Down the Alleyway

Chapter 11

Adam

I was on my way home when my half lidded eyes caught something.

There was a commotion and Bob girl was in the middle of it, fighting with her bare hands--

Oh, she just punched one.

Hold on. Are those trio the one from earlier? If so, then great. I know it'll come to this eventually but I never thought that it would be this sudden. Now that I look at it, those girls really does resembles the most popular girls in school. I couldn't really tell. All the popular girls looks the same to me, the only one who's really standing out was Bob girl with her not-so-bobbed-hair. Is this why she's trying so hard to get closed to them? All the clumsy make up and the edgy hairstyle just for this? It wasn't worth it.

I didn't know why I'm so calm while watching the fight. She was clearly being overpowered by them. I didn't move an inch. Not when they screamed at her, not when they slapped her, but when she was tackled out of the road I almost took a step.

Almost.

That's how horrible I am.

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Viane

"Hey, who pushed you?"

Huh? Adam? He's so small.

I looked at my hands.

I'm small, too.

I looked up at him. He's looking at me worriedly, hands ready for me to take.

Oh, this was back in middle school.

"Come on, get up there." He smiled.
"Don't worry I'll teach those guys a lesson."

"You will?"

"Of course! Didn't I say I'd protect you?"

Something splashed.

I didn't fall into the river, did I?

I opened my eyes and I saw Marriane and the others laughing. They're looking at the river.

I traced their eyes and I saw that my bagpack was already there; in the river, floating and contents spilled.

Dammit, they opened my bag on purpose.

I let my head fall on the grass again and closed my eyes. Once I could no longer hear anyone around me, I snapped my eyes open, stood up and stepped into the water. The water is thankfully shallow, it only reached my knees and my things were stuck by the rocks layered beneath.

I picked and picked until I heard footsteps coming up from behind me. It's slow and dragging on the grass.

"Looks like they missed this."

The person said and my pen flew into the water.

"That's another payback for what you did to me."

My head slowly turned, my insides breaking.

Why did he do that? That's my favorite pen. I couldn't find a real minion pen so I had to make compromises. I made it look like a minion myself and it won't probably work now. It's soaked.