Daybreak in the peaceful town of Reihem, a remote
town far from the
city of Trina. Everyone in Reihem went about their daily
lives in peace
and harmony but this peaceful town had individuals
with dark secrets
you wouldn't dare perceive as some were so good with
masking it they
almost believed they were normal...

The sound of the alarm clock rang loudly as Michael got
up from his
bed looking more tired even after having a full night
rest, "Ughh
Mondays", He groaned as he got up from his bed and
headed over to his
bathroom.Standing before the mirror and looking at his
reflection in the
mirror he had dark circles under his eyes as he touched
his face he could
feel the grime and dirt on his face that made it seem dry
and crusty,
"nothing a little face wash can't fix", he said as he
washed his face
thoroughly with his luxurious face wash he had bought
from the supermart the other day. Michael took his tooth brush as he
brushed his teeth
quickly then before leaving the bathroom he looked at
his gorgeous face in the mirror as he smirked and went
back into his room. Michael had a workout routine ; first
some basic jumping jacks then some light stretching
followed by some pushups and crunches, Michael
groaned in pain as he did the 40th pushup , "Ha that's a
new record", but his celebration of his new record was cut short when a loud banging was heard at
his door as a girl on the other side of the door yelled his
name ,
" Michael!" , it was his little 15-year old sister,
Melanie who seemed to be as agile ad ever . "Mum's
calling you for breakfast Michael" , Melanie said as she
continued banging on the door like an uncultured
animal, Michael had just about had enough of his
annoying sister disturbing him in the early hours of the
morning . He went straight to the door as he opened it
forcefully to see his little sister with her hand up about
to bang the door again ,
" I'm not deaf you know, bang on my
door like that again and I'm gonna put your princess
outfits in the shredder" , Michael gave his little
sister a cold glance as she looked like she was about to
tear up and start crying but Michael didn't have time for
her , he shut the door paying no attention to his little
sister who he literally just threatened. " What a pain in
the ass" Michael finished his workout then went to take a shower and headed straight downstairs to have
breakfast.
"I'm guessing you slept late again", Michael's step
mum Mrs Emily said as she smiled at her son , "Morning
Emily", Michael said not paying attention to what she
had said. He sat down on the chair as he waited for his
breakfast. "I want oatmeal mum", Melanie said as she
yelled loudly, "Emily you said you'd make us pancakes
this morning...right?" Michael said looking at her in the
eye, Mrs Emily shifted her gaze from Michael as she took
out two bowls which had oatmeal in them and dropped
it on the table for them . "yay Oatmeal!!" , Melanie said
as she ate like she had never had seen oatmeal before .On the
other hand Michael looked at the Oatmeal in disgust as
he shifted the bowl back and looked at her before taking
a deep breath "What the hell is this" , he said angrily as
he looked at Her, " I was too tired from my late shift to
wake up early and prepare pancakes for you , I'm sorry"
She said. Michael closed his eyes as he wondered why
his late father had married such a useless wife , "forget it
I will just take some cereal" He said as he poured some
cereal into a bowl then added some milk and started eating. Their
breakfast was interrupted as they heard the school bus
had pulled up in front of their house . "Oh that's the bus,
you better hurry before you go late to school Michael , I
will drop Melanie off at her school so off you go" she
smiled as she looked at Michael who paid no attention to
her as he took his school bag and headed for the door,
"Have a great day at school Michael" Mrs Emily said as
she looked at him but what she heard was the closing of
a door as Michael had already left to catch up with the bus. He got into the bus as all eyes on him he walked
with his head held high until a large thud was felt in the
bus,Michael was on the floor, he had slipped on a cheese
burger which was littered on the bus ,what he heard
after was a chorus laughter coming from the students in
the bus Michael groaned in pain as he stood up and
looked at the filty animals in human clothing laughing at
him he thought to himself are human lives even worth it
as he sat down at the back of the bus he prayed that the
students who had laughed at him would die a painful
death.

