Stabs At The Heart || ONGOING || Dnf

{Chapter 1} Bad Start

George woke up with a pain in his stomach. He stretched as he sat up from his bed. After rubbing his eyes, he lifted his shirt to see a large bruise on his stomach. It was purple mixed with a bit of blue and brown.

He sighed as he got up from his bed. He went to his closet to put on a pair of blue jeans and a black band t-shirt. Then he grabbed a hoodie from his closet and put it in his backpack incase he got cold. Once he was ready, he headed downstairs to the kitchen to find his mom cooking breakfast for him.

"Whats burning?" He said as a joke to her.

"Haha very funny George."

George walked over to the kitchen and sat on a stool at the island. Then his mom handed him a plate with scrambled eggs and bacon. "Buen provecho," she said.

"Mom, you know I can barely remember Spanish," George whined.

"Just eat your food, you don't want to be late."

When he finished, he picked up his backpack and walked over to his mom.

"Thanks for breakfast," he said while giving her a kiss on the cheek.

"Have a nice day!" She said while waving at George as he walked out the front door.

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When he got to school, he sat down at a bench in the courtyard. He still had half an hour until his class started so he decided to spend that time on his phone.

A few minutes later, he heard footsteps and laughter like someone was approaching him. He turned his head to his right to see Clay, Alex, and Will.

George turned off his phone and said to them, "Can I help you?"

"Yes you can," Clay said as Will and Alex grabbed Georges shoulders making him stand up.

"Lets make a deal. You don't beat me up right now OR during break. And you can beat me up during the entire lunch," George said with a weak smile.

Clay looked over at the others who nodded their heads. Then, Will and Alex both let go of Georges shoulders making him fall onto the bench.

Clay then punched George in the face and said, "See you at lunch," as he walked away with his friends. George put his hand on his nose and noticed it was bleeding. He didn't really care because it wasn't that bad.

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At break, George went over to his locker. He got all his books for his next classes and went to sit on the stairs. As he pulled out his phone, he immediately put it back in his pocket when he heard footsteps coming downstairs from behind him.

He just sat there until he felt someone push him onto the floor. He tried getting up, but felt someone kick his hip really hard. The person continued kicking him until he felt his hair being pulled and his head being lifted by it.

It was Clay, obviously. Clay looked at him straight in the eyes. Then he dropped his head on the ground and walked away laughing. Now George knew to never make a deal with him.

It took him a few minutes but George managed to get up. He slowly picked up his books and walked to his class.

The classroom was about half full with students. He went to sit down in his chair but then noticed a name tag on the desk next to his. He remembered how if there was a new student, their desk would have a name tag so he hoped the new student wasn't rude.

Minutes later, the class started to fill up and a boy with brown, curlyish hair walked into the classroom. George didn't recognize this new kid but then the kid walked up to the desk next to Georges and looked at the name tag. The boy then sat down and put his bag next to him.

"Hi I'm Karl," the boy said as he put his hand out for George to shake it.

"George," he said shaking Karls hand.

"I just moved here," Karl said with a large smile on his face.

"Welcome," George said with an expressionless face. "I do have to warn you, this school is filled with toxic homophobes so if you make friends with me then you will make lots of enemies."

"Why?" Karl asked confused.

"Because im gay."

"Thats okay. I'm gay too," Karl said with a smile.

George was surprised. Mostly worried because he didn't want Karl to end up like him.

"I would recommend keeping that a secret. Some people here aren't afraid to teach us a little lesson."

Karl giggled and then said, "Fine."

The two of them continued talking until class started.

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It was now lunch time and George put his stuff in his locker. He went behind the school and leaned against the wall, scrolling through his phone.

After a bit, George felt someone punch his stomach. He looked up and saw Clay and Alex. They both laughed as they started beating George up. Kicking him, punching him, kneeing him in the stomach.

About 30 minutes later, George couldn't take it anymore. He fell to the ground while his eyes were tearing up.

"What a fucking pussy," he heard Alex say.

To be honest, he was surprised he was able to stay up that whole entire time but it didn't really mean that much. He layed on the ground for a bit, then finally he got enough strength to stand up and walk to the cafeteria.

He went to get an apple but then he heard a name call him. He turned around and saw Karl waving at him from a table. George grabbed his apple and made his way to the table to sit down.

"Hey Geor-" Karl cut himself off as he noticed the bruises on Georges arms.

When he noticed Karl starring at his arms, he quickly grabbed his hoodie from his backpack and put it on.

"George what happened? Are you ok- "

"I'm fine Karl. I just fell down the stairs," George said cutting Karl off.

"Oh okay," Karl said with a worried tone of voice.

This same thing kept happening for almost a month. George would get beat up and lie to Karl by saying things like "I tripped outside" or "I feel down the stairs again". Of course it made Karl worry and he didn't think he could believe him.

George just got out of school and was ready to go home but then someone pulled him behind the school. George fell to the ground as he saw Clay and his friends. They all had evil smirks on their faces as they started beating him up. George coughed at all the extremely hard hits. But their were so many of them, it felt like they were using all their strength.

~Karls POV~

It was finally the end of the day. I wasn't planning on doing anything on the weekend except go to Georges house and play minecraft. I've actually been really worried about George lately. For the past month he's been getting bruises on his arms and they look like they're getting worst every day. He's always saying he tripped or fell down on the stairs but I can barely believe him anymore.

I went outside to look for him. We were supposed to walk to his house but suddenly I heard commotion coming from back of the school. Since I'm a curious person, of course I went to go check it out. I walked by the side slowly then saw 4 people. It took me a second to realize one of them was George and he was laying on the ground.

Blood was coming out from his mouth and he was holding his stomach. I couldn't believe it. This explained the bruises. But why...