Chapter one- Bullies
"Hey, You there! Aren't you meant to be in Middle-School!" Well of course, who else to expect but Elliot, the most two faced jerk in the whole school. Ugh, he just wont leave me alone, just keep walking Hiro, just ignore him... I chanted to myself
"Hey, answer me when I talk to you you little nerd!"
suddenly, I was shoved up against the wall of the corridor.
"I said, answer me!" this gave me no choice
"Uh.. hi! E-Elliot..." I said sheepishly, avoiding eye contact and desperately trying to find the way out.
"You don't belong here, little nerd... Why don't you go back to your little grade 7 class, and leave all the University work to us university kids!"
"Okay, I'm actually meant to be in eighth gr-"
"LET ME FINISH" Elliot roared
"But-"
"I was top of the class! Until you came along... so now your gonna pay!" suddenly I felt Elliot's fist connect with my jaw and I yelped in pain, I tried to wiggle out of his grasp but all that did was make him grip me tighter. He pulled at my long shaggy hair, taking me to the ground
"Go on! Put up a fight or something!" I made a feeble attempt to throw a punch but being as scrawny as I am, it made almost no difference, he stopped for a minute, hearing voices coming from around the corner. When he saw me get up and try to flee, he punched me hard in the chest and whispered in my ear:
"And you'd better not tell anyone or your brothe- Oh wait , that's right he's dead!" then he ran away. Those last few words hurt harder than any physical injury he had given me, I sank to the floor in shock but my seemingly bruised ribs made it to painful to curl up. So all I did was sit there and cry for a minute, trying to hold back my sobs...He had bullied me before, punched me and stolen my work, those I could deal with. But this was the first time he used the memory of Tadashi against me. I was trying so hard to get over Tadashi's death, to ignore the aching pang in my heart, but after what had just happened, brought everything flooding back. This time he had crossed the line. One sob managed to escape me, attracting attention from the people around the corner.
"Thalia! Quick!" said an older girl who had spotted me sitting on the floor, bruised and crying. Another girl peered around the corner and gasped in shock.
"Oh my god, are you alright?!" Exclaimed the girl who was seemingly named Thalia as she ran over to him, followed closely by her friend.
I quickly turned away so that they wouldn't see my bruise or the tears streaming down my face, but I think I was a bit late
"What happened?" Asked the first girl
"Its, nothing..." I replied, but they clearly weren't buying it.
"Sure" Thalia replied sarcasticly, "I'm serious, what happened? You have to tell us!" But when I turned around they gasped in unison at my wet eyes, blotchy red face and ugly purple bruise. The other girl began the 'Interrogation'
"Were you punched? How old are you? Shouldn't you be at middle school?" she enquired
"No, I uh... I come here, I'm fourteen" I mumbled back, fishing around in my pocket to find my ID card, when I showed it to them, they were amazed, she started reading his card.
"Your fourteen... but you come to a university... and your name is... Hiro Hama-... Oh my god..." She gasped, then she whispered something quickly into Thalia's ear, they both looked at him apolitically, then Thalia quickly said,
"Hiro, I'm so sorry about Tadashi... we knew him from our English class"
"That's okay..." I replied sadly, I had stopped crying by then and I was grateful for the girls help, then I realised I only knew on of the girls names.
"So... what are your names?" I asked sheepishly
"Well, my names Cara, and this is Thalia" Cara replied
"Nice to meet you, well I should probably go see the nurse" I said but as I tried to get up I winced from a sharp pain in my bruised ribs. I saw the girls look at me worriedly.
"here we will help" and with that they helped me up and guided me to the nurses office.
That night, I flopped onto my bed and activated Baymax.
"Hello Hiro, Your body is badly injured and you have internal rib bruising as well. Do you want me to treat them?
"Yes please Baymax... If only you knew the full extent of my pain"