Arthur opened the toilet door and walked into mike who pushed him back into the toilet. His glasses fell over and he tried to pick it up but Mike kicked it away.
Arthur was a 5 feet 9 inches tall 16 year old with black spiky hair, eyes and a friendly aura.
"So fantastic of you to come to school today, king Arthur." Mike teased Arthur.
"I...I.....was....sick." Arthur stammered as he kept taking a step back.
"Where are running to, do you think am scary?" Mike asked as he grabbed Arthur's collar.
Mike was 6 feet 2 inches tall with a black mohawk hairstyle and hazel eyes.
He could feel Arthur's fear and that seems to fuel his sadistic thoughts.
"I have a match against crimson fist and I don't want to lose against him again, so I want you to be my practice dummy." Mike said as he released his grip on Arthur's collar.
"Su...su...sure, I will be happy to help you at any time." Arthur stammered again.
"Meet me at the school gate after closing hours." Mike said and walked out of the toilet.
Arthur picked his glasses and wore them as he looked at his reflection in the toilet mirror. He thought of how things graduated into this.
He was 13years old when he lost his parents and was thrown into the foster system.
When he was taken to a new school where he was placed in Mike's class and he became a target to Mike.
He was bullied and humiliated in every way unimaginable, at first Arthur reported Arthur mike to the school but the matter dismissed as a trivia issue. Because Arthur reported Mike, he became angry and started bullying only Arthur.
Arthur once tried standing up to Mike but he got knocked out easily due to Mike being an illegal underground fighter.
"Out of all the students in this school, why did you decide to bully me." Arthur asked Mike one day with his hair covered in dust.
"Because you are so brilliant, I hate brilliant people." Mike replied Arthur and punched his nose.
Mike and his friends laughed as blood gushed out of Arthur's nose. Arthur felt an unimaginable amount of pain from his broken nose.
To make matters worse, his foster parents doesn't care about him a bit. They were only interested because of the money involved in it.
They same him coming home multiple times with injuries and dirty clothes but they ignored it.
Although they provided for his basic needs to them, he was invisible.
He had a lot of opportunities to commit suicide but he didn't because he had the hope that things will get better.
Thinking about everything, Arthur asked himself:
"If my parents were alive, would my life have been any better?"
"Hey buddy, where have you been? You've been gone for over 15 minutes." Jason, Arthur's only friend asked Arthur the moment he sat down on his chair.
" I ran into a situation,....you know who situation." Arthur said and sighted.
" Didn't you tell him that you are ill, couldn't he let you off just for today?" Daniel said as he stared at Mike's back.
"Jason and Arthur,a word from the both of you and I will send you out of the class." The physics said said as he looked at them.
" That's it, I have an idea." Arthur said after the class ended.
" What is the plan?" Jason asked as they walked to their lockers.
" All I just need to do is to run home after closing hours." Arthur replied Jason.
"Do you seriously think that will work?" Jason asked worriedly.
"Do you have any other idea?" Arthur asked.
The moment the final bell was rang Arthur rushed out of the class squeezing through the hallway filled with students. He ran to the school gates only to get grabbed by Mike, who was waiting for him at the gate.
" We have a deserter guys." Mike joked and his friends laughed. "Guess who told me of your plan?"
"Only Jason knew about my plans, he could not have betrayed me, could he?" Arthur thought in his mind.
"It was Jason." Mike smiled as he dragged Jason to his front.
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"Am sorry Arthur, he kept hitting me so I had no choice." Jason said and burst into tears
"No, you had the choice to keep quiet but you did not despite knowing what will happen." Arthur shouted at Daniel.
" Don't look at him like that, I already knew something like this was going to happen so I just had to threaten him, that's all". Mike said and grinned."Ok, enough emotional display. It's time for us to leave for practice."
"No, not today." Arthur thought in his mind and bolted away.
"If you don't get him back here, you will be my practice dummy." Arthur heard mike telling Jason.
Jason chased Arthur, Arthur ran with all his might bumping into people on the walkway.
"Once I can cross the road, I should be safe for Jason." Arthur thought.
Without checking the road, Arthur crossed the road and got hit by a truck. He hit his head heavily on the ground and felt immense pain. He looked at the walkway and saw Jason run away from the accident scene.
"I guess I never had a friend." Arthur thought as he looked at Jason running away.
The driver of the truck came down and called 911 immediately while a crowd surrounded Arthur.
"At least this is better than suicide." Arthur said as he felt his vision fading away.