August 1, 1959 (3:12 PM)

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I didn't go to school today. I played hookey. My parents don't know, nor do they need to. I look like a hag.... I was too embarrassed to even go to school.... I will have to go to school tomorrow, though, probably, because someone will notice.

School will get out in a few minutes. I will need to start walking home in about ten minutes. I've been in the forest near my house, and it won't take me as long to walk home from here as it would from the school, so I have to time this perfectly, or else my parents will know I skipped school.

I have my reasons for ditching school, though. My face is swollen, and I think I might have broken my ribs.... More like Daemon and his friends might have broken my ribs. The little assholes. My nose is also most likely broken. It bled for the longest time last night, no matter what I tried to do. The bleeding would just not stop. I am all bruised up. That includes my face. I have a black eyes. Actually, I have two black eyes.

I won't tell my parents about this. They wouldn't understand. They'd get all upset and me and complain for me being a "pain in the ass". It's not like I can help it, unlike what they think.... However, I will just ignore it and live with it. It's my life, no one elses, and there isn't much I can do. It's my fate for my life to be like this. It's my destiny....

My mother beat me last night.... She doesn't usually get physical with her abuse, it's usually just verbal, but last night she hit me a bunch of times again. She hasn't done that in weeks. At least not until last night.

It wasn't even Daemon who broke my nose. It was my very own mother. I hate her.

I refuse to feel bad for skipping.

The bullying is already bad enough.... I'm always called "ugly" and "hideous" at school, and I'd rather be called those things if they weren't true.... And now they are true.... 


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