My Friend Terrance

Chapter Seven

When I saw Henry, I wanted to rip him apart, limb from limb. I needed a machete to rip open his lower abdomen and play in his intestines like silly string. I could've just plunged two fingers into his eyes and causing him to go blind for the rest of his life. I could take two pencils and stick them deep into his ears and puncturing his eardrums. My plan was to make him a modern day Helen Keller. Unfortunately, though with his size compared to mine, I have no reason to believe that any of that could be possible. I probably wouldn't have done it anyway, these were just the thoughts of an extremely angry and vengeful person.

"You fucking two faced liar" I tried to scream quietly, considering Terrance's parents were probably sleeping in the next room. "You're going to hell, just like that whore from school is. The two of you will be together forever, burning for all eternity. And I hope you're wide awake, and feeling the pain of burning alive for the entire process!"

"But I don't know what you're-" Henry tried to say, but I cut him off.

"You told me..." tears started to form in my eyes, "you told me you never wanted to see me get hurt. What happened Henry? Why does everyone I come in contact with want to make me so miserable? Ever since I've come in contact with the two of you, my life has been nothing but misery. I mean... I get berated just because I'm not good at videogames or sports, I keep getting reminded that women don't want me just because I don't talk about sex, and now Henry goes behind my back with the girl he knows I wanted..."

I couldn't hold back the tears anymore. I had hit my lowest point, and all I could do was cry. I felt as if I had no one I could trust anymore. No shoulders to cry on whatsoever. My family life was shit and now my social life was the same. If Henry wasn't so much bigger than me, I would hold back my tears and beat him into the ground.

"I didn't go on a date with her", Henry began, "she just happened to be there the same night that I was. we barely spoke and she hung out with her own group of friends while I hung out with mine."

The room got extremely quiet as I looked up at Henry. That's when I heard the hysterical laughing behind me. It was Terrance. He was trying to speak, but it was hard for him to control his laughter. he looked as if his ribs were starting to feel immense pain.

"Dude..." Terrance tried to say through his painful chuckles, "They weren't on a date...I just said that to piss you off. I thought it would be funny, but it's fucking hilarious now. You actually got kicked out of school....and I've never had a prank go so far. I'm putting this in my journal of my most renowned pranks of all time. God, thank you for coming into my life dude. You're so gullible and have been an easy target since day one. Your emotions are all over the place and I fucking love it. To be completely honest with you, I feel a little bad, but I'm also extremely proud of myself. I need to mess with people like that more often. I need to find more people like you in my life"

Tears were streaming down his face (tears of laughter), he genuinely barely felt any remorse for what he had done to me. I had lost many things that were terribly important to me because of him. My ability to go to school, to get out of the house, and having a potential girlfriend. Now almost the entire grade thinks I'm crazy and worst of all, a pervert. I started to march towards Terrance with my fists balled up, I didn't care about his size compared to mine, I wanted him to get what he deserved. A broken nose....or maybe much worse.

Henry put his hand on my shoulder, "It's not worth it", he whispered. "you should probably go home and sleep off this anger. I'll tell you what, I'll get my mom to convince yours to let you hang out with me next weekend. Just the two of us".

A week went by and sure enough, Henry's mom convinced mine to let the two of us hang out. This was actually the first time that it was just the two of us without Terrance. It was nice not having him around with all his toxic energy. At least for me anyway, Henry usually was able to defend himself easily. I was never that great at it due to my low self esteem, and I believe Terrance took advantage of that.