The Bad News

Cole burst through the open door, leading in a warm breeze and raced upstairs. He slid through the bedroom door and launched himself on the first bunk of the bunkbed. He reached for his controller and turned on his Xbox. It made a loud shimmering noise as the screen turned green with text saying Xbox.

Suddenly, his phone vibrated in his pocket. Slowly while still looking at the Xbox, he pulled out his phone. On the screen the coloured pixels spelt out ‘Come over now, from Ellis.’ He suddenly turned his Xbox and TV off and reached for his backpack. He threw on the backpack and bounced of the bottom bunk.

He ran through the door and he saw his dad laying down on a sun bed in Hawaiian shorts. Eventually, he was at the door of Ellis’s house. He wasn’t patient so he aggressively open the front door. “Hey Mandy!” He shouted to Ellis’s mum before heading to Ellis’s bedroom.

He knocked at the door and opened it soon after. “What’s up Ellis?” Ellis was slumped on his bed with a bag of starbursts with wrappers everywhere. On his side table sat a humongous cup of orange juice. “Just sit down. I need to tell you something