Battle Creek: A Short Story

It was a beautiful spring day in the little town of Battle Creek. Everywhere the snow was melting and the town which for the longest time seemed dead and dreary, was now alive and full of people. Wagons rolled down the street and little boys darted in and out of the crowd chasing one another and playing with there wooden swords. Jacobus cared not for their play, for he was twelve and was a big boy now. Jacobus ducked under wagons and zipped through the crowed streets. He then slipped onto a cobblestone side street and there, the crowds thinned. The air smelled like piss and Jacobus hated when he had to pass someone. The road was barely two people wide and it twisted and turned. His mother and father asked him not to go this way but he new

“Your my friend.” Godric looked at Jacobus, his blue-gray eyes looked lost in the sea of black that covered his face. His blond curly hair was wet and judging by the smell, Jacobus could tell that it wasn 't water. But Jacobus did not care and gave him a hug anyways. Jacobus then began to tell Godric about his run in with Jurian the general store owner and how his father wanted him and his brother, Cathasach, to come and help him out in the fields where he worked. He then told him about a story he made up about a wizard and his non magical son. Godric laughed and laughed. He loved it when Jacobus came to visit. Godric told Jacobus about Fionn and how his father was going to throw him a birthday party. “I wish he would through me a party,” said Godric with tears gathering in his eyes. “He never throws me a party. All he cares about Fionn. Sometimes I wonder if he wishes I would have never been born.” “Don 't talk like that,” Jacobus practically shouted. “I 'm sure he loves you.” He placed a hand on Godric 's shoulder. “And if he does not love you. You can come live with

Cathasach was two years older than Jacobus. He had black hair and dark tan skin. The only thing similar between the two, is that they shared the same light brown eyes. Jacobus always wondered why Cathasach looked different. The townsfolk did too. They accused their father of having a sexual relationship with another women. However Miriam, Jacobus 's mother, dismissed the idea saying that her great-great-grandmother was from the Spice Islands. She also said that her uncle Tiberius looked very similar to Cathasach. Jacobus had never met his great uncle Tiberius nor had he ever heard of him until that point. His mother refused to talk to him about great uncle Tiberius, making Jacobus wonder if he had done something really bad. Jacobus tried to go to the library to find out more information, but the librarian would not take him seriously and threw him out on his