Chapter 1: Mute Blood

People say that freaks are things that are un-normal, it could be the body in itself or it can be a personal thing, people think that being normal is liking everything that others do too. Other people like religions and personal beliefs are unaffected by it, but people who see things from a different view are weird or so is said to be. For example, people who like different music, people these days like listening to rap and pop music, were as some like rock or metal maybe a bit of techno, bands like Nickelback, System of a down, Adelita's way, Alter Bridge ,Shine Down, Breaking Benjamin, Etc. These are a few examples of what people may say Freaks listen to, maybe in other countries it's a regular thing, but in a city of Toronto, Ontario it's weird. People will ramble about you head banging all the time, but it's an opinion, like Nintendo vs. Sega about roughly 20 years ago. Never the less, these are not freaks of the night… as you are about to see for yourself… there is much, much worse… but remember…one man's trash…is another man's treasure.

14th December 2013

It was a snowy day in the city of Toronto, the city malls with thousands of people going in and out of shops, buying Christmas presents for others. The city was lit up with sky scrapers and the CN Tower, but in one of the flats of the sky scrapers lived the Senga family. They were kind of bland but most of every family in the world was, Mr John Senga was a business man as well as his wife, Mrs Gemma-Marie- Senga, they had two kids a 14 year old son named Drew and a 10 year old Daughter named Emma, Emma was your regular everyday blonde girl who was kinda shy but energetic and a lot of fun, she was not however your regular girly girl kind of personality, she listened to techno music a lot and wore boyish T-shirts like gaming and horror movies, she was a big fan of comedy, especially Frankie Boyle, he was her favourite comedian she maybe only 10 but she was mature enough to know a lot of rude jokes, she once met him at his own town in Glasgow, Scotland for his tour 'Last Days Of Sadom' when her parents went. She asked how he was and if she could get her picture taken, but her most cherished memory was the hug she gave him. Now her brother was a little like his sister, he liked Frankie Boyle too, but he was a bit of a mute in school, the kids called him a freak for his hobbies and personal likes, he loves to read books from Darren Shan, he once went back to Ireland with his family and got into a conversation with Darren asking what he did when he was 14, Darren said he got a type-writer and just made a few short stories and he told Drew how his reaction to his hit 'Saga Of Darren Shan' went in publish and was loved by so many people, Drew said he wanted to start in manga and authoring a bit, he loved snakes and vampires, he also said he used to have a Antaresia stimsoni, he explained that it was 29 inches and he loved it. Darren and Drew were very alike according to Darren.

but at school the so called freak was silent at the back off the class, the teachers tried to get Drew to talk in class but he never answered, he once took a detention for not answering to his biology teacher, but some of the class mates, especially some female ones, sympathised Drew, all he did was do his work in class and read at recess, he always had that mono expression at school but never at home, at home he was very helpful and did a lot with his sister like play old computer games, write some stories, and even watch horror movies together, Drew was always snuggled up to Emma because she hates the jump scares, the blood and gore are fine but jumpy scares she hated. Drew never spoke unless spoken to in school but at home his parents let him swear now and again as long as it wasn't in front of Emma.

On this day though was when Gemma and John were going on a business trip to Ireland to meet up with their new co-president of the company, they had hired a babysitter for Emma, Gemma and John trusted Drew on doing whatever he wanted, he understood the plan and times, bed for Emma at 10pm and bed no later than 1 AM for him, There was a knock at the door. "Drew, Emma, can you come down and say hello to your babysitter?" Gemma asked, Emma stomped down the stairs and Drew slid down the handle bar on the stair wall, Emma was wearing her 'Zelda: Ocarina of Time' T-Shirt with baggy jeans, Drew as wearing his 'Adelitas way' T-Shirt with black denim shorts and he had his Left knee tape up, he recently had dislocated his knee and had it put back in place, he felt no pain for some reason but it just bleed again from time to time. "Who is it this time?" Drew said with a smirk on his face, "It's Katy, you know the woman who you played truth or dare with?" John said with a smile while doing up his tie, "oh…yeah…" Drew said, the last time that happened he was kissing Katy, not the quick peck on the cheek oh no, this was French. John and Gemma had Cameras installed into the flat and knew what had happened, Katy was expecting to be fired but to Gemma and John it was just a case of embarrassing Drew so they let it slide. Drew never heard the end of it after that day, but secretly he didn't really mind it as much as he put out.

