by XLOVEr » Sun Oct 09, 2016 3:28 pm
⎯⎯( 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 )⎯⎯
Part One: The boy in the mirror
The boy in the mirror doesn't look like me, I have dark brown hair that was parted in the middle, a pale yet even complexion and deep brown eyes that people have commented on too much for my liking. Normally I have slightly pink tinted lips, but today the boy in the mirror didn't look like me. I could recognize some similar features, but the reflection of myself was something to pity. There was a bruise on my left cheek that didn't hurt as much as it looked, my lip was split open which would definitely hurt later, and my clothes were dirty. Normally I didn't care about what clothes I wore or how I looked, everything came naturally to me, and maybe this was just my price. I didn't look like myself, but even more I didn't feel like myself.
Today had been his first day, the boy in the mirror, maybe this was how everyone was welcomed to this school? Or maybe it was because I had certain.. looks that made others jealous. Sometimes I wished the boy in the mirror would go away, he was scary looking after what had happened on the way home.
Once the school announced the day was officially over, I was out of there, I didn't mind how long the walk home would take, I wanted to take my time anyways. The longer I was away from my aunts house the longer I could pretend I was somewhere else. I didn't like the new school, or any of my classmates. They all seemed too closed off to be friendly, like most classmates would have been. On top of all of this It was my first day, and right away I noticed how.... poor this school seemed to be. It wasn't nice by any means and wondered how anyone there actually learned anything. But who was I to judge?
I wasn't even halfway home when some of my classmates asked me to hang out, I couldn't say no, I wouldn't. I'd need all the friends I could get but that was my mistake. Though I doubt anything would have been different if I'd said no. But I agreed to hang out with them, we went to a local internet cafe and played games until it got dark. The two boys i'd been hanging out with decided it was time to go and we all went our separate ways. After walking a few quarters of a mile I was halfway home, and I gladly wanted to just sleep after a long day, but others had a different plan for me. When a group of boys, all from my school by the looks of their uniform blocked my path I had no where to run, but after being chased down a few blocks they finally caught up to me and declared that I was at the bottom of the school and they were at the top and would accept nothing less. Only after all the boys left did I manage to pull myself off the ground to go home.
I stared at the boy in the mirror, I didn't know what I could do to cover this from my aunt before she got home, and a glace at the time said that she'd be here any minuet now. I crawled into my bed, like everything else in this house it wasn't the best but was all we had. Every bone in my body ached as I pulled the sheets around me for some sliver of comfort.
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XLOVEr on Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:15 am, edited 1 time in total.