Pip was always treated as an outsider. He had always figured it was because he was a foreigner. But if that was true, then why weren't Gregory and Christophe treated as outcast as he was? Then he wondered if it was his appearance.
He was always very feminine, with his round face that always seemed to have a hint pink to it. His short blond hair fell round his face in a cute bob cut. His bangs ended just above his big sparkling blue eyes. His lips were thick and glossy like a girls. At a first glance, anyone could mistake him for a girl. Especially with his short, slim figure. He had very little likeness to the other boys.
He could understand if that discouraged them, but then why would they hang out with Butters? He was just as feminine as Pip was. And come to think of it, Kyle wasn't the most manliest of men. But both Kyle and Butters were very popular, despite their girly appearance.
It didn't seem fair to Pip. He tried his best to be liked by the other kids. He was nice to them, even though they used to spit in his face and call him names. He tried his best to find interest in the their interests, but to no luck. He had nothing in common with the other boys or girls in his grade.
They all seemed to notice this too, so they shunned him. They made him an outcast for his indifference's. He was doomed to go through school as a loner. That is, until Damien came back in eighth grade. Desperate for friendship, Pip jumped on the opportunity to snatch Damien away from all the cliques that would gladly accept him in and doomed him to the fate of an outcast. All this without Damien even knowing.
Pip approached him so casually and calmly it scared Damien. No one has ever acted so calmly to him, knowing what he was capable of. intrigued by how Pip was able to forgive him and still want to be his friend after what he had did to him back in forth grade, Damien decided to get closer to Pip, to see how he could break that happy spirit of his.
But as time passed and as the two got closer, Damien lost interest in trying to break the boy. Instead, he became Pip's best and only friend. By the time they got to high school, they were inseparable. You almost never saw one without the other. Damien towered over Pip as the walked together in the hallways. People called Damien Pip's shadow since he was always following him and always dressed in black while Pip dressed in all colors.
At the end of freshmen year, Damien realized his feelings for Pip. Horrified of these longing feelings, Damien did his best to hide them away. But during that summer, while at sleep away came with Pip, spending so much time with him, watching him swim, seeing him sweat in tight clothing, Damien realized that his feelings where too strong to conceal. He spent all that summer, junior year and up til now, to get Pip to notice his feelings. But with no luck. Pip was still so oblivious.
Damien had worked so hard to get Pip to notice his feeling and to get him to like him back, that it was an even bigger shock to him to see Pip wrap his arms around Craig and kiss him. It broke his heart to see all that unfold right in front of him. His broken heart resulted in blind anger. He remembered killing six people that day, not bothering to remember who, just because he was so angry.
He vowed that Craig would pay for steeling Pip from him, and he vowed that Pip would be his.
In the bathroom, Damien listened to Craig's story in horror. He knew Pip was depressed about having so little friends, but hearing all this from Craig made him wonder just how well he really knew Pip. Was he really this mischievous and clever? Was the sweet, shy Pip he knew just a lie? Or was Pip just so driven mad with loneliness that he stooped so low as to blackmail someone into going out with him just to make himself popular?
Wasn't Damien good enough for him? Or did he want more? More then what Damien could give him?
Damien didn't know. He didn't know anything. But he was willing to do anything to get his Pip back.