Chapter 4: A memory of pain..

~I hold my breath,

as this life begins to take it toll,~

The first day back to school was nothing really special. Though rumor had it there was a new exchange student at the school now. All the girl were whispering but, Lucy. She sat against the wall of the gym like most of the other kids but didn't mingle. All her friends had gone on focus programs that year leaving her to rot away at a school that seemed to reject her for one or more reasons.

The principal had gained weight again that summer. He walked over to the podium and cleared his throat to get everyone's attention but, everyone keep talking away.

"Settle down...Settle down," His dreamy/sleepy voice would put anyone on caffeine to sleep, " I'd like to introduce our new exchanged student from England," Lucy rolled her eyes, like anyone was going to stop talking to listen to him. Lucy prepared herself for his 'plan 2' and covered her ears as the bull horn rang through the gym. Everyone screamed, covering their ears.

"As I was trying to say, I'd like to introduce our new exchange student from England," Lucy didn't bother looking up as all the girls squealed... British boys were in that year, "This is Aescuridao Caiu, he'll be with us for the year and I'd like you all to make him feel comfortable."

Lucy looked up when she felt someone's eyes burning into her head, her eyes came to the stage where the exchange student was standing, staring at her. It was him... That guy she helped...but wasn't that just a dream?

Dao turned away and waved to a few girls.

*

"Sir, I'd like to join the exchange program."
"Caiu, you've never took an interest in muggle studies before."
"Yes, well... I've had a change of 'heart' over the break."
"I see, well you're lucky there's one spot left for the trip..."

Perfect...

*

"Aescuridao, can we call you Dao?"
"You're soo cute, wanna go out?"
"What do you put in your hair to make it so shiny?"
Dao smiled and began to answer the girls questions but stopped as they turned the corner bumping into someone.

"Watch where you're going, freak!" yelled one of the girls.

Lucy paused for a moment and began to pick up her things, that were now scattered across the floor.

"Hey, say you're sorry!" yelled another.

Lucy reached out for her glasses but stopped when one of the girl's stepped on them.

"Come on, Luz." purred one of the girl's smirking, "Say you're sorry, bitch!" Lucy didn't look at her but at her glasses that were now bent and destroyed under the girl's foot. Dao could feel the angry rippling off of the girl as she tried to control it.

"Could you please get off my glasses?"

"Idiot!" A girl with blonde hair kicked her, sending her a few feet, "Don't ask questions. Do as you're told... You're not as tough without your stupid little friends with you."

Lucy quickly got up now showing everyone she was indeed ticked, "Don't you dare talk about my friends that way!"

The blonde girl smiled, "What are you going to do about it?" Lucy gripped her fists together and then loosed them over and over, "What are you going to do? Punch me like you did poor Josh?"

Lucy froze her eyes widening and she held her breath at the memory and looked at her feet, "It was an accident!" She yelled running down the hall, tears flowing down her face as she did so.

"Come back here-"

"Let her go," The blonde said.

"But, Damara-"

"That's enough for one day," Damara turned to face Dao, "That'd be Lucy. She's a freak."

"More like an alien!" Another girl said.

"I see," Dao said picking up her glasses.
*

"What happened to Josh??" Dao asked during lunch.

"It happened during a field trip in grade 8."

"I remember that," Sara said, "Josh made a joke about Lucy, thinking she wasn't around. But she was and she attacked him... But her fists...They were glowing..."

"Her eyes were red..." Damara said.

"She set Josh to the hospital... Josh died a few days later..." Tara said wrapping an arm around her twin Sara.

"I'm so sorry..." Dao said.
"Josh is in a better place... I just wish we could have had more time together," Damara said playing with the ring on finger.

She's already killed someone... He thought looking out the window as it began to rain.

*
Lucy ran past the teachers and students and pushed open the double doors, until she got to the Sydenham beach, where she fell cutting her knee and elbow.

It wasn't my fault... I don't even remember most of it... I didn't kill him... I didn't kill him... I DIDN'T KILL HIM!

Nature seemed to react to Lucy's pain. Clouds began to form and rained on her wounded body. She got to her knees and threw back her head crying to the heavens, "I DIDN'T KILL HIM!" But, something inside her told her, she did...she did kill him. Even since then, her life had become a living hell. Sure, the girls had picked on her before...But, after word came that Josh died in the hospital, the girls were cruel and didn't care how far they went with hurting her. How she felt, what she did, it'd never repay the sin she had done.

Lucy heard the bells for the end of school but, didn't move. She let the rain wash her body clean of the blood she couldn't wash off. No matter what she did, she couldn't get Damara to forgive her...

Dao sat on the Summer Daycare building down at the Point, watching her weep. She's a suffering animal and I'm the one who will put her out of her misery but, not yet....

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