John opened the door and greeted Katy, she was a 16 year old who had Black hair and neon green eyes, people always asked if they were contacts because they were that brightly coloured, but they were natural, "Hey guys, off to Ireland?" Katy asked with a smile and a tilt of the head, "Yeah, we'll be off for a week, here-"John passed Katy $500, "-That's your pay and here's for any takeout nights or stuff like dat." John said passing another $100, Katy stashed the $500 in her inside pocket of her leather jacket and the other $100 in the fruit bowl, "Well, I hope you all have fun and we will see you…on Sunday! Behave you two." Gemma said, looking at the two.

John and Gemma left with their suitcases and waved goodbye, Katy shut the door and turned to Drew and Emma, "So? What do we do for a week?" They both shrugged and smiled, Drew crossed his arms, then a beeping sound went off, Drew grabbed his phone from his pocket, it was an e-mail from the Darren Shan Fansite. "What's that?" Katy asked, "Oh! Um, it's just an E-mail off of the Darren Shan Fansite." "Wait…The Darren Shan, The vampire and horror author?" "Yeah… Why?" Katy giggled; she went through her bag that she brought, Grabbing a book out of it and slating it in the coffee table, it read 'Saga of Darren Shan-Book 2: Vampire assistant'. "Since when have you read Darren Shan?" Asked Katy, She was interested in what Drew could tell her, she had read a lot of Darren's earlier books like when he was 15 years old. "I started reading at…probably…5 maybe early 6 years old." "No, you got the first book on your 5th birthday, remember?" Said Emma, She remembers everything about Drew just to wind him up. "Oh yeah, cause I got that wrestling game too. I was a big wrestling fan then." Drew smiled, remembering the times of his youth, he loved the wrestling then but gave up after 2009, he saw no point at the age he was, he was more interested in games and movies. "Well, anyway, I got an idea of what to do now, there's supposed to be a horror on T.V. SAW IV." Katy said while creeping around Emma's back, Emma ran behind Drew giggling, she loved the gore fests for some reason, Drew smiled at Emma then looked at the T.V. "I guess we could kill the night away. Anyone want any Popcorn?" "ME!" Emma shouted running after Drew.

Drew had two flavours, toffee or chocolate. "Which one? Toffee or Chocolate?" He asked Emma, She scratch her head and thought, 'dictions, dictions…' Thought Drew, rolling his eyes and smiling, Finally Emma pointed at the chocolate popcorn, Drew popped it in the microwave for 2 minutes, it shouldn't take long for it to heat up, Katy turned the T.V. on and flicked through the channels, not a lot was on, but she found the movie and just in time too. The title screen appeared just after she flicked to the channel. Emma jumped onto the other side of Katy, Drew came in with a bowl of Popcorn, he put it on Emma's lap seeing as she would eat most of it, Drew took off his Leather belt wristbands and placed them on the glass coffee table in front of them, sitting in the middle of the two girls He took a piece of popcorn from the bowl and threw it up in the air, catching it in his mouth, "Show off…" Katy said, smiling and shaking her head, Drew smirked and watch the movie.

