The Bad Few Season 1 by Tai Goodman (old books to read .txt) 📖

Tai walked into fourth period after traveling down a labyrinth of hallways. As he entered, he was handed a paper with 6 paragraphs on it. “Gracias…?”

The paragraphs all shared the first word, or letter perhaps. “I.”

“So, everybody listening? Good, so these are called Self-Description paragraphs. These basically tell me six things about yourself, what you believe in and all that mess. Now don’t get started yet, you don’t know what you’re doing yet!”

 

John: “Mrs. Garrick is kind of boring. It said on the syllabus we would be reading books like the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliett. And now we have work? THE CLASS IS CALLED 9TH GRADE HONORS LITERATURE- oh. It’s 9th Grade Honors Literature/Composition. WELL BUT STILL, it's hard as crap."

 

LUNCHTIME

 

Tai slammed his lunchbox down on the table, getting no benefit from doing so. "What's wrong Tai, somebody give you a 'job' and you didn't like it?" said Jacob, still watching Fortnite livestreams on YouTube. "Hey Jacob, take this into consideration. Climbing to the top of your roof, and jumping right off."

 

"Nah, but OOH. THAT REMINDS ME OF THE TIME TAI TRIED-"

 

"Noononono! We're not gonna talk about THAT."

 

John leaned forwards and said, "You've heard of the elf on the shelf, now get ready for the midget sized elf!"

Jesse said, "WAIT, WHAT?"

 

"I said you've h-"

 

Another kid put his hand over John's mouth. He was about Jesse's size, and somehow smarter. His name was Austin Michael "Paul Blart" Young. 

 

Tai: "Yeah. There's another Austin, so we call the first one Daniel because Austin is his middle name. Austin Young is probably the most naive, boring, and somewhat lazy specimen in this entire establishment you call a school. The worst thing he ever said wasn't about nazis or anything offensive. It was, and I quote..."

 

 

Austin: "Man, these puns are so corny, they're not even A-MAIZE-ING."

 

Tai: "So that's when tragedy struck my mental stability. After hearing that one sentence, those 10 words, I wanted to drop out, or hell, even leave to go to Vietnam!"

 

"Aushen, gesh your hand off my moush," muffled John. Austin removed his greasy, sweaty, and American-tone white hand from John's face.

 

IN THE BUS LINE

 

Tai: "So.. I learned two new things. One, the rarest thing in the world is no longer a bitcoin, it's a @*&#ing day where a kid has no homework. And two, I hate homework."

 

Austin: "I have none, probably because I'm not in any honors classes or anything like that except for biology. So Tai's got the short end of the stick. And I want to take the long end and stick it riiiight through his abdomen."

 

THE BAD FEW

BY TAI GOODMAN

 

Episode 3: Upstairs

 

LUNCHROOM/COMMONS

BEFORE SCHOOL

 

Tai plugged his ear buds into his chromebook. And then he started listening to music while playing his game. THe song was “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne.

But on the outside…

 

“ALL ABOARDD, HAHAHAHAHA!”

All of the students turned Tai’s way.

 

“AYE.. AYE.. AYE.. AYE..”

Most of them had one eyebrow risen, while the others were in confusion.

 

Then the guitar riff started playing.

Gabriel tapped sat down besides Tai and said, “TAI!”

Tai looked up and said, “Hey, GAY, how are you?”

 

Gabriel was waving his hands and pointed to Tai’s Chromebook. Tai misinterpreted the ‘sign language’ and said, “Oh I’m listening to Ozzy Osbourne!”

Gabriel shook his head and pointed to the earbud plugin on the side. “You want to listen too?”

Gabriel, with his hands like talons, scratched hairs out of his head. “OH MY GOD, WHAT THE HECK DO YOU WANT?”

 

Tai removed the earbuds from his ears and still heard the music. “Tai, the headphone jack doesn’t work, you dingbat.” Tai pressed the ‘volume-down’ button on his Chromebook. “Oh. My bad.”

Tai entered the library quickly and said, “Hey, I was listening to music on my Chromebook and it played out loud.”

 

“Sweetie, use something called ‘earbuds,’” the librarian informed Tai, knowing the vague information. “No, no, that’s not what I mean. I have earbuds but it still plays out loud.” The librarian held out her hand, demanding his Chromebook. Tai gladly inserted the side into her hand, and she looked around its dimensions.

 

“Okay, so it might take a few weeks for this to be fixed… Do you want a regular Chromebook or do you want to wait until you get one with touchscreen like the one you have?”

Tai thought about this for a second.

 

Tai: “Well DUH! I want one with touchscreen, because with touchscreen, you can use both the keyboard and mouse, AND the screen. You get more speed in what you do, and there’s 45 minutes in each class. Usually when I think it was 5 minutes in class, we’re already 20 minutes into class. Time flies by when you’re listening to human embodiments of tedium.”

 

“Sure, I’ll wait.”

He went back to his original table and sat down next to Gabriel. “So you’re one of those idiots who listen to Osbourne?”

Tai shook his head and went back to what he was originally doing.

THE BAD FEW

BY TAI GOODMAN

BASED OFF OF REALITY

 

SECOND PERIOD

 

"Welcome back class! Now, today we're learning about Polynomials. Does anybody know what that is? Because if you do, I'm not sure why you're in here and not Geometry A!"

 

One of the people raised his hands. It was Tre.

 

Tai: "Tre, or Trequavion, was put in Mrs. King's last year, when I saw him in Mr. Lightfoot's accelerated math. So I just had to ask... And Gabriel said:"

 

Gabriel: "He fell asleep in class too many times."

 

Tai: "And he got placed in the math before it. So it'd be pretty easy to get an A."

 

"I know what it is but I can't put it in words." 

