Busters New Boy by Dreck Skin
Busters New Boy by Dreck Skin.
Buster couldn’t help noticing the young lad n’ mostly because of the boots, you just didn’t see them on the streets any more in these days of trainers (or sneakers, depending on where you’re from), Rockport shoes and the like. The brightness of the yellow stitching gave away that the Doc Martens the young lad had on were still relatively new. You couldn’t see how high they were because they were hidden by the charcoal grey trousers of the lad’s school uniform. He looked about 16 years old, maybe 17, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, sporting a reasonably short haircut by today’s standards (a grown-out crewcut affair by the looks of things), and the most striking thing of all, blood streaming from his nose.
David was embarrassed to see the big skinhead coming towards him. He was embarrassed that he didn’t hold his own against the twins, and was only hoping that the big skinhead hadn’t seen him get the hiding from the two tormentors who had sped off not two or three minutes earlier in the opposite direction. David forced a nod in Buster’s direction. As the latter came closer, David could see he looked pretty fearsome. Tattoos everywhere and a big ring through his nose suggested that this skinhead was also someone not to be messed with & he doubted that the twins would have even thought about taking this guy on. David instinctively backed towards the entrance of the nearby shop doorway, he knew however that there were people around he could shout to for help, not that any of them came running when he was being set upon a few minutes earlier by the Barnes-Forbes Twins.
The Barnes-Forbes Twins unofficially ran the sixth form. It was known that they ran a mini-protection racket, dealt drugs and alcohol to their mates (what few they had) and that it was best to give in to their demands, no matter what. Various attempts by concerned parents had been undertaken to get the two delinquents removed from the sixth form college but a variety of factors had been more influential in the opposite direction & the school itself had a good reputation for academic excellence and didn’t want to attract bad publicity, the boy’s grades were good (little did the staff suspect that most of the work they handed in wasn’t theirs) but most of all their father, Reverend Peter Barnes-Forbes, was on the School Board. James and Rupert Barnes-Forbes were there to stay and got away with pretty much everything they wanted to get away with…
- Busters New Boy by: Dreck Skin