{Bear with me, this is my first shot of my one shots😂}
Tate had always loved Violet. Since the day he saw her in 8th grade. They were now seniors graduating soon and Tate never made up the courage to talk to her. He knew she would reject him as she is popular and he was not. Tate never said anything to her as he knew he had dark thoughts and didn't want that pressure on her to help him.
Tate looked up from his book on birds in the library. "What do you want?"
"What are you reading? How to be creepy or how to do creepy shit?" The girl, Leah, asked. She was popular and was always a jerk to Tate.
"Birds to be correct. Now leave. I would like to read in peace." He spoke.
"Your such a loser. I know your really creeping on Violet. I see the way you look at her you creep." Leah grabbed his book to reveal he wasn't on his phone. Tate stood up and took his book and left.
"Bitch." He mumbled. Violet just at this moment walked to Tate. Great he thought.
"Are you okay? Leah can be a asshole." Tate smiled and shook his head to say he was fine. "Hey why do you always read about birds?" She didn't realize that what she said gave away that she paid attention to the "bird boy" as others called him.
"I guess it's because they can fly away when things get to crazy." He shrugged. It was true. His house was always bad and at times he'd lock himself in his room and thinking about birds and taking his blade to erase the pain of his mother and his step dad dissing his dad and being assholes about his siblings he loved so much.
"Cool. Hey I feel bad about my friend Leah. Wanna hang out after school today?" Tate nodded. "We can meet at the beach at 8?"
"Great."
The boy left without a word after. He thought about how birds could come back as soon as things come back around.