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"Reihem High , a school filled kids which the adults call
"gifted" and by gifted I mean kids that were in various
cliques in school ,we have the jocks,
the Divas, the emo's, the weirdos" Sydney said as
she held Michael's arm as they walked in the hallway.
Sydney Frost , one of the top 10 prettiest girls in Reihem
High and Michael's official girlfriend. "When are you
going to stop giving that introduction about Reihem , I
already know this school is a shitty place that's all there
is to it" Michael said as he looked at the people walking
past them , "everyone here is just worthless"he
murmured to himself as he turned and looked at his
girlfriend who was playing with his hair. "I will stop
giving you that intro the day you stop hating Reihem ,it's
a wonderful school and if you got to know more people
you'd love it" she said as she looked at him with her beautiful green eyes. The bell rang before they could
continue their conversation as Sydney pecked Michael
on the cheek and waved him goodbye as she headed to
her class. Michael had English during first period
and his class was located at the other side of the school
so he was practically late , He walked out onto the school
yard heading for the other side of the school . As he was
walking to class he suddenly felt something hard but fleshy
underneath his feet,he stopped and then bent down
slowly to find he had stepped on a wounded
pigeon, Michael looked at the pigeon as he squinted his
eyes , "you poor little thing, how about I put you out of
your misery" Michael said as he grabbed the pigeon with
his right hand , slowly turning his head to the right he
took a rock which was beside the pigeon. Looking at the pigeon, he held the rock firmly and in one quick motion he hit the head of the pigeon with the rock then he put the
pigeon in a black polythene bag and threw it in his back
pack, as he stood up there was a smile on his face, he then remembered he was late for class as he ran
to his English class. He was just In time as the bell rang
for the first period to commence when he had entered
the class still panting from running very fast ,
" Glad to see you're on time as always Mr Watterson", the English
teacher , Mr Zuniga said sarcastically as he greeted Michael with a
half hearted smile "take your seat!"
Michael went to his seat which was at the left
corner of the class but at the last row. He sat down and brought out his
English textbook as he laid his hand on the desk he jolted back as his finger had been pierced by a piece of
wood from the desk "What the F#ck" , He said as he
looked at his desk to notice someone had repeatedly
scraped the surface of his desk and now it was so rough
that piece of wood were sticking out from it and he was
sure to get a splinter if he wasn't careful. Hearing
someone laughing by his corner he turned his head to
look to see a boy wearing a football jersey laughing at
him, it was no other person than Randy the school Jock
who was an athlete and a girl magnet but also a
notorious bully. Michael knew there was no other person
who would dare to do this to him other than Randy who
had been picking on him from the first day he entered
Reihem High, Michael gritted his teeth as he looked at
Randy who didn't feel sorry in anyway , "F#cking
bastard, I will make him pay one day" Michael thought
as he imagined various situations of how Randy would
"accidentally" die or get brutally injured, yh that would definitely be awesome.

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The bell rang as Michael headed out of the class and
walked down the hallway to his locker, as he opened his
locker a bucket filled to the brim with blue paint
splashed him and soaked him with the paint , Michael
heard laughter coming from a corner as he turned
around he saw Randy and his two friends, Greg and
Mark who were also bullies just like Randy laughing at him. Randy
walked over to Michael as he had wide grin on his face "Why so Blue Watterson?" He said as he
pushed Michael on the floor and walked away with his friends as they still kept laughing at him, Michael looked
at the them with eyes filled with hatred, he stood up
and walked to the boy's bathroom to get cleaned up.
Michael finished washing his face and finally managed
to change out of his clothes to the spare ones he luckily
had, they were his gym clothes but they were all he
had.He took his bag and was about to leave the
bathroom when he spotted the mirror by the hand dryer,
he walked over to it as he bent his head and looked at his
reflection in the mirror . He touched the mirror as he
looked intensely at the mirror gazing at his reflection suddenly thoughts of his childhood flooded his memory as an image of his late
father beating him up with a belt flashed in his head,

"You useless piece of shit, If only I didn't have a useless piece of trash like you"

A dark blurry male figure was seen holding a belt and whipping a boy who laid on the floor
bruised on all sides , Michael washed his face as he
snapped out of his trance .Slowly raising up his face to
look at his reflection again this time he was grinning
from ear to ear then he stopped grinning and retained a blank expression on his face as he looked at his reflection, his eyes staring intensely at the mirror. In this world the concept of pain and suffering have existed for so long and Michael felt like he was already numb to this pain....atleast thats what he thought.

