UNBREAKABLE SOULS

Chapter 3

The teacher started the lesson but today I couldn't focus due to Damon, I just couldn't keep my eyes off his eyes, they were as blue as cobalt, blue like a corpse.
"Skyla, why don't you come up and do this question since you seem to be too busy being in love than paying attention to the lesson." Said Mr Kishimoto as he wrote down the equation for me to solve.
Everyone looked at me, I was getting anxious and trembling no one noticed but one person did, Damon did.
"Sir you have no right to say anything since you can't even find love even at the age of 54 and you are a creep that looks at little ki-" said Damon trying to defend me knowing I have no clue how to answer the question.
"Umm I think you can sit down Miss Skyla," interrupted Mr Kishimoto as he asked someone else to do the question. I scampered back to my seat, smiling at Damon. I was confused, how did he know everyone's deepest darkest secrets? Did he know mine as well ? Like how my father left me, my stepmother abuses me? That I am suicidal? All these thoughts disappeared as the classroom door slowly opened, it was our headteacher standing next to a tall boy whom was not wearing the usual uniform but rather a tight black collared shirt with some black trousers and some plain black shoes, he also had a black blazer sitting on his shoulder; bro thinks he's the main character like chill like there was no hassle in getting a uniform wait my brain needs to stop being rude to people. Anyway, he slowly but calmly walked to a spare chair which was next to me, he sat so arrogantly like he was the boss like bro chill again you're not the main character. Like that's an ick. All the girls' eyes were on him as they looked at him admiringly even some boys stared at him in admiration, but I just looked at him in disgust. The girls' looked like they could give their whole life away just to sit next to him.
"Hi, umm I suppose you are the new student, am I right?" asked Mr Kishimoto
"Yes, that's right I am," the walking ick replied in a deep rough but calm tone. Not going to lie he kinda looks like a mix of kenji from shatter me but at the same time Lee Jong Suk the Korean actor but with a mix of Vernon from Seventeen, wait and a bit of Bang Chan from Stray Kids. I mean like he looks like a mix of them but is not like them like in character and as nice as them.
"Why don't you introduce yourself," said Mr Kishimoto
"Umm do you want italian name or korean name, cus I don't know how but they allowed me to have 2 names, umm my Italian name is Francisco Lachowski and my Korean name is Park Ji Bin, also so you don't ask me questions I am half italian and half korean." said I don't want to say his name since it is too long let's call him the walking ick.
"Soo can youuu speak Italy and Korean and english." said Alicia again trying to always seek male attention like gurl, are men the only thing in your life, like if you didn't be this annoying then maybe men would try approaching you, like I know your life's crap but you don't have to make other people's life crap and nearly kill someone aka me just because men like me and not you.
"Yes I can speak ITALIAN, korean, english but also swiss german, mandarin,arabic, spanish, portuguese, filipino, dutch,pashto,farsi and urdu and Punjabi and many more, more than the plastic surgeries you look like you have had Alicia," said the walking ick in an annoyed tone. You might be wondering how she nearly killed me or not, anyway i'm still going to tell you since my stepmother believes mental health doesn't exist and that therapy is a waste of time so you guys are kinda my therapists also I know I said earlier that I wasn't going to trauma dump on you guys but I kinda need to so i'm sorry. It was a normal day of her bullying me I was 15 then, but this time it didn't end, she took me to a forest tied me up and started hitting me repeatedly until I was screaming for help but that scream wouldn't travel far since we were in the middle of a forest which was far from civilisation, she grabbed a knife and started stabbing me until blood flowed out of me like a fresh stream of water, and if that wasn't enough she got acid and poured it over my bare body, then she dragged my wounded body, still as I was bleeding, in the mud and dragged me in circles like I was her dog, I was screaming in pain so she says to me 'I know a way to end this' and gets gasoline and makes a circle around my body and gets her lighter and lights the circle on fire, the fire started spreading. On that day I thought it was the end, my memories with my father and my imaginary childhood best friend came rushing since those were the only happy memories I had. Suddenly a masked man came and lifted me and that was the last memory I had of that incident. The next thing I knew was that I was in the hospital. The 15 year old me was so happy that we got saved but the 17 year old me does not want to be alive. I wish I died that day, wait I am real no, NO, NO please not this again. I hate this , PLEASE, okay it's fine I just need to breathe, breathe Skyla breathe. I didn't want to go through this again is what I kept telling my stupidass brain but it wouldn't listen, no one noticed because I looked like I was zoning out.
