You're all i need in life - heartstopper

1. Presented.

On today's chapter:
-we get a background story on Charlie and how this story begins.
-the problems he has.
-when the bullying starts.
-Jane and Julio as what kind of parents.
-charlie gets presented.
-protective Nick!!

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     Charlie hates this year so much, nothing could ever convince him otherwise about it. From the beginning all the way to this point of time. His stupid birthday, 27th of april. A date that he has come to hate now.

     If being outed as the gay kid in school back in early October had been hard and bad, the bullying had been so bad and he can still hear the other student's torment and insults. He can still the echoes of laughter ring in his ears, if anything, he had hoped that people would have moved on from him being outed.

     But no one had moved on from the topic, not even after Christmas, when Harry had shoved him into the lockers. A taunting laugh leaving his mouth and grabbing him around the neck with his alpha strength and call him a wimp, that he would present as an omega.

     No one around the halls had done anything to help him and his chin got harshly grabbed and his head made another smack into the lockers before Harry made him out for 'weak' 'faggot' 'cock sucker' 'disgusting' and proceeded to taunt him about possibly getting a boner out of this.

     Charlie had left school early that day after Christmas break and hid somewhere in the woods not to far from the city he lives. Despite his parents being angry about him skipping school, and that the school had called that he did so.

     It was his father that understood the situation and that it was just the same as back in October. So he let Charlie off with a warning, heated up a plate of food and send him off to bed.

     October when he got outed had been the worse that Charlie had ever been. If he wasn't in school getting beaten, taunted or insulted to his face, people were either spreading rumours about him doing it with the seniors or for money, they called him disgusting and treated him as if he was some contagious deadly disease.

If he wasn't in school at that time, he was hiding somewhere in the woods. Near the riverside and chuck stone in the water while he cried and cried, sometimes he would accidentally fall asleep at that same riverside and wake up in the dark of the night, with many calls from his family and friends about his whereabouts.

Until end October, he had managed to keep it quiet to his parents and even his sister who was going to Higgs. She had heard the rumours but never got a word out of Charlie as he spiralled. His parents were kept updated on his skipping classes and they had tried many nights to get some reason out of Charlie that could explain why he would skip school.

He refused to communicate with anyone, kept quiet at home and most nights didn't even come home in time for dinner. His parents just didn't know what to do with him anymore, a therapist was out of the option because Charlie would lock himself in the bathroom or manage to sprint out of the house before anyone could make a move.

Maybe it wasn't the best to always start with raised voices, mostly from his mom's part. It would make Charlie curl back into himself and refuse to say another word.

One late night in late October, Charlie had overslept at the riverside once more and stayed out past nine. With many missed calls from his parents, his knees covered with mud and mixed in with blood from being pushed to the ground when he left the school ground that afternoon.

With tears running down his eyes, he had limbed through the streets on his way back home. He knew he was out passed his curfew but at this point he didn't care anymore. He wanted someone to come help him but he felt like he wasn't worth it and that his parents would start shouting at him if he would admit to being teased and bullied in school.