The Story Beneath The Shirt

Not double trouble, triple trouble.

It was now mid week Tuesday was tiring as well but i knew where my classes were and getting there on time. I still used the staff bathrooms which were quite nice set up. They had a urinal and toilet and then there was 1 sink and some abstract pictures hanging.

I had just got to school. I grabbed my daily fruit but today it was oranges. They never charged me because I could easily just grab one from the discard pile. Which was a table where you could set stuff if you didn't want it. For breakfast they made you grab at least 1 fruit or applesauce. So most of the time you would see fruit there or the occasional kid would want the milk but would have to grab a cereal with it so you'd see a packaged cereal sitting there. The lunch ladies would collect it after breakfast and either discard it if it was opened or they would put it back in stock since it wasn't contaminated.

I sat at my usual loner table examining kids. I saw a new table had started where there were 3 boys. The first one was 6'3, black hair, couldn't make out his eye color. They looked black as well and had the casual bad boy look; with the leather jacket and skin tight jeans, he also wore a "I don't care" smirk. He seemed like the kid from grease but with an emo style. Maybe that was my kind. He was sitting on the table with 1 leg almost on the ground and the other bent to place his foot on the chair. The other 2 just chilled on either side of them. They had skin tight shirts showing off what i assumed was abs under the shirts from the detailing, ripped skinny jeans with side swept hair. One had blonde hair blue eyes and the other was brown hair green eyes. All the girls were around his table but he seemed like he didn't want nothing to do with them. The second bell took me out of my thoughts and I headed off to english.

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It was finally lunchtime and the talk of me was finally going around, such things as; "Who's the new kid?", " damn there's a hot guy here, Axel better watch out." that one had me thinking, who was Axel. I don't know, maybe i'll meet him in a class. I was walking towards the lunch room when i rounded the corner and hit a hard surface falling to the ground.

"Out of the way twat!" the guy who was sitting on the table stood over me. I casually got up brushing myself off infront of him; then in the most sarcastic tone ever i said, "Oh my apologies, i didn't notice that we had 3 spoed princesses in this school. Well here, i'll make you a deal; you take your heads out of your asses and i'll stay out of your way. Deal? I said as I smirked at him and walked off to the lunch room. You would hear people oohing and whispering amongst each other. From the little bit i had heard i guess no one has stood up like that to Axel. So im guessing thats who that was. Guess i got a name for the face.

I pulled out my lunch to see what it was. It was chicken and dumplings with toast and a monster. There was note: 'Noticed you only had the 1 left so i put it in there will be more XL monsters when you get home, have a nice day'. I smiled as i put the note back in pulling out my lunch to heat it up in the microwave. I carried it back out and went to eat in the stairwell. I figured the Lunch room was too noisy, a little bit of quiet would be nice today.

As i sat down on the second floor i started eating. I loved that the chef remembered I hate the liquid in the soup so he dumps it out for me to where there's only 1/8 of liquid left in it so that when it heats up it soaks into the food. I ate it up with the toast and opened my monster taking a sip. I screwed the lid back on and placed everything back in my lunch box. As I set it beside me on the stairs I looked over as axel and his 2 sidekicks, we'll call them sk1 and sk2 walked around the corner. I froze as they came down the stairs. Axel stopped in front of me.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here? Huh? Tough guy from early. He kicked me in the ribs before reaching down and pulling up from the collar of my shirt slamming me against the wall. I hit my head hissing in pain. Not so tough now are you! He yelled at me, throwing me to the ground. He started kicking me in the stomach, legs, and back. I groaned in pain as all the memories of my mothers abuse came back. After I started bleeding and was no longer making noise from too much pain, he threw me down the stairs letting me roll, then he left.

I layed there for a good minute before trying to get up. I had to slowly sit up hissing at the pain. My binder had saved me a little bit but there was still a good deal of pain. I took my arms in my shirt, slowly undoing the clasps. Once it was fully inclasps i breathed in a painful breath. I went back up the stairs, I grabbed my bookbag, lunch box, and monster. I stood in the corner and called nathan. It rang 2 times before he answered.

"Hey bub, how's school, guessing its lunch right now?"

"Yea about that, i need you to come get me, some kid beat me up, i don't know if the other 2 was involved but they were there when it happened, i think my ribs might be hurt again and i definitely got a nosebleed. I'm about to go fix that. Can you come get me tho?"

"On my way go straight to the office they can help you with the nose bleed there, don't say a word to them till I'm there!"

With that I heard him slam a door before hanging up. I put my phone back in my bookbag and walked to the office. I grabbed a tissue and put it to my nose sitting down. The lady looked up at me.

"OH MY GOODNESS BOY! What happened to you. She came over examining the bleed. Here let's go to the nurses office and get some ice and cotton for that. She took me in there and the nurse looked up. She said the same thing and I told her that Nathan told me not to say anything till he got here. She asked me if I was hurt anywhere else. I lifted my shirt just before my breast and she grabbed some ice packs. The office lady said she would go wait for Nathan in the office. A couple minutes later you could hear pissed off Nathan storming down the hall cursing everyone in his path. He stormed into the nurses office to see the nurse examining my legs. I had bruises pretty much anywhere Axel had kicked. Nathan pulled up a little red school chair and sat in front of me.

"Who in the fuck did this to you i swear to god im not letting you go through this agian!" He said staring me dead in the eye. I explained everything from the moment he dropped me off to when I called him. He wasn't mad at what i said to them in the hall but he told me i needed to be more careful with who i fucked with. I looked up to see pretty much every office staff member, principal, counselor or other member had gathered by the door. Figured they came when Nathan came in cussing up a storm. The principal had her hand on her hip, looking mad. She had a notepad too and a pencil. She scooted through everyone and came up to me asking which stairwell and who i said the names where.

After answering her questions she told Nathan to go to the service desk to check me out. She said I needed to either go seek medical attention and that either her or the culprits' family would pay the bill or I needed to go home and rest. She went into her office and over the head you could hear her say, "Axel, oliver, and shown to the office immediately. again, Axel, oliver, and shown to the office immediately.'' She came out and helped us check out by sending us on our way. I didn't want to stay long enough to see what happened to them but I hope they pay for what they did.