A Stone Heart In An Iron Vessel

A Failing Routine

Like every morning, Blake would wake up, wishing he wouldn't, and would start the day trying to cope with endless amounts of stress from school work, his parents, and his social life. He got out of bed, his muscles groaned in sync with his head and mouth. Blake then proceeded to collect a clean bowl from the washing machine and sat down to have his breakfast. Afterwards he took a shower, forgetting to wash his hair with shampoo, and got dressed for school. He put his trouser on first then his shirt, tucking it in as he buttoned it up. The tie went on next and was tightened too hard as always. That was tucked into his trousers as well and then he fastened his belt and put his shoes on. He packed his bags for yet another terrible Thursday and unplugged his phone from it's charger. As he made his way to the door he put on his headphones, ignoring his parents, and left.
The journey to his school was terrible in winter as the open area he had to walk through was battered by wind and rain constantly, it just so happened to be spring that morning. The sun glared down and was treacherous to unclothed skin, Blake wore a woollen hat any day of the week rain or shine and decided that the sun was going to try a lot harder than that to get it off his head. He had timed exactly when to leave so it synced up with when the train came in. If the train was late or early and he missed it, he would pinch himself in the same spot every time even though it wasn't his fault. He had a tendency to cause self harm, but not in the extreme knife to the wrist way. He would occasionally crack his fingers by forcing them in one direction creating a sharp amount of pain with a dull lasting pain afterwards. Blake would also do the same thing to his wrists, toes, ankles, and sometimes neck, though it hurt him, he indulged in the pain and satisfaction it gave him. Arriving at school was the one thing he hated the most. The school it's self was quite old but had new buildings and equipment, except for the toilets which were strictly prohibited by Blake, unless he was going to shit himself in which case he would bear the stench of a thousand corpses. He would always arrive early and do homework that was due that day or be getting ahead and doing homework for next week. He hadn't many friends but was joined by several people before they dispersed to go to their classes, some of them going with Blake to his class.
As he sat down for another boring French lesson, the teacher was nowhere to be seen, as usual. The other people in the class were on their phones, checking Snapchat and Instagram. Blake was drawing, on an A4 piece of paper, he had 12 pencils all arranged in the darkness of the graphite. He was imagining what the class would look like in an apocalyptic world. His classmates were burning and the world was aflame with crumbling buildings and the screams of people. This brung joy to his face. Next was geography, this was his fathers university degree, and Blake hated it with a passion. The rest of the day was maths, in which most of the class made fun of him, yet again the teacher did not attempt to realise she had a class, so Blake drew his pictures. He first drew the class as it was, then he drew the class after he had brutally murdered everyone he hated. There were just 3 people he missed out in the second picture, these were the people that he 'liked' as friends so he decided to leave them out. There was however a third picture which he drew at lunch time, which depicted a girl, he drew her hair with care to add in every detail, and drew her eyes the way he remembered them. He stared at the picture for a solid 5 minutes before, scrunching up the paper and tossing it into the bin. One of his so called friends from the other table asked what it was he threw in the trash. He quickly got up from his table, taking his bag with him leaving behind the people getting out of their seats to look in the trash. They opened up the ball of paper to reveal the excellent drawing, and all eyes fell on the girl who was amongst them.

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J.