December 19th, 2000
Dear Nagi-chan,
I got beat up again in school today. Well, I mean, that isn't unusual. I get beat up in school all the time, I just thought that I should tell you about this one.
It was a pretty normal day today. I was eating my lunch alone when the bullies decided to come over. I was trying to be polite so I said "Do you need something?" They got right to the insulting! They didn't even answer my question. :[ But anyway, they said in that mean mocking voice "Aww, poor dame-Tsuna is sitting alone again! Where are your friends? Oh right, you don't have any!" As usual (this has happened before, so it was almost an automatic response) I said "I have friends!" In response, they said "Right! Where's your little girlfriend?"
Okay, that may sound a little weird, I know, but they're big mean bullies who don't listen. I never said you were my girlfriend, please don't think I was lying! I mean, this conversation has happened a lot so one time I told them about you. They thought I was lying since they said a loser like me could never possibly be friends with a girl. I think they're just jealous because none of the girls in our class talk to them.
Back to the story, I didn't respond, because I was trying really hard not to cry and look weak in front of them. You know, because… I remembered where you were.
"Yeah, where is she?" one of them said, while the other laughed and said "Remember guys? She isn't real!" and stuff about how I'm a loser blah blah blah. They were punching me at this point (and they took my lunch!) because I was back-talking them or something. And then I couldn't take it anymore and I started crying. Not because it hurt (it did) but because they kept egging on that stupid question. "Where is she, huh? Where is she?"
They were laughing so hard at me. Then, when one of them said "Where is she to save you now, loser?" I screamed in their face, "She's dead." That caught them off guard long enough for me to escape and run away to my hiding place. I cried for the rest of lunch and skipped out on my 4th period class. It kinda… well, it kinda really hurts to say it. I never had to say it before, and this was the first time. It really, really, really hurts. I cried for a whole hour, even though I was telling myself not to.
You should have seen their faces though, they were kinda funny. Like they had come to the realization that you actually were a real person, and they were just beating up a kid whose friend just died. Ha, like they ever knew how it felt to have that happen to them! I wonder if they were thinking about it at all for the rest of the day.
But anyway, it's been 14 days. That's two whole weeks already. And guess what? Beside today, I haven't cried in the past three days!
Look, Nagi-chan. I'm getting stronger.
-Tsuna
