Creative Writing: The Bully: A Short Story

It had fired and what's more connected! Just as his father had explained and promised it would. No expression of pain had been observed, merely drowsiness, as he'd also been told it would. James himself could have sworn blindly that the device hadn't gone off, but it simply must have.
His father's brilliant contraption, so it would seem, had proven itself as being operational. But what about when the bully, who for all he knew could be beginning to stir right now, awakens to the fact that he'd been shot at, what's more by somebody who was worse than dirt. What of the repercussions that now await him? Again the asthma pump was put to use.
Silently, or as silent as the container allowed, he carefully placed the device back inside and moved

His heart became that of a rundown tractor engine and his quivering skeleton jolted the pen from his hand, not for the first time either.
Eventually the door to their class was opened in a hurry and the familiar face, although in a considerable amount of distress, of Mr Venerbals appeared. Quickly, without a word to the kids before him, he made his way to the front of the class and spoke into the ear of Mrs Atkinson. Within seconds, as though the heat of his breath on her lobe triggered some kind of impulse, the book fell from her hands and landed on the floor. Her wrinkled hands covering the widening gap between her painted lips.
The pupils were evidently lusting to know what all the fuss was about, especially after their teacher uttered, "Oh Lord, no."
Mr Venerbals, the forty-something head master, turned to the class and began to explain the situation.
"Okay, everybody." It was obvious that the words leaving him had not been rehearsed and to James he appeared almost sickened by his own shaky voice. "You are all being sent home early. I'm afraid one of your classmates has met with a terrible accident... of some sort. Philip, has been taken to a nearby medical facility, where he has regrettably been pronounced dead, following an accident in the