EVERY TIME I FLY, I BRIEF ABNORMAL SITUATIONS ON the ground prior to departure, but on this day, I was thrown a unique situation that I had not dealt with before, let alone thought of.I was flying a Cessna 152 with another pilot friend to work on commercial maneuvers. Wanting to do a soft-field takeoff, I added 10 degrees of flaps and followed the proper takeoff procedure.Climbing past 200 feet above ground level (agl), I retracted flaps and prepared to leave the airport area. Passing 500 feet I noticed the airplane wasn't climbing at its usual climb rate, but after checking the engine gauges, I attributed it to the 152 being an underpowered trainer.Around 800 feet, after tower told me to switch to Approach, my friend asked if I raised the flaps, as they were still deployed. I checked the flap lever, and it indicated zero degrees, meaning we now had flaps that wouldn't come up.I knew that the situation wasn't hazardous at the moment, so I stopped climbing at 1,000 feet to preserve speed. Flaps still hadn't retracted, and I thought about lowering them to 20 degrees to see if they came up after, but then realized how that could make things worse and just decided to leave them at 10 degrees. With speed and altitude under control, I called ATC to let them know I was coming back because of a stuck flap issue.
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