One Day... {LeviHan}

Chapter 1: Bullies

Hanji's POV

"You're a four-eyed freak!" Maddie points at me and laughs with her group of friends. 

They were always wearing pretty dresses and ribbons in their hair. They liked carrying dolls from the classroom outside and pretending to be mommies with their babies. I didn't like them because I liked to dig in the mud and find new insects under the tree. Sometimes, I wanted to play with the boys, and the girls didn't like it. 

Their teasing got worse when I came to school with glasses to see. I was happy to see everything clearly and I thought it was cool to wear them because Mommy wore them as well. But when it was time to play at recess, no one liked them. No one said they looked cool or they wanted to try wearing them.

Annalise, one of Maddie's best friends, ran up to me and pushed me into the mud. To try to talk to the girls, I wore a dress to school that matched my glasses. Mommy helped me pick out an outfit to make myself look better. But it's all ruined. I was covered in mud. She snatched the glasses off my face, leaving bits of mud on my face.

"Give it back!" I say to the blurry figures, but nothing seemed to work. I couldn't see them, but I knew Annalise was holding onto my new glasses.

"Look at this!" Annalise giggles, "It's so weird... only for weirdos, right?"

"Uh-huh!" Rachel laughs, "Mommy says that people who wear glasses are weird!"

"I think they're aliens," Marie says, "because they need 4 eyes to see. If we have two eyes, then glasses are two more eyes. They are aliens! Maddie, I think that's why the four-eyed freak needs them! She's an alien!"

"An alien weirdo!" Annalise shouts.

Maddie talks over them, making them chant along with her. I never felt so angry as tears fell down my eyes. I wanted to be friends... even after they called me bad names. "She's a four-eyed freak! Four-eyed freak!"

All the other kids stopped playing on the playground and sandbox to run to us. Some of them began to chant again, thinking it was funny. Some didn't know what to do. They only stood there and watched. All I wanted was a friend...

When I was looking at the ground, crying softly, I hear Maddie screaming someone's name.

"Levi?!"

I looked up and saw a boy handing my glasses back to me. I take it back and put it on my face, but the glasses fogged up. But from what I saw, he turned his back to me and raised his balled-up fists. "You're a bitch."

"You're not supposed to say that-." Maddie cries out, but the boy continued to say words that warmed my heart.

"Then you're a dummy! A big, big dummy! What if someone says that the dolls are weird and creepy, and everyone laughed at you? Do you like it? Leave her alone?"

"But she's a four-eyed freak- OW!"

It was so quick... the boy punched Maddie in the face. I heard her crying for her mommy when the teachers came back. They held the boy away from everyone as Maddie was carried away. As punishment, we stayed after school for causing a fight.

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"Are you okay...?" The boy asked me when we were waiting in the waiting room of the front office. He turns to me with amazing gray eyes that sparkle like stars. "Did she break your glasses?"

I shook my head, "No... but Mommy isn't going to like I messed up the dress... and the glasses... I wanted to have friends..."

"She was a bitch."

"You can't say that."

"Then she's a dummy," the boy says, crossing his arms. "Uncle always says that word... Mommy doesn't like it, but Uncle does. And he says that it means people who are causing trouble."

"Do you have a daddy?"

"I don't know my daddy..." He says, laying down on the chair. "But I don't want one. Otherwise, I'll be a bi-be like Maddie. She has a mommy and a daddy."

"I have a mommy and a daddy too. My daddy is a great daddy! Maybe your daddy is not like Maddie's."

He sighs a bit before sitting up in his chair. "I don't wanna go home..."

"Because your mommy will get mad?"

He nods his head. "I don't like it when mommy gets mad. She tells me I won't get any apple pie if I hit someone in school. But everyone is mean and I don't wanna be friends with meanies."

"Do you wanna be my friend? I'm not a meanie."

"Is... that okay? But that makes you my girlfriend... and mommy says no girlfriend."

"But I wanna be friends with you.  And I'm a friend that's a girl. Is that okay?"

"I think so..."

"I'm Hanji."

"Levi."

I giggled as I point to my glasses. "Thank you for getting my glasses back. If it was broken, Mommy would be very mad."

"Isn't that what friends are for?" He smiled at me, and it felt like the sun on a summer's day. 

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Our mommies came to school, and even Maddie's mommy came. They were getting angry and yelling at each other. Maddie's nose was red when she went home. Levi's mommy scolded Levi, but he didn't look her in the eyes. Levi looks like his mommy. My mommy was mad too, but she said to Levi's mommy that she was happy that Levi did something to help me. That's when they weren't angry anymore.

We got ice cream after school, and I heard that our mommies were becoming good friends. From that day, during recess, we would play together. Our mommies bought us new notebooks to draw in, and we made crazy ideas on how to make pigs fly. We hid them underneath the tree as we waited for the next day to add to our ideas.

I was heartbroken when Levi never came back to school.