Alibi

"What are you looking at?!",

A little boy whimpered as a cluster of larger boys surrounded him covering him with their shadows.

"Look at that! It's a new kid...",

The boy gulped as he shivered with fear. The largest of the group then stepped forward and outstretched his arm towards the boy, his hand open, revealing his palm.

"Gimme your lunch money."

The boy looked around him for a way to escape but his was trapped with his back against the wall.

"Don't make me ask again..." the bully replied to the boys silence as he used his other hand to form a fist as he raised it towards the boy. The boy closed his eyes tight as he saw the bully open his mouth...

"Leave my brother alone!"

The boy opened one eye as the bully stepped aside and turned round to reveal the older brother of the boy.

"Shannon..." the boy whispered as the bully approached his next target, Shannon was bigger then his brother but he was still smaller then the bully.

"Yeah!? What are you going do about it?" the bully said sarcastically as he smirked making his friends laugh. And with that Shannon punched the bully directly in the nose, the bully took this by surprise as he grabbed his nose to find a splatter of his blood. He looked like he was going to cry as him and his friends scattered leaving the boy and his brother alone.

"Shannon!" the boy cried as he ran and hugged his older sibling.

"Jay..." his brother replied as he hugged him back.

"Promise you will never leave me like that again Shan." the boy spoke in a shaky voice.

"I Promise."

...

Jared woke up in alarm as sweat dripped down the sides of his face. Yet that was not the only liquid that was being produced, tears rolled down his cheeks as he raised a shaky hand to wipe them away. He hated having dreams about his childhood, yet he wouldn't call them dreams but nightmares. He laid his head back onto his tear soaked pillow as he cried himself back to sleep.

...

"EMO!"

"GOTH!"

Those words echoed in his ears as the 'jocks' of the college pointed at him repeating the words over and over again. He continued to walk down the corridor trying to ignore them as they continued to make comments, comments about his choice of hair colour. He walked past a couple of girls, he made eye contact with one as he looked for someone who would understand, but then she just laughed. He dug his hands into his jeans pockets as he felt like closing his eyes and blocking out everything when he heard footsteps behind him. He turned round to find a face so familiar it suddenly made him feel a chill go down his spine as his limbs froze. The boy grabbed the collar of his jacket and literally throw him to the ground. Winded, Jared looked up at the boy to see he had a broken nose,

"Who's gonna come and save ya now!?" he spat at him as he kicked him in the stomach, he groaned in pain as the boy turned to the jocks a chanted,

"BEAT THE GOTH!, BEAT THE EMO!".

Jared got to his feet but he was knocked down again with another kick. One by one the jocks ran up to Jared and gave him a kick as he laid on the floor helpless.

"BEAT THE EMO!"

"BEAT THE GOTH!"

The jocks joined in with the chanting as they circled round him and continued to kick him. He attempted to stand but yet again he was forced to the floor. He felt bruising form as he forced a tear though his tightly closed eyelids as no one came to save him,

Not even 'him'.

...

As he woke again he found that his sweating had increased and that his cheeks were damp from fresh tears. This time he did not even try to go back to sleep as he was scared that he would dream another memory, specially a memory without him. He swiped the covers off his wet skin as he sat on the edge of his bed with his head in his hands. The cold did not penetrate below his waist yet it struck his bare chest as shivers ran down his spine as his shaking increased. He got up and dragged a hand through his now brown hair which was soaked with his sweat as he walked towards the window and opened the curtain slightly, just to let him see the dark, deserted streets below. A warm tear fell from the corner of his eye as he placed a already cold hand onto the frozen glass as he looked into the darkness and asked a question, a question which he had been asking for most of his destroyed life,

"Where are you Shannon?".

" No warning sign,

No Alibi,

We faded faster then the speed of light..."