Lord Of The Flies: Chapter 13

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Too Fast

A small baby was crying. Ralph jumped out of bed and ran to the child’s room. He picked up the baby out of the crib and was cuddling the child. Ralph gave the baby hugs and kisses.
“Shhh Lia, go to sleep. Shhh, there there, Daddy’s here” Ralph coaxed. A woman came into Lia’s room and took the baby from Ralph.
“How is she?” The women asked with a worried face.
“She’s fine sweetheart. Calm down Susan” Ralph said calmly. Susan put Lia down into the crib and tucked her in. She then turned to Ralph and gave him a kiss.
“I love you Ralph” She said.
“Aw, I love you too” Ralph said as he held Susan’s hands.
“Let’s go to sleep before we wake her” Susan said. They started to walk back to their room.
“Yeah, good idea. I have to get up early anyways. I have to go to a trial for some guy who got out of jail a month ago” Ralph said. Susan and Ralph drifted off to sleep. A few hours later, Ralph was awake and ready. It was about nine AM when Ralph was done getting ready. He went to his room and gave Susan a kiss.
“Goodbye sweetheart” He whispered.
“Bye” She replied. She turned over and fell back a sleep. Ralph walked over to Lia’s room. He bent down and gave her a kiss.
“ Bye bye Dada” whispered Lia.
“Bye” he whispered. Ralph walked out of the house and into his car. He then drove to the court. Ralph parked his car and then walked into the court. The judge himself greeted him when he walked in. He was holding a clip bored in his hand.
“Why hullo there Ralph!” He said with a big smile on his face.
“Hullo Judge James. Are you going to the trial?” Ralph asked.
“Oh, no I can not. I have to take care of some other stuff. There’s a new judge about your age, maybe a bit younger, I’m not sure.”
“Oh alright. What’s this young ones name?” Ralph asked. Judge James looked at the clip bored closely.
“Judge….” He searched through the papers on the clip bored.
“Ah! Here we are. Judge Samuel.” He gave Ralph a paper and it had information about Judge Samuel. Ralph looked at it with a lot of thought on his face. Judge James started to walk away.
“Wait sir!” The Judge stopped.
“What is it Ralph?” He asked
“It says here his name is Sam…not Samuel. And it says he has a twin…” Ralph said nervously. He looked up with a shocked face on and gasped loudly. Judge James walked toward Ralph.
“Ralph, calm down. You know, for a lawyer, you sure are nervous. Would you like to me-.” Before Judge James could finish, Ralph answered.
“Yes. I would like to meet him please” Ralph said quickly. Judge James nodded, and right as he was about to walk and find Judge Samuel, Judge Samuel found him.
“Hullo Judge James!” He said excitedly. Ralph examined Sam quickly. Sam was tall and his hair was short and tidy. He was wearing one of the judge robes.
“Hullo Judge Samuel. This is--" Before Judge James could finish, Sam interrupted him.
“Sir, I know who this is.” Sam put a big smile on his face. Judge James shrugged and walked away. Ralph and Sam smiled at each other for a few seconds. Finally, Ralph broke the silence.
“How…umm…Sam, how have you been?”
“Excellent. I’m married. I have twin daughters. Camille and Violet. Their 1 ½. My wife is pregnant again too.”
“Coagulations! I’m married too. I have a daughter named Lia.” Ralph pulled his wallet out if this pocket. When he got it out, he got out a small picture of Lia, Susan and him. He gave it to Sam.
“That’s us.” Ralph pointed to the picture.
“Aw, that’s cute.”
“How’s Eric?” Sam exchanged a look and looked around nervously.
“He’s…fine.”
“Not the right question to ask…right?”
“Well we don’t speck anymore. After leaving the island, things got hard. Emotions were coming out from everywhere. He suddenly felt happy. After witnessing two deaths, he felt happy that it wasn’t him. He just went on living life and he didn’t care about death anymore. I just annoyed, so I told him, ‘I can’t deal with someone like that.’ He took it the wrong way, and got mad. This whole thing started when where eighteen. We were both adults, our parents had let us go. We separated and we haven’t talked in about nine years or so.”
“I’m sorry Sam.
“Well, thanks. I don’t care much for him anymore. He can do what he wants.” Sam checked his watch.
“Well, we’d better get going” he said as he gave the picture back to Ralph. Ralph and Sam walked together to the courthouse. As they walked in, they parted ways. Sam went where all judges should go. And Ralph was where all the watching lawyers were. A man walked in the room with papers in his hands and announced the trial.
