You Poor Boy

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A boy named Aiden was very happy, always loved to eat, sometimes he'd sneak out into the kitchen and eat everything. He was eight years old, with short dirty blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes. Aiden's mother died while giving birth and his father overdosed on his medication when Aiden was less than a month old. Aiden was put into a foster home after that. Seven years after, the Baker family adopted him. All his adopted brothers and sister would tease him for being adopted. He had 6 sisters and 5 brothers.
Even at a young age his adopted parents knew he was "different". Aiden liked to steal his mother's high heels and run around the house. He always wanted to wear dresses, and his family members made fun of him all the time for it. His adopted parents tried teaching Aiden that being gay was wrong.
As time went on things changed. Aiden's adopted parents got stricter about the boy stuff and made Aiden go to church. They even put Aiden into a camp for gay christian people, when he was only eight. He spent two long months
there. Aiden became very depressed in the camp because he was always alone or being yelled at. All he did was sit in the tiny room he was given. The staff just yelled and bullied you for being gay. When Aiden got home they had a party but he was not happy at all. He was peeved, he was just shoved into a camp so he wouldn't be gay.
His adopted mother said, "I'm so glad you're home sweet heart. How are you feeling?"
Aiden said sarcastically, "Awesome, I feel amazing!"
His adopted father said in an irritated voice, "No need for the sarcasm, son"
Aiden lossed it, "I'M NOT YOUR SON TYLER!" Tyler was his adopted father.
Tyler yelled, "I'M YOUR FATHER WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, AND YOU WILL RESPECT ME!"
His mother calmly but loudly said, "BOYS, no need for the yelling. Sweetheart, we love you but being gay is a sin."
With tears in his eyes Aiden said, "Why can't I like the gender I want? I like guys, so what?" Aiden knew he was gay just his adopted didn't like it, he tried fighting back.
Tyler came over to him and smacked him so hard he had a handprint on his face. Aiden ran crying to his room and slammed the door behind him.
Tyler screamed "And don't come out till you know what you did wrong!"
All Aiden could hear for the next hour was his mother and Tyler fighting. Just bickering about him. Aiden had started cutting himself when he was in the camp, so he started to cut his wrist very deep, he started to lose a lot of blood. Everything went dim.
His mother walked in and in an ear-shattering screech screamed, "CALL AN AMBULANCE!" Tyler did and Aiden was rushed to the hospital.
When he awoke he saw his mother and Tyler. Aiden's mother's makeup was smeared all over and she was still crying. Tyler on the other hand didn't have a tear in his eye.
Aiden muttered under his breath, "I hate him."
His mother ran over and gave him a hug and cried, "I love you, don't do that again!"
She gave a soul-crushing glare to her husband.
Tyler said, "Hey, buddy how are you feeling?"
Aiden said in a peeved off voice, "Why, I'm sure you don't ca-"
His mother interrupted, "Great, you get to leave tomorrow."
Tyler sighed, "Well, I have to go to work. Good-bye, honey, love you. Bye, Aiden." Aiden ignored him.
Aiden's mother said in the sweetest voice, "Bye, love you." Tyler left the room.
Aiden started to cry, his mother tried comforting him.
Aiden cried, "Why did you save me?"
His mother cried too, "I'm sorry sweetheart, I love you too much to let you go."
The nurse walked in and told his mother she had to leave.
She wiped her eyes and said "Good bye sweetheart, see you tomorrow."
Aiden was too busy crying to say bye. So she just left, Aiden just continued crying all night until he fell asleep. The nurse came and woke him up at ten A.M. They packed up his stuff, his blood soaked shirt that they obviously tried to wash but the blood didn't come out and the pants were cut from trying to get them off him fast enough.
They got into the car but they weren't going home, he knew the way home and this wasn't it. They came up to an insane asylum looking thing. It was dirty, the grass looked like no one has cut in years and there was no windows just bars.
Aiden said nervously, "Why are we here?"
Tyler said, "Well we can't have this happen again."
His mother sat quietly with a sad look on her face.
Aiden spoke to his mother frantically, "Mother, no!"
Tyler said angrily, "We made the decision, and the appointment. Don't worry it's nice here, we made sure."
Aiden broke down crying, "Mother I thought you loved me."
Tyler had enough, "No now get out of the car and go into the mental hospital."
His mother couldn't take the abuse, "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH, TYLER STOP IT"
Tyler was really shocked, after eleven years of marriage now she stands up to him. Tyler who was confused, in rage and nervous smacks her across the face. Aiden got out of the car opened the driver's seat door pulls Tyler out and starts beating him, Aiden through a few good punches before getting his butt kicked, Aiden ended up with his face bruised and beaten.
His mother went and tore them apart. "BOYS, let's go home."
Tyler said "No way is he getting in my car he can walk and find a new place to live or he can stay here."
His mother said in a sweet voice "I think it's better if you stay here."
Aiden felt betrayed "WHAT NO, I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU, HEATHER!" Heather is his adopted parent.
