Till I'm Gone
Sora Matasuki
Chapter Six
Ordinary Gifted - OG - joined chat at - 12:17 PM -
OG: Hi. Um… I'm Ordinary Gifted and I guess you're my partner?
OG: For the social project?
For school?
Um… hello?
Highcrest TOmoko - HT - joined chat at - 12:21 PM -
HT: HI!
OG: Oh wow. I wasn't expecting you to respond so fast.
HT: hehe… sorry… Anyways it's nice to meet you! You can call me Tomoko~
OG: Oh yeah, the anonymity thing. Well
Ordinary Gifted - OG - is idle - 12:32 PM -
Hiro let out a pained yelp as he was slammed into the wall. Sensing trouble, the twelve year old quickly stuck his already buzzing phone into his pocket.
"Watch where you're going, nerd." one of the culprits sneered. Hiro scowled and rubbed his bruised and aching shoulder.
"What you looking at, nerd." the ringleader, the boy from Homeroom (what was his name? Andrews? That sounded right.) sneered.
Hiro hated it, but they terrified him. "Heh-hey… gu-guys… haven't yo… beaten me up enough for the week?" Hiro's voice squeaked in his terror and the three towering freshmen looked at each other and laughed. Hiro flinched at the noise, knowing he looked pathetic.
"Like you can stop us, nerd." Andrews sneered, and suddenly, Hiro found himself firmly in the grasp of Andrews' two little cronie side kicks and being dragged down the hall.
"Hey! No! Let me go! I haven't done any-" the twelve year old was cut off by a punch to the gut, leaving him bent over and gagging, his legs nearly collapsing from underneath him. The only reason why Hiro's face didn't greet the floor like an old excitable friend was the harsh grip held on his arms, making him cry out breathlessly as they were wrenched painfully backwards due to the first and third laws of physics.
"Don't you - ow ow ow ow - think that - ow! - this is a little uncalled for?" Hiro's voice raised in pitch until it broke at the end, leaving him shaking and his feet dragging.
"Be quiet nerd." one of the bullies sneered and Hiro let out a pained huff.
"Seriously? Isn't there some other derogatory word you could use to describe me?" Hiro asked sarcastically. Then the twelve year old looked up and realized just where they were heading.
"Oh no… NO! Stop! Please, no!" Hiro cried out, trying to get his feet under him so as to halt their trek towards one of the places he'd feared to be forced to go into ever since the beginning. A whimper escaped his lips as the sign for the boy's bathroom came into view, his breath catching in his throat.
Wildly, Hiro cast hs eyes about the hall, trying to see if there was anyone close enough to help him if he yelled. The hallway was crowded, and through the fog of panic in Hiro's mind, he cursed lunch hour.
Andrews pushed open the door leading into the boy's bathroom and Hiro found himself unable to breathe. Panic froze his chest despite how it spasmed while trying to get in enough air.
"So Nerd, ever consider taking a swim?" the fifteen year old freshman asked the struggling twelve year old, a twisted smirk on his face.
"Please dont!" Hiro begged, eyes wide with terror.
"Should've done our homework, nerd." the ringleader sneered, opening the handicapped stall.
"You earned that grade, Andrews!" Hiro gasped, sounding braver than he actually felt.
Andrews leaned close to Hiro's sweaty face. "Because of you, I'm having to retake the class." he hissed.
"You did nothing, you can't expect to pass a class by just skating through and doing no work at all-" Hiro's head snapped to the side, his cheek and jaw burning from the backhand. Andrews stepped back further into the bathroom stall.
"Let's take him swimming, guys."
A coldness filled Hiro's gut. "No!" he yelled, grunting as the second cronie hit him in the solar plexus, making him go limp as he gasped for breath.
Using the chance the temporary limpness bought them, the two mooks dragged him into the stall and Andrews shut and locked the door behind them all. By this time, Hiro was crying from the overwhelming terror he was feeling, and that made the bullies laugh.
"Aw… is the lill' nerd scawered?" one of his tormentors teased, just before Andrews nodded and suddenly Hiro found his arms pinned behind him and he was forced to his knees.
"I h-hate you." Hiro hissed up at his tormentors, tears of terror still streaming down his cheeks as he glared.
"Like you'll do anything about it, you wimp." Andrews laughed as his hand fisted around Hiro's shaggy hair. That was the only warning Hiro got before his head was completely submerged in the toilet water.
