Chester The Jester by Jacob Brooks (classic literature list txt) 📖

It was 2003, the first time I saw true evil come to life. I was 15 and looked like I hadn't been through puberty yet. I had long hair and glasses, you know the type. The kind of guy who couldn't even buy a date. I played video games and jammed on guitar, the usual things a kid my age would do. If it wasn't for my mom and dad always on my case, I probably wouldn't even know I even existed. Deep down, I know they loved me. My dad was a real old school hard ass who believed "show me a bored kid and i'll show you a lazy kid". My mom was old school too but not as tough. She grew up in a house where the women always took care of the men. A women should always stand by their man's side. One of those cliche leave it to beaver types. I also had a sister, her name was Lizzy and was too young to realize what was going on around the house. She was 8 years old when Chester came into our lives.To young to know better, but what 8 year old wants to know anything anyway.They took her away shortly after the "problem" I've come to call it. something i'll get to down the road. My name's John, and this is my story about Chester the Jester.

I was walking home from school that day with my buddy Josh. He was a likable enough kid with short brown hair and bracess. A real loud mouth that said a curse word every three words. Everytime I would hang out with him, I felt like we were only friends still because we've known each other since 2nd grade. We walked down the alley way behind the old K-Mart building we use to take because it shortened the walk by a few minutes. A real dirty way to take home but hell, when you're a teenage boy, not much disgusts you. I remember there use to always be used condoms and broken glass everywhere. The type of place my old man would shit if he knew I took that way home.

As we walked along, we ended up running into a group of kids we knew from school by the old rail road tracks. I call it old because they don't run trains through there anymore. Of course Sabrina had to be with them. Sabrina was the love of my life back then. Tall and thin with the most goregous blond hair I'd ever seen. Big blue eyes and a chest... well lets say she was the one I wanted, but wouldn't give me the time of day. Josh and I walked over to them to say our hi's, and they said they were going to the new Walmart down the street.They asked us to go and of course I knew I had no chance, but with Sabrina there, I wasn't going to say no. So off to Walmart we went.

Once there, we did the usual things teens do. Looked at games and DVDs. I even bought Sabrina an Icee from the local pizza joint they built inside. On our way out, me wanting to score points with Sabrina, I saw one of those grab machines where you pay 50 cents and try to grab a prize with the claw. so I went over hoping to get a stuffed animal or somthing so I could give it to her.

I put the 50 cents into the machine and went for a white fluffy teddy bear in the back right corner. Josh told me I was stupid and shouldn't waste the money, but i was in love or so I thought. The claw came down around the bear but it didn't pick it up. I put more money in and went for the same bear. Only this time it landed behind the bear, and out from behind him the claw had picked up what looked like a little jester. Not what I wanted but hell I'll take it.

I grabbed it out of the slot and took it to Sabrina who looked at me like I just shit my pants and said "I dont want that ugly thing". They got a laugh out of my exspense and Josh said "Lets go home man". Not wanting to waste my money I put the thing in my backpack and we headed for home.

Once home, I barley got in the door before my mom started grilling me about where I had been. I had forgotten that I was supposed to pick my sister up from daycare after I got out of school that day, and my mom got a call from there telling her I never showed up. So she left work early to get her and take her home. Mom said she was scared and thought we left her there for good, and that I needed to apoligize. Luckily for me, she didn't tell the old man about it or sitting the next day at school would of been rough.

So I said my sorries and headed up stairs to apologize to Lizzy for not picking her up. I went into her room and she wouldn't look at me as she brushed her doll's hair. I told her I was sorry for not picking her up but told her I bought her a present to make up for it. I pulled out the jester and gave it to her. Hell, even if Sabrina didn't want it, I had no use for the damn thing. Lizzy gave me a big hug and said "It's ok, thank you." I asked her "So what are you gonna call him?" she said "Chester". I said thats a strange name for a clown". She said "He's not a clown, he's a jester, Chester the jester.". I just let things be and headed out the door to my room where I could finally relax.

