Thank you all for the lovely reviews x
I will be touching on his lack of food soon, Im still giving him a back story at the moment. Which I hope you don't mind, it's to give a feel of why he's unhappy on the inside.
Will had a rough time in school. From when he started as a small child, to the moment he graduated from university.
He was subjected to emotional abuse, from both staff and students at his primary school. He learned a hard lesson from the age of 4 that you really can't trust anyone. It wasn't until 5th year, that things started to get personal.
The teacher he had was undoubtedly abusive. She blamed him for everyone else's mistakes, screamed at him like he was an animal and the discipline she gave him surely wasn't ethical. She also seemed to take satisfaction from humiliating him.
Will didn't realise it was abuse until years later. By that time he was getting horrific flashbacks from the situation. It wasn't just that singular teacher. It was others too, he vividly recalled being dragged to the front of the assembly hall, his arm almost popped out of a socket from the force of which he was dragged.
He remembered accidentally cursing one day (because he was allowed at home) The punishment he got from that, you wouldn't even give to a college student. He spent the next 5 months of the school year on a table on his own, facing the wall. Not allowed to turn around or speak to anyone.
After that, Will was put on a table with 3 other students. They were far from nice to him, seemingly helping the teacher in her vendetta against him. They made up things about him to get him in trouble, called him 'Weird child' and generally caused him more pain than a 10yr old should ever have to go through.
There was an annual trip for the 5th and 6th years. It was a few days out on an outdoor adventure course. Will was so excited to go! but nervous because he'd never spent time away from his parents before.
Upon arriving at the place, it looked amazing, but the experience itself was far from it. Staff and students bullied him the entire time, leaving him to cry himself to sleep at one point.
He shared a room with 10 other boys, who were all being noisy, keeping everyone awake. The teachers knew it was more than one person but decided to blame it all on Will anyway and take an hour off his scheduled bedtime the next night. So whilst everyone else was having fun, the teachers took way too much glee in telling everyone that he had to go to bed early because 'He couldn't behave' When in fact, Will had barely made any noise the previous night.
On that same night, there was a massive queue for the shower. Will didn't want a shower, because he didn't feel comfortable but the staff made him anyway! When he finally got in there, two boys banged on the door and demanded he get out of the shower immediately and clean his portion of their room. He couldn't ignore them as they kept shouting, so unwillingly he got dressed and headed back to the room with them.
Upon seeing his side of the room clean, he realised it was a setup.
After that, he never went on a school trip again.
By the age of 11, Will was depressed. He no longer tried to defend himself against this monster he called a teacher and just took whatever she threw at him. He was no longer in her group, but she still got to him.
He had a small group of friends in the 6th year. Until they decided to shut him out for no reason and make him apologise for something he hadn't done.
High school was totally different for Will, he stayed quiet in year 7, but in year 8 he lost it. He hated teachers by this point (Can you blame him?) — and wasn't afraid to disrespect them anymore. He got into numerous physical fights with other students, screamed at support staff and jumped over the fence multiple times in order to run home and escape what he described as hell.
Will hated lessons, he lacked the ability to sit still most of the time and he was struggling to concentrate as well as the other students. So, he usually got himself removed from lessons for playing up or didn't show up to them at all.
He got 42 detentions in 8th year, mostly for his language, attitude and his non-existent ability to wear a tie.
He ultimately got thrown out of high school, a week into 9th year. For hitting someone with a metal bin. Numerous younger students had crowded him in the locker area, against the wall and we're shouting at him. He just picked up the nearest thing he could find to defend himself and used it.
At the age of 15, he was sent to a school for emotionally unstable teenagers. It was something he'd never seen before in his life. People were allowed to smoke on the school grounds, there was no uniform and no timetabled lessons.
Compared to high school, the place was mad. People, obviously we're there for their issues to be solved. Some had severe anger issues and took it out on everyone. Whilst others we're totally chill and off their face on drugs!
Will made some good friends there and for the first time in his life, he trusted teachers! Everyone became like family to him in some way.
Obviously, there were a few 'Incidents' there with other students. For example, a very angry young lady pushed him to the ground and threatened to kill him. It took 10 members of staff to fully restrain her in the end. Will did laugh that off, saying he was more upset about his cigarette falling to the ground than the actual violence towards him.
Something happened at that school, that he would never forget. His first-ever kiss! Yes, 15 is a late age to have a first kiss, but Will had never met the right person or a person to wanted to come near him.
He was hanging out with a female student in the lounge, watching a movie. When she asked him 'When was your last kiss?' — He shyly replied 'I'll let you know, If It ever happens'
She obviously took that the wrong way. Later on, she was determined to give the staff the slip and kiss him. Will was totally unaware of her plans.
(There were no rules at that school apart from no physical contact. Sexual or otherwise, so that's why she wanted the staff out of the way)
Will was relatively new at the school at that point, so was totally clueless of what people were like.
She made him follow her around a corner. After seeing nobody was around, she pinned him up against the wall and (passionately) kissed him. It was definitely against his will, but he couldn't move to break away from her. He was frozen on the spot, not knowing what to do for at least 2 minutes. (She had definitely taken advantage of his innocence)
He finally did break away from her and walked briskly away, not bringing up the situation for 2yrs afterwards — and after the person in question had left the school.
In the present day, Will is often going to bars and using his job to win over the ladies. He barely goes a day without having sex. Whether it's with a nurse, a random woman in a bar or someone he's chatted up on the bus ride home.
He's never been in a relationship, he doesn't feel the need to. Ever since that day when he was 15, he's always needed to be in control of what's going on with his love life. He's always feared that a relationship will take all of the control away from him and he'll end up being forced to do things he doesn't want to do.
All of his friends are in relationships, or were in relationships — Married, divorced or with kids. They weren't still hitting the clubs and getting drunk.
Casual sex was great in Will's eyes, but he was beginning to get bored. The older he got, the more painful his hangovers became.
but no matter how many times he said he'd stop partying, he'd always end up in bed with a stranger and a with a huge hangover to boot.
Thanks for getting this far, let me know what you think or if you want more x