“Welcome lawyers. Today we are the trial of Jack Merridew. Got out of jail one month ago for stealing and running over someone with a car. He is now on probation. Ten years ago, Mr. Merridew was sentenced to juvenile hall for killing three and injuring two. He was only went to juvenile hail for a year and two months.” Ralph and Sam gasped loudly. The announcer kept talking.
“Lawyers. Feel free to ask questions or add comments.” The announcer sat down in a chair. Then all of sudden, six policemen opened burst the door open. All the policemen had both on Jack. He tried to push against them but, they ere stronger. They strapped him in a chair. Right when he sat down, everyone shouted things at Jack. He was tall. His clothes were all ripped up. His red hair was sticking all over the place.
“ORDER IN THE COURT!” Sam yelled. Everyone fell silent. Ralph raised his hand and Sam nodded.
“Name, age, and how long you have been a lawyer” the announcer asked.
“Ralph. Twenty six, and seven years.” As soon as Ralph stopped talking, Jack exasperation changed.
“What the.--” he started to say. Jack’s face started to change. His mouth was open, but his teeth looked like they were shut together. He was sitting in a chair and it looked like he was going to break hold and pounce on Ralph. Ralph’s eyes widened. He moved back two steps. He breathed deeply. He breathed so deep that he coughed. He was suddenly shaking uncontrollably. He turned his head to left then he looked back at Jack. Jack looked like he was going to burst.
“What the bloody h---” Jack started to say.
“PERSONERS HAVE NO RIGHT TO TALK UNLESS THEY ARE BEING ASKED A QUESTION!” The announcer yelled. The announcer nodded at Ralph and motioned for him to ask his question.
“Jack…what happened to you? You used to be nice. What happened? Why? Why did you turn into a killer?” Ralph said.
“I beg your pardon sir” the announcer said in a puzzled voice. Sam stood up and walked over to Ralph.
“He means on the island. That’s how we all know each other.” He pointed to himself, Jack, and Ralph. “We all got stuck on an island…Jack went insane.” Sam’s face was as pale as snow. He kept on shaking. He raised one hand and put it on Ralph’s shoulder. Everyone seemed confused and puzzled. Jack’s face got more and more red. His month looked like he was going to growl at you.
“He’s right” a man said from the crowd.
“And who might you be?” Ralph demanded. Ralph and Sam turned to look at the man. He looked so familiar to Jack, Sam and Ralph.
“It’s me, Roger.” Jack, Sam, and Ralph gasped.
“ROGER?!” Jack screamed. Sam jumped and fell on the ground after he said that. Ralph helped him up.
“Yah it’s me.” He walked out of the crowed and walked towards Sam and Ralph. “I went back to the island. I found Simon’s body, well, skeleton.” As soon as Jack, Sam, and Ralph heard Simon’s names it all happened. Sam screamed. Ralph walked to Jack and untied him from the chair.
“READY TO FIGHT MERRIDEW?” Ralph yelled.
“I WAS BORN READY UNLIKE YOU!” Jack yelled back. They tackled each other and starched and punched each other. The police was running a round trying to pull them off of each other. When they finally did, both of them had bloody noses. The police was holding them. They kept trying to break free from their holds but they couldn’t. Everyone was procrastinating and screaming.
“I WILL KILL YOU RALPH! I WILL FIND YOU AND KILL YOU! I’LL KILL YOU TOO SAM! I’LL FIND ERIC TOO! I’M EVEN GOING TO KILL YOU ROGER! RUN AND HID BOYS!” Jack screamed at the top of his lungs. The police dragged him out of the room.
“Boy, that will suck if he tries to kill me” said a police holding onto Ralph’s arm.
“Eric?” Sam said.
“Hey Sam…go to see yah again.”
“Yah, hullo.” They stared at each other for what seemed like a minute or more. Ralph finally broke the silence.
“Uh, so how have you been Eric?
“Fine thanks” He said still looking at Sam.
“So shall we go?” Roger asked.
“Uh, sure” said Sam.
“Okay, let’s go then” said Eric.
“Yah, let’s go…” said Ralph. They all walked out the courtroom with pride. Ralph’s face was still worried. Roger was confused. Sam was shaking. Eric was looking down. The four of them had all their problems. Now, they had an even bigger problem to worry about.