Half way through the movie there was a bed trap scene, it had a guy called Ivan on the bed, strapped up in a dominatrices way, it was funny to think that something that can give so much pleasure now give out so much pain, there was a part were a spike went in his eye, "Damn…" Drew said, cringing a little "Yeah you're tellin me…" Katy said, by this point Emma was asleep, it was past her bed time anyway, Then Ivan's left arm got ripped off, Now with other people, that may be scary, but to Drew, that's kinda funny, he tried to not laugh but only ended up saying 'ooohhh' with a smile on his face, he was suspecting that Katy would be freaked out by that, but she ended up face palming at that scene, "Talk about costing an arm and a leg." Drew said with a smirk, he knew how cheesy it was, Katy just looked at him with half shut eyes, glaring at him in a 'Are you serious?' look, "Hey, someone had to say it." "Not really, I mean he still has-" Then Ivan got his leg ripped off, "You were saying?" Drew said, smirking. Katy just stuck her tongue out at him, which was one of the things Drew liked about Katy, she could insult you and look cute at the same time, he just wished she was his age; he could have maybe had a chance with her.

Near the end of the movie Katy was falling asleep, she ended up hugging Drew, She looked up to see his face, he was blushing alittle and was shyly smiling, "Sorry, I'm just tired, you don't mind do you?" Katy Asked, snuggling up closer to him, "Sure, um…but I kinda need to get Emma to bed." "Then will you take me to bed?" Drew Blushed harder, Causing Katy to Giggle, She got up and went to the master bed room, Drew turned the T.V. off and picked up Emma, He took her to her room, still asleep, and placed her in her bed.

Drew then went to the master bed room, Knocked on the door and got answered by Katy, who was now wearing only a night gown, He Blushed scarlet, "Um… seeing as you would tell me off for it in the morning, I'll give you a hug before you go to bed." Katy giggled, wrapping her arms around his torso, He hugged her back and rested his head on her shoulder, he let go and then got something unexpected, a quick peck on the cheek, "See you in the morning, nice and early, ok?" He nodded mono-ish, He walked to his bed room and checked his e-mail that he got, He had been told that he was available to get a free copy of the new series, he thought about it and decided to decline, he had 4 more books to go through before his new series.

15th December 2013

If there was anything that Drew hated it was a snowy morning walk to school, not because it was cold but because all the girls in school were moaning about how cold it was, 'you're in Canada for fuck sake…' Drew thought, school to Drew was just dull, the teachers were more or less dead, not of age just the amount of energy the teacher put into even explaining the topics, Drew mostly just ignored what the teachers said and just looked up in the text book by himself, he managed to do at least twice as much work as the rest of the class, he loved seeing the girls cringe in the freezing weather, it was funny to watch them slip a few times on ice too. He never said a word to anyone, in fact no one had ever heard Drew speak in class or in school at all, he was a mute and always will be as far as he was concerned, he hated to jocks, he never really got into fights but some picked on him a little, but he just left it at that and ignored them, speaking of bullying, the teachers never even bother, your best bet was to just kick 7 bells out of them and take the detention, at least then you have some remaining pride.

It was lunch and, as you could probably guess, Drew sat in the little forest on the other side of the field, sure it was out of bounds but he didn't care, he never got caught so he never really got into trouble, but today was different, he was sitting there reading and eating some stir-fry he got from the canteen, he never liked forks when it came to noodles so he always brought some chopstick, he was reading book 6 of the 'Saga of Darren Shan', he was on chapter 4 and was really stuck into the book, he was reading until a black hair 14 year old girl came up to him, he knew the concept, little old Drew was all alone and had no one to defend him, so this bitch had come to rip the piss out of him, fantastic, he looked up to see her face, this was probably the wrong idea he got, he remembered her name, Alicia, the truthful one or so her name meant, she was one of the students in her set, she was popular with the jocks, they all flirted on her but never got an answer from her.

