"You idiot you just gotta ask her out already!"
"What the hell did you punch me for?"
"Its an encouragement punch"
Four males move down an alleyway with a few apartments on it. All joking around like nothing a problem
The lightings dim, there's about two lights on the street
They are heading home from school
I remember that day like it was yesterday, it's like i can almost remember what it was like to have to have Davy egde me to talk to a girl and randomly punching me all the time or have any of the guys around at all.
"Well i'll see ya tomorrow guys" Henry Said with a smile, he was always so much better than all of us, always nice to people, hell i don't know if i ever remember seeing him cuss anyone off, That was rare in high schoolers.
Then an arm reached down and messed up my hair that I probably spent no time styling in the first place "See ya tomorrow" said the owner of the arm, Mor. He was always so much taller than all of us, hell he was like four feet in first grade. Always quiet, he only spoke when he thought it was necessary.
"See ya later guys" Said my best friend Davy, man that guy was a trip always getting me into trouble, one time i remember we were all walking to school one morning and he just pushed me into some random girl, not even a word came out of his mouth as he did it, i was left flustered and a stuttering mess, all the guys were laughing and after the girl walked off i looked at him still flustered and asked why the hell he did it and he looked at me with a smirk and said "How else is a low life like ya gonna meet someone?". I never heard the end of that one.
Every day he would pick me up from my apartment and walk me to meet the other guys at our usual spot, which is where we are now, we'd walk to school, learn, then all walk back to our spot together, Mor and Henry would start walking first then when it was just me and Davy he'd grab me by both of my shoulders, look me in my eyes, and tell me "One day down, one life to go". Then he'd walk back to his home and i'd start walking back to my apartment.
Every day that's how it went, every day, without fail, but this day changed everything.
Me and Davy stood there his hands on my shoulders, and his words still fresh in my ears, then he let go, and turned and walked away.
Then i turned and started my mile walk to my apartment.
I didn't know it but that's the last time i would see Davy like that, see his happiness as a trate and not a gift, see him as someone that was their to help me and not the other way around.
Here's where it happened, here's where my life changed.
I was walking, my left foot touched the ground, then my right, then i felt it, the hand wrap around my neck, what i thought was a knife being pushed into my arm.
I didn't even have the time to turn around and frankly i didn't want to. I felt a beard being pressed on my ear as i heard a voice whisper "Say a word and your dead little boy" I could almost hear his smile. I looked down to where i was feeling pain, barely able to move.
What i saw almost made me faint, it wasn't a knife that was being pushed into my arm, it was the man's finger nails and i could tell he wasn't planning to stop pushing till he had his whole hand in my arm.
Blood gushed out as i barely managed to hold in my screams, then I couldn't hold them in any more.
I screamed like my life depended on it.
Blood still gorging out of my arm as the mans fingers started to move beyond my skin and squirm them self into my arm.
I Could feel the man's anger "Now you did it kid" He said mean while his other hand started to go tighter around my neck.
I could feel my life flashing before my eyes, I could see me, Henry and Mor all standing in our 5th grade classroom busting our asses at Davy 'cos he just got turned down by a girl.
"Who's the smooth talker now!" Henry said holding his stomach with tears in his eyes "He has a point" Said Mor leaning on the table.
"Oh he looks pissed" I said hands in my pocket and tears on my face from crying so hard.
Davy started to make his way back to us hands by his side and face to the ground, right when he got back to us we were all standing their in silence for a second. Me with my hands in my pocket, Henry still with his hand on his stomach, Mor their towering over all of us, and Davy with his head looking down at the floor, Then in an instance pain shot up my arm and resented in my shoulder "YOU ASSHOLES"
"HEY WHAt WAS THAT FOR!" Me and Henry said at the same time
"YOUR SUPOST TO HAVE MY BACK" Davy said anger in his eyes and a smirk on his face
"WHY DIDNT YA PUNCH MOR?" Henry asked still screaming
"I don't know" he said with a shrug and started to turn around and walk away with both his hands behind his head
"Im so confused" I said out loud and looked to the other guys for reassurance
"Well come on, I still got to show ya how its done don't i?" Said Davy not even turning his little head to look at us
"When will he ever learn" I said with a sigh and a smile at the same time
"I don't think he ever will" Said Henry running after him smiling and laughing
I could feel the blood pouring down from my arm to my hand, and in an instance i knew I don't want to leave my friends, I didn't want to die.
but what i didn't know was that because of this mark that I would have to leave them without dying
Then my vision started to fuzz, my vision faded, and my screaming slowly stopped then i then right as the man started to laugh i heard footsteps coming towards me and i could see a figure but not any trates it had... then i blacked out.
YOU ARE READING
I was board
Actionumm i was board so i wrote this, id probably be a better comic if i had the skills to draw it but i don't so its stuck like this, i honestly don't know if I'm ever going to work on it again, much less finish it. So yeah.