Shannon sat at his usual spot in the cafeteria, a small card table where most kids spending school in detention usually sit for the short term period that is known as lunch break, but things seemed different....Shannon didn't have his usual mischievous smile or semi threatening edge to him.... Instead he was emotionally drained, warped from what he's known for, almost as if he actually felt guilty about his normal actions...was he sick? Was this just a bad day? Or maybe something unexpected....
"I just wanna go home already...." Shannon muttered to himself "I don't even feel like eating... Or doing anything for this matter..."
Suddenly, the school bell rings as our normally rebellious school bully banged his head on the table whilst all the other students headed back to their classrooms.... The cafeteria fell silent.... The lights few dim, dim and silent..... Nothing seemed right anymore....
"Should I even bother getting up?" Shannon sighed while getting up " I don't know what's with me today.... What's the use....I'm always known to have something wrong with me" this wasn't the Shannon everybody knew in school....this was a completely different person.... He had been in a depressive state for days on end, feeling useless, unworthy, and all around disgusted with his overall existence..... The world had become a blur...nothing seemed the same....when would it end? When will things at least lighten up? It seems like an endless loop....
"I think.....I might need to do some research...." Shannon said looking defeated as ever as he snuck outside of school to go rob a cash register or something..... "Wait!" He stopped while watching the rushing cars as his normally active body froze, his legs gave out causing him to collapse.....
Sure it was just a few scrapes..... But emotionally, this was different.....
"Shannon?" Brendon asked approaching his weak friend "You ok?"
"Maybe he's sleeping?" Jason asked
"How can Shannon be sleeping with his eyes open?" Melissa scoffed "that makes no sense, kinda like how you swallowing a jaw breaker whole makes no sense"
Shannon, still unresponsive to the conversation laid there, not even motivated to get up off the ground....but he somehow managed to get his weak body off and head home, not even bothering to look both ways before crossing....
"Ummmm.....that was awkward?" Brendon said as he and his friends looked at a very depressed Shannon....this wasn't the Shannon they knew.... They had to figure it out.....but how?
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The Dark Side... (A Home Movies Fanfiction)
FanfictionWhy is Shannon a school bully? What if there was more than meets the eye? What if Shannon himself was bullied in the past?
