Chapter 13

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"Class! Let's draw a scenery today! You can add anything you want!" The female instructed the class while handing out the plain sheets of paper for them to draw on. The kids took out their crayons and pencils and started chatting excitedly about their cute ideas of what they want in their scenery.

"Hey Chuuya! I'm going to draw a mountains-- and a mango tree-- and us climbing it and eating the mangoes!" Ryuichi, Chuuya's new friend and older brother said, his cheeks puffing up in excitement "What about you little bro? What will you draw?"
"Papa! Papa eating ice cream!" Chuuya replied with the same excitement
"But aren't we supposed to draw scenery?"
"I want to draw papa" Chuuya replied in a 'I know we're supposed to make a scenery but I'm gonna draw what I want anyways' tone
"But—"
"I want to draw papa"
"Okayy.." 

Both the boys excitedly started painting their masterpieces. With full concentration they filled their pages with beautiful, vibrant but ridiculous colors. For example, Ryuichi painted the mountains with pinks and oranges in an alternate fashion. Chuuya on the other hand painted Dazai's bandages a mix of bright green and blue.

While the kids drew, the teacher went around the class, looking at everyone's drawings and praising them. She came towards the two boys' table and looked at their artworks. 

"Ryuichi kun, you're drawing really well! And Chuuya kun, I see, is drawing his papa. Good work Chuuya kun, it looks really good" she smiled warmly
"Thank you Sensei!"

He went back to finishing his work, unaware of the jealous stares directed towards him. 

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Chuuya sat on a swing alone, waiting for Ryuichi. Five of his classmates came up to him, their leader standing in the centre and said

"Oi Nakahala! Why ale you sitting alone? Did you friend get tired of you?"
"No, he is with sensei. He should be coming back anytime" Chuuya replied innocently, totally not catching the mockery in their words
"I'm pwetty sure he doshn't want to be your friend, that's why he left you alone here" another one said quickly
"No, he is coming. He just went because sensei called him" Chuuya again replied with the same innocence, which threw the boys aback
"You're stupid" they tried a different approach
"Hmm. Papa said that's why he is sending me to school"
"Y-your drawing was awful" 
"Ok?"

The boys felt a little intimidated. How is it that someone who is smaller than them isn't getting intimidated by their presence but is making them feel intimidated by his? The leader chose to use his final card, that was Dazai

"Your dad is odd! He looks like a cweep! You don't even look like him! You'le not his son. He probably hates you and wants you to be away from him. That's why he sends you away. He looks like he would kill people- like the bad guys in movies. You know what happens to the bad guys in movies right, the helo kills them!"

They realised they went too far as Chuuya's innocent expression was slowly replaced by with one of sadness and anger. 

"Go away" Chuuya growled in a low voice, barely containing himself from punching these kids in the face or crying in front of them
"No!" The leader ignored Chuuya's anger and decided to continue on with his words, not realising how it could affect the other. "I'm just telling you the truth. Haven't you seen movies? Youl dad probably doesn't want you to know that he's a bad guy. Where's your mom? Why doesn't she—

A small sniffle was heard from the little redhead who quickly covered his mouth with his hands, in attempt to calm himself and stop himself from bursting into tears. It wasn't helping, his vision was already blurred from the tears that were sitting on his lower eyelids, ready to fall off any second. 

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