Phenomia

Different

It was a rainy autumn day, she was waiting patiently for her bus to arrive. It was already five minutes over time when she heard someone shouting her name. "April.." it was almost a wisper but still loud. She looked around, but she only saw the older women with an umbrella witch was also waiting for the bus. She didn't even know her so why would she call her name, probably it wasn't the women. But there weren't any others around either. On that moment the bus arrived, April got in and the bus started driving her back home.

Dear Chelsea,
How are you and Fay?
I miss you and my little niece so much.
I heard you're gonna buy a new apartment, that's great I really wanna see it someday. Mom and Dad are very busy as always, but I did get a couple new books witch I'm verry excited about to read. Well I just wanted to let you know that I'm OK and that it's going better in class, the bullying has stopped so yea. I see you soon
Xoxo
April.

As soon as April sent the E-mail her mother started shouting, "April come downstairs now or you'll get late for school!" "Comming!" She walked downstairs. "Hey mom" "Hey sweetheart, you know you've got only ten minutes left?" Her mom said "Seriously, what was taking you so long?" "I'm sorry" April began making herself a super quick breakfast "I was just sending an E-mail to Chelsea" "honey you know Chelsea is very busy getting everything packet for her new home, I don't think she has time checking her mail right now." "I know, but i  just like talking to her" April said. It was true, she didn't only like talking to her sister Chelsea, she was also her only friend. Altough she was 6 years older than her, cause April was 15 and Chelsea was 21, The bond she had with her sister was unbrakeable. She also loved her sisters little doughter Fay. But sadly she hadn't seen them both since a long time, they did have contact via E-mail and via theire phone's. Altough April prefered writing an E-mail. Sometimes she even wrote a letter, just because she loved the old school way.

It took a while before the bus arived at school, as normally. She had to run to get to her class in time, but then she bumped into someone... "hey, watch where you're going dumb bitch!" it was Joey, one of her old bullies. ooh shit... this was not going to be pretty. "I- I'm sorry I didn't see you." April tryed to walk away "Hold on a sec." He gripped her by her shoulder "aren't you that April chick I used to have class with?" He looked at her, still with anger. She nodded and tryed to walk away again. "You'd really think I'm done with you? I got detention for three months becouse you told that shit teacher that me and a couple others were bullying you." She looked away. "Thanks for reminding me who you are, now I know who's ass I'm gonna kick next." He roughly let go of her shoulder and walked away. She stood there for a moment, in silent with tears in her eyes. But then she remembered  that she had to go to class and the bell had already gone off.

April quickly opened the door to her classroom, and rushed to her seat. A couple girls started wispering and laughing quietly. "Is there a reason you're late miss. Brooks?" The teacher asked anoyed. "Sorry Mrs. i missed my first bus, it won't happen again" that was a lie, she didn't miss that bus and it was probably gonna happen again. The teacher ignored her and restarted explaning. "Psst!" She heard someone say, she looked around and saw who made the noice, Alexandra. "Joey is so mad at you girl" the girl next to her started laughing "he's gonna rip all your little fairy books to pieces" April started to feel angry more and more, but kept ignoring her. "Yes, like seriously, why is she always reading those weird books, it isn't even real." Said the girl next from Alaxandra. April began to get full of anger, not only because she couldn't Handel people talking about her books like that, but also because it was true... they weren't real, it was all fictional, all fake. "Look, isn't that one in her bag Alax?" "O my god, totally!" She was just to late to shank her bag away, before the book got taken out by Alaxandra. "Awh look at that" Alaxandra said, "Alice in wonderland, how cute" "give it back!" April pleaded "I don't think so" before she could do something, the bell rang, to let know that the first class had come to an end.

At lunch break April was sitting alone on a table, as always. She was so angry and sad about what Alexandra had done. It wasn't her fault that she was a little different than others, that she liked fictional books. Why would they do something like that? She didn't dare to get her book back, an annoying thing about social anxiety. cause that's what she had. She wasn't really good at socializing, she was much rather reading. "Hey there you are!" Oh no, not again. Joey and a couple of his friends were coming April's way. She was about to get up and walk away but someone put her back on the bench. "Pleas leave me alone" April cried "isn't this yours?" one of the boys held her book in the air. "I don't think the story is juicy enough" Joey said "lets make this more delicious" he shanked some kids apple cider away, and pourd it al over the book. All of the boys began bursting out in laughter, while April took her book from the floor were it had fallen on. She ran away to the toilettes crying. Why me? She tried to dry the pages with some toilet paper but it didn't really work. She stayed in the toilets crying, till the bell rang, and she had to face the reality again.

Authors note
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Heey, I hope you're enyoying the story so far, this is the second book I'm writing and I also have another one in Dutch, I hope you'll keep on reading.
Have a nice day
Xoxo
Veerle ❤