To Be A Normal Kid DISCONTINUED REWRITING

White Lie Series: Book 1 of 5
Hidden Truths Series: Book 4 of 15
Discontinued
Rewrite on Ao3
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He's known for years that he isn't normal. His hair was both lighter and spikier than everyone else's and he had a weird way of speaking - not to mention the verbal and non-verbal ticks, as well as the mental illnesses he was too shy to get professionally diagnosed. He was also an underage orphan who lived by himself, not that he let anyone know that everything he brought back from home was all forged signatures.

To hide himself, he grew his hair long enough to be pulled into a ponytail - not that he ever did anything but brush his hair - and let his bangs grow to cover his abnormally orange and brown eyes. He also wore slightly baggy clothes to hide his frame and he made sure to stick to the back of the crowd. He also made sure to only talk when he was spoken to. He was smarter than most kids in his grade, but he made sure to keep himself average at everything as a precaution. He didn't want to accidentally step out of bounds and be the centre of attention.

His motto in life was "If I don't bother them, they won't bother me." Fortunately, it worked for most of his life. Unfortunately, however, his class was taken on a trip to Italy for some unholy reason - he toyed with the idea that the trip was planned by the same people who had started the chain of explosions - and his life was promptly thrown out of a window from 500 feet in the air. Ironically, something was thrown from a window on the trip.

The biggest turn of events revealed what he had been trying to hide from the world to the very people he had been hiding from. That's when he solidified the belief that he would rather live in isolation than deal with people. Being the biggest introvert in the city only helped push that motive. He would much rather live in the forest with about a million books than deal with the shit of the world. But, once the Mafia finds you, there's no going back.