"Hey Drew, can I sit here with you, I need to get some space away from the jocks, there pissing me off." this was a little fishy, she never acted like this, never the less Drew budged over and left her some space to sit on the tree log, She sat down and sighed, Drew looked at her again and saw that this was very unlike her, he had to admit she was hot, but she was not the type of girl he was into, She just sat there eating some stir-fry noodles and chicken pieces, then the jocks came by, the group of 4, what a class act, now Drew was in for it, he only had to add 2 by 2 to figure out this was the reason why Alicia came over here, he guessed as much, "Yo Freak! You been messin with my Girl?" Said the first Jock, Roy Johnson, what an asshole, "Roy! I came over here to get away from you! Why won't you leave me alone?" Alicia shouted at Roy, "Come on baby, why would you wanna do that? Especially to sit with a freak like that?" Roy said Pointing at Drew, who was ignoring the entire situation, "Why is he a freak? He listens to different music, so what?" Alicia said, Drew was now surprised, a girl who could probably get with any man, was defending him, "We think he's a freak because he looks like one of those Straight Edge rockers." Roy said in a rough voice, Now Alicia was at her boiling point, "Since when did Drew not drink, if I had to listen to this shit I'd probably be a drunk by now." "Yeah, I agree, so we can finally get something out of you." One of Roy's jocks said from behind him, "You think I'm gonna let this pip squeak off on this, no way, we settle this now." Roy said, taking of his Jock Jacket, Drew couldn't remember the last time he was called that, but he didn't care, he now had two choices, run like a baby or fight at the risk of being humiliated, well he wasn't gonna run so, a fight it was. He put his book in his bag and put it on his back, the idea was to piss Roy off so he was gonna ignore him until he lashed out, he walked passed Roy, now Roy was never a guy to be ignored, always the centre of attention, Roy ran up to Drew in an attempt to close line him, he was never a smart one, you could hear him roar at you from a mile, Drew just took a side step and stuck his leg out making Roy trip over, if it was the other way around it would be the school's laughing stock, but seeing as it was Roy who went down it was just a shock, Roy got up and grabbed Drew by the arm, but Drew was quicker and twisted Roy's arm, he then got Roy in an arm lock which was a U.F.C. move, Drew remembered seeing it when Brock Lesnar was there, he remembered it being called the kimura lock, it is an elbow lock more than an arm lock, the other 3 jocks would have helped, if they had not seen the Prefect hadn't of showed, Drew let go of the lock and got off of the snowy ground, looking back at Alicia, she was actually surprised by what Drew did, not that she was mad at him just surprised, she walked up to Drew with a small smile.

"How did you do that?" Alicia asked in an overwhelmed voice, Drew just shrugged, he picked up his bag and was gonna leave, until the head master got to him, "DREW! THAT IS IN-""-Appropriate behaviour?" That was when everyone was no silent, "You don't think I wanna be able to live a day without being mithered by jack-asses like that? You do nothing to provide a 'safe environment' into this school; I'd have better luck trying to make friends with a bunch of hippies, you do nothing to make this school any better and I don't care if I have broken his arm, because he will finally stop going round like he runs this school." Drew walked off only to get grabbed by Roy and punched in the face, Drew's mouth was now bust, no teeth came out but he had blood drizzling down his bottom lip, "How do you like that you pip squeak?" Drew's only response was spitting the blood in Roy's face, with a smirk on his face, Roy lounged at Drew, Drew and Roy were now in a ground and pound brawl, fists flying at each other like a cage fight.

The Head had both the prefects pull off Roy and Drew off of each other, Drew was now bleeding from the right side of his forehead, the blood only covered the side of his right cheek and none of it going into his eye, but Roy had a broken arm now and was limping. "Now both of you get into my office, I want a word with you two." Drew just looked at Roy and smirked, he had no regret of what he did nor would he have any redemption after, but he kinda wished Alicia wouldn't have seen it that could get him to be hated even more than now.

