Shards: Imaginary

Chapter II

November 18th, 5:41am
After two days of walking, stopping and sleeping at places such as a dark alley at the last city he walked past, he finally arrived to a town as he somehow got approached by an elderly lady who looks concerned towards his dire state, pale, hungry, and sleep deprived, but he ignored and walked past the elderly lady due to himself thinking that he may be too much of a burden.

He finds an abandoned house at the nearby forest, it was messy but it somehow still had cans of food, and some tiny amounts of water, he eventually sat down in a dirty and wet chair, while opening one of the canned foods, it was still edible, it is not still over the expiry date, then scooped the tuna with his fingers instead, being extra careful not to hurt himself through the edges of the can.

He eventually drank the remaining fresh water from the bottles of water, he then laid down at the dry, yet hard wood table at the corner with a thin, dry cloth, that he used as a blanket instead, he finally could get some sleep for the first time after two days.

November 19th: 4:21am
He decided to acquire to a small school, that was the town's main school itself, he was lucky that he still brought his own school documents that his parents prepared for him for the future, he rummaged through the papers as it is all in order, all of the necessary ones such as the birth certificate is also there luckily.

6:19am
After some time, he went to the office where the officials of the school remain, he then acquired to be a student, and the officials were perplexed but shortly accepted him after hearing his story.

He reassured the officials that he could take care of himself in the meantime. A short while later, the officials then gave him a small room with the necessities, a bathroom, a bed with a rather not that pleasant cushion with a pillow and a short blanket, but still plausible enough for him, and a wooden table that is small enough for him to be able to drag or move around then, he arranged the uniform that the officials gave him that is worth for five days to the small cabinets, it was dusty but luckily the packaging of the uniforms have some plastic over it to prevent it from getting dirty, he breathed deeply for a moment to embrace the feeling that he finally has his own room and has a school to educate himself even without the assistance of his parents.

7:41 am
He quickly took a bath a few minutes earlier at the small bathroom, and borrowed an iron for his uniform then he carefully ironed and wore it along with his small bag that consists of a few small pencils and a few notebooks, it was his first day of school and he is rather excited, yet empty at the same time due to the feeling that something that isn't pleasant to the youth will happen.

8:01am
He then sat himself at the corner of the classroom, the other kids were looking at him weirdly, because he seems to be different from the rest, but nevertheless, he ignored their looks of disgust, and continued to listen to the teacher's preaching and discussions about the lessons carefully.

He was catching up with the lessons pretty well. Until a few minutes later, he is able to get high scores in the tasks he has been assigned, while his classmates look at him again in admiration that he got a higher score than them and a small tinge of disgust, that someone different just got a higher score than them who are almost the same.

This aroused suspicion and false-beliefs and speculations on the whole classroom as the other kids were gossiping about his suspiciously weird potential, and being able to get high scores even if it is just his first day of school without any guidance at all.

He noticed quite ahead of time that his smart tactics would arouse suspicion, as it would not be normal at all for a kindergartener, but he then ignored it shortly after and had fun by himself at the corner of the classroom where he just drew random doodles on his notebook quietly.

11:09am
He planned to go to the cafeteria for an early lunch, before he got surrounded by other delinquents with a count of six who were kids as well and taken to a dark room, where the doors are locked and only a singular bulb of light is present at the middle, while he was getting criticised for being a cheater, a weird kid, and other gruesome insults that isn't rather pleasant to hear from a child.

The kids kept shouting at him that their lives would be better if he didn't join the school, so their reputation won't be tarnished so easily. They kept kicking, punching, pulling his hair with no mercy, until he had enough and began to painfully gouge their eyes out and even so disturbing to the point he'll pour some stagnant dirty water on it after the eyes have been removed.

The faint yet observable smell and noise of pure agony roaming among the breaths of the children who tortured him ever since the first day can be heard, but it can't be heard outside due to the soundproofing of the dark room, because it was once a studio for producing music, and as such, no noise from the inside can be heard from the outside, such as the gruesome screams of agony from the children.

4:31pm
Despite a few hours have passed, he sees the children gradually bleeding out due to how scared they are. They kept moving away from him despite having no sense of direction, whenever he tried to get closer to them, as he thought that no words could ever make his actions justified and commence the action needed to be done instead.

He then trapped one child hiding in the corner, who was the mastermind and the one who planned this facade towards him, as he relentlessly started to smash his body with a chair that has its nails sticking out, until the child went unconscious, but died shortly after due to how much blood was lost. He then took care of the other three hidden children in the dark room with him, doing the same actions that those children have done to him, from kicking their stomachs, or forcefully putting dirty shoes onto their mouths, and finally slamming their heads to the floor or the wall till he made an artwork of a skull with their blood at the wall.

He didn't take it lightly, as he was calm about it, he finally has done what he wanted to do, to end the lives of these group of six children who tortured the innocent children in his school, though he shortly thinks afterwards that he'll be expelled at that point.

11:32pm
After the whole ordeal in the room, and removing any trace of blood on his person and cleaning every speck of evidence of a corpse, even if it means hiding the bodies in spots such as the lockers in the room, he went out of the room, locking the doors tightly and secretly went out of the school afterwards.

He knew that staying there wouldn't be much of a benefit anymore, as false-beliefs will shortly become truthful atrocities if the bodies get discovered a while later, while carrying a bag with food and water, that is sufficient for four days of normal meals, and a blanket for cold encounters, he then walked the long highway that was towards the next neighbourhood amidst the starry night, no car, nor soul ever came down the road, it was a gloomy, yet peaceful night for him, as he got out of that horrible establishment he once called "a safe haven" in his diary he also brought with him.