I have written this already before, but I am restarting the book over. So if somethings seems familiar, its because I took this book down a long time ago. Some of the names and situations have changed too.
Coi Dani Lennox POV
AGE 17
My life changed so much. After that assault five years ago, things are a lot different than what I am used to. That day was the worst of all time. It devastated my parents to the core. My differences are what almost produced my own demise. I was and am the quiet kid in the school. I've stayed in the same school district after the incident for a while until we moved. My scars are there whether it shows or not. I literally did nothing to nobody, but this did not stop people from hurting me. Gazing into the mirror now at my scars on my neck just tells a different story. I stroked the scars on my neck then glance down to my body noticing even more.
Flashback
AGE 11
"Oh, look it's the loser." A boy a year older than me said. I'm currently just walking home from school like every other day.
I disregarded everything he said and progressed to walk home. Next thing I know, there are 7 people surrounding me.
"Look I just want to get home. I haven't done anything to you." I replied. My accent is quite thick because I haven't been in America that long. Everything I say sounds weird.
"The loser can't even speak English correctly." The boy said. Everyone started laughing. I didn't genuinely find it funny. Just because I have a strong accent doesn't mean anything. "Look, speak American dummy." But he can not speak English correctly himself.
"That's not even a language," I said. Amidst that, I knew I shouldn't have said anything. I just saw a bunch of fists reaching towards me.
They all connected with my body, leading me to fall to the ground. I attempted blocking as much as I can, but sadly I got kicked in the face. Someone or a few people's kicks connected with my throat leaving me breathless. I started to fade in and out of consciousness. Some of those kicks landed on my ears making them ring. I felt something warm seep out of my ears while I'm on the ground. Next thing I know I felt something cold pierced my body. I saw a shiny object that is sharpened at the tip. It went through me 5 times before everything started fading.
"Hey, what the hell is going on!" I heard someone yell. I looked over to them and blacked out.
NO POV
"All of you stay right here. I'm going to call 9 1 1." An older gentleman came over to the fight and noticed how bad everything is.
A few other parents came by, even some of the children's parents came.
"Oh my god." A woman gasped as she saw the body of Coi on the ground bleeding and not moving.
Coi has blood seeping out of her ears, nose, mouth, and body. Two minutes go by, and Coi's parents came. Her mother descended to the ground seeing the damage done to her daughter. Tears flowing down her face like a waterfall as her wife tried to wrap her head around it.
"Who the fuck did this!" she yelled to the group of kids.
It is 20 kids around them. They all saw the group of seven beats up Coi, even to the point of almost killing her. Sirens from police cruisers and ambulance are blaring in the air. The boy who started it all parents were contacted before the emergency units came. The police officers and EMT's rushed towards the crowd of people. News vehicles came by recording everything that is happening. The EMT's carefully put Coi on the gurney, rushing to put her in the back of the ambulance. Her mother went with them while her wife stays to know what happened.
"Alright somebody better start talking now." One of the officers said.
"It was Jared. He made us beat up that girl." One of the kids confessed fast. Seeing how much trouble they were about to get into, they cracked. The group all pointed at Jared while he is still holding the bloody pocket knife. The pocket knife is not short nor dull, but long and sharp.
It is a project his dad was working on. Jared's father started a hobby and made a pocket knife from it. A 6-inch pocket knife with an extremely sharp blade that can easily cut through anything without much pressure. 5 boys and 2 girls are involved in what happened to Coi. They all just looked conflicted about what just happened.
In the ambulance, the EMT's are trying to sustain Coi. Eventually, they realized her windpipe is crushed and her jaw is shattered.
"Speed it up, her windpipes are smashed, and her jaw is broken." One of the EMT's said. Coi's mother gasped and cried loudly.
The ambulance sped up quick, speeding down the highway to reach the hospital. Normally ambulance is allowed to speed, but only so much. They still are not above the law. Once at the hospital, Coi is hurried right into surgery. With all the blood she is losing they don't think she will make it.
Many nurses and doctors cut and removed her shirt to see everything. Stab wounds on her upper body. Some of them can't fathom who would do this, but they must keep focus. They put the IV into her arm and started the surgery.
Back at the scene of the incident, the children are sobbing hysterically. They sang like a canary's and told everything they had done. They even said that they bullied Coi almost every day. Jared basically being the ringleader of it all, Coi's other mother couldn't believe what she was hearing. They move from Paris to here because most of their family lives in America. They taught Coi how to speak English along with 4 different languages including French. All of the parents are highly upset with their kids. Jared's father couldn't believe his son did this.
"Mrs. Lennox is there anything I can do." Jared's father asked her. She looked at his father with anger shown on her face. But then it turned calm.
"There is nothing you can do. Your seed has most likely killed my daughter. My everything, there is absolutely nothing you can possibly do." Coi's other mother said coldly. She doesn't know how to feel. She is furious, sad, confused, frustrated, basically every emotion, but happy. All the joy, happiness, excitement has left her body. Her eleven-year-old daughter is hurt to the point she could die.
With that, the thought of pressing charges on everyone involved flooded her mind. Her daughter didn't deserve to potentially lose her life while the other can.
So she made the decision to press charges on all of them.