In the principal's office sat the principal, Drew came in with a kind of plaster on his forehead to stop the bleeding, he sat down and looked straight into the eyes of the principal, "let me guess, the freak is getting expelled due to violence and un-acceptable behaviour?" Drew said crossing his arms, "no drew, you're getting suspended not expelled, you attacked a pupil for no reason." "And you know this, how?" "Because I was told-" "YOU WERE TOLD! YOU. WEREN'T. THERE!" Drew shouted, he had had enough of this crap, being the odd one out was one thing, but being framed was another. Just then Alicia walked into the office and stood at the doorway, "Miss King! maybe you can help us figure this one out, do you remember what happened this lunch?" Alicia sat down next to Drew, "well, for one your interrogating the wrong person, the person who should be here is in hospital about now, Drew was attacked first and he had that marital art arm lock in to protect himself." Drew was now surprised himself, Alicia was defending him, but why, he wasn't much to her, as a matter of fact this was the first day they spoke to each other. "Well, I guess if that's what you saw, then you are free to go, oh and take Drew with you." Drew and Alicia left the principal's office and were on their way to class, Drew had a pain in his chest and was getting very tired and out of breath, the fight took a lot out of him, he stopped and leaned on the wall, Alicia turned to see Drew, she felt a little guilty for what happened, after all she had heat on her and got Drew into the fight.

She walked up to him and crouched to see his face, "You ok?" She asked in a worried voice, "Yeah…it's just…I think…one or two of my ribs are cracked." Drew said, he was out of breath and panicking, he never got out of breath his easily. "I think you should see the school nurse and I'm not taking no for an answer." She said while putting Drew's arm over her shoulder, she had to say he was heavy, he wasn't fat, in fact he was little bit built, but he was heavy. "I can walk, limp at least." "Yeah but I don't want you collapsing on me now." "Why did you help me? Back in the forest I mean?" Alicia stopped and thought about it for a bit, "You have been picked on since 1st grade, I don't see you as a freak, just a guy with different tastes." "Oh. Well…thanks…it means more than you think…" "I should be thanking you." "What? Why?" "Because you weren't just defending yourself back there, you were defending my pride too; do you know how many times I've wanted to rip those guys' faces off?" "I can relate." They arrived at the nurse's room, Drew opened the door and saw the school nurse, "Hey Drew, Alicia, What can I do you for?" She asked, Drew sat down on the medical bed, Alicia answered for Drew, "I think Drew has cracked a rip in that fight, he needs to be checked." "Ok well, I'm gonna have to ask him to take his shirt off, you can leave if you want." Alicia blushed a little but smiled, "No, I'm good; I need to see what state he's in." "Ok, Suit yourself." She took out a flashlight to see any parts that popped out on Drew's chest, Drew took off his shirt and lay down on the bed, there were a few cuts and broses along his left side, his chest was battered, "ok, so by the looks of things you have a broken rib. I think you should go home early." Said the nurse, Drew grunted in pain as he sat up, "thanks, I'll try and get there." Drew stood up and put on his shirt, then he left the room, leaving just Alicia and the nurse, "I think you should escort him home, I don't think he will get far on his own." "Um…sure…I hope he's ok." "Do you like him?" Alicia blushed hard with wide open eyes, "What? No it's not like that, I only met him today." "Hey relax I was just teasing, but I think you two would look so cute, I may be 20 but I know a good couple when I see one." Alicia blushed a bit more, but smiled anyway, "Well, if you say so, he's a good guy; I just wish he'd open up a little more."

On the way home, Drew and Alicia started talking about each other and getting to know each other a little better, "So you like metal?" Alicia asked, "Not much just hard rock like, Alter Bridge and Shine Down." "Oh, like Nickelback?" "Yeah! Them to." Alicia looked at her phone to see the time, it was 2:39pm, and the school day would end in about an hour. They arrived at the skyscraper, "you live here?" Alicia asked, "Yeah, in one of the flats." "Which one?" "Number 243 don't worry there's an elevator." They got to the flat were Drew lived, Emma was still at school, so it was just the Babysitter, this was gonna be fun to explain, "Katy, I'm home." Drew shouted as he and Alicia got in, Katy was on the couch with the house phone in her hands, "Hey Drew, there's something I gotta tell you…" "What's up?" "Your parents…the plane that they were on crashed at 1 o'clock…. Drew… Their dead…"

To Be continued…