Prologue

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I breathed heavily as I ran away from them but that wouldn't matter anyways, they would still catch up to me. This is the tenth time in a week they played "Catch the mouse", me being the mouse. Stupid, I know. You're probably wondering why I'm running, well let me explain.

My name is Ashley Johnson also known as the 'nerd' of Eastern High. My parents died in a car accident when I was six, the police officers arrived at my house about 10 in the night and explained what happened to my babysitter. To be honest, I didn't believe every single word they said. They sent me to live with my aunt, who lived a couple of miles away. My aunt is a bitch, as I grew up she would always say horrible things to me just to make me feel guilty. I used to cry cause of her but not anymore.After I found out the real reason my parents died, I became stronger for revenge.I would pretend to be weak so 'they' wouldn't notice anything, the reason why is because I was being watched since I was born and my parents knew that.Sometimes I think that that my aunt was part of my parents death so that's why she keeps on saying these things to me so I can be weak.I still remember all those harsh words she use to say to me when I was a child.

"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT THEY DIED!"

" STOP CRYING YOU LITTLE BRAT! NO WONDER THEY DIED YOUR'RE SO PATHETIC!"

" WHY DON'T YOU JUST DIE! YOUR A BURDEN AFTER ALL."

 Pretty harsh but I got used to it. I go to the gym at midnight to train and in the day I pretend to be a nerd at Eastern High, I can't have friends because they'll just bring me down, I have to be invincible to other people. I hate to be a nerd because the students there use me as a punching bag and I really wanna show them what I can do but as I said I have to be hidden at school. At school my bullies would wait for me, every day,  either in the parking lot or right next to my locker.They use me as their punching bag and play different games with me, which I end up getting beaten every day but that wouldn't matter, it helps me get stronger day by day.

Back to reality.

I kept on running until I reached the back door of the school,I pushed the door open and looked around for any danger.It was pretty much empty, I heard their footsteps behind me so I took off to the direction of my old house.It's the safest place I think of, if I go where I live right now  my aunt would let them beat the shit out of me.When I rounded a corner, I dodged people who were either yelling at me or just looked at me as if I was crazy.I looked behind me and noticed that I had lost them due to the amount of people.I laughed and smiled but kept on running, I went to a shortcut that I used to go for some peace.As I looked around at the graffiti I didn't notice where I was going until I bumped into someone.That someone was Ashton King, the most wanted criminal.

Ah shit.

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