under the led lights

Something I'd rather forget

[The jellyfish song (MUSIC BOX VERSION)]

[Tendou's POV (flashback)]

I was never that popular in school. Those kids stared at me like I was some type of scary animal. Their glares were freezing my blood... I despised it. When a kid pushed me, others were coming to join the one sided battle. I usually stayed on the cold, hard floor, letting myself get beaten. Oh well, I wasn't born to look pleasant. We often say: don't judge a book by its cover. Let me tell you that, it's not a saying people often respect. Even my teachers were afraid of helping me sometimes. I even cut my own hair into a bowl cut to look less intimidating. They mocked me instead, and it didn't change the fact that my big eyes stabbed their souls everytime I looked at them.

One day after school, I was walking 2 kilometres to go home. My parents were too embarrassed to be seen with me in public as they knew I wasn't loved in school. Some of the mean kids followed me. They grabbed a piece of broken glass they found on the sidewalk before grasping my arm to cut it. When I arrived home, my dad scolded me. He kept telling me I wasn't his son, and that I would live alone when I start high school. My mom? she drinks all the time. I never had a good relationship with my family. I'm an only child, who has no friends, and parents who loathed me. My only friend was mister bear. A plush I found in a big dumpster when I lost my parents. Turned out it was them trying to abandon me when I was five, until the police found me and asked me who I belonged to. When I arrived home it wasn't a hug that awaited me, but a the freezing basement my father locked me in whenever I "wasn't behaving well". I wasn't eating, nor drinking for a whole day sometimes. This hell lasted till I reached high school. My parents finally disowned me. I've been waiting impatiently for that moment. Even if people in school were still trying to get on my nerves and disrespect me, I kept a smile on my face as I was happier than ever. Sad isn't it? when you're content that your own family abandons you. I know people can relate to me, I can't be the only one as the black sheep of the family. This is how I remain strong, I know a lot of others are in the same boat as me. And we are all fighting this battle.

*Hold on... who's that? an ace wants me on his volleyball team? but who is he? There's a bunch of others who seem to invite me with open arms. Aren't they afraid of my looks? Are they not scared of my huge eyes, small pupils staring into their spirits like I'm going to smash them into pieces? They're all so blurry, I can't recognize them...*

[End of Tendou's POV (end of flashback)]

Tendou had just bought his new phone as he exited the store. Resting his hands in his pocket, the young fellow contemplated the blue sky. It's been a while that it didn't rain in his city. The weather was nice enough to hang out all day under the warm sunshine. Inspecting the nature around him, Satori noticed two kids bullying a little girl. Fed up with the attitude of some children, he sprinted towards them to stop the harassment. The two intimidators didn't have time to fight back as they got afraid of Tendou's reaction to their cruel action. The little girl observed the red haired man, hesitating to thank him as he was a bit scary to her. She ran away instead.

Tendou didn't mind, he smiled as he reached his pocket for his phone. His fingers touched a piece of paper that was laying in his pocket. The phone number Hayato gave him yesterday was still there. It reminded the young man that he could contact the brown spikey haired boy. He brought his phone next to his chest and dialed the number.

"Hello? this is Tendou. What were you saying yesterday about the next time I see anyone using violence?"