Rico

February 26, 2023

The idea that Nova was capable of cheating, though just not with me, was consuming me. I was miserable when I thought about it. I mean, I'm pretty attractive in my eyes. Was it my approach? Was I overly out there? Was I too pushy for a first hangout? What was wrong with me? I mean, Nick is literally an asshole by the looks of it. I've heard about his fair share with girls around this campus, and he wasn't all that in the fact. Girls see a biracial dude with colored eyes and act a fucking fool.

I tried to calm my nerves as I made it into the locker room today. I was late yet again, but this time I was over the whole idea of practice. Nick and Jason were well liked amongst the team, for whomever knows why, and I knew that they'd probably tell everybody to dislike me. That's the type of people they were. Soon enough, everybody would wanna beat me up.

It seemed that the locker room was empty as I entered. I expected that given I was late. Nobody had stuff laying around for once and the atmosphere felt really calm. Maybe I was overreacting and today was actually gonna be a good day after all. Who cared about Nova and Nick anyways? They both seemed like terrible human beings. Nova was missing out by not giving me a chance. Not my loss.

As I was leaving the locker room with helmet in hand, I heard just the two voices that I was hoping the evade, nearby. I groaned, "just walk by" I told myself, "and you'll be good."

"Where you going bitch?" Jason called out, yanking my shirt as I tried to walk around the two. "You think you'd get one ass whooping and we'd be done with you? Nah, women beaters don't get off that easily around here, trust." I tried to get Jason to let go of me, but I was a slim guy and somewhat shorter than the leading running back that had a gorilla's grip.

"I left her alone" I whined, "now it's your turn!"

"Now it's our turn to do what?" Nick asked, bending his body so that he was level with mine. "Bitch." He spat in my face after that last sentence. I kicked at him, narrowly missing him, but it only made my situation worse. "Trash, or toilet?" Nick asked.

"Eh, trash we can hide, toilet will take some time to dry" Jason responded, "get the bin."

"Or we can bring him to the bin" Nick insisted, "see him suffer and resist a little longer."

"Fucking let go of me" I hissed, "now!"

Nick punched me square in the face as Jason still held onto my shirt for dear life. My nose felt extremely hot, and I soon thereafter felt a liquid coming out as if my nose had been running. It quickly dripped onto the floor and when I looked, I saw red. "Keep playing with me and I'll do it again" Nick warned, "I don't care about your feelings."

It took every nerve inside of my body to not open my mouth and tell Nick what I knew. To not disclose the fact that I was hiding this piece of shit's little secret and was ready to destroy his friendship with Aubrey, and hopefully even his reputation. I knew better than that though, and at a moment like this, it would be very easy for Nick or Jason to just confiscate my phone and make me delete what I had.

Nick opened the locker room door as Jason practically carried me inside by the scruff of my shirt. My chest was heaving as I tried to anticipate whatever pain was coming next. As Jason dragged me past the mirror, I looked at myself really quickly. I was a bloody, teary-eyed mess. Something you'd never expect out of me. Trust me, kids have been mean to me before and I have been harassed, but never to this extent.

"Please stop," I begged through a painful whisper, now starting to also feel pain in my neck. "I will never bother any of you guys again if you let me go right now, I swear. Please, I'm sorry."

"Shut the fuck up!" Nick yelled as he pulled up a trash can. "Dump him," he demanded of Jason. Jason did as was asked with absolute glee.

I kicked my legs in the air as I'd been dumped head first. "Help!" I tried to scream, but my screams were masked by brown paper bags that had been at the bottom of the bin. I will say that I'm extremely thankful for the fact that this was all that was in the trash however. It could've been a whole lot nastier.

Once it had been evident to me that Nick and Jason left, I began rocking my body as if my life depended on it. Finally, I was able to tilt the bin over so that I could wiggle myself out. I breathed the biggest sigh of relief imaginable. "I can't do this anymore" I said aloud as I tried to fight tears. I understand that I made a mistake with scaring Nova, but I'm not a bad guy. I swear I don't have bad intentions.

Well I didn't, I should say.

I have the upper hand, and Nick didn't even know that. I was debating using it against him, but now I definitely am. It sucks for Nova, and I'm sure that she doesn't deserve this as much as Nick does, but she should've never rejected me. If she hadn't, I bet you half this shit wouldn't have gone down.