"Do you want to write one on the board?"
Tre stood out of his seat and went to the board. He was handed an electronic pen for the electronic board. Then he scribbled a very confusing looking problem. 

2x (to the second power) - 3y = 4y (to the third) + 6x

 

Tai smiled and told Dylan, "What the heck is this sorcery?"

"I don't know, all we know is that this is dark magic."

 

"Oh! That's a good example! You can take a seat now. So this is a... very confusing subject, but very easy once mastered!" She passed out papers, hole-punched. "Well great. Now we get to learn how to speak cyborg."

 

John was in Mrs. Garrick's classroom. "So, I've gathered you all completed your 'I Believe' paragraphs and turned them in?" spoke Mrs. Garrick. John looked around and said, "Oh sh**!"

John opened his Chromebook and went to Google Classroom, then turned it in. "Because it's due tomorrow, I've giving you one more day because several of you don't have it done or even worked on it."

 

John rolled his eyes. "John Michael? Are you alright there, buddy?"

"Uh.. Yes sir- I MEAN, ma'am."

 

John: "Whenever I do something wrong that can lead to other stuff, I have a little nervous breakdown and try and fix it when I really can't."

 

THIRD PERIOD

 

Jacob and Tai both sat down in their world history classes. "SO, did anybody do the reading notes last night like they were supposed to?" said both of the teachers in their separate classes.

 

Tai: "Oh boy."

 

Jacob: "i hope this don't bring my grade down."

 

Tai pulled up the reading guide and filling it out. It was on the topic of Paleolithic and Neolithic. It had questions with parts that went into parts A and B, and those went further into parts I and II.

 

"Jesus Christ."

 

Jacob only sat still with his AMSCO book out and a pile of random notebook papers filled out in a pile to look like notes. "Jacob, may I see yours?"
"Yes ma'am," he said slowly. As she picked out the middle one, her eyes skimmed it. "You did..." Jacob's eyes looked around the room. "Very good!" Jacob smiled and thanked her. "At making grocery lists."

Jacob looked at the piece of paper. 

 

Doritos Mountain dew Twinkies

 

"Oh this isn't a shopping list, THESE are my notes!"

Jacob held up the top paper. "That's ELA homework."

 

"Dang it!"

 

While in the other classroom, near the very end,  Tai had his reading guide nearly done. The bell was soon to ring. "Tai, do you have your notes from last night?"

"I don't, but I DO HAVE the reading guide!"

 

"Did you do that last night?"

 

"Umm... No?"

"Sorry Tai, but you have to do the notes! But you can still do the reading guide."

 

Tai: "What the hell's the criteria in this establishment?"

 

LUNCHROOM

 

 

 "Hey guys, we got something to do in PE!"

 

"Who are we gonna do?" John questioned Tai with a stupid facial expression. "John, this isn't a prostitution home, I said SOMETHING not SOMEONE." Jacob was laughing in his little corner. "Probably gonna f*** chairs or some sh**." 

"Alright, then we're doing an ACTIVITY."

Dylan opened up his lunchbox. He pulled out his usual stuff that he packed: Lunchable ripoff, juicebox, bag of chips. Then Austin Young reached in his bag and pulled out his juicebox. "Dude, what the- What the hell are you doing?"

 

"What's the point in trading for something I can just take, right?" Austin answered him. "Well it's MINE first of all, second of all you can't just take my stuff without asking." Dylan turned back to his part of the table, and all of his stuff was gone. "ALRIGHT WHO TOOK MY SH**?"

John gave Dylan back the lunchable ripoff, with only the meat inside of it. "Here you go man, protein."

 

"DUDE, WHAT THE HELL?" 

 

"I TOOK OUT EVERYTHING THAT IS JUNK FOOD!"

Tai broke the verbal battle by reciting a poem. 

 

"There once was a man from Peru.

He dreamed he was eating his shoe.

HE WOKE IN THE NIGHT..

WITH A TERRIBLE FRIGHT...

TO FIND OUT

THAT HE HAD...

 

 

 

A MAN-GINA! DUN DUN DUNNNN!"

 

Everybody just looked at him. "Tai that literally did nothing," Jacob told him. 

 

FIFTH PERIOD

 

"Alright everybody, on your feet!"

Everybody was in a line and stood up. "A Skip!"

 

Tai: "There are a plethora of exercises that aren't even real. Probably crafted by the gym teachers! A Skip, Crossover Skip, Toy Soldiers, Crabwalk- I bet my house that these are just to make us look stupid on camera. Well... I like the crabwalk for another reason."

 

"CRABWALK!" screamed the coach. Tai asked Brock Fitzgerald, the kid in front of him, "'ey, Brock, can I get in front of you?"

"Why? What for?"

"I don't wanna look stupid when I go last."

 

Brock nodded and he trotted behind Tai. When the whistle blew, Tai went with all of the other kids in his column, including Malle. Malle was crabwalking in front of Tai. Then he gave a thumbs up to the camera of the documentary crew. 

After all of the exercises, the PE teacher said, "Alright. So we've got three choices, you can play basketball, four square, or walk up top."

 

Tai clapped his hands once and decided, "Alright, we're walking!"

Then once he reached the top, Malle was also walking at the same time he was.

 

Malle: "I absolutely hate exercise. But I'd kinda enjoy 4 Square. Still, walking is just- Calm, y'know?"

 

Tai: "Walking is the best way to exercise. And to get women."

 

Tai walked besides Malle and said, "SO hey...."

 

"Hiiii?"

John, Brock, Gabriel VanBrackle, and Jesse (along with the very sad and depressed looking Austin Young) walked upstairs to follow Tai and join in on the fact that he was doing something entertaining. Then the posse of five crowded around Tai. "Hey you little twerp, go