A Cold Snap

by reminiscent-afterthought

[AU] Tomoki doesn't speak anymore. His tears are silent, his bullying unnoticed. But silence can't last forever. Resentment might try. (Summary from Aiko)

10. 10

A Cold Snap
10.

It's a joke, really. They spill so much blood but because no-one ever sees, they get a slap on the wrist and that's only if someone believes me.

Someone almost dies, and I'm shut in my room for a week.

And honestly, it's a paradise.

It's a crazy world. It's not fair. It doesn't make sense.

Wasn't school supposed to brings things into perspective?

It hasn't. It's only skewered it entirely.

'He's in shock,' they say.

I'm not. Do they think I care? Of course I care. But Kanbara Shinya was a bully too and I only wished I'd done that at the beginning, so the rest hadn't followed through.