VB: Under Construction

VB: Chapter 1|

Ace’s POV

I scream. Oh, it was just a dream. I look at my alarm clock and see that it’s 3:27 A.M. I always kept thinking it would happen again. I just couldn’t let go of the past. It kept haunting me back every time I would try to avoid it. Life has changed a lot for me since then. Now, I’m basically a loner, scared of the world, because every time that I go outside I feel like people are staring at me up and down like I’m a freak. Like they know what happened to me. I’ve never been in a relationship and I certainly don’t have any guy friends. How scared I was and how scared I am now made me change my whole lifestyle. I don’t eat a lot like a normal 16 year old should and I'm losing so much weight that one time on weekend I collapsed and ended up in a hospital and realizing that I will become anorexic if I don’t start eating soon. Ever since that day, my mom would always make sure I’m eating and would always help me out of this problem. My mom and my dad are divorced by the way, and he’s off living with some skanky rich girl that basically doesn’t give a shit about him. He rarely calls us, and I haven’t heard from him for 5 years. The last time I heard of him was when I was 11. So my life has really gone downhill very quickly. My mom and I are kinda close though, since we both like the same things and we both speak Spanish. I'm Dominican and Nigerian.

September was coming soon and I had to get ready for high school. All I got for school supplies was an old black book bag, a few pencils, a notebook, and 1 pack of looseleaf paper. Waking up in the morning really sucks, because for me, it’s just another day that makes me feel so much worse, especially the first day.

"Ace let's go!"

"Esperar Ma!"

I packed my bag and hurried down the stairs and shoved a waffle up my mouth cause my mom was forcing me to eat breakfast. Eating a half cooked waffle is really hard and plus it's gross. My mom drove me to school and because of traffic, an of course I came to school late on the first day. But that's kinda great for me, because now I don’t have to spend so much time in that hellhole called Green Groven High School.

I got a late pass then I went straight to my first class which was English with Mr. Landon. Of course as I walked into the classroom everyone’s eyes were on me. One of them made a stank face and yelled, “Hey it’s that anorexic chick from last year! She seriously has no food in her house! Do you want me to give you some canned food to help you out? You want me to send you to a soup kitchn? You'll get at least some food over there! You look like a fucking stick! Why would anyone want date your flat pancake looking ass?!” Some people laughed while others looked at him with shock and shook their heads.

The teacher soon begins to speak. “Ms. Oni go take a seat behind Drew, a new student that just transferred out of another highschool. Drew raise your hand.” When I saw Drew I quickly ran to the seat behind him and sat while putting my head down so all this attention wouldn't be kept on me.

As Mr. Landon begins talking about what we’re doing for this semester, Drew turns around and starts to talk to me.

"Hey there."

I don't say anything. I just stare at him blankly.

"Umm... I’m Drew, well you already knew that. What’s yours?"

"Why you wanna know?"

"Oh come on, I 'm new here, I just want to get to know people around here."

"Why cause I'm an anorexic freak?"

"Uh, no I just want to know your name."

" It's A-A-Ace", I stutter.

"Cool name Ace. I just wanted to say you're beautiful and don’t take what that guy said about you so seriously, he’s probably just a douche.