Prologue: Gauge
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A/N: Im so sorry. I decided to wait until finals were over and stuff. God, im so so sorry. But school was just so hard. But its going to be a year soon! Expect a lot of updates this summer, stories ending (sniff) but new stories coming!Once again im so sorry Oh and I got sick. And got pumped with drugs. Or I would have worked harder to update last week.
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Mitchie grew.
Shane didnt.
He was staring up at her.
As he waited in line.
She hit puberty.
He didnt.
He felt so small.
Useless.
He sighed kicking at the ground with his small shoes.
Hers were larger.
Everything about her was larger.
He shrunk back into the line.
He felt so awkward.
Every year when they came back he felt like he didnt change at all.
But there was always something different about Mitchie.
She was always so exuberant.
Changing.
It was exciting.
He was dull.
Colorless.
And that must be why he was always ignored.
Why he was the one that blended into the walls.
It actually angered him a bit.
For years he never once became angry at a single thing.
He was so cool headed.
But now.
He was stuck in the past.
Forgotten.
And he could feel his temper slowly rising at that realization.
He felt like there was a guage inside him.
Slowly being turned higher.
And higher.
And higher.
He ran off.
He crawled into himself.
Kids laughed.
He lay there and the gauge turned higher.
A kid sat in front of him and giggled poking him in the face yelling to everyone else.
"Look its Shane the roly-poly. Hes crying because hes a shrimp!"
And Shane lost it.
He crawled out of himself slowly.
The children still laughing.
And he grabbed the kid's shoulders.
And shoved him to the ground.
He sat on him as he yelled at him banging his head into the ground.
He was cursing and screeching.
The other kids ran off to go be tattle tales.
The one who go in Shane's face was crying.
And bleeding.
And Shane ignored him.
He ignored the one person that didnt go to tattle.
Mitchie standing there staring.
Shocked that Shane of all people would be so violent.
She stood there standing until peer mediators told her to leave.
She nodded, still in shock, and ran away.
Shane continued to bash the kids head in until teachers grabbed him and dragged him to the principals office.
And he sat in the uncomfortable plastic chair waiting.
He growled at the slivers of blood on his hands.
The hands beating red from working so hard.
On hurting someone else.
He glowered at the principal as he lectured Shane.
And how he told Shane this and that.
And how he could go to jail if charges were pressed.
Shane didnt care.
He was angry.
And he didnt give a damn what anyone thought.
Those kids knew exactly what he did.
He was small.
They were all giants.
Shane weighed no more then 80 pounds.
That kid he beat up.
He weighed close to 120.
But the anger.
The jealousy.
It just overtook him.
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Mitchie couldnt believe what she had seen.
She saw Shane.
That sweet little boy who always seemed to be nice to everyone.
Pound another kid into unconciousness.
It was scary.
She stared at her hands.
They were shaking.
With fear.
She had never seen such a disturbing thing before.
That blood.
It was everywhere.
It was even splattering on Shane.
She felt a shiver run down her spine.
She ignored the teacher as she stood at the front of the class lecturing them about what Shane had done was wrong.
And dangerous.
He could have killed that kid.
That was all that Mitchie heard.
And jail.
Those thoughts rang through her head.
Shane almost killing someone.
Shane may go to jail.
It was just to much.
Shane of all people.
It was so scary to see him do that.
He just snapped.,
Mitchie took in a deep breath.
It was scary to know that it was Shane who did that.
And he was capable to do it again.
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Shane was getting suspension.
And a trial.
The parents of that kid were pissed off.
They wanted him to be punished.
They didtnt care who started it.
It was their little angel in the hospital.
And Shane was going to pay.
Shane still didnt care.
The reality was that he really WAS facing jail time now.
But that didnt shake him.
Until one thought hit him.
If hes in jail.
He wont be able to send Mitchie her gifts.
And that was the one thing that made him regret how he snapped on the playground.
And now he just wanted to take it back.