One Month

Cold Hearts and Labels

~Phil's POV~

Labels

Those are fun.

My school, Manchester High, is very big on those.

Right when you arrive they look at your appearance and personality- though they mostly focus on appearance- and stick a label on your forehead.

Somehow I, Philip Micheal Lester, the person my family sometimes refers to as "The fricking sun from the Teletubbies", got labeled as punk. Maybe it was the fact that my hair was dyed blue or that I wasn't wearing any colors, because apparently black isn't a color. I only dyed my hair blue because my friend, Chris, dared me to. And I was wearing black because that's what Chris and I thought would look cool in highschool.

We were both labeled as punk even though I'm as intimidating as a wingless butterfly.

I did the stereotypical punk things like go to parties and get tattoos, but I always stayed the same Phil.

My personality stayed the same.

I liked to think that I was kind and the kind of person that would cheer you up after a bad day, but thanks to my appearance most people thought I was cold hearted.

And I guess it kind of got to me.

I didn't act like I used to. I became more rebellious, more distant, more cold, and less Phil.

I knew- I know it's wrong. But if I want to survive highschool, that's how it needs to be.

Like I said, I'm still the same old Phil, I still have the same personality, I just don't show it.

It hurts me whenever one of my "friends" says or does something hurtful to someone.

It hurts me that I have to laugh and go along with it.

It hurts me that I can't help the person we hurt.

I hate it.

I hate that everyone is so caught up with labels but I can't do anything about it.

But all I can do is go along and hope to survive.

xAuthor's notex

That was really short, sorry.

But we got to see what Phil thinks about the labeling and stuff.

I think I'm going to start writing the next chapter after I publish this so look forward to that, or not because it'll probably be bad like this chapter (sorry about that by the way).

I'm co-writing a story and I was supposed to start the prologue like two weeks ago but I haven't. I feel so bad for not starting it yet. *cue screaming*

Anyway, back to the topic at hand, comment your thoughts and questions if you have any and I'll try to reply. And vote if you liked it.

I hope you enjoyed this extremely short chapter, bye!