Here's an angsty scene about Koa's bullying in Whoville High.
Chapter 20: New Scars
Koa walked alone towards the hallways to his class, but he tripped on the floor caused by a big who weighing at 189 pounds and is bigger than Koa. He stares at Koa very menacingly, which caused Koa to tremble a little. He grabs him by the arm and asked, "Freshmen meat."
Koa looked frightened to see his face and asked, "Can you put me down, please?"
"Why should I?" asked the bully.
"Because you're crushing my arm."
The bully then twists his arm, making him scream in agony and then, kicks him in the back and throws down on the floor. He comes at him and picks him up by the neck and said, "Listen, my name is Oliver Rudd and I'm the big bully on campus. If there's one thing I hate more than freshmen, it's emo freaks who's new to the school. So, you will have your last day here!"
"But I'm too young to die." Koa said, whimpering.
"Too bad!"
Oliver slams Koa's head repeatedly by slamming him in every locker and throws his body down and pushes him on the floor and kicks him in the stomach and then, he beats him down with a baseball bat, aiming directly at his back. Koa groaned in pain and he felt defenseless with every strike Oliver hits.
Suddenly. it was stopped by Jojo grabbing the bat before Oliver could do anything else. Oliver turned around and saw Jojo standing there.
"Leave Koa alone." Jojo said, angrily.
"Why should I take orders from an emo?" asked Oliver.
"He's my friend."
Oliver seethed at Jojo and asked, "And what if I don't?"
"I might tell the principal what you did."
"You wouldn't."
"Watch me."
Oliver knew that there was no way out of this, so he surrenders and puts the bat back in his bag and then looks at Koa and said, "Lucky your friend came to your rescue, but I will be back for you."
Oliver walks off angrily and Jojo looks at Koa and asked, "You all right?"
Koa groans in pain and looks at Jojo and tells him, "You didn't have to do that."
"I made a promise to you and Mana earlier, didn't I?"
Koa sighs heavily and said, "Thanks for helping me. No one really did that for me."
"No one?"
"See, I get most beatings from my dad over the little things, regardless if his day was good or bad, he would always take it out on me and there were some nights that I would be afraid to go to sleep knowing my dad would harm me in my sleep."
"That's gotta be terrible."
"And at school, it's worse than home. Most students torment me because I'm like this, just because they like to do it. I don't know why, but it seems as though they just can't accept me for the way I am, just because I dress like this all the time, does it make me emo? It's not it. It's just the way I am."
Hearing this made Jojo relate to Koa more and it seems as though he opens up a little and felt really sorry for him. He held his hand and said, "You're not alone."
"Dude, I feel alone. Anyway you look at it, I'm a loner. How can you understand?"
"Because I feel the same way you feel, as well as my friend, Zeke. I know what it's like for someone not accepting you, because you are what you are. And there's always someone trying to tear you down. Like you feel alone and defenseless."
Koa lowers his head and feels a tear coming in his eye and then, he rises his head and shows one tear on his face, looking at Jojo and Jojo tells him, "I'm sorry this happened to you."
"Well, it's not only me, my brother's the same. Whenever my dad couldn't find me, he'd always take my place in the beating. I was scared for him a lot." Koa explains.
While they were walking, they were shocked to see Mana being beaten down by jocks and kicking him, punching him and spitting at him. They run to him and Koa attempts to pull him out of there and ran for the hills. The jocks chase him down and runs towards another direction, unaware that Koa, Mana and Jojo were hiding in the boys' room. Jojo looked around and sees if the coast is clear.
They slowly walked out of there and try to get to their class. Mana looks at Jojo and said, "Thanks for saving me."
"No problem."
A couple of hours later, Jojo and Zeke were walking home from school, just talking and all when Koa and Mana joined in with them. Zeke told Koa, "Jojo told me about what happened to you earlier. I'm really sorry."
"It's all right." Koa said.
"Why do they always take it out on us for no reason?" asked Mana.
"I've been asking that same question." Zeke said.
"Some kids love to torture us, because on the inside, they're afraid to hide what's really deep inside of them." Jojo answered.
"Think that might be the answer?"
"Possibly."
Suddenly, Seth, Austin, Cody, Mike, Marcus and Chad followed them along and Cody told Koa, "Hey, man. Heard about what happened in the hallway. If they were here now, I would've fought them back, did some kung who style on all of them."
"Mana got beaten too." Jojo said.
"Whoa, really?" asked Chad.
"Why do they always take it out on the new kids?" asked Seth.
"Your answer's as good as ours." replied Mana.
"Jojo came for us when he did." Koa said.
"Well, hey. I got your back, don't I?" asked Jojo.
"Yeah, I guess you do."
"I can relate to how they beat you up. Coming from Whatropolis, I know what it's like to be bullied for just being myself, because so many people judge us by looking at us and not seeing who we really are as a person." Marcus explained.
"I never knew that." Cody said.
"I kinda kept it to myself."
"Hopefully, we'll all do something together soon." Mike said.
"We will."
"Sorry if you guys' first day wasn't like you expected." Chad said.
"I'm a little nervous about going back home." Mana said.
"Why?"
"Our dad." he replied, in fear.
"How come?"
"He always beat us and abuses us really cruel-like." Koa said.
"That's horrible." Mike said.
"Does he take on both of you together or separately?" asked Austin.
"Separately." Mana said.
"That's rough."
"I know."
"You've got us, right?" asked Cody.
"Yeah..."
"We always have each other's back for everything and you can count on us for anything."
"I guess you're right."
Angsty, I know. There's more where that came from, so stay tuned!