Gracefully Ignorant

Chapter 1

Italics= Gregomy's thoughts

 I'm writing these chapters in google docs before publishing here, if you guys notice any thoughts that I forgot to italicize It'd be appreciated if you guys could point that out, I'm open to criticism as well!

Epilogue

"I shouldn't be out here... so many have gone missing, it's not sa-" the victim's thought was cut off. No, literally her head was cut off as she became the 53rd murder on Johnson st. and she certainly wasn't going to be the last.

Shia LaBeouf! The so Called Perfect Man!

Gregomy rolled over in his bed to stare at his alarm clock,
"Why do you like screaming at me so much? It's barely 8:30 and I got fired so why wake me up?"  The alarm clock kept beeping, it's not going to talk back, it's an alarm clock. Gregomy turned it off and got ready for his day of trying his best to ignore the parties that would most likely be going on at Shia Labeouf's.
Shia Labeouf, in practically everyone's minds is perfect. He's tall, muscular, nice to everyone, and constantly throwing parties. Heck, even his lawn is greener than everyone else's... Including mine.. and I'm totally not salty about that! Gregomy sighed and looked in the mirror, I'm the opposite of Shia Labeouf. I have hideous dark circles, covered in acne, I'm broke as hell , paler than pale, and would murder before going to a party... much less throw one!
    Gregomy's fear of people stemmed from his 10th birthday, he had friends and they meant everything to him, but the feeling wasn't mutual. Apparently his friends had became his friend on a dare and decided to tell him about it on his birthday, harsh. His "friends" didn't just ditch him though, they humiliated him.
    --11 years ago, Gregomy's birthday--
Gregomy had spent the entire day running around his backyard helping his mom decorate for his birthday, it was going to be the best day of his life!
People started arriving at the party almost 20 minutes after the agreed upon time. Gregomy was confused why everyone was late but brushed it off because he felt nothing could ruin his perfect day. His mom got everyone settled in to the party and showed the kids where to get everything they would need.
"Alright kids, play nice, I need to go grab a special surprise! It may take me  awhile. So be good!" Gregomy didn't realise it at the time but his mom had forgotten to order the present she wanted to get him off Amazon, and now had to drive down to good old walmart and get the present before her son realised.
This is when the trauma started. Gregomy's so called friends surrounded him, a boy Gregomy had believed to be his best friend ,Josh, held the birthday cake.
"Hey Gregomy wanna play a game?" His words dripped with malice but poor naive Gregomy thought it was his imagination
"Sure!" he said cheerfully. The children bolted at him and Josh rammed the cake into Gregomy's face.The kids were all laughing and taunting Gregomy.
"HA you thought we would be friends with you, emo boy!"
"You barely even know meme culture OWO!" a girl chimed
"Yah, normie! Rawr XD" the girl's friend said, Gregomy didn't even remember inviting her...
"Wh-what are you guys s-saying?" Gregomy didn't want the words they were saying to be true, t-these are my friends! R-right? Y-yeah this must just be some cruel joke! He tried to convince himself.
"LOL exactly! You don't even know what we're talking about!"
Gregomy tried to grasp for any shred of evidence that they weren't being serious. He couldn't find any. He started to cry, this only made the kids worse.
"LOLOLOL WHAT A CRY BABY"
"OoooOOOooooo, wanna know what I think? We should wash those tears off for him!" It was Josh talking. The kids all agreed and dragged Gregomy through his house and to the bathroom. The kids all cheered as Josh rammed Gregomy's head into the toilet. It felt like hours that they tormented him. They broke his things, called him names, and kept giving him swirlies at random.
Finally his mom returned,
"Alright kids! I hope you didn't get into too much tro-" she stopped dead in her tracks noticing her wrecked house. The kids had heard her enter and had fled out the back door, feeling they had done a job well done. Gregomy's mom found him curled in a ball sobbing in the bathroom, his hair drenched in toilet water, shirt covered in smashed cake, and his destroyed belongings surrounding him. His mom was mortified and instantly took her son out of school and enrolled him in online courses. Gregomy had felt abandoned by his mother in his time of need, and betrayed by his "friends".
--Present time--
Gregomy looked out his open window and saw Shia was throwing another BBQ, ,the 8th one this week. The smell of the food was almost intoxicating. Gregomy couldn't help but think of his empty fridge and the invite on his messy coffee table that said "Everyone's Invited!" He sighed, He may be annoyingly perfect but starving isn't very fun... Before he could change his mind he put on a jacket and left his house to head to the BBQ.
Shia was the first to notice him, "S'up, buddy! What's with the jacket, it's 90 degrees out here! You an emo or something?" a few neighbor's chuckled. Gregomy flinched ,the words brought back traumatic memories. Now's not the time for reminiscing, you have a mission, now go get some food before you starve! He didn't bother to respond  and grabbed a paper plate to start piling food on. Shia Labeouf was determined to get a conversation out of Gregomy, "What brings you out here, dude? You never come to my parties! I don't even know your name!" he laughed.
