Brought up in a great household with loving parents and an older sister is Harry, never have been taken out to play with kids in the neighborhood he didn't feel lonely he was happy as he could be when his schooling started he was scared on what would happen but eventually he was happy and like this life went on he didn't care much about his future because he's a child, didn't care about that past because he was happy and then middle school started
and suddenly he was in a place filled with boys he didn't know for 6 hours and
the worst thing is they may look like kids but they weren't each one of them were older, knew obscenities and how to fight and they picked on someone who was weaker than them but Harry brought up as a good boy who's parents didn't want him to see the real world was the weakest so he was the prey for all
he didn't know crying was considered to be un manly, he didn't know if a boy punched him complaining to the person in charge instead of punching back is considered girlish, he didn't know following rules is considered wrong by the others growing up bullied is no fun thing books and novels shows people who were bullied to be great people but being rejected by everyone isn't fun even the teachers started to find Harry annoying because he was constantly complaining but the boy had no choice
around the end of middle school things got much harsher. Harry was bullied mercilessly, beating him up by holding his hands and legs, insulted horribly but middle school was almost over and he was still belittled and manhandled by every class mates and the teacher didn't do anything to stop and whenever he complained it just became worse.
And one of the boys started acting nice to him. he sat close to Harry one day and Harry didn't mind it because he thought he was his friend until when the boy touched his thigh and went onto touching him even more than he should have, harry looked at him confused, he smiled and said "this is what friends do"
and suddenly his "friend" stopped talking to him after a while he felt like betrayed that he left him alone but he didn't know what he did to harry was going to be the thing that harry would be ashamed of himself in the future.
and the beating became lower but the insults weren't stopped he was still constantly made fun of but at this age he decided to start going around his town and get to know people which most boys his age did a long time ago but it is never too late, this was by far the worse decision he could have taken.
At that time a boy who far older than him was nice to him whom Harry thought to be his friend started threatening he made him do things that would haunt harry's nightmares making him feel sick of himself most of all after a number of "sessions" he started to like it which is the most disgusting thing harry could feel years later.
and he started to learn things that wasn't meant for a child things that if harry's parents knew they would scream in horror that their innocent child knew about and at with this knowledge he learned that what his "friend" did was incredibly wrong and shouldn't have did to him so he stopped going outside and meeting people for good. But he decided to start smiling more because people who smiled automatically became happier. Happiness, something harry won't feel for a long time.
and since harry was becoming a big boy he decided to go to the barber alone to get his hair cut, he was always afraid to be alone but he felt safe in the salon because the barber he went to is the same barber his parents took him to cut his hair from his birth he trusted this man like his own uncle, he sat down in the chair and he didn't even have to tell what needs to be done to his hair the man knew well enough what must be done.And harry started to relax he forgot about his worries and just sat there and then he was touched in a way nobody should touch a child and harry's eyes went wide he knew what was going inside this man's head, he knew something was wrong but who was supposed to be like his uncle did nothing more than just touching him every 5 minutes or so and nothing more some may say it was an accident but why does a man has to touch between a child's leg while cutting their hair
and once he went around neighbourhood asking boys his age about that barber he was shocked to know that he was not only the one this man has done this to and he was also lucky than the other boys for it to end with just him touching and nothing more. But he kept smiling
and around that same year he fell in love. He fell in love hard and at that time he shared what he was feeling to his only friends and classmates and that was a big mistake because somehow harry's lover got to know about his feeling.
And when his lover found out about it she confronted him and said that she would never like a person like him and she would never be with him, shattering Harry's heart like a piece of glass. But he kept smiling perhaps only on the outside but inside his room, tears were his friend
Harry switched to a different school one he thought he would be able to have a fresh start, the class was bigger the number of class mates were bigger he was excited but what shocked him was some of his oldest classmates were there who beat him and insulted him when they were all younger, when he was bullied he made sure to never to be bullied again and so he started working than and never stopped till today which luckily made him taller and stronger than them but that didn't stop them from throwing insults at him, he couldn't start fights because he would be in trouble in the new school and so he just bared all of it and kept smiling and talked politely
his parents were lovely when he and his siblings were younger but Harry didn't know that becoming older would mean more responsibilities and which meant the parents would be more obsessive of what harry did
his father wasn't around much which he was thankful for his father wasn't really a person who thought should have freedom, his mother was loving but not much caring she thought her children were alright and they were happy, but she just didn't know how wrong she was especially about Harry his parents didn't care to check on their children's mental health they were more focused on checking their children's studies and phones they kept pushing harry to study more harder and they told him to stop being lethargic but if they just took the time to sit harry down and ask him why he was showing less interest in studies and other responsibilities -even his own life- harry would have solved his problems at least he could have put things out of his chest but No
Nobody cared about harry, Nobody wanted harry, Nobody cares or wants a hurt, nice guy who just wants to feel happy
But gravity wanted harry more than anyone and harry wanted death more than anything so he went to the tallest building in his town and he jumped smiling finally being wanted for who he was and finally happy
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DEATH
Short StoryWho wants a nice guy ? the answer is nobody. Not his parents. Not his friends. Hell!! not even girls because nice guys are "boring"