Fighting For you| H20Vanoss

Chapter 15: Regret

Sixth period, Delirious followed the crowd into the music room. He had a study hall anyways so the teacher just dismissed him.

Delirious stood in the back behind the seats, McCreamy was in choir at the only other Alto male and Anna was in the Sopranos which consisted of nothing but females. McCreamy wished him luck before taking his seat, and Mrs. Quey began speaking. "Alright, first warm-ups and then I have a few announcements."

They did the scale and sang a few simple nursery rhymes before everyone settled down, "okay. First things first, I have received the date of our first coral concert is December 16th, so remember to dress formally and don't wear crazy colors, please." There was a groan of protests before she continued, "next is that I would like to congratulate the three boys who made it from Alto to Baritone! Jeffery, Yani, and Shawn!" People clapped and Mrs. Quey put her hands up and everyone quieted down almost immediately.

"Finally, we have a new member of the choir, Delirious!" People turned around and Delirious shyly made his way up and stood next to Mrs. Quey, "welcome to the choir, Delirious. Your voice is absolutely beautiful and I'm so glad that you accepted the position, go ahead and take a seat next to Jay." Delirious nodded and sat down awkwardly, nodding to McCreamy before putting his bag in front of him, resting against his legs.

"Today, we're going to start on one of the songs for the December Coral Concert which will be Thousand Years!" She began passing out packets that were labeled "Thousand Years", Delirious smiled as he flipped through it. Mrs. Quey sat down at her piano, "okay...I will need two soloists so we will hold auditions for those tomorrow and the next day--but it all depends on how many people audition--but today we will just listen and sing through it together as a group, no matter the parts or what it says. Okay?" Everyone agreed and she pulled out her phone, starting to play the choir version on her phone.

Once that was done, they began singing.

After that, the bell rang.

And then after that, Delirious grabbed his bag and rushed to lunch where Vanoss would be waiting for him in his spot. Everyone had to eat inside because it was raining but they opened the gym that was across the cafeteria for kids to play volleyball or basketball after they finished eating.

Delirious leaned on his boyfriend who wrapped an arm around the black haired boy's shoulders, "how was choir?"

"It was good, nobody really said anything to me. Jay and Anna are there too," he smiled.

Vanoss stole one of Delirious' chips and kissed the top of his head, the rest of the group came and joined them when a few girls approached them.

"Hey, you're Delirious, right?" One giggled, Delirious nodded, confused.

"Can we see your real face?" Another burst out, they all burst into giggles.

Everyone shot Delirious a look while shaking their heads, Swagger took off his helmet and glared daggers at the girls. "Why don't you fuck off, leave him alone."

A girl scoffed at him, "shut it, fatass."

Fitz, Toby, Smii7y, Kryoz, Delirious, Vanoss, Marcel, Nogla, and Terroriser didn't hesitate to stand up. Fitz walked over to her and placed a hand on her shoulder, "leave, Bridgette." He growled lowly.

She scoffed and her and her two friends left, whispering when they walked away. "Sorry about her, she doesn't know how to keep her nose in her own business." Everyone sat back down and continued their lunch in an awkward silence. Delirious took off his mask and buried his face in his arms, Kelly picked up the mask and examined it.

"Why did your Mom get you a serial killer mask?"

Delirious looked up.

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I always loved serial killers, despite what happened in my past. I would stay up late watching horror movies and it got me to the point that those kind of movies kept me sane. Serial killers were so fascinating, especially Jason Voorhees.

Maybe it was because it we related to each other so much, you know...people making fun of me as I suffered and then coming back wanting revenge. So, for my fifteenth birthday, my Mom bought me a Jason Voorhees mask and for Halloween I went as home, I finally felt like myself for the first time in forever.

Of course, people thought I was adorable. But, I didn't want to be adorable...I wanted to be terrifying. I wanted to scary somebody, in a great way. I just didn't know how.

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They all stared at Delirious in confusion, "have you ever...hurt somebody like that?" Wildcat asked, Delirious looked at Swagger and nodded.

"When? How? Why?" Vanoss stared at Delirious.

"It was...uh, the last day of school. I was walking and this gang of people were picking on me and they had me in a bad position so I stabbed one of them in the leg. And, my father forced me to kill someone when he tortured me, he forced me to hurt so many, including my own mother." Delirious' voice cracked and Swagger nodded.

"We were there when he stabbed that kid on the last day of school."

They all stared at Delirious in horror, Vanoss just stared at him and Delirious got up and left.

He didn't pay attention to where he was going because tears blurred his vision, Delirious just had to get away. He heard nothing but the sound of the screams of all those kids who were hurt in that awful basement, they echoed in his ears.

Before he knew it, Delirious was in the woods behind the school, everything was still. There was no sound, nothing. Delirious broke the silence when he collapsed onto the forest floor, sobbing. The pale boy threw his mask down, staring at it.

The horror, the pain, the memories flooded his brain. He felt like he was suffocating when he cried, his throat swelled and his brain was foggy. "Leave me alone!" He cried.

Everything went black.