"Kid, what happened?"
Kid sat there staring at the group in front of him. All eyes were plastered on him and he couldn't stand the thought of the pitying looks his friends will give him if they find out what actually happened. 'Oh god, oh god I can't tell them what happened! I've got to think of something to tell them...' Kid thought to himself freaking out on the inside while the expression on his face remained impassive.
Tusbaki saw Kid's hesitation and slowly got up from where she had been seated making her way steadily over to Kid. She reached out her hand to place on his shoulder in hopes of comforting him. Kid flinched away as her palm slightly grazed his shoulder. Tusbaki was shocked at her friends action, instantly sending a worried glance over to Liz and Patty. "Kid, it's okay...you can tell us." Liz said as she locked eyes with Kid. Buried in those golden eyes she could see the pained, sorrowful expression in them.
"It's nothing to worry about." Kid finally said as he glanced around at his friends. "Really, there's nothing to worry about." he tried to reassure the group with a small smile, although they could see it was definitely a fake one.
Patty became slightly angry her usual bubbly personality had vanished. "We find you in a pool of your own blood half dead on the streets and you call that nothing!" she hissed out, gaining shocked looks from some of the members of the group from her sudden outburst.
"Yeah Kid you can't call that nothing." Soul piped in worry clearly expressed in the statement.
Kid stood up slightly angry at his friend prying into what he clearly didn't want to talk about. "I said it was nothing so just leave me alone! Why show the sudden interest now anyway? Why?" Kid yelled at the group as he ran out the door holding trying but failing to hold back sobs. Yes, these ambushes had been going on for a few months now and the sudden interest in it, the fact that they hadn't even noticed pained Kid. He couldn't take it and didn't want to break down in front of them, burden them. So he did the next best thing he could think of, he ran.
Everyone shared the same shocked expressions when Kid had ran out the door. "What did he mean by sudden interest?" Maka questioned.
"H-had this happened before?" Liz looked around at the group, slight panic in her voice. The group then went into a panic asking more unanswered questions. Soul quietly slipped out of the apartment determined to find Kid and find out what happened to him.
Kid ran down the streets tears streaming down his face. He could hear the faint sound of someone calling his name but that only terrified him and persuaded him to move faster. He came to his mansion, darting through the front door up the stairs and into his room of perfect symmetry. He locked himself in there for the weekend refusing to open the door to anyone.
To say Soul was worried would be an understatement. Kid had refused to emerge from is room the whole weekend. It was now a Monday and he had confirmed with Liz and Patty that Kid would be going to school today. 'Maybe I'll finally get to know what's wrong...' Soul thought as he trekked up the steps of DWMA, he decided to go early leaving Maka to walk by herself.
Maka had been worried about Soul, ever since the accident with Kid Soul had been slightly depressed. So when he told her that he was heading to school early she let it slide with no questions asked. She thought it was quite sweet how much Soul cared for Kid.
Soul ran into the DWMA smiling. As he entered he saw Kid standing with Liz, Patty, Tusbaki, and Black Star. Kid was smiling which instantly sent a rush of relief through Soul. Right before he got a chance to talk with Kid they had to head off to class.
Kid entered the cafeteria and saw his group of friends sitting at one of the far tables. Kid sat down with Soul on his left, Patty across from him. Everyone was doing the best they could to avoid the event that had taken place on Friday and Kid was grateful for that. Every thing was going as usual everyone was laughing at Black Stars sudden stupidity of trying to drink milk through his nose, winding up with him covered in milk and saying things along the lines of "This shouldn't happen to the surpassed of God!"
Kid hadn't noticed when a group of students approached him and his friends until it was too late. "Hey faggot!" one of them called.
"Yeah freak, we never got to finish talking to you last week." the leader of the group spoke up as he took a step closer to Kid.
The group was in shock, they all stared wide eyed at the group in front of them and their audacity to speak to Kid in such a way.
"Why don't you come with us and we can finish our conversation outside, alone." Kid's face went pale as he stared at the group leader in fear. Yes, these were the same group of people that had been harassing Kid for the past few months.
Patty shot up out of her chair, clearly angry. "Don't talk to Kid like that you bastard!" she practically yelled. Right before her fist went to collide with the guy's stomach she froze as the next words fell from the guys lips.
"I can talk to that OCD freak however I want!"
"Yeah, he's just some gay faggot scum!" one said spitting out the words followed by sinister laughs from the group.
"He's nothing but a gay, asymmetrical, OCD faggot!" the leader hissed in Kid's face. Patty and the others were speechless all staring at Kid.
"Oh so he didn't tell you?" the leader said in a sinister tone. "What a shame, now gay boy didn't even tell his so called friends." laughing bitterly he uttered. "Hope we left you lots of scares, and don't worry if they fade we'll replace them." the group of teens walked away laughing triumphantly.
"Kid..." Liz said, everyone in the cafeteria was now staring at Kid. Tears were streaming down his face, his eyes red and puffy. Kid shot up out of his seat and dashed out of the cafeteria sobbing.
As Kid was running out of the cafeteria Soul heard people say "Gay faggot.", "What a freak.", "Fag.", and laughing. Soul was furious with the way people were treating and responding to this, he wasn't the only one all of his friends were furious too. Soul remembered the look on Kid's face, the tears, his pained expression. In an instant Soul was out of the cafeteria running after Kid.
