Chapter 5

My fist tighten at the contact of another hand in my face. I feel the tender flesh above my eyes burst open. The warmth of blood falls gently as I try to not cry at the utter disrespect and embarrassment I face. Instead, I smile wickedly as I feel a punch to my ribs. I wince but maintain my smile brightly. Another fist comes flying towards my nose and I hear a ‘crack’ as red liquid starts flowing down my lips. At the impact, my eyes start watering and I begin to feel dizzy. I must keep myself awake. I keep telling myself that this will end soon but the pain is not helping. I hear the stretching of my clothes as the fibers start loosening due to the strength and being separated from one another. I feel my eyes widen as the worst possible images come strutting through my mind. They wouldn’t dare. They wouldn’t do that. I feel something cold and hard brush my back as someone gets ready to strike.

“Oh Kai, Kai...” the person begins as I clench my bloody teeth together. “Why? Why? Why did you have to go do that? Now all of us have to be investigated because of what you said. Isn’t that a little unfair?” I stare at James as he positions himself for a blow to my torso. I breathe in, ready to feel the impact. I hear the swift air as it hits my stomach. I cough. I am held upwards once again. I won’t even struggle at this point. Another blow. I feel my eyes start to droop at this point. I maintain my unfazed gaze as another hit makes me bend forward, and another and another. I felt like a rag doll. A filthy rag doll who just wanted to be happy but couldn’t because he was either different or just misunderstood.

“You-.” I begin as I put all my strength to not sound like I’m in pain, “you’re wrong. I didn’t say a thing. The teachers don’t know that you were the one who cheated or took the answers of the test. Or that I wrote all your homework. They are oblivious.” They laugh cruelly as they look at each other. So they knew... “Wait. You knew didn’t you?” I state as I look at him. He continues to smirk, “then why are you doing this? Is it because of-”

“You being different? Hah! When would I pass an opportunity to even make you forget how different and disgusting you are?” He ends my statement as his eyes get covered with disgust. I raise my head higher and stare at him. Disgusting? Me? The last thing I feel before I pass out is the hard knock of the wood against my head. Just another one of those days. But I can’t help but see one figure that smiled at my falling body as my eyes rolled to the back of my head. Brandon.

I wake up in a cold sweat as I try to get rid of the memory in my head. I rapidly dump myself in a bath of cold water to lower my temperature. I place my head directly underneath the shower and close my eyes. Low key hoping I could drown but this amount of water wasn’t even good enough for me to make the hurt any less. I took off my wet clothes and wrapped myself with my towel. I sighed knowing that it was just my brain and that that had passed. I leaned my head on my closet and hit it against the wall. Patiently waiting for a cracking or even a bit of blood but I only ended up opening the past wounds a little bit. That should suffice. I remember reading that in order for you to forget something, your mind must interpret some other kind of pain and truthfully, it kind of worked. (Don’t do that, it’s bad.) I changed into a new set of clothes as I realized that it was already six. I decided to go out for a run to distract my mind. (Do this instead; exercise, read, write... just once it’s safe for you.)

The wind swished in my face as I ran. Pretending to run away from everyone and everything. That’s exactly what I wanted to do. Just run as fast as I could and as far as my legs allowed me to go. I increased the volume of my phone as I continued letting my thoughts run away with the beat of my foot padding on the road. This felt like freedom.

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