The School Bully

“Stupid! Stupid! You’re all stupid” I slammed my fist against the desk then leaned my head back. “I don’t even know why I’m in this school, everyone is too dense for their own good.”

“Mr. Kataoka, please keep your thoughts within your head during class.”

I lifted my head back up, only to see Ms. Noya’s sour-puss face and everyone in class staring at me in disgust. “Can I help any of you!?” The girl in the second seat of the third row huffed and turned around. I swear I could’ve heard her call me an imbecile under her breath.

I chuckled and leaned forward on my desk, “the only imbecile, is your father for creating you!” Her head snapped back to look at me, and everyone gasped as if they hadn’t heard worse.

“That’s enough! Ayato Kataoka, you are dismissed from my class this instant!” I could feel the floor shake from the pound of her fist on the chalkboard, she didn’t even turn to face me. I got up, grabbed my bag, and started walking through the aisle of giggling idiots.

The redheaded chimp looking girl, who had freckles all over her face like someone threw mud on her, whispered under her breath, “serves you right, freak…” I stopped dead in my tracks when the four-eyed boy with grass allergies snorted out a remark, “they should just expel him.”

I leaned onto his desk and whispered inches from his gross snotty face, “how about I earn that expulsion by punching you so hard it will take a surgeon to take those glasses out of your face?” He instantly swallowed hard and reached for his inhaler. I laughed hard and walked myself out, “see you tomorrow Ms. Noya.” I turned to watch her skin crawl from calling her by her ex-husband’s last name.

As I walked myself out of school, I threw my hands behind my head and leaned my head back to look at the clouds rolling into the sky for a nice storm. “Better get home quickly.” As I walked, I saw two older kids hanging out, a girl with ugly purple hair feeding a preppy boy dango. “Gross. I wouldn’t be caught dead acting like that in public, plus all the girls here are ugly and dumber than rocks.” I sighed and kept walking; I could hear the thunder starting to rumble. Thinking I had more time, it started to downpour, and I was already soaked, so I started to run to the nearest Lawson. When I got in, I shook my head of the water that built up. “Might as well buy something.” I scoured the shelves for strawberry pocky, my favorite snack. As I gathered a few boxes, I could hear a girl giggling by the ramen section. “Everyone should be in school… who could that annoying sound be.” As I went to walk out of the aisle to see, she appeared before my eyes, Ayame Nagata.

“Kataoka! It’s you!”

I always dreaded to see her face. “I must be in gremlin hell…”

Even after insulting her, she smiled cheerfully and continued to speak. “I assume you got kicked out of school again! What for this time?”

I rolled my eyes heavily, “why are you still talking… you’re going to make my ears bleed.”

She giggled and pointed at the pocky boxes in my arms. “Oh, you must have a thing for strawberry pocky, huh? I’ll remember that!”

I turned around and started walking away, when I said all the girls around here are dumber than rocks, Ayame Nagata is the worst of them all. Though she comes from a prestigious family and ranks as the smartest student in our grade, she has this odd obsession with me even though I bag on her every time she approaches me, and she continuously tells me that when a boy is mean to a girl, he likes them. This is the exact reason why she is the leader of the rock brains. If what she said was true, then that would mean that I like every girl in my school.

“See you later Kataoka!”

Her voice sends chills down my spine in a bad way. “I should have stayed in the rain… Oh right, it’s raining. I should probably grab an umbrella from here.” I walked my way to the bin, and they were all gone. “Shit… ugh, whatever.”

After I paid for my things, I prepared myself for the wet walk home, standing by the front door. I heard a soft voice behind me, one that was not Ayame’s. “I’m sorry, I bought the last one. Would you like it?”

I turned around to see a girl with long lavender colored hair and the eyes to match. I just stood there and stared without saying a word.

She giggled, “I’m sorry if I startled you…”

This is the first time I couldn’t speak to a girl, let alone not a single insult left my lips. “No, please, thanks.”

She looked confused by my rambling, “excuse me?”

