Mei POV

"Ugh, what time is it?" I said as I got up. I put my crooked glasses on as I glanced at the clock only to realize that school starts in 10 minutes. I raced out of my room only to realize that my house was deserted. I went to the kitchen table and saw a note next to the toaster. 'Sorry hun I had to leave early, lunch is in the fridge ~love Mom.'

My mom has had a particularly tough life. She was pregnant with me at 16, and my dad left her as he was 'not ready to be a father yet' so my mom had to raise me on her own. I've always suggested she gets married to another guy so that she won't have a burden on her all the time, but she insists that she's doing fine on her own. Truth is, I think she's afraid some guy will leave her just as my dad had done.

It's been sixteen years and well, she's been a great mother. She's super kind and has always made sure to spend as much time together. She named me Mei because it meant beautiful in Chinese, and no I'm not Chinese: I'm American. Anyways, I quickly got ready and took my lunch and raced off to school. Fortunately, school was only fifteen minutes away by foot. I ran as fast as I could and managed to only be 15 minutes late.

"Sorry I'm late," I said while panting.

"Again Mei, this is the third time," Mr. Keith, the English teacher, said.

"It won't happen again," I promised.

As I sat down I saw my bully, Dave. Dave is one of the school's bullies and surprise, surprise he's popular. He's been bullying me since middle school, and sometimes it gets so bad that I pass out. My school isn't exactly all prestigious. It has low funding and the teachers aren't really that good.

The reason I'm even here is that all the other schools are expensive and my mom can't really afford them, so I'm stuck here for the time being. So with this school being rubbish, it also means a lot of the students in this school are scoundrels. Usually the parents who put their children here don't care about them and just leave the bratty and annoying ones here. On the other hand, there are people like me who just can't afford a good school.

I sat down and looked up only to see Dave mouthing the words 'You're dead' - great, just what I needed. After class I rushed down to the lockers just when I heard him.

"Where ya goin' pipsqueak," Dave called out, " I'm not done with you yet."

He and his gang starts chasing me around the corner to the bathroom. As I try to outrun him, I felt an arm pulling me back and clenching both of my shoulders.

"Thought you could get away from me," he grinned while laughing maliciously with his gang.

"Get away from me you obsessive stalker," I said while trying to loosen the grip one of his friends had on me.

He glared at me with one of the most evil looks I've ever received in my life. It was almost a look of fear for exposing him. Dave punched me in the stomach and pushed me against the lockers with his friends beating and kicking me until I was bleeding. Once they noticed, they left while laughing away like pigs. I could feel the stinging pain in my stomach where he had punched me and all the places they kicked and beat me. All of a sudden, my vision went blurry and then black.

So this is my first story I ever made on Wattpad. Sorry if it's crappy. If you do like it then great and stick around cause there's more to come. Well, I don't know what else to say. I might not post the next part cause I have finals, but maybe I'll procrastinate and write this story instead of studying.