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The final bell of the day rang as Michael took his bag and
walked out of the school and headed straight home, he
usually liked walking back home from school as it give
him a kind of peace and comfort embracing nature.
While walking home from school he spotted Randy and his friends at a distance , he didn't want any trouble so
he hoped they would just ignore him but upon reaching
Randy and his friends he stopped as he looked at Randy
who stopped talking to his friends when he noticed Michael
was watching him, "Oh look it's the loser", Michael
continued walking trying to ignore his taunts but before he would take two steps
further a hand grabbed his backpack and he was thrown
on the floor , Randy and his friends surrounded Michael
and without warning they took turns stomping on
Michael . Michael curled
up on the floor and put his hands on his head as he
winced in pain "Stop! , please!" Michael shouted as his
attackers showed no sign of stopping, Beating
Michael to a pulp and leaving him barely conscious
Randy and his friends left him by the road and walked
away. Michael who was surprised he was still alive
managed to crawl back up as he groaned from his
injuries, he was hurt but not too severe . He looked at the bullies who were still close to
him , suddenly the sound of a thunder clap was heard as
a voice whispered to Micheal "You're a nice guy but you
can't pretend forever,you loathe them , you despise
them...show them the monster you truly are" Michael
suddenly remebered another scene of his childhood
where his father had purposely burnt him with an iron
just because he came home late from school with his
sister , he remembered the pain , the heat of the iron and
how he begged his father to stop but he didn't.
Michael started walking towards Randy and his friends
who were a few metres away from him but they hadn't noticed he was behind them. He staggered a bit wincing in pain from his bruises he put his hand in his jacket at
his brought a knife his father gave him to protect
himself since he felt like he was a wimp, Michael had already gotten
behind Randy and his friends and as he stood behind
Randy he paused for a moment wondering if he should rethink his action but his body moved on its own and then he tapped Randy on the shoulder as Randy turned
to see what had touched him he moved back as he
looked to see Michael standing behind him clutching a
knife in hand, He smirked as he looked at him "look who's finally
acting tough now, didn't your mum tell you not to play
with sharp obj.." Randy stopped talking as he noticed
that the knife Michael was holding was now jabbed and
logded in his neck , Randy choked out blood as he fell
flat on the ground. His two friends Greg and Mark who
were behind him shouted as they were shocked to see
what had just happen " you bastard!!!!, you'll pay for
that!" Greg said as he rushed toward Michael ready to
attack him but Michael didn't give Greg time to react as
he lunged towards Greg piercing the knife in his
stomach then kicking him on the floor , Greg looked up
at him as he was terrified to see that despite the injuries Michael had he was still able to move freely and worst of all Michael had a smile on his
face . Mark was paralyzed with fear as he
started taking few steps back while still shaking "Who
the fuck do you think you are ?!" he muttered as Michael took the knife
which was stuck in Greg's stomach and rushed at Mark as
he gazed upon Mark with his dark blue eyes giving him a
cold stare "I'm just an average Highschooler" and in a quick flash he
stabbed the knife in the skull of Mark as the blood
rushed down Mark's head he looked at Michael who's
was practically laughing , Mark fell to the floor
as his vision began to blur he saw Michael standing on
top of him before the reflection from the blade shone on
his eyes ,Michael started stabbing him repeatedly until
Mark stopped moving.
Michael looked up at the thunder clouds as he heaved a sigh
of relief ,"Peace"