"Ugly,ugly, Armin's ugly~!" A group of innocent children sang as they circle around a small blond boy with their hands held together. The boy in the center crying his eyes out grasps his long hair wishing and praying that his teasers would stop, but they never did. Each word felt like a knife going through the small boy's body. Why were they doing this to him he asked himself? What did he do to deserve this? Had his parents lied to him this whole time when they called him handsome and cute?
So many negative thoughts a young boy shouldn't think, and yet he thought them as if they were the numbers he counted constantly in his head during math lessons. Moving his hands to cover his face, the boy felt his warm tears leak through his as he struggled to breath through a plugged nose, the young boy continues to cry until the bell for class rings. As the children retreat back to their classrooms, they left the little Armin to cry where he was. As the seconds turned to minutes the young boy who was left to cry got up eyes forever looking towards the ground. He clenches his fist willing himself to stop crying, but he couldn't stop.
Standing there until he had had enough, Armin rushed towards his classroom pushing every kid out of the way. Ignoring the yell of the teacher from across the room demanding him to apologize to those he had pushed; he ignored her. Stopping in front of the costume bin, Armin dug through it looking from something. The further he dug, the closer he got to getting what he wanted. And there laid at the bottom of the bin was a black with golden trim colombina mask. Grasping it with tiny hands, he hurried to put as soon as possible.
Once it was on his face, a sense of relief washed over the small boy. And that was the moment he decided he would never show his face to anyone ever again.
Admin: Pretty short for the first chapter, but the next one will definitely be longer.The next chapter we learn more about how Armin's dad took all of this in.