(Nelson)
*WHAM* the only noise I heard as I was being pushed against the hard concrete walls of my school. The sharp piercing pain in my back as all the materials flowed out of my backpack. I couldn't see anything else but the large amount of people circling around us chanting for a good fight, one that I was not going to deliver. As my vision came back to me, it was greeted by a fist hurdling towards my face. Again my vision became hazy as a blurred face came across my eyes. “Anything else you want to say, you little fucking prick.” Derrick had said.
“All I asked was for you to improve your attitude a little bit!!” I said with the little breath I had.
“Well, hows this for an attitude adjustment” He said as a knee reached my chest.
All breath was out of me and everyone stood there just laughing and no one came to help. “Next time just keep it to yourself” Derrick said as he left me on the floor to gasp for air. As my vision came back everyone was pretty much gone and there were only Derrick and his friends just about to walk away. Even though I was in extreme pain I happened to notice something strange in the distance. Not strange as in something totally out there and that doesn't seem possible, no it was as simple as sadness in someones face I would not expect to see from a person who I thought could have no heart. “Yo Derrick you should that kid who's fucking boss huh?” one of Derrick’s friends said.
“Yea.... Yea I did” Derrick said with a sorrowful tone as he kept walking.
“What seems to be the problem you still mad at that kid HUH!!! Oh ill show him Not to mess with my man Derrick HEY KID YOU STILL GON...........” Derrick’s other friend was saying as he was cut off by Derrick.
“Just leave him alone damnet, enough been done to him all right!!!” he said with a very agitated tone in his voice.
“All right bro just saying if he lays another hand on you I will personally kick his a....”
“BRO JUST STOP TALKING ABOUT IT all right DAMNET!!!!!!” Derrick had said as he stormed off into the distance till I couldn't see him anymore.
I had actually overheard this whole conversation and I could tell by his tone that something was wrong. I wanted to know what and I wanted to know why and truthfully I knew something devastating was to happen to him on this very night.
(Derrick)
“I don't know why I do it all right I have no reason to hurt anyone.” I thought this as I stormed down the hallway to get to the parking lot.
“That kid didn't deserve any of the treatment I gave to him, if I wasn't just so fucking worried about how I want people to perceive me. What I'm doing to that kid is the exact thing I'm trying to avoid all right” I thought to my self again as I made it to my car and sat in the seat.
I drove off and found a place where no one was in sight, a very rural place in the outskirts of town that I went from time to time. I put my car in park and stood there for a couple of seconds. Before I even knew it I was crying my heart out, I couldn't even slightly control my emotions. I let them out, and they came out like a rain storm. I knew what I was doing was wrong and I don't have a family to thank to tell my what I'm doing is wrong. In my family your on your own no one talks to you and no one helps you. You find your own way and no one gives a shit about how good your doing in school and just how your day is, that is except for my dad.
My dad is the type of person who doesn't care about school and all that stuff he just sets rules and you obey them. If you break his rules he doesn't take to that kindly. A lot of times at night I can hear him beating my sister or it could be my mom and I usually try to avoid it but you cant forever.
Tonight I decided to stay out late I really needed time to reflect on my life and to see where I'm going with it and I can tell I'm not going to go that far with it. It was getting late so I finally decided to go home. I looked around and saw all the beet down trailers in my neighborhood, the smell of sewage and the rusted metal that seem to lie everywhere. I pulled up to my house walked in and only saw my dad, sitting there looking at me with his angered face.
“Where were you just now?”
“Oh no where just thinking about a lot of things.”
“I don't think you heard me right I said where the fuck were you. Do you even realize what time it is right now!!”
I glanced down at the time and shit it was 2:00 AM the time slipped by me.
“Ok I'm a little passed curfew please just don't be upset ok its just.......”
“OHHHH don't be upset its not the millionth time I heard that one before. Now tell me where were you?!?!?!”
This is a part of my life that I can honestly say I will not regret what I said or what I did, this is where my life changed forever. “Look dad I was just relaxing outside of town a little bit its no bi....” And before I couldn't even get a word in edge wise he slapped me wide across the face with his belt causing excruciating pain and blood to drip from my face. This is and was the final straw.
“How did that feel HUH do you feel all better huh!!! Now get out of my face I don't want to hear any more of your shit.”
“You know what dad I will get out you face. And you know what I'm gonna do you a favor, I'm gonna GET OUT OF YOUR LIFE!!!!!!” I hollered as a ran up stairs and quickly started packing a bag and getting supplies for a life I had no idea was to come.
“OHH where you gonna go huh you have no friends and you have no place to go huh where you gonna go!!!!!!!!”
“Ill find some place all right just, just SHUT UP!!!!!!!!” I said seriously angered with my father as I packed my Iphone, food, liquids, and a tent set I had prepared for a camping trip. I had prepared for a camping trip to go on with my family one day.
“O. YEA LIKE YOULL FIND SOMEONE TO TAKE YOU IN WHEN YOU ACT LIKE A FUCKING MISBEHAVED LITTLE SHI.........” Before I let him finished a punched him across the face as I quickly ran out the door, got in my car and drove off, but right before I left the driveway I saw my sister, and my mom staring at me. I waved a farewell to them and who knew that would be the last time I would ever see them.