Five Destinies

"Don't Cry"

Tyler walked through the gates of the school, he looked at his schedule.
English
Biology
Geometry
PE
History
French
Doesn't seem to hard, except Geometry. Tyler grumbled seeing Geometry. Tyler walked deeper into the campus, soon he saw down a walkway was Jonathan and Craig with a bunch of jocks. Craig was basically hiding behind Jonathan as Jonathan could only smirk at the tall jock who looked furious. The jock reached out to grab Craig back Jonathan got in his way, the jock seemed to say something and Tyler could barely blink before Jonathan was behind the jock pressing something that looked like a knife against the guys neck. Craig yelled, sounding terrified and Tyler was about to run over there before Jonathan let go of the jock and went back to Craig. The two started to walk away, and Jonathan said something quickly to the jocks, before following Craig once again. Tyler was stunned, Jonathan was a fucking maniac. He backed up and started walking quickly in the opposite direction, he saw all the kids hanging out and laughing.

"Anthony!" A voice yelled and Tyler couldn't whip his head fast enough turning toward where the voice came from, he soon saw a guy run up to him and Tyler was beyond disappointed. He quickly turned his head, feeling the tears run down his face; he didn't even realize he was crying.

"Don't cry." Tyler said as he grabbed his face with his hand.
"Don't cry." He repeated over and over again as he just stood there, not even hearing the bell ring.

"You okay?" A voice asked Tyler causing him to look up, tears still running down his face; his eyes bloodshot. He looked at the man who was in his 50's or 60's looking worried at him.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm okay." Tyler said with sniff as he attempted to dry his tears, but they kept coming.

"I feel like that's a lie." The man said in a pitiful voice.

"It is.." Tyler said as he grabbed his face with both hands, trying to hide his sorrow with this man who he didn't even know. The man sighed.

"I want to help you, I really do but I have to get to my class." The man said and Tyler only nodded.
"What's your first period?" He asked.

"English.." Tyler muttered with a sniff.

"What a coincidence, I'm the English teacher. Now let's get to class before the second bell rings." The man said and gripped Tyler shoulder and guided him towards the building while Tyler only kept trying to stop the tears.

"You mind telling me what happened?" The teacher said and Tyler only shook his head, the teacher understood and just kept guiding Tyler to class letting him cry quietly. They finally got to the classroom which was already packed with students except one seat in the back. Tyler barely had gotten down with crying, the teacher got a couple tissues and handed them to Tyler who only took them and walked to the back, not even bothering to look up. He sat down, and wiped his eyes and nose making it look like he hadn't cried besides his still bloodshot eyes.

"Are you okay?" A small voice asked and Tyler looked to his right to see the kid Craig.

"No.. but it's fine." Tyler said quickly and looked at the teacher.