The Freak

Maito? Age: 14

Amaya's POV

I woke up. Ugh. School. I have to go to high school now. I should be happy but I got made fun of in Kindergarten. How worse can it be now that I'm 14? I shut off my alarm and made my bed and went downstairs for breakfast.

"Happy birthday Amaya," dad greeted me.

It was my birthday! Yes! I got a gift from my dad. It was. The best gift I could ever receive. A picture of my mother. I never saw a picture of her. She looked like me but, with two green eyes and full green hair. She was so beautiful I nearly cried. I put it into my room and hung it on my wall next to my dad.

"Thank you dad," I said and hugged him. He started to cry.

"You remind me so much of your mother."

I patted him in the back and broke free from the tight hug and got my backpack and walked to school. I walked with Lin. Who was my friend ever since kinder.

"So, you remember Maito, Right?" Lin asked and I rolled my eyes.

"Yeah."

"Well take a look at him now."

Lin said as we were in the high school. There we saw Maito. Was that Maito? He had brown hair and bright blue eyes. Maito. But he looked, different? What I mean is, not that stupid bully in kindergarten. But he looked, nicer. And I never thought that Maito Shion would be nice.

"Sorry about that 'incident' in kinder," Maito spoke in a tender voice.

Wait. The Maito in kinder had a high voice. Now he had a tender one. Did puberty hit him or something?

"You apologized. In kinder."

Maito laughed. Even his laugh! Was everything that I remembered about Maito wrong? Did he really change? The bell rang and I went inside the school corridors. Everyone looked at me oddly. Ugh. It was my eyes and my hair. I knew I should have gotten contacts by now.

"Haha! What are you an endangered species?"

A boy in the hallways said. I knew it. Most of the bullying will be in high school.

"I think her eyes and hair look cool."

Another boy in the hallway said. This time I knew the voice. I only knew one boy's voice that was my age. Maito. Argh! Why did he have to change? I would have just hated him and poof! No past flashbacks or whatever. I ignored everything else and went to class.

******************************************************************************* Okay. You won't believe what happened. I had spitballs thrown on the pink side of my hair. Okay. It's believable. But what's UNbelievable is that it wasn't Maito. He literally sat next to me and told them to stop. It happened the class after that, and after that, and after that, and after that etc. all the way until after school.

I was about to walk home when I realized I didn't bring my sweater. Jeez it was cold! Worst thing yet. The same boy throwing spitballs in my hair pushed me down on the soil. So my white polo got dirty. Argh it was so cold with the soil on my neck!

"Are you okay?" Someone asked me. And it wasn't Lin.

"Maito will you just leave me alone?"

He didn't leave. But he put his scarf around my neck.

"Do you still want me to go away?"

"Um, yes please!"

"You don't get it don't you?"

"Get what?"

"People change."

I rolled my eyes and faced him. He tried to kiss me. But I put my finger on his mouth.

"DOON'T EVEN TRY IT."

Maito chuckled as I walked home without a word. I have so much to tell my dad. When I saw our door light was off, I thought he was at the cemetery for my mom's death anniversary. When I got there I saw that a funeral service had just ended.

There I as a gravestone next to my mom. It was my dad. I looked at my Auntie Luka and Uncle Gakupo who stood there and looked at me. I dug into my backpack and wore my dad's beanie while I hugged my mom's green penguin. I cried. It hurt. It hurt a lot. I felt pain that both of my parents were gone.

I looked at Auntie Luka and Uncle Gakupo. I hugged them and they hugged me back. We cried as we stood in a cemetery next to my mom' s and dad's graves. I was still wearing Maito's scarf. Ugh I'm stupid. "We'll take care of you now." Uncle Gakupo said. I nodded. I was at his shoulders while I was at Auntie Luka's height.

I went into my room and it was all messed up. The picture of my mom and dad were cut off and thrown in the trash bin I had. My green fuzzy slippers were drenched in blood. My white dress had blood stains all over it.

I fixed everything and put all the blood-stained stuff in the washing machine and taped my parent's picture back together. I made my bed again and laid on it doing my homework. Was my dad, murdered? Was my mom? I realized I was still wearing the scarf. I took it off and I looked at it. How come he was suddenly so, nice?

"Who's the boy?" I heard Auntie Luka say going inside my room.

"No one. Why?"

"One. You don't own any scarves. Two. You looked at it like it was a person. And Three. It was cold this morning and you forgot your sweater."

"His name is Maito Shion? He was my bully in kindergarten. He transferred to another school after that. I saw Hm again today. He changed. He was the total opposite of a bully. When I was cold he gave me his scarf. He tried to kiss me already. But I rejected it."

Auntie Luka patted me on the back.

"Did you know, that's how I originally met your uncle? Oh believe me he was annoying AF. Never would stop coming to my house. Asking me these questions. PERVERT QUESTIONS."

I laughed when I heard Auntie Luka. She laughed with me too.

"I learned how to love Gakupo. He changed. He stop asking me 'those' questions. He's sweet now."

"Did someone say my name?"

Uncle Gakupo asked and he joined us in our room.

"OOOH who's the boy?"

"Uncle Gakupo!"

"What? I know what's going on. Uncle instincts."

"His name is Maito-"

"Hold on a second. Is his last name Shion?"

I nodded.

"I know his father. He had an exact blue scarf like that. Close friend to your father-"

With that word I cried again. They left my room as I laid awake in my bed. Eventually I fell asleep. But tears were racing out of my eyes like rain. I miss my mom. I miss my dad. I want them both back in my life.