Heather goes to speak but nothing comes out. He's never called her Heather before.
Tyler called over the doctors to take him away.
"I love you." Heather whimpered.
She visited him every day for one year. Every day getting even more insane, until he was let out. He looked almost insane, the bags under his eyes were terrible, big and dark. His hair looked like it had never been brushed, the beautiful blonde... gone, disappeared like all the fun memories. He was so tired, he couldn't walk straight, when he came home they had another party. His mother brushed his hair and put a bit of concealer on to hide the bags under his eyes. He acted happy until he was alone, then he would bawl his eyes out.
School wasn't an issue until now. Now he is nine and in grade five and gets made fun of all the time. As always none of the teachers saw, and all the kids would run and push him, spit, punch and he is called names, like fag and queer. He's smart so he gets bullied more and artistic.
After half a year of being bullied and having no friends, there was a new kid, and rumours spread fast that he was gay. He has long, curly red hair and was tall, dark green. He was kind of buff. Aiden was happy to hear he was not the only gay person in the school, he then realized he's probably getting bullied right now. He was in his class so he planned to introduce himself to him.
Aiden walked up to him and just tried to act casual and said, "Hey, I'm Aiden."
"Hi, I'm Alex." Alex said.
"I was wondering if you would like to have lunch with me?" Aiden said embarrassedly While blushing.
Alex thought for a minute "Yeah, I would love to."
Brady, the biggest bully in the school, yelled, "AIDEN HAS A CRUSH ON THE NEW KID!"
Aiden turned bright red and ran out of the class. Feeling so embarrassed he didn't go back to class. When lunch came he was running to the doors to go home but someone grabbed his shoulder, at first he thought it was Brady but it was a soft grab.
He turned to find Alex holding his shoulder, "Hey, where are you going? Did you forget about our date?"
"DATE?!" Aiden was surprised.
Alex giggled, "Yeah, you asked me remember? Where do you want to eat?"
Aiden is still confused "Aren't you uncomfortable around me? Did you hear what Brady said?"
Alex smiles "No, why would I? Yes I did I thought it was cute when you ran away."
Aiden blushes "umm... thanks. Well let's go."
They walk to the lunchroom. When they walk in, everyone stares. Alex holds Aiden hand, he blushes even more. They walk to the empty table and sat down and ate. People are still staring but it doesn't look like Alex cares, so Aiden ignores them.
Brady screams again, "LOOK AT THE TWO FAGS! HAHA!"
Alex gets up and screams back, "WHY DOES IT MATTER?" He waits a moment, "THAT'S RIGHT IT DOESN'T! NOW LEAVE US ALONE OR I'LL HURT YOU!"
Everyone stands in shock, even Brady have his mouth wide open.
Aiden quietly thinks out loud, "oh my gosh, I have someone with me." Tears come to his eyes and he smiles. That entire day not a single person bullied him and a few people were even nice.
After school, they were hanging at the back of the school. Aiden and Alex talked for hours, Aiden found out that Alex's parents disowned him because of his sexuality, so he is now living with his alcoholic uncle who abuses him. He drinks and smokes and when he smokes he presses the smoke against his skin so it burns him. They were bored after awhile, and then out of nowhere, Brady and his gang can over to us.
"Hey, boys. Want to play a game?" Brady said with an evil smile on his face.
Alex giggled "No thanks. I think we're okay."
Brady laughed hard same with his gang "You don't have a choice. Grab 'em."
There were four guys, Alex got up and went to hit the big guy, he hits him in the face. A guy comes from behind and smacks him over the head with a bat, he fell down. Aiden got up and ran at Brady when he wasn't paying attention, he knocked him down and just threw punches. He broke his nose then his boys got Aiden off of him. The boy started to run away. Aiden grabbed Alex and tried waking him up. Then he called for help. Alex's head was bleeding badly.
Someone heard the screaming for help and called the police. it was a small town so it only took them minutes to arrive at the school. They took Alex away on a gurney and they were asking Aiden questions.
The policeman said, "What's your name, boy?" Aiden just kept silent.
The policeman sighed "Take him down town."
Aiden started to cry as they put the handcuffs on, Alex was gone, he was alone and worried. In the car he just stared out the window, watching all the cars and trees go by. They came up to the police station, They pulled him out and walked to the door. They put him into the questioning room and ask questions.
The policeman asked, "Why is there so much blood on your hands? Did you hurt that other boy?"
Aiden shook his head.
The policeman was getting mad, "WE NEED ANSWERS, BOY!"
Aiden said, "It was the other boys, they came to fight us. Alex fought back they knocked him out with a bat. So I ran at the leader, knocked him over and just hit him."
The policeman was intrigued, "What is the boy's name."
Aiden looked up, "Brady Dell, Derain Smith, Link Turner, Rex Shaw.
The policeman didn't look surprised, "Okay, what's your name? And your parent's names?"
He looked down, "Aiden Baker."
The policeman looked really surprised "You're the Baker's adopted kid?"
Aiden was confused "Yes?"
The policeman frowned "Now I know why they beat you up."
