lucke's Conflicts

José , Luís and Paul

August 2015

José narrating

My parents always make me look like a fool and, as always, they don't understand. It seems like I have to be nice to everyone, but that's not really the case. Because I have to be nice to everyone, they think I have to talk to people who despise me. Sometimes they force me to talk to some people who are nice to me in front of them and then they completely ignore me and sometimes they are very rude and snobbish to me.

I once met a hot girl named Judith, I saw her in the school hallway on the day of the party and she was in the corner alone, after a while I approached her and we started talking about drawings and geography.

We were the same age, but we were in different classes, and she was having trouble with a subject and I helped her. I was already expecting to be her boyfriend because I was needy, but she just used me. After a while, I saw her with a group and she despised me, telling me to get out of here and leave her alone.

I was heartbroken and embarrassed in front of everyone who laughed at me. Later, she showed up at the bakery and my parents sympathized with her and didn't believe what she was saying. They even fought with me afterwards and, to make me even more ridiculed, my parents threw a birthday party that almost invited the whole school.

After my birthday celebration, they stared at the card, showing disdain, and then laughed as they crumpled it up and threw it in my face.

I was disgusted because this Judith, who I ended up dislike because of her name, was one of the people who despised me, along with Micaele, but the fox was there and got beaten again, I thought it was well done, I wish I had filmed it.

My parents were pestering me to make friends, but that was already getting ridiculous. If I were to take them as an example, they had few friends and most of them were fake people who later drifted away. And now my mother pushed me into the hyenas' house. How ridiculous I was on that August 15th, taking a little gift to the two hyenas just because my mother forced me to. — They're just going to make fun of me. — I thought,

I checked my cell phone to see if the address was the same and I walked in search of Luís or Paulo's house. I walked down a street, and I thought, looking at the end of the street — I think it must be one of those two houses. —

As I walked down that street, I noticed that most of the people there were hyenas, they stopped what they were doing and stared at me.

I swallowed hard and saw that in one of the houses there was a commotion and it was a heavy one, I could hear pots flying, low curses which made me feel embarrassed.

I approached the house and was about to knock on the door, but fear overcame me and my paw went back and forth, until suddenly a huge male hyena came out of there marching with a lot of hatred, almost running me over.

I stood frozen to the side watching him and for a moment he looked at me from head to toe and asked what I was doing there.

and not knowing what to say, I spoke tremblingly and stuttering — N-N-Nothing. — and left there.

My god, what have my parents gotten me into? — I thought.

I noticed that there were some hyena kids coming towards me and my heart started beating faster, my mouth went dry and my hair started to stand on end and my claws came out. The kids formed a circle around me and I couldn't feel my legs anymore.

Hey you! I know you, you're that wolf's son. — said one of the hyenas while the others around me smiled and asked what I was doing in those cliffs.

At that moment I was denying that I was my father's son and was delivering the presents to the hyenas until I heard pots falling to the floor again and curses in the air.