To The Ends Of The Earth (CURRENTLY UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION)

A Blessing? Or a Curse?

Daniel

Six..........

I've always been different.

Whenever I ask mum why the other kids won't play with me or bully me, she always tells me it's because their jealous of me.

Why would Sawyer Newton, Caleb Axis, Tristan Roberts and Jack Hofmann be jealous of me? 

They pick on my because I'm different and they call me 'weird' or 'freak. I don't know why..............they just do. Sawyer is the worst because he's the main boy who doesn't like me and is mean to me all the time.

I don't have many friends, I sometimes just make up my own friends and play by myself. Which is okay sometimes, but I just want a real friend. 

I've been having nightmares recently. I wake up screaming for mum and dad, they come running in and I can't stop shaking and I keep screaming.

I sometimes wake up either in the living room or outside. 

Mummy once found me outside early in the morning, my pyjamas where covered in mud and I was freezing cold. Mummy ran to me and picked me up, carrying me into the house and told me off because she thought I walked off in the night.

But I didn't!
I tried explaining but she didn't listen. 

I asked dad why I was having nightmares and waking up in strange places but he always said that it's normal to go through those things at my age.
My dad had a special pocket watch that he's had since he was my age, he told me his dad gave that to him and one day he would give it to me. He never told me why it was so important or why he has it, apparently it's an important object in the family to pass on.

I don't know why I don't have any friends, or why the boys at school pick on me and bully me. 

I've always been different and weird. Maybe that's why they make fun of me, but I never knew why. 

Until dad told me one day...........

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"Daniel? Can I speak to you please?" Dad asked me as I sat on the kitchen table reading my book and looked up at my dad who sat next to me.

"What is it dad?" I asked swinging my legs back and forth because I couldn't reach the ground because I was too short for seven and the boys would make fun of me being short, but I'm not! I'm nearly seven!

"Well, you know how you've always thought you where a bit.......erm well......"

"Weird?"

"No son, you're not weird. It's okay to be different Daniel, it's actually good to be different from everybody." Dad smiled at me and I shrugged my shoulders.

"That's not what the boys at school say." I said sadly and my dad sighed heavily.

"Their jealous Daniel, and those boys are good for nothing bullies who will never go far in life! Those boys are just scared of what they don't understand." Dad told me and I nodded.

"Okay." I sighed and my dad picked me up under my arms and put me on his lap.

"Daniel, you know you've been having nightmares and waking up in different places. And I told you that it's just a normal thing that happens at you're age?" Dad asked and I looked up at him.

"Yeah, what about it?" I asked fiddling with the buttons on my shirt.

"Well, I lied Daniel. It's not normal. I know when I tell you this it may sound strange and you won't believe me, but. Daniel, you have it." Dad told me and I tilted my head in confusion.