I've Actually Got A Chance

Chapter 2

My mom came in and woke us up the next morning for school. The girls went home to get ready. I got ready quickly and started on breakfast. Today I made pancakes.

Natalie was the first one to come back. She got her food and sat down. Makayla arrived shortly after that. She always takes the longest. She came in and took the rest of the pancakes. I swear that girl can eat as much as me!

We headed off to school and as soon as we walked through the doors, I felt eyes on my again. I turned around and this time I saw Cameron, Alex and Malike all looking at me with creepy, evil eyes. I thought Zeke said he was done being mean.

I got to my locker and as soon as I opened it, someone shut it. I looked over to see Malike smiling evily.

“Just cause Zeke isn’t here, doesn’t mean we’re gonna be nice.” He said. I gulped knowing I was gonna get it worse than normal.

“Whacha staring at faggot?” Malike said as he punched in the face. Then he went to the stomach, knocking me to the floor. Alex and Cameron started kicking me.

 I guess the bell must have rung because they walked away. I somehow got up and got my things for the first half of the day. I limped heavily to Mr. Breins class.

I walked in. he looked up and smiled sympathetically. I just sat down and did my work quickly.

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The next few classes passed uneventfully with a punch or few between classes and it was finally time for lunch. “I’m hungry.” I whined.

“That’s why we’re going to lunch, Ky.” Makayla said.

Today’s lunch was mac’n’cheese. Surprisingly enough, our school actually had good food.

I grabbed two bowls of mac’n’cheese, an apple, and a juice. After we’d paid, we walked to our usual table. This time, I actually got to eat all of my food. We ate quickly and then just talked about random things.

Lunch was over all too soon and it was time for afternoon classes. This time, between classes, I got a few more punches. And painfully enough, I took a few to the face.

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The day was finally over. I walked home with the girls. They went to Nat’s house and I went to my own. I had to get ready to go to work. I just worked at a local Starbucks a few blocks away. I clocked in and got to work.

My shift finished quickly. There were quite a few rude customers though.

I started walking home when I was pulled into an alley.

“Stay quiet and maybe we won’t hurt you as bad. Zeke may not want to hurt you anymore, but we do.” Alexis said.

They first punch went straight to my nose. It started gushing blood and it hurt like crazy. He definitely broke it. They kept punching me till I was on the ground, crying. Even then they didn’t stop. They kicked me a few times. Then Cameron pulled out a knife.

“Now we are finally going to label you for what you are so everyone knows.” He said evily.

They ripped off my shirt and pants and for a second, I thought they were going to rape me.

Cameron brought the knife to my wrist and carved ‘loser’. On the other one, he carved ‘gay’. On my stomach and chest he wrote ‘worthless’. On one of my legs, he wrote ‘stupid’. On the other one, ‘queer’.

I was in so much pain by then; I started blacking out a little. They flipped me over so I was laying on my stomach. On my back he carved in big letters ‘faggot’.