innocent youth

It was the last day of term before the school summer holidays. Dean James and Matthew sat anxiously at their desks in the classroom. They were waiting for the bell to go to sound freedom for the next 7 weeks. Silence fell like a blanket over the classroom. The second hand on the clock moved steadily and reached its destination. Bang on 3pm the bell rang and shattered the silence.

Every student in the school piled out of their classrooms and funneled through the school gates. Dean James and Matthew started on their walk to the bus stop. James suggested they should do something this weekend. Matthew jumped in and suggested to go swimming.

James said “no I mean something for the whole weekend.

“I know how about lets go camping down at cliff point.” Dean mentioned.

Cliff point used to be a popular campsite however, due to lude acts it was closed and had a rusty security fence surrounding the area including the woodland.

“But it’s all locked up how can we get in” James motioned.

“There is a gap in the fencing. Are you guys up for it?” James asked. Dean was well up for it but Matthew wasn’t too sure.

When they got to their homes they all spoke to their parents. Dean and James’s parents were both fine with it but Matthew’s parents were concerned about the weather as it was meant to rain, and with their moddy coddling over their precious son they decided against it.

Later that evening, the boys went onto their communal chat room, Matthew said he couldn’t go and too save embarrassment told a lie and said his parents were going to take him and their family out to the beach for a picnic and sheepishly left the chat room.

Dean and James carried on discussing their plans, arranging who was going to take what. Dean was going to take his 3 man dome tent. James would bring the snacks and sneak a bottle of vodka out the house, to go with the vodka they also planned to get some soda on the way their to mix their drink. James parents had offered to take dean as well. So both boys now hand transport.

The next day James’s parents arrived to take dean. Dean said bye to his mam and dad and carried his rucksack with ease to the car and put it in the boot of the vehicle. After a short distance James’s mam got out and went into a nearby shop and bough 2 2litre bottles of cola and asked James and dean if it was enough and both boys’s silently nodded.

When they reached the site the boys got their gear out of the car. James’s mam said ok boys have fun.