Aiden felt like he was just impaled by a knife "WHAT? There is no good reason to beat up someone."
The policeman Frowned "Don't yell at me, boy. I'm going to call your mother and father to come and get you."
Aiden just sat there. The policeman left. He was sitting there for an hour until his mother came and grabbed him. They took the short way home, we usually didn't go that way. We drove home in silence. When he got home Tyler was passed out, drunk on the couch. He just went to his room and went to bed. He woke up at midnight from nightmares of alex getting beat so bad he died in his arms, there was food on his bedside table. Some peas and steak, his favourite meal. It was cold but he didn't care, he just consumed it. Then went back to sleep.
When he woke up his mother was sitting in his room.
Aiden was confused "Hi, mom?"
Heather smiled "I love you, sweetheart."
Aiden was still confused "Ummmmm... Did something happen?"
Heather giggled "No, sweetheart. I just wanted to make sure you're okay. Here's your breakfast."
Aiden just said "Okay? Thanks."
Heather smiled some more "Call if you need anything. And you don't have to go to school today."
Aiden sat there with his mouth wide open. Heather left the room. Aiden just sat in surprise. But then he got a really bad headache probably from the nightmare, so he just went back to bed.
His alarm woke him up with a start. It was Wednesday, so he had to go to school. Then he realized he still didn't know if Alex was okay. He ran downstairs, Heather was sitting on the couch, crying.
Aiden look concerned "Mother, what's wrong?"
She looked up, "I love you, sweetheart. Please don't do anything irrational."
Aiden got worried, what if this had to do with Alex? "What are you talking about.
Heather looked down, "Aiden, your friend, Alex, is in a coma."
Aiden broke down crying, "No, he can't" He ran away crying. He ran to school, where he had got beat up and where Alex got a concussion. He curled up in a ball and cried.
He passed out after awhile. When he awoke he was at home, in his bed. He was really hungry, so he went down stairs. It was nine PM, his mother and Tyler were on the couch.
Aiden's mother looks up, "Hello, sweetheart. How are you feeling?"
Aiden said "Good, can I have something to eat?"
She smiled "Yes, dinner's on the table."
Aiden went to go eat. It was Mac & cheese, he doesn't like it but he was so hungry. He eat it all, he then went out into the living room, his mother and Tyler were there.
Aiden asked, "Is Alex okay?"
Heather looked down, "I'm sorry, but no. He's in a coma."
Tyler said sarcastically, "But that's okay, you can always make new friends."
His mother glared at him, "Tyler, shut up. But they said he may never wake up."
Aiden broke into tears, he just ran to his room. He didn't come out for three days, he only came out for a few minutes because he was hungry. His mother was so worried. So his mother told him they were going to go visit Alex. Aiden finally came out of his room. They got into the car, and drove away. They came up to the hospital, it was an old hospital. He was really sad but just wanted to see him. The doctor walked us to his room, Aiden broke down crying, went to go and hug him tight. The doctor just stood there, then Aiden asked to be alone with Alex.
The doctor said, "Okay."
All of the people left. Aiden was left alone looking at Alex's limp body. Aiden had seen a pair of scissors under Alex's hospital bed when he walked in, he thought that the doctors were stupid. He grabbed the scissors slowly. Looked at them, they were dirty so even if he didn't die of blood loss he'd die of infection.
He held them tight, "1...2...3..." He pulled up the scissors high and thrusted the rusty scissors down to his stomach hitting his small intestines, right to the green handle. He twisted and opened and closed them.
He screamed in agony "Ahhhhhhh"
Everyone ran in to see Aiden in the fetal position, blood seeping from under him. His mother fainted, Tyler stood with a smirk on his face. All of the doctors and nurses ran to his aid. But Aiden didn't want to be saved, he kicked and squirmed. While he was kicking and squirming he was losing a lot of blood. The doctors couldn't hold him down long enough to stop the bleeding.
As he was dying he said "I love you, Alex." He then died holding on to Alex's hand.
A few months later, they got a call saying that Alex had awakened from his coma. Aiden's mother couldn't contain herself. She wanted to meet him as fast as possible. She got into the car and drove to the hospital.
Heather smiled, "Hello, how are you?"
Alex didn't know what was going on, "Do I know you?"
"I'm Aiden's mother, Heather" She said.
Alex smiles, "Hi, nice meet you."
They spoke for hours, the sun started to set. Aiden's mother learned a lot about Aiden and Alex.
Alex asked "Where's Aiden?"
Heather started to tear up "He killed himself, in your arms because the doctors said you may never wake up."
Alex smiled with tears in his eyes, "Really? You know... I loved him."
Heather's eyes shot up, "Aiden's father never liked gays because that's how he was raised by his parents."
"I know, Aiden told me his life story. He always said Tyler instead of dad though, does he not like his father?"
"No, not at all. But Aiden's last words were I love you Alex." said Heather, holding back her tears.
Alex teared up and whispers "I love you too" then looked up at Aiden's mother "He's in a better place now, and some day I will join him."