The boy in Pink

The Run

I  just got out of school for the release off to summer. Next year I'm going to going into 4th grade, which I wasn't excited for at all. The older my age group gets the meaner...
I drowned my thoughts in all the time.
I scurried down the hallway of the crowded school, and went into the boys bathroom. I looked up at the sign, I had gotten a lot of crap this
year from using the boys bathroom. I didn't understand... I had you know that... Down there. But I guess the other boys didn't think so, They were always harassing me. I shuffled in and quickly went into the stalls and peed in relief, a group boys came in and tr outed to the urnials. "You know the one gay kid Josiah.. We'll I heard he where's a freakin' dress around his trailer park, dude. My friend Connors cousin saw him!" 
I just eavesdropped in on the conversation and was as quiet as possible. I didn't want them to hear me... Otherwise I'd be in some deep trouble. I had to think of and escape plan! I thought to my self. Looking around panicking I saw a small window, above the stall, with vines hugging the latches. "Shit." I whispered under my breath.
I heard the boys unzip there jeans and leak in the urinal. "He's such a fag, god makes me sick." One of the guys said, his nam e was Lander, I could recognized his voice. Those boys were a few grades higher than me. I had recalled hearing  the word "fag." Before only because I heard my dad and other kids use it.
All the boys laughed,   unlocked the door to the stall quickly and grabbed my backpack and ran.
"There he is!" The boys pulled up there pants without even zipping up or washing their hands. I ran down the hallway with an unsteady heartbeat, my feet we're racing before my mind, slamming open the wide school door lever I ran down towards the woods to my trailer. "Hey Faggot wait up!" I was then completely out of breath beginning to become light headed, my feet trampled through the dirt and pine needles. Quickly I through myself in to a sticker bush on the side of the trail to stay out of sight. The group of boys when running my past me, I looked up watching their feet rug through the dirt and it flew on my face. "I think we lost him!" One of the boys voices echoed through out the forest alerting the other guys. My backpack had fell down off deeper in the bushes below me, "Damnit!" My mothers going to be so irritated she always was talking about how irresponsible I was, and here's my lost chance of proving I'm not. I mean, I'm a good kid I just don't clean up my room as always commanded. Anyway I carefully crawled down the side cliff to grab my back back, my feet slid beneath me and I tumbled down the hill, the thorns and bushes scratched at my face! "Help!" I yelled. "help me I'm down here!!" My soft undeveloped voice echoed in through out the woods at sunset. I lied there in pain but managed to grab my backpack.
"Hey!" A girls voice called from above the cliff. I could just barely see her through the glimps of light through the trees. She switched on a flash light when it was unneeded and shinned it on my, I tried blocked out the bright lights from shinning in my eyes, "Hey you! What're you doing down there." A girls voice called from above..
"I fell..." She laughed and crawled down slightly and pulled me up. She spit on her hand to clean it and wiped it on her dirty blue boy shorts a baseball cap, with long blond hair in a ponytail. I looked at her grossed out, she shook my hand. "Hey, how the heck did you fall down there." She trailed ahead for me to follow her out of the woods to the trailers. "Long story, some older boys were chasing after me. Trying to beat me up." I explained. She laughed and look at me, "Why didn't you trying fighting back, dude?" I looked down "Because I'm not into fighting." I said very clearly, "what are ya' into dolls? I'm just messing with you." She laughed at me in a joking way, I pretended to laugh too. "What's your name?" She asked. "Josiah... What's your name?" "You act like a girl, I'll call you Josie. Just messing with ya. My names Kennedy I call myself Kenny ." I shook my head, "We should hangout sometime huh?" Kenny implied, "Yeah sure!" I exclaimed, I got butterflies in my stomach. This was the first friend I've ever really had, there was something about her I could relate to. I thought to myself and smiled. "Well I'll see you later Kenny.." She shook her head, "I'll see you later Josie. Come by my trailer tomorrow Kay? It's the white one with green liner and an old jeep outside of it with a wood planks outside of it." I shook my head and smiled, I couldn't believe she called me Josie... I liked it. "See you Kenny."