Kill or Keep

Chapter 5- Another Day, Another Living Nightmare

I woke up hearing my alarm go off. I slam my fist into the alarm clock but it doesn't shut off. I then get up to get something to make sure the alarm shuts off. I get my baseball bat and slam my bat into the alarm clock. The stupid alarm shuts off. I put my bat in my closet and I then get ready for school. Once I'm done getting ready, I walk out of my house and lock the door. When the door is locked, I start walking to school waiting for the abuse to start. When I got to the gates of the school. I didn't see Hollywood Undead. "Weird." They're probably waiting for me in the classroom. If they think that I'm going to my first period class, then they are stupid because I'm not going to go down without a fight. So I walk to the library and wait until the first period bell rings.

When the bell rings I walk to my first period and I don't see anyone besides Matt. Great, just great. I walk to my seat and put my head down on the desk. Matt then looks at me and mumbles, "Bitch." "Idiot." I mumbled to myself but I think Matt heard me. "What did you call me?" Matt asks me with an angry tone in his voice. "Nothing." I said, "No what did you say to me?" "I didn't say anything now leave me alone." I yelled at him. I immediately regret that.

He got up from his seat and grabbed my arm and dragged me outside of the classroom and dragged me to the hallway. I tried to get out of his grip, but he was stronger than me. Matt then pinned me to the wall and put his hands on the other side of me so I couldn't escape. I looked at the ground. Matt grabbed my face and made me look up at him. "I'm going to ask you one more time, what did you call me?" Matt asks again with anger in his voice. I stay silent. Matt then punched the wall behind me and barely misses my face. At this point, I'm already crying. When I look at Matt, he looked angry but I saw something in his eyes, I saw sorrow and regret, but it went away.

I figure that this is my chance to escape. I pushed him away and I run out of the school. As I ran, I heard a locker that sounded like it got punched, which meant Matt was mad as heck. I run to my secret place: the shed. I keep running until I reach the shed. I open the door to see a note on the door. It says, "I never thought you would still play the drums. -The masked man." When I closed the door, I hear someone walk towards me. It was the masked person. I'm still crying and I think he saw my tears because he asked me this, "What's wrong Beatrice?" I run towards him and cried in his chest.

At first, he was tense but he calmed down and hugged me back while I just stood there, crying in his chest. He started petting my hair and said, "It's alright Beatrice, just tell me what's wrong." I looked up at him and said, "I keep getting bullied by this guy and his friends. I didn't do anything to them so I don't know why they keep bullying me." I confessed. The masked person told me to continue. "Today before my first period started, this person who bullies me called me a Bitch, I called him an Idiot but I guess he heard me because he asked me what did I call him and I told him that I said nothing. He then dragged me out of the classroom and pinned me against the wall and asked me again what did I call him. I remained silent and he got angry at me and punched the wall behind me and his fist barely missed my face." He motioned me to continue. "I saw something in his eyes, I saw sorrow like he was sorry and regretted about scaring me. But the sorrow and regret went away and he became emotionless. I took my chance and got out of his grip and I ran out of the school. I kept running until I came here and ya. That's pretty much it to the story." At this point, the masked person hugged me and I started to cry in his chest again. I heard him whispered, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you have to go through all of that."

I looked up at him and he looked at me. At this point, I don't know what came over me because I reached to grab his mask. But before I could even touch his mask, his hand gently grabbed my hand preventing me to take off the mask. At first, I was tense, but then I calmed down and just stared at the masked person emotionless. "Sorry doll, but I can't let you find out who I am. At least for now." The masked person slowly let go of my hand and whispered in my ear, "See you later, doll." The masked person moved his mask only to show his lips. He gave me a kiss on the nose and left. I stood there shocked. Once I was out of my train of thought, I started walking home.

Once I got home, I unlocked the door and sat on the couch. I grabbed the TV remote and put on a horror movie. Hey, I like horror movies, don't judge me. About halfway into the movie, I started to get tired and I let sleep consume me. "Another day, another living nightmare."