Ms.Bully

3

"Who's kicking next?" The PE teacher shouts from the middle of the field. Raul steps forward with more excitement than the whole class combined. Do you know those kids who get exceedingly serious about kickball during gym class? The one's that yell at you for kicking too soft, that was him. Again to his defense, he was very very competitive.
I stand on the side along with some other students who don't care about their grades in this class.
"Leon." I hear someone call me I look around until my eyes land on Annabella. She stood a few feet away and she did not look happy. My eyes shoot up and away from her and I decide this would be the perfect time to go for a run around the track. Yeah, I know it's a wimpy ass move but I also know it's her weakness, she hates running. I take off in a sprint but I can't say I like running either and slow down to a sluggish jog. I continue like that till the end of PE.
I quickly walk into the building before changing into the locker rooms.
"I didn't know you were friends with Annabella," Raul said as we walked out of the locker room. Friends? Is that what it looked like? I shake my head "We're not really friends." I oppose. He smiles before chuckling "My man! You finally messing around." he said slapping me on my back. I stumble forward a little. I push his arm "Come on man it's not like that. That's a hard no." I clarify
He raises his eyebrow and stops walking I stop as well. "Oh really? Don't lie to me, how dare you get a girl before me," he whines pulling at my arm and shaking me. "How? I mean look at me." he blurted. I roll my eyes as he lets a stray tear fall. "I'm in my prime, man. Where are the women!" he said pulling me by my collar. I put my hands on his bawled fist slipping my shirt from his grasp. Patting his back as we began to walk again. It was kind of a weird position because I was taller than him but he packed way more muscle than me. "Yeah yeah I know. You'll get 'em big guy." I soothe holding back my chuckles. He's acting childlike, it reminds me of the good old days.

The time went quickly and I walk out of the building. "Leon, you wanna have a movie night this Friday?" Raul asks as we walk to the bus stop. "Yeah, that sounds fun," I say sincerely. His bus pulls up and we wave goodbye. Man, it's good to finally have a friend.
My bus pulls up and I get on. I missed this feeling of having something to look forward to. I nod off a bit before hearing my stop and hopping off the bus.
The walk to my house is a few miles from the only bus stop around which is pretty inconvenient. At least I get my daily exercise. I walk about a mile before I hear a familiar voice shout my name. "Leon!" I turn around to see Annabella walking up to me fuming with some tall muscular tatted-up dude behind her who looked almost as angry as her. "Look, I don't want to talk to you, Bella," I say turning to run. "I wouldn't do that." I hear the man speak after I hear the cocking of his gun. I freeze, I know I run fast but not faster than a bullet. I'm not that stupid.
"Come here, Leon," Annabella demands. I hesitate to walk to her quickly realizing I'm in no position to be defying her.
"That's a good boy," she said smiling. She was smiling but somehow I could tell she was angry.
"Get in the car." she urged as the tatted dude opened the door. "Annabella, whatever did I'm sorry." I try to talk my way out of it.
"Get in the fucking car Leon!" She spat. The man who opened the door flicks his wrist with a gun in hand telling me to hurry up. I let out a shaky breath before tucking my head down as I enter the backseat of the car. The door is slammed behind me locking and Annabella comes through the other side.
Annabella reaches into her bag bringing out a water bottle. "Drink." She says pushing it into my hands. "I'm not thirsty." I refuse, she lifts an eyebrow "You really want to make things worse for yourself right now?" She challenged "Santi tell him what's gonna happen if he doesn't drink." he says to the man driving his tatted fingers gripping the wheel. He looks up in the review mirror. "Easy disposal of a body," he said with a grin. I felt my body shudder. I unscrew the cap before taking a swallow. I screw the cap back onto the bottle. The water bottle fell from my hands and my hand begins to shake uncontrollably. "Wow, that was faster than I thought-" Annabella's voice echoes. As my vision blurs and my head hits the door.