"Here, drink this, it will make the thoughts go away," the walking ick said as he smiled and offered me the water bottle which was unopened.
"NO,NO!" I shouted even though I didn't want to scream but it just came out, what I really wanted to say was 'yes please I need something that would take me out of this misery' but I couldn't. Then Damon suddenly got up, his chair falling to the ground as he diverted the attention away from me and took me outside the classroom.
"Hey, Skyla, you are real, so please never try killing yourself, because you're not getting rid of the pain you're passing it onto someone else." he pleaded as my eyes slowly lifted to meet his, how did he know? How, how can someone know? How did he know that I was wondering if everything was real or not?Forget him, how did the walking ick know that I was panicking on the inside?Is he really a walking ick?
"Here, love, drink some water it will help, also the only reason I know is probably because we are soulmates." said Damon in a reassuring tone; I don't know what this boy means when he is saying soulmates like i'm sorry but that sounds creepy, and how am I supposed to trust him when I can't even trust myself but can you blame me when a person who is a spitting image of Aaron Warner acts like him too and calls me love like him too, like what more could you want from a man also the way he protects me like it's been what like 50 minutes since i've met him and he's so protective.
"Can you drink it first?" I asked
"Yes of course, my love," he asked as he then took 3 sips whilst airing the bottle.
Finally my brain listened to my heart and drank the water, even the water that he gave tasted like something magical. As I drank the water, he just stared into my eyes lost like a child in a toy store.
"You need a HUG!" he says as he suddenly pulls me into a hug, an unexpected one, a hug that made me forget the past, forget ALL my traumatising experiences.
"I think we should go in." I replied as I tried getting out of his grasp
"Do you feel better?" He replied
"No not really," I answered; you know what I would really appreciate is ringo cookies because I am starving since the dog,(calling her a dog is hurtful to dogs since dogs are way better than her, even though I am a cat person) did not feed me yesterday.
"Then it hasn't kicked in yet." He replied as he reached for something in his pocket, it was the ringo cookies I was craving.
"Feeling hungry?" He asked as he let go of me.
"Yes, how'd you know?" I asked in a confused tone.
"Lucky guess, do you want to eat them now or at break?" He questioned as he combed his hand through his silky hair which glimmered in the sunlight just like his eyes
"Umm, now." I replied as I offered my hand out.
"Here, we'll eat the other packet at break," He replied as he gently placed the packet in my hand.
"You can go in if you want, you know, you don't have to wait for me, wait do want some, here." I answered as I passed him the packet.
"No, no, I'm not hungry, also I have more at home." he replied as he handed the packet back to me.
"At least one, please," I replied as I handed the packet back.
"Fine, only one I'm on a diet and today isn't my cheat day, but since you are saying please I will." he replied as he ate the cookie, he even eats so majestically.
"Does your mother also make you do diets? I thought it was only my mother who starved me," I replied as he just looked at me as if something was wrong? So he chooses himself to starve? I was confused.
"Let's go in," he replied as he opened the door for me to enter. All eyes were on me not on Damon, everyone stared and whispered to each other, by this time Mr Kishimoto was rushing out the door. I just glance at Damon and he glances back at me.
"CAN Y'ALL JUST SHUT UP!" shouted Damon as he gripped my hand tighter and tighter. Everyone fell silent as they looked at Damon in shock.
"No, I can't and what are you going to do about it," (nevermind he is still a walking ick) scoffed the walking ick.
"Trying to protect your girl, well i'm sorry but you're not PROTECTING HER," he continued
"And why would you care, huh," Damon added
"Why do you think you're in power, you're not in power, let me show you power. EVERYONE OUT NOW!" The walking ick added as he walked towards us and touched my arm, psycho. Everyone rushed out of the classroom like herds of animals. I just froze.
"And you aren't an exception,butterfly," The walking ick added as he glanced at Damon.
"Skyla, go with Matteo, I'm coming," Damon said softly as he gave me a packet of ringos, but it wasn't the vanilla one's that I liked anyway I walked out of the classroom.