Derrick’s Walk To Band Practise – Lleyton Trainer

Another brilliant piece from a GUNNAS WRITING MASTERCLASS WRITER.

Once upon a time there a man named Derrick, his eyes were black as pits and his hair dyed a strange silvery colour. Derrick was a punk, or at least, that’s what he liked to think of himself. He wore mostly black clothes, like he was right at that moment, with a leather jacket to look even cooler. His current black shirt has large white letters imprinted on the front spelling “Green Day”, his favourite punk band. In the right pocket of his black jeans, a chain swung merrily as he walked, the other end reaching across to his back left pocket. Every day, Derrick walked along the street to band practise, ignoring the strange looks people gave him. One day though, he was the one giving strange looks. A little girl had accidentally let go of a red balloon she had been carrying and was now crying, making an awful racquet as her mother attempted to give comfort. But it was not the girl that was strange.
As the red balloon floated into the sky, Derrick saw a pair of men making out on an electric pole. What was worse was that they were dressed as tradies and clearly weren’t doing their job. Because of that, Derrick shouted “DO YOUR JOB YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS!”
The two men broke apart and glared at Derrick, and the little girls’ mother shot Derrick an angry look, but Derrick didn’t care; he was a punk after all. The tradies started shouting abuse at Derrick (the mother now walking her child away as quickly as possible), and because of that, Derrick decided to ignore the abuse and keep walking, until finally he arrived at band practise, where he and his friends played “You Should Have Killed Me When You Had The Chance” by A Day To Remember (Derrick was doing the screamo part)
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