He crossed his arms and glared at me up and down, pissing me off further. His friends just flanked him silently like Axel always did if he was present during our altercations. It was a 'Me vs. Him' thing. No one else dared to butt in.
"What the heck is this?" I held the piece of paper I'd found on my desk in front of his face, seeing red.
"Oh." Gideon's expression turned into that gleeful happiness it always did while messing with me. He must be a psycho or something because the guy sure did enjoy causing pain. "Your journal, of course."
"I know that it's my journal!" I hissed, feeling like I'd burst into a million bits of Harvey if I didn't punch him and let out this frustration now. "I'm asking you why a page from my journal was on top of my desk! Where the heck is the rest of it?"
Lyle and Ryker snickered silently.
Gideon shot them a look to shut up before turning back. "If you wanted to keep your journal safe you shouldn't have left it in your bag." He shrugged. "Now it's mine."
"But it's personal!" I yelled, not succeeding in my keeping my voice down like I'd planned. "You don't see me peeking at your art."
"Who said you couldn't?" Gideon rolled his eyes, "Besides, I've read it all already. I know you think my art is super cool and that I'm 'so talented I'll probably win some world-level award'." He smirked, back to being gleeful over my misery.
"You—!" I was so overwhelmed that I didn't even know what foul name to call him. So I just shoved him in the chest, hard enough for him to fall on his butt, and ran away.
"I'll make sure everyone gets to read a copy tomorrow!" He yelled, but I was almost sure he wouldn't go that far.
But I still needed to get back at that jerk ASAP.
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After recess, we had Science, and I seemed to have struck gold in finding an opportunity for revenge when our prickliest teacher, Mrs. Levingston, walked in with a dark scowl that made her seem scarier than usual.
The class quickly began, and Mrs. Levingston jumped right into the lesson without any discussion. She started busily scribbling something on the board, explaining something I was barely paying attention to because I was so occupied getting hyped over my revenge. I wrote 'boring' across a piece of plain white paper in the best loopy scrawl I could manage, hoping it didn't look like my own handwriting in the slightest, and scrunched up the paper into a tight ball.
At the beginning of the year, I'd purposely chosen to sit in the last row—adjacent to Gideon's desk—in order to mess with him without getting caught, and I was thankful for my smart thinking now.
I launched the paper ball in the air.
It hit the teacher on the shoulder, and it took everything in me to not giggle like a little kid.
Gideon glared at me from across the aisle, already knowing what was about to happen.
The teacher bent down to retrieve the paper, undid the ball, and glared up at the class with such heat that I thought she'd kill us all with her laser stare like Cyclops from X-Men, "Who did this?"
I put up my hand, making sure the most genuinely scared expression was in place, "It—It was Gideon, Mrs. Levingston."
"One week of after-school detention." She snapped before turning back to the board, throwing the paper into the trash without further comment.
I flipped up the collar of my t-shirt and leaned back with a smirk, ignoring the killer-stare I could feel Gideon burning against the side of my head.
Now that's how you pay someone back.
I might update again today or I'll update tomorrow.
P.S. I've updated a new 'age 7' scene today. For some reason, the notifications aren't going out.
So like, It's mentioned somewhere inside this book later that Gideon read Harvey's journal and made fun of him forever, But I can't remember where I wrote it and I tried to search but I was so tired and couldn't find it. So please don't come at me if something I've mentioned there doesn't match with what's here. Also, if you find that scene, please lemme know so I can make sure they're both consistent with each other.
Hope you like it! <3
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