The Oddities Of Grand Marquis - Book 1: Galactic Seed 🪼✔

Twenty-First

MARS

I slammed into the lockers, the lock stabbing into my shoulder. A bruise was going to form there on top of all the other bruises that resided on my back. I'm surprised I can still feel anything back there considering how many times I've been slammed into these lockers since he came back.

"You go and see your girlfriend? How was she doing?"

"Stop it."

"Or what?"

"You can say all you want about me, but you know nothing about what Max has had to go through."

"Aw, how sweet! The little love birds are so connected!" Dawaen Cyrio said, batting his eyes like an idiot.

Ever since Max got back and the whole town has been against him, I've done nothing but try to protect him from the biased and horrible opinions of everyone in school, students and teachers alike. I think aside from Zylith, I was the only one who even gave a shred of feeling towards him. Not even Kole, our friend from before, tried to care. He turned his back on Max as soon as he heard what had happened to him. Max was suffering from some alien bullshit and no one even cared and I've been getting bullied ever since by this ugly specimen of male testosterone...

"We are not in love, Max is not my girlfriend/boyfriend, and I don't like him like that way you moronic piece of shit!"

"Ah, a true act of denial." I spit in his face and he growled angrily, wiping it off. "You're about as pussy as they come. You can't fight worth shit! You try to act so cool with your stupid little Gothic scene with your little boyfriend but you're nothing but-"

I threw a punch, decking Dawaen right in the face. He staggered backwards from the lockers and then a rage came over him as he descended on me.

"You will regret that..."

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2 DAYS LATER

"Mars?"

"What?"

"Are... you wearing makeup on your face?"

"No."

"Then why is your eye discolored?"

"It's just the shadows in the room."

There's nothing for him to worry about. He's safe here...

"No it isn't."

"Just leave it, Max. It's none of your concern."

"The fact that you're getting defensive means that it is. What the hell is going on?"

"Are you seriously getting mad at me right now?" I asked, turning to glare at him.

I'm the one getting beaten up all the time because I happen to have a little empathy for my best friend and he wants to get mad at me for being slow about noticing the black eye I've been trying to hide?

"Being up there and having those aliens do what they did taught me a lot about detail and although it takes me a bit-"

I couldn't hold back at harsh laugh. I couldn't take it anymore...

"Detail? You?" I put his homework down and got up, heading to the door. "I'm going to go."

"Where are you going?" he asked innocently, looking confused.

"Away from here."

"Why? What did I say?"

I stopped at the door with my hand on the knob. What did he say? Was he so naïve? I've been taking hits for him since he came back home, defending him and making sure he was okay, taking punches for him and now... I gripped the knob harder.