I coughed up the words I meant, “No thank you, I’m fine like this. It’s just water.” I could feel my face burning up.

She smiled and blushed, “I guess that’s true. Well, goodbye.” She walked past me, and the aroma of vanilla-lavender grazed my face. I watched her as she walked away and around the block.

“She’s pretty huh!” The gremlin demon screeched in my ear from behind making me turn around instantly.

I stuck my finger in one ear, “God, you are so obnoxious, just go home already…”

She pointed at my face, “your face is beet red, are you getting sick?”

I put my hand to my face, it was pretty hot to the touch, not something I usually get unless I’m sick with a fever. “Yeah, its red because my heads about to explode from your gremlin screeches.”

She smiled and held out her umbrella, “want to walk-“

“Oh perfect!", I grabbed the umbrella from her and walked out of the door.

Ayame isn’t exactly ugly, well, at least not to everyone else in school. Actually, she is considered one of the prettiest girls in school and almost every guy gawks over her… but that girl with the lavender hair was stunning. I wonder what her name is and why she was here, I've never seen her around here before. “WAIT! WHAT AM I SAYING!?”

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As I finally reached my house, I stood in front of the door for a minute or so before entering. “I’m probably better off staying out here in the rain…” I could hear the sounds of yelling and dishes crashing against the walls. I inhaled deeply, walked in, and shut the door behind me.

I saw my mom on the floor bruised and bloody. “Your home? Early?” She was now pointing at me, and following her finger was my father’s drunk abusive gaze.

He raised a bottle above his head slurring every word out of his mouth, “Why!... did you get kicked out… again you incompetent bastard!?”

I raised my hands up like clockwork, “No! School was let out early!”

“LIES!” was the only thing I heard following a strike to the head.

I woke up on the floor a few hours later, I knew it was a few hours since it was dark outside now. I rubbed my head and of course there was sticky blood left spewing from it. I flinched when I touched it, “god damnit…”

As I looked up to get up and make my way to my room, my older sister emerged. “Serves you right for lying!” she crossed her arms and made a face like she smelled rotten milk, “he should have ended you while he was at it, maybe then our family name would not be tarnished by an ugly idiot who can’t even pass the 3rd year of high school!”

I sat on the ground and took the insults, after all, they were just words. She continued about how my features were anything but attractive and that was an issue since no one would ever like me and I could never pass on the family name. “… I mean who on earth would want to be with a boy with two different colored eyes, let alone pass that horrendous trait to their kids! I’ll tell you, NO-ONE!” Her voice only got louder by the insult that spat from her mouth. “… let’s not even get into the fact that your face and arms look like a hack-job!” Yeah… scars I got from our father, though I could never say such a thing. I was finally released from her clutches when my father called her to get him another beer. She huffed but walked away without hesitation.

“Geez, the one time I’m thankful for him…” I rubbed my head and got up off my ass, which also ached.

I made it to my room safely, but not until after I walked past my mom in the kitchen icing her face. I would have stopped to help her, but she would have hit me for causing the family so many problems. So I closed my door and laid on my bed instead. “It's not my fault…” It really wasn’t, I was born with heterochromia, which means one of my eyes is yellow and the other is teal. To my parents, this was such a disappointment. Especially since after my birth my mother got an infection so bad, she couldn’t have any more kids. That’s generally why my father beats her, and she thinks she deserves it because she can’t have more kids for him, well… another boy I mean. After that, my father turned into an alcoholic, and with that lost his job, which he blames me and my mom for. Oddly though, he likes my sister, not to the point of love though.

I turned over to my side, “I guess they are right, who would want someone like me.” In that instance, I thought of the girl at the Lawson with the lavender colored hair and my heart started to feel weird. “… yeah right… not even in my wildest dreams.” Staring into the mirror, “Like they said, I wasn’t meant for love.” My head was pounding but I started not to feel it as my eyes grew heavy, “I don’t know why I’m even thinking about her or love at all, she was probably just passing through town, and I’ll never see her again.” I curled up and held my pillow tight, eventually dozing off.