Not Fazed

18 year old John Parks has never been Fazed.

Your probably thinking, 'well that's kind of impossible,' well, that's an opinion, but remember, nothing is impossible.

Anyway, John was a normal guy, tons of friends, great parents, great home, wasn't poor, got good grades, never smoked or drank alcohol, never done drugs.

He was normal.

Except, one thing made him stick out, his personality. He has never cried, never lost his temper, but he was happy, but he didn't show it well. He was happy with what he had in life, but he usually had that one look, where he wasn't smiling, nor frowning, it was a 'blank face' if you will.

Now that you know more about John, lets start the story.

John was sitting at the lunch table, eating a ham and cheese sandwich, or, as he calls it, his normal lunch. But John wasn't alone at the lunch table, like I said, he had many friends, but today he just sat with his best buddy, Cody.

Cody was 6'2, while John stood at 6'4. Cody always wore the same blue sweater almost everyday, but of course took it off during gym, so at least you could tell he changed his clothing everyday, today he was wearing a pair of black jeans, with a green t-shirt, with no real design on it, Cody's hair was black and flat like normal, and wore no glasses, unlike John, but had the same color eyes, blue.

John was wearing a pair of black gym pants, and a red t-shirt, which was covered by his black hoodie, John's had dirty blond hair, which was flat as well, he didn't have much to do with it but spike it, which he never did.

Cody reached into his green lunch bag, and pulled out a bag of Doritos, he looked over at John's lunch and smiled.

"The usual?" Cody asked, John looked over at him, and nodded, then turned back to his sandwich, John wasn't the type to talk either, he only talked when asked a question that required more than a nod or shake of the head.

Cody opened up the bag of Doritos, took a handful, and stuffed his face, he then began to chew nosily, John was about to take a bite of his sandwich, when he heard that horrid noise of munching and smacking lips, he slowly turned his head toward the noise, but Cody was too busy eating his chips loudly to notice, he finally noticed when he began to lick his fingers, and looked over at John, he then reached into his bag with his hand that he licked and pulled out some chips, and moved the hand with the chips toward John.

"Want some?" Cody asked, John continued to stare at him, after a few seconds of staring, Cody just shrugged and moved the chips toward his mouth, only for his chip bag to get knocked out of his hand by his buddy's hand.

Before Cody could ask "What was that for?!," the loud sound mixture of rings and clangs they called 'a bell' began to ring.

"Greeeeeeeeeeat, now I got no lunch." He said, John just gave a taunting shrug, and motioned him to the door which led to the hallway for classrooms, or as many people called it, "The Hallway of Hell."

After that productive lunch, or as John liked to call it, "a normal Lunch," everyone eventually made it to their respective classrooms, Cody and John were friends since kindergarten, and since then, they were ALWAYS put in the same classes for some strange reasons they did not know, destiny?, who knew.

John and Cody had Social Studies at that point, where they were learning something that I WILL spare the details because, who needs to learn when they read, ANYWAY, I got way off topic, so, their Social Studies teacher, Mr.Ralph, was in the middle of his lesson, when he noticed that John hadn't written anything down.

"Mr.Parks, why aren't you writing any of this down, please take out your pencil and notebook." He said, just to add on to the moment, Cody tauntingly said, "Yeah John, get your stuff out." And of course, the entire class erupted into laughter, which John responded, not with a come back or embarrassment, but by obliging, and getting his stuff, usually if something like that happened to anyone else, people would usually continue laughing for a while because of the reaction, but with John, he had no real reaction, sure he COULD talk, but only when asked something that couldn't be answered with a nod or shake of the head, like I said before, he was smarter than anyone else in a situation like that, he doesn't like to waste his breath.

John opened up his backpack, and pulled out his notebook and pencil, John was ALWAYS prepared, in his backpack, he had EVERYTHING he needed, people called it "The Utility Pack," because of the stuff in it, food, water, Axe spray, well, he started bringing Axe one day when someone came back from the gym, smelling like fish, so the next day, he brought some Axe, sure enough, the same kid came in smelling like fish, John handed the Axe over to the boy, and walked away, he also had a packaged steak in his backpack, ever since his neighbor moved in, he always had a steak in his backpack for the dog that always chased him.

After some time of writing notes, the teacher was in the middle of speaking, when he completely froze up, after a few seconds, Rachel Gardner, "The school Drama Queen," the entire school calls her because, if you say ONE mean thing to her, she will NOT stop talking about it for an entire week, asked,

"Mr.Ralph, are you alright?" She asked him, he turned to the class, a serious expression on his face, before his serious expression turned to one of happiness, it was almost creepy.

"Class, I have decided . . . WE ARE ALL GONNA WATCH A MOVIE!" He exclaimed, the entire class up roared into excitement, they were so loud, John almost had to cover his ears. "AND, you can vote on ANY genre of movie, EVEN horror gore," again the entire class up roared, louder this time, but John's ears were too shocked from the first cheer to notice.

The class eventually got into a vote between the two old fashioned horror movies, Halloween 4, or Freddy vs. Jason, both of course, never even made John flinch when he first saw either of them, but the voting had been set a tie, so Mr.Ralph decided to have them watch Halloween 4 that day, and Freddy vs Jason the next day, too bad John wouldn't be able to watch Freddy vs Jason the next day.