The next day was luckily a Saturday, which meant no school thankfully. The weekend was mine to do whatever I wanted, but unfortunately, I had to wake up to mom and dad yelling at Lizzy. I wasn't sure what was going on, so I headed down stairs to see. when I got there, my dad was asking Lizzy "What were you thinking?" i asked "whats going on?" mom said "Lizzy broke your fathers trophy". If there was one thing in our house that dad loved more then us it was that trophy. He'd won it in high school for being the state champion in wrestling or somthing." To which Lizzy replied "He made me do it". My father screamed "That damn doll did not make you to do shit." At that point my mom intervened and told my dad to go outside and calm down as Lizzy's eyes began to slowly produce tears. Myself not feeling needed for this moment in time went to the kitchen to get some breakfest.

Later that day, I was hanging out with Josh by the comic book store. The place was run down and didn't apeal to the normal eye, but we didn't care. Plus they gave us good deals on comics. We went inside to look around and I couldn't get it out of my head what Lizzy was talking about. He made her do it. What made her to do what. I wasnt apart of the conversation so what did i really know. But who made her do it was all I could think about.

I was sifting through some comics when I came across one that looked interesting. It had a cover of a demon being sucked into a doll on it, so I took a peek. Inside, it said that when some souls are rejected by hell,they will be punished by being sent back to the living as a doll. To live out their existence as a statue. They can see but can not move, but it also said that sometimes certain powerfull souls can get through and come back to life as the doll. I kind of chuckled, not thinking much about and it and Josh and I went on our way.

We later ran into Sabrina and some of her friends at the local Burger shack. She started flirting with me, asking me if I'd get her a milkshake. Of course being me and her being her, I agreed. While in line, Josh asked "Are you a fucking idiot man, she's playing you like a fucking dog." I told him "I know but I cant help it, I just really like her." To which Josh replied "Well buying her the damn world isn't gonna fucking make her like you bro, i'm sorry." I shook my head and agreed but got the shake anyway.

We went over and sat down at a table. But while everyone else was talking about this and that I kind of dazed off. Staring at an old dying tree about 20 feet away, I kept thinking about what Lizzy said this morning. "He made me do it." what the hell does that mean? Who? What? and When? As I continued looking at the tree I noticed something out of place, near the base of the tree. I couldn't really see what it was with the sun blurring my vision. So I squinted a little harder to adjust my eye sight. As I kept looking, my eyes began to adjust and I saw what I thought was that damn clown, the one I gave my sister the day before. But just as I thought I saw it, Josh smacked me on the back of the head. He said "What the fuck are you looking at?" I told him "Nothing." We finished our meal and headed for the swiming hole.

The swimming hole as we called it, was just an old dirty creek where as kids we'd swim to cool off. As I said before, when your that young not much disgusts you. Everyone jumped in but I did not really feel in the mood. I sat at the edge and again began staring off into space. I can remember I had a rush of emotions and thoughts race through my brain like a race car going four hundered miles an hour. Thoughts of my sister, thoughts of my parents, thoughts of being with Sabrina, thoughts of what life could be like in the future, thoughts of what lifes like right now, then out of nowhere, Sabrina splashed me with water bringing me back to reality and said "Why don't you want to get in?" I told her "I don't really feel like getting wet." To which she replied "I do." and swam away. Now my mind being a dirty one, wasn't thinking she meant swimming anymore. Was she actually flirting with me? I thought. No she couldn't be. I'm not the guy girls flirt with. I'm the guy who flirts with girls and gets rejected, especially by ones like Sabrina. Just then Josh gets out and sits next to me. He said "Dude your fucking despressing me, what's fucking going on with you?" I told him about this morning and how Lizzy got in trouble and what she said. "He made me do it." He told me "Shrug if off she's fucking little, little kids do the dumbest shit. Hell, remember when we were her age? We did all kinds of stupid shit." To which i had to agree. I told him what Sabrina said, to which I got the reply "Dude how many fucking times do i have to tell you, she's playing your dumb ass." I once again agreed but told him "I think I'm gonna go home." Josh offered to go with me but I declined. I said "I'm