Gregomy responded blandly highly annoyed "Got hungry, and it's Gregomy."
Something changed in Shia's happy expression but he quickly recovered  and announced to the neighbors "Hey guys! This is Gregomy! Give him a warm welcome, folks!" The neighbor's cheerfully greeted him like Shia asked. Gregomy's face grew warm ,he was too embarrassed to think too much of Shia's falter. He pulled his hood up to hide his face. That's enough social interaction for today he thought, so he left without another word with his plate of still hot food.
It was probably about 9 p.m. when Gregomy heard a loud knocking at his door. Gregomy glanced over at the door I never have visitors... He was just about to rule it out as his imagination when the knocking returned with a voice,
" Come on, Gregomy! This party is killer!" It was Shia LaBeouf. Gregomy forced himself to open the door and sure enough, Shia Labeouf was there smiling cheerily with a party clearly visible in his house.
"I don't like parties.." Gregomy avoided eye contact and gripped the sleeves of his hoodie, trying his best not to think of his last party,
"and people have been going missing so it's not safe to." This was never going to be enough to stop the mighty Shia LaBeouf though! Shia wrapped one arm around Gregomy's shoulder, Gregomy's grip on his sleeves tightened
"Now Greg, can I call you Greg? I'm calling you Greg. That's why we're throwing the parties! No one would get snatched surrounded by people, and besides you're the one at risk all alone!" Gregomy's paranoia kicked in I-I don't want to d-die...  He didn't resist when Shia lead him to the party.
People partied everywhere and the music was blasting. One guy tried to drink punch with his nose. Gregomy was terrified. Shia Labeouf lead Gregomy deeper into the chaos of young adults. The chaos came in waves, in the outer area people ate chips and watched people chug the punch, normal stuff. In the area before the true insanity was the people who were probably drunk, Gregomy noticed some people who were playing something on their phones with a bunch of people, he didn't get the time to see what game it was though because a fist fight between two guys broke out over who should hold the dog. It wasn't a dog, it was a raccoon in a bee costume for a dog. Yep everyone here is blackout drunk. But then he saw the middle of the party, it was impossible to process one thing before the next thing caught your eye and everything was 5 times as insane as the last area.
Gregomy's social anxiety was spiking. He realized Shia was talking to him but the music was loud enough to rupture eardrums if they went any closer to the massive speakers,
"WHAT?!" Shia rolled his eyes and dragged Gregomy back into the outer, least chaotic, area.
"I said you should try some punch." Gregomy thought about all of the obviously drunk people but the absence of even a single bottle of the alcohol. 
"Your punch is heavily spiked...." Shia LaBeouf laughed so hard it brought him close to tears, like that was some kind of joke,
"That's the point! If it wasn't what would be the fun!" Gregomy decided he didn't feel like having "fun",
"I'm going home." He started to walk away but Shia stopped him
"What? The party's barely gotten started!" Gregomy pulled away,
"Don't care, I'm going home." Shia rolled his eyes,
"Fiiiiinnneeeeee, at least let me and- YO ROB GET OVER HERE!- Rob escort you home. Gregomy was hesitant but wanted to go home and Shia obviously wasn't going to let him unless he went along with his plan.
They were almost to Gregomy's house when he heard a thud, he turned around to see Rob slumped over on the ground with a huge cut along his neck and Shia LaBeouf with knife, his probably expensive shirt splattered with Rob's blood. Before even fully processing the situation Gregomy bolted. He could hear Shia LaBeouf's heavy footsteps follow him barely a foot behind and gaining. Gregomy felt a sharp pain in his back, Shia had thrown the knife trying to slow Gregomy down but it only fueled Gregomy's desire to survive. They got to his house, Gregomy slammed the door in Shia's face
"Come on Greg, I just wanna  have some fun!" Gregomy locked the door then ran upstairs and into a closet. He fumbled for his phone and dialed 911, he had just finished telling the operator what was happening when Shia LaBeouf got through a back window. Gregomy stayed as quiet as possible.
"Greg, pal, buddy, I can't just let you go now!" I never should have gone to that dumb BBQ!  The sirens were approaching fast.
"Buddy how could you call the police on me!? Well now I guess you'll have to be my last victim!"  Shia LaBeouf was upstairs now, his footsteps were close.
"Wanna know why I kill buddy? It's because I enjoy the look of the dead, the light fading from their eyes, the blood that oozes from their wounds, and the wonderful scream I get on occasion." He talked while checking rooms. But there were other footsteps in the house now, the police had arrived. The door knob started to turn and Gregomy's pulse was everywhere, it was now or never, kill or be killed. He ripped the knife out of his back, he winced at the pain. Gregomy kicked the door right as Shia opened it. The police were close but not close enough, Gregomy rammed the knife into Shia LaBeouf's chest. Shia's shock gave Gregomy just enough time to run and head to the police. As he ran he heard Shia laughing maniacally,