Half way through the movie, a girl in John's class moved up toward him, this certain girl was one that John didn't really have a "crush" on, but made him feel a bit happy when she was around him.

"Hey um, John, do you mind if I sit close to you, I'm not too good with horror movies, they scare me too easily no matter what." She asked him, he nodded, and she scooted closer to him.

A few minutes after she scooted closer to him, Michael Myers's hand burst through the truck's window in the movie, and ripped the poor drivers throat out, she jumped toward John in her seat, shaking, her head lay there on his chest, eventually, she stopped shaking, but never moved her head, John couldn't help but move his arm over her, as if protecting her, she looked up and smiled, John sucked in some breath, about to speak . . .

But suddenly, before he could utter a word, he nearly fell out of his chair, as the classroom began to shake violently, the stuff on the teacher's desk began to shake their way toward the edge of the desk, the chalkboard began to shake so badly, the entire thing fell straight to the floor, nearly hitting the poor teacher, eventually, it got so rough, the windows began to break and shatter, everybody at this point were screaming their heads off, they were screaming stuff like,

"WE"RE ALL GONNA DIE!," or, "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!," or even "I WANT MY MOMMY!"

It was getting way to loud, until finally, Mr.Ralph shouted.

"EVERYBODY CALM DOWN, EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE FINE, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO ESCAPE UNTIL WE'RE ALL CALM!"

The only person at this point who was calm was John, who just stared at the situation blankly, John made it over to whatever was left of the window, and saw the problem, a HUGE storm has started up almost out of nowhere.

"JOHN, GET AWAY FROM THERE, ITS TOO DANGEROUS!" Mr.Ralph shouted, just as Mr.Ralph said that, a lightning bolt came in through the window, just barely missing John, instead of screaming, John just shrugged and walked over to the group.

"John, let me ask you something." Cody said calmly, before shouting "HOW IN THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD ARE YOU NOT TERRIFIED, YOU NEARLY GOT HIT WITH LIGHTNING!" John just shrugged as he picked up his bag and put it on his back.

Mr.Ralph cut in, "We'll deal with that later, right now, we need to focus on getting out of here!" Mr.Ralph shouted, but quieter then before.

Mr.Ralph went up to the classroom door, his hand barely touched the door when it completely fell into the hallway . . . or what was left of it, the lockers were either knocked over or completely gone, burnt paper was everywhere, and a hallway light, which was being held up by just one wire, fell to the floor, once it hit the floor, sparks went everywhere, making everyone but John gasp, but the most noticeable thing was that, well . . . all of the walls were almost completely gone, there was a huge hole in a wall leading to the outside world, which everyone ran to, and one by one, they all went through the hole, to the freedom of outside.

After a while, John and the rest of the class made it to their class's spot for emergencies like fires, and watched the rest of the school collapse, Mr.Ralph counted up his class.

"Good, everyone's here." He sighed, beads of sweat dripping down his forehead, which he wiped away with his arm. "Alright class, everyone who has a cellphone, call your parents, everyone who doesn't, use mi-" Mr.Ralph was cut off as a loud roll of thunder came from above the entire class, everyone began to back away but John, who just stared up at the clouds, he couldn't help but noticed that . . . the area of clouds above him began to open up, everyone in his class stared up at the clouds above him as they began to part more, until finally, they opened up enough to see the light of the sky . . . only to realize that it wasn't the skies light, but instead, a beam of light descended down onto John, on closer inspection, the beam of light had a tint of purple in it, the beam of light kept on going down, until finally, John's entire body was purple, everyone gasped, Cody then shouted,

"JOHN, GET OUT OF THERE!" John took one step forward, only for a jolt purple lightning to come down onto his hand, instead of zapping him, the end of it wrapped itself around John's wrist, John struggled a bit to escape, only for pain to go through his entire arm, he moved his left arm to try and help, only for another bolt of lightning to come down onto it, wrapping itself around his left arm's wrist, another bolt of lightning came down upon John's left foot, and wrapped itself around his ankle, one last bolt came down upon his right foot, and wrapped itself around his other ankle.

"JOHN, TRY TO BREAK FREE!" Mr.Ralph exclaimed, but it was too late for him, and John knew it perfectly well, when he struggled to break free, pain went through his entire body, John looked up, and saw giant purple sparks coming from the clouds, he saw the purple lightning surging like electricity through an electric circuit, eventually, the lightning began to form a pattern, turning itself into some type of ball of purple lightning, the pattern the lightning was going in became faster, the faster it went, the more the ball would light up, until finally, a loud zapping sound shot through everyone's ears as a huge lightning bolt burst through the ball, completely hitting John, immense pain shot through John's body, but he didn't cry out in pain, he knew it would be over soon, after this thought ran through his head, the students watched in shock as they saw their poor classmate get zapped into oblivion, eventually though, no one saw John through the beam of lightning like they could before, and in a matter of seconds, the lightning stopped shooting from the ball of lightning, both the lightning that 'killed' their friend and the ball of lightning, vanished into thin air.

After what seemed like an eternity, the class found the feeling in their legs return, they all looked up . . . not a cloud in the sky.

Everyone walked over to the spot where John used to be . . . nothing but purple smoke was left of their beloved classmate, everyone put their hands together, and began to pray.