Chapter 2:
Embrace
I tried to calm myself by going into band and embracing music to hide from the world which did not understand how my mind tortured me always thinking never dreaming only calculating. The worst part is Amber's boyfriend became more abusive and not only just towards me but Amber. I got angry at him and the whole gang that picked on others they never really did anything that landed them in jail but just the thought about them bullying others ticked me off.
Then a thought went across my mind "I can teach them a lesson" and I could not help but smile at the thought. That thought went to my hands and I started planning how to turn the school of low-lives into the school were the nerds ruled and no bully had control over anyone. I hacked into the schools computers and silently took the controls none of the teachers or deans knew what I had done I next installed security cameras barely the size of a raisin put over the whole school except in a couple of places which I deemed inappropriate.
Time went on and the Red Avenger watched and waited for any bullying to happen. The first incident was with a young freshman and the gang's tattle tale that was only in the gang because the size of his mouth. I put on my improved costume with a pair of clawed brass knuckles and slid down the rain gutter outside my dorm room window and went to the scene where the event was happening. I had made the claws retractable to keep the faculty from seeing what I was planning when I reached the hallway I noticed the locker in front of the Mouth and two of his buddies was moving as they laughed.
I stood calculating ways to take them down but before I could finish a stealth plan they spotted me. "Look at the Freak" they spat at me I frowned and drew out the claws, which stunted there step and while the tried to back away I attacked My claws dug into their skin as my created armor increased the amount of punch I was able to put out. I retracted the claws and beat them bloody I knocked them out and used the claws to break the lockers lock, only to disappear before the freshman could get out. I sat hiding my uniform as I heard the screams of teachers going to bring the boys to the infirmary. I regret how big my smile was as I meticulously cleaned the residue from the event to make it impossible to find out who caused it.
I walked with a hop to my step as I went to the school's rundown park to relax my nerves. I sat on the rusty swing and let my mind go wild to the squeak of the swing set as I rode it. I sensed somebody behind me and I stopped and turned faster than a cornered snake. "Amber, you scared me." And like she always did when we were alone she smiled and laughed. "You are jumpy today Amien, what is wrong." She did the worst thing possible that day. She hugged me and sat down in the swing next to mine. And I knew when I looked at her she was not worried about me she was afraid and my eyes moved in the direction of her boyfriend's dorm.
"I don't know how you do it Amber, he hurts you and yet you seem to love him enough to go back." her smile was so calming, but that was her answer and it pissed me off. I didn't know how she could just cover up his abuse and stay with him. So I did something really stupid I stopped the swing and calculated the best way to convey my emotions, and did the most illogical thing ever. I gently pulled her from the swing and swiped her long caramel hair over her shoulder and hugged her tight. I softly placed my head on her shoulder taking in the scent of her strawberry lilac conditioner that filled my heart "I don't know how to help you, tell me how I can help you? I will hug you until you are no longer afraid you are my only friend here I don't want to lose you to the likes of him."
I remember her reaction even to this day. "Get off me! Amien you're a freak!" I remember the day my heart shattered into a thousand shards and crashed into my lungs. Breathing became impossible as she walked away and with every thought my vision faded. I remember that day because even walking was hard and to make things worse Amber told the gang and they decided to give me a hard time the whole way to my dorm.
Duncan Hayze kicked me into the trash. Solomon Arc dumped water on me and took pictures, but I kept walking. Aries Ferin spit on me and pushed me into a wall. And lastly right as I reached for the door to my room Robert Winston grandson to The CEOs of Winston farms and butchery and heir to millions was there. "I heard you went for my girl, but here I had thought we taught you better." It was the first time I truly hated anyone.
I woke up the next morning on the floor outside my dorm room in my head hurt and someone had dressed me in a batman costume and as pain sprang through my whole body I heard a crinkling sound and howled in pain as I grabbed the course parchment from my back and read it slowly my eyes filled with tears "The freak is dead let him rest in piece." They had not even spelled peace right was the first thought in my mind. I struggled to my feet and used my abilities to lock pick my way into my room I collapsed on trying to reach my suit I did and I achingly put it on little by little. The machine inside it began analyzing and treating my wounds. I loved that uniform it is the reason I am not a cripple.
I decided it was time to do something drastic I waited until night as my wounds healed themselves when I went into each one of their rooms and beat them senseless. I dragged all of them to the playground and found some drugs in a hidden stash in their room, and placed them in Robert's back pocket. I went back into my room with a smile. The next day I arose only to find out Robert, and the whole group was still at school.
I later found out that Robert's father had paid the school to keep the scandal private, which made me mad but it also means no one would know about Red Vengeance, giving me the ability to keep going.