Air bubbles escaped his lips as he fought to not scream, his weak struggles growing weaker as his head grew light and fuzzy. His lungs were screaming in pain. He was yanked up and the twelve year old took a deep gasping breath, dark brown hair black and matted to his forehead. He was sobbing. "S-stop! No!" he cried out just before he was dunked back in.
The third and final time they did this, his tormentors flushed the toilet and held him there as he thrashed, choking and screaming into swirling water as it moved his soaking shaggy hair around. Just as the toilet was filling back up, he was yanked out, spluttering. Hiro's tormentors dumped him onto the ground, dripping and their fading laughter echoing in his ringing ears.
"Did you video it?" one of Andrews cronies asked eagerly and the ringleader's affirmative sent shockwaves of horror through Hiro's entire body.
The twelve year old shook violently, retching and curling in on himself as water and tears streamed down his face, content to remain in his position on the bathroom floor if it prevented him from being seen by the whole school populous.
"Post it onto your wall and see how many 'likes' it gets!"
Hiro felt sick as he heard them finally leave the bathroom. His phone buzzed again, and Hiro nearly jumped out of his skin. He'd forgotten about his social project partner…
Ordinary Gifted - OG- is idle - 12:32 PM -
HT: Hello?
HT: Hey…
HT: Um…
Are you okay?
Well obviously, you're not OK but…
is there something I can do?
Are you still there?
Gift (is it okay if I call you Gift), did I do something wrong?
HT: If so I'm REALLY sorry!
Ordinary Gifted - OG - is now active - 12:45 -
OG: I'M SO SORRY DON'T HATE ME
I JUST GOT DISTRACTED AND
CAUGHT YP
*UP
AGH… PHONE WHY NOW OF ALL TIMES?
And
OG: yeah, it's okay
to call me Gift
I mean
HT: YAY! haha! It's all good. I don't hate you.
You seem really adorable!
OG: ...Adorable?
HT: Is that okay? If I call you adorable?
Because my first impression with you is that you're adorable.
And I tend to type what I think.
Sorry if it offended you.
OG: oh no! I'm not offended, it just…
no one's really called me that except my aunt. So… I guess… it's okay?
HT: Well, I won't call you that all the time. I think Gift suits you better anyways!
OG: Tomoko, if you think that, then by all means keep calling me that!
HT: I think this is going to be a wonderful project. I'm glad I got partnered up with you, Gift.
Hiro stared at the blurry screen, biting his lip as a warmth he hadn't felt in a long time filled his chest and a different type of tear streamed down his soaked face. With a small smile, Hiro went about typing his own reply.
OG: Yeah… I am too. Thanks, Tomoko. You have no idea how wonderful your words are to me. Anyways, I gotta go. Talk to you later?
HT: Sure! I can't wait! :D
Ordinary Gifted - OG - left chat at - 1:12 PM -
AN: And that's the introduction of Eve to Hiro~! (I hope you don't mind Highcrest Tomoko that I used your username for Eve's chat handle, because you wanted to be inserted in... *sweatdrop*) And concerning fluffy Hamada bro fics after I'm done? I'd say I'll gladly do that because man do I need me some fluff after this fic is over! (It's been an emotional roller coaster let me tell you!) I hope I haven't made things worse for eveyone's emotional states...
Now, onto thank you's! Big thanks go to: DreamweaverAki, Aelita and Hiro, Highcrest Tomoko, BlueD, Guest, Silverstream (ah! oh no... I think I need to work on some flufflies, everyone's getting depressed! *flails*) , Snowflake, animebff13, Twinkles43534(is it bad that I read twinkies instead of twinkles for a minute?), LadyWendy101, Wheeee, Cartoonnerd13, TheShyShadow, darknessprincess1990, Escaping The Shadow, Person, BrokenWings2602, Treasured Sanctum, Belle, Poppes, Guest#2 (c'mere sweetie, lemme give you hugs, you poor thing. I hope I haven't made things worse for you... please tell me you're okay?), . (blinks, intresting name you have there friend, its very memorable), Chibi Atariel Tsukai, Koterre, aaaaand DisneyandWildKrattfangirl!
Sorry for answering some people and not others, just know I read ALL of your comments, I just don't have time to answer all of you! (TTATT)