"HA I didn't think you'd be the one to fight back Greg! I thought you'd be the easiest target of all!" One of the cops shoved Gregomy behind him a gun raised at Shia,
"Sir, come calmly and we won't have to use force." He looked about Greg's age, probably had just gotten his job. Gregomy looked up at the cop, He sure is cute, heh heh I feel light headed.
"Are you my knight with a shiny gun?" The cop looked back at him flustered "
"W-wha? W-well I wouldn't say knight!" Shia took his chance  pulled the knife out of his chest, letting the blood gush out.
"Funny that you think I'm going down without a fight." The young cop's focuse went back to the threat at hand, speaking of hand his hands trembled as he raised his gun towards Shia's head, he hesitated. Shia took his second chance that Mr.Knight gave him and slashed at the cop's arm forcing him to drop his gun. One of the older cops shot Shia Labeouf.
    Just like that it was over, the police called in two ambulances, one for Shia, the other for the rookie and Gregomy. Gregomy started to relax and then his vision got dark around the edges. He couldn't tell if it was the blood loss or the shock of everything that made him pass out ,but the next thing he knew he was waking up in a hospital bed. Gregomy looked at his surroundings, it was an average hospital room, except for the fact that there was around 10 reporters crowded around his bed with large cameras and microphones, just past them he saw a nurse tied up in a chair and gagged, she looked completely and utterly enraged.
    "W-what'd you do to that nurse?" The reporters all started talking at once when they knew Gregomy could talk
    "Sir, did you know your attacker had 53 other victims?!" a different reporter rammed a mic in his face
    "SIR, did you know that he buried the corpses in his lawn?!" Gregomy was shookith
    "W-what? N-no-" his head hurt
"Were you friends with the murderer?!"
"Did you actually stab your attacker?!"
"Was that raccoon at the party yours?!!!!!!" finally someone rescued him from the barrage of questions,
"CAN YOU ALL SHUT IT THIS IS A HOSPITAL!" the rookie cop had now saved him twice from blood thirty creatures. The reporters all whipped their heads around and their eyes lit with joy when they saw who was yelling at them. Gregomy was surprised they hadn't all broken their necks pulling this stunt.
The reporters rushed at the cop and started attacking him with their torrent of questions
"IF YOU ALL DON'T GET OUT OF THIS HOSPITAL NOW YOU WILL ALL BE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY!" The cop looked ready to kill the reporters, he had bed head heh he's cute with bed he- wait why am I calling a guy cute?...I'll google this later... Gregomy then remembered what he said to that officer yester- wait how many days has it been?! Gregomy panicked over all of these thoughts while the cop and reporters continued their conversation.
"On what rights can you arrest us under" a snotty reporter said while adjusting her glasses.
"There is a gagged nurse in the corner and even a toddler could figure out you did that, meaning you're trespassing in this hospital. Oh yeah and you're harassing two injured people, and probably the rest of this hospital with your shouting of questions." The reporters were at a loss for words and cha cha slid their way out.
"H-how much pain meds did they put me on?!" Gregomy said as he watched the 4 reporters left in the room "Criss-cross" as they exited. One of them paused and ran back to untie the nurse. The nurse thanked the reporter before slapping him. She then rushed out probably to check on other patients rather than the two obviously shaken up stab victims. She probably got fired later...
"A lot, but those reporters actually are doing the Cha Cha Slide..." The Cop looked just as confused as Gregomy felt. Gregomy's face burned with shame as he realized he hadn't thanked the cop yet
"T-thank you, S-sorry that I didn't say so before,-" He didn't even know the officer's name. And now it became apparent to Gregomy that he was hooked up to the heart monitor thing as it started beeping out of control. The rookie raised one eyebrow at Gregomy before breaking down laughing.
"It's Jace. No need to get all panic-y." Gregomy's face burned.
"W-well thank you Jace for saving me..." For the first time in 11 years Gregomy felt he could make a friend.
"H-hey can i buy you a coffee sometimes to say thanks?"
"You've said thanks twice in the past 3 minutes. You really don't need to get me coffee." He looked embarrassed, at least I'm not the only one
"Really! Please i have to do something for you! You got hurt because of me..." Gregomy looked down at his lap just now truly understanding that someone got hurt for him. Jace sighed defeated.
"Fine, you win, but we're going where I choose, and only after we've both fully recovered." Gregomy smiled brightly. He may not have been perfect, but at least he wasn't a serial killer, whose lawn was greenest on the block because it was thriving on 53 corpses.

~End of the longest first chapter in history~

2850 words
Wow ok that's long, hope you all didn't fall asleep. This is my first time doing this and I hope people will enjoy this story, started this story off as a school assignment then I was like wait I can make gay out of this! Might be a little while before chapter 2 but I can assure you guys it will (probably) be a lot shorter.