It all started when we took Vinny to a candy shop..

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   Never in the boys life has he been in a candy shop until now...

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Vinny's face was pressed up against the glass window as he looked at all of the colorful candy, His eyes twinkling brightly.
"Everything looks so colorful!" Vinny squealed, He then turned to his mom with puppy eyes and said, "Please can I get one of each!"
His mother smiled warmly, "You can get anything you'd like dear." She said as Vinny threw a little excitement fit.

Vinny's mother enjoyed hearing her favorite son laugh and have a good time.
it's only a once in a life time thing that the mother can do since she doesn't actually exist...

  (Time skip to the part when the two are in the candy shop that Vinny almost flung himself into)

The clerk gave the mother a weird look...the mother gave them back a cold Stare, the clerk looked away and focused on the Odd skin colored boy who was examining rock candy sticks.
"Say...is that your daughter?" The clerk asked the mother.
"That's my son, He's special." The mother pointed out, the clerk rose a brow and once more, gave Vinny a glance.

Vinny felt eyes beaming into the back of his head and he simply turned around and waved at the clerk, no smile though...
"Wasn't he just smiling?" The clerk said, The mother nodded.
"He doesn't like people staring at him, it's a personal issue." His mom said as she remembered a faint memory...

"Alright loser, surrender your hair tie or get pummeled." A big snot nosed kid said, the two skinny kids behind him chuckled.
  Vinny, with his smile held together, untied his hair piece and let his long, orange hair fall down; he then gave it to the big boy and waited for an answer.
"No hesitation huh purple?" One of the skinny boys said, the other skinny one 'ooo'ed at the nickname.
Vinny still waited as the boy's started to circled around him...was it that hard to reply?

Slightly off guard, Vinny felt a kick to the knee, he winced; both of his legs were sore due to getting kicked in alot.
"Aw is the purple baby crying?" The big boy said in a baby voice, Vinny grimaced at that time and spat at the idiot.
Flinching, the big bully wiped off the spit...
"My, you've got some nerves huh kid!?" The bully said, Vinny was gonna make a smart ass remark but was instantly silenced by a punch to the nose, though it hit lower and got part of his upper lip too.
"Wow this kids face is steel man, doesn't matter, I need to get better at punching people." The bully said as the two skinny boys grabbed vinny's arms and held him up, as a punching bag.

One strike..

     Two strike..

           Three...

Vinny couldn't feel his face no more as his nose was now technically a faucet that was running blood, a dribble of blood poked out of between his lips and slid down his chin and dropped onto his purple dirty shirt.
How many punches of frustration did this bully have? To much to count Vinny guessed as one last fist smashed into his beaten up face, it made him cringe cause he felt that one unlike all the other hits.

"This kid sure can take a beating, but can he take this next step to a new level of pain?" The big bully said, Vinny cocked an eyebrow.
One of the skinny boys grabbed an object out of their pocket and gave it to the big boy.
Vinny squinted, somehow blood from the wound on his forehead dripped into his big glass shielded eyes, blurring his vision.
  His ears perked up at the sound of Something being loaded and cocked, He wasn't too fond of that noise to know what it was, now his mind was wondering what it was...

"Say goodnight redheaded purple kid!" The big bully laughed as he pointed the weapon at Vinny.
"Good-" Vinny's head jerked backwards as something went clear through the center of his forehead, static arose and so did a lot of blood as the two boys dropped him and ran away, the bigger bully joined them too.

....it wasn't easy fixing the damage done to Vinny, sure the repair was fine but his emotional status? That was downgraded by a ton.
The clerk somehow read the mother's back flash and quite frankly figured out the reason as to why Vinny was special and had personal issues.
"We have discounts on the candy, some are buy one get one free." The clerk said, The mother waved off the offer.
Also, during that whole entire memory flash back, Vinny had just about everything in the store that he could carry.
"Mom!" Vinny laughed as he hopped over to her on one foot, he did the trick of whatever you can carry is bought.
"Oh Vinny, you sure that's everything?" His mom said, Vinny smiled and nodded.
The clerk cleared their throat,
"Alright, out everything up here and we'll get it covered." They said.

(Timeskip to when the clerk is done ringing up everything as Vinny watched the price rise with every scan)

  "I hope no one eats my candy." Vinny said as he grabbed the bags of candy.
"Your siblings don't favor candy as much so you're good." His mom replied.
Vinny stopped and turned around before exiting the shop, He looked at the name tag of the clerk and smiled,
"Seeya Derick!" Vinny said, waving at him and then finally leaving...

Derick pulled a fake smile as he watched the mother and well known son walk off, Did he really need to tell Vinny that he knew what happened that day?
"Hey Vinny, you probably don't remember me but I was the kid who put a bullet through your forehead." Yeah ...Probably not the best thing to say to Vinny while his cold staring mother was around, though Derick chuckled cause he still has the same gun that he used that day.
 

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