Horrible Human Beings

THE FRABJOUS DAY

THE FRABJOUS DAY

I don't know why I ran way. I'm not sure if I did it because Eric and Sam just found out the truth about us, or because I still was in shock after what happened. The fact is that I fled and I felt pretty bad because of it. At least Liam and the rest of the guys were fine and those homophobes were gone. 

Ten minutes after leaving I heard sirens and then saw an ambulance heading to Maddison Street. Shaneleslie was unconscious when they carried her while I was on the ground chocking with my own blood. Speaking of, I saw my reflection in a store's window and damn, I looked pretty bad. Both of my eyes were swollen and teary, my whole face was covered with dried blood and my chest ached pretty badly because of the kicks I received and the heart that lay broken inside.  

I didn't want to go to my dorm. Charlie would freak out as soon as he saw me and I didn't want to explain everything to him, instead I walked the thirteen streets that would take me to the hospital. It was hard to find a way to wash my face. All the places I went to use the bathroom people looked at me terrified and the managers asked me to leave, I felt like shit and scared. It was as if I didn't deserve to be treated like a human being, and I was just a gay guy with a broken nose. I bet it would have been ten times worse if I was a Drag Queen or a transwoman.  

The gas station was empty and the bathroom at its side was open, so it was the only chance I got to wash myself. It was a filthy and short room with just a toilet and a sink. I let the water flow brown until it cleared and then scraped the dried blood from my fingernails, finally looked up and slowly started cleaning the skin around my nose looking at my reflection in what remained of the jagged mirror.  

My nose was a bit purplish and I got a deep cut in my cheek, other than that everything was fine.  

When I finished, I continued my lonely and silent walk toward the hospital. None of the betches texted or called, they were probably cleaning their own wounds and trying to process what happened with us. I know they would be concerned about me the same way I was concerned about them, but I guess we all wanted to give the others some space. I would text them in the morning when I woke up in my bed fully healthy and discovered that everything was just a nightmare.  

That night I was face to face with hate itself, and it wasn't a red monster with a forked tongue or horns instead of hair. It was a young adult man with green eyes and short neck. A common person with even a more seamless face that I quickly forgot. That was the problem with all that situation. They were just common people. Theirs weren't the faces of individuals but a society itself.  

When I finally reached the hospital, I realized that I didn't do a proper job cleaning myself because two women wearing lab gowns hurried to approach me and ask me if I was fine. I didn't matter how much I told them that there was nothing wrong with me, they still took me with them to make me some tests. At three am I lost my patience and started asking for Shaneleslie, the real reason I went there in the first place.  

They didn't know what I was talking about. I let them there and went to reception to ask the girl behind the counter. She didn't know anything either, and then I understood the reason. Shaneleslie was just an alias, and she couldn't tell them their real name because she was unconscious when they brought her there.  

I held my head sucking a breath and then was when I heard a pair of old ladies talking about the she-boy the paramedics took to intensive care and how indignant of how the hospital wasted the government's health budget in such cases when their brother had to pay for his own prosthesis.  

I bit my tongue and walked away, the least thing I needed was to start another fight.  

At the end of a large hall I found a door that read "intensive care" Right next to it I found the betches. Liam took off his gown and the makeup; luckily he didn't have a scratch on his face. Jim and Cass' right eye were swollen. Tim's upper lip was bloody and one of his arms was wrapped around his ribs. Freddy's nose was broken and Hip was perfectly fine.