Chapter three - I am a freak

Chapter three -I am a freak

EDITED.

It's been a week since Jose joined the school. He had been able to avoid all those people Lucinda warned him about and he seemed to be doing a good job of it.Today was a Tuesday; Jose walked down the little empty hallway towards his locker, holding the i-pad he got from Amy as his birthday present with a talking aid app which has been helping him a lot. He walked to his locker and opened it as he began to arrange his books and assignments.

"Hiii!!!!!!!!!!!" He heard a high pitch squeal beside him, causing him to drop his bag in shock as he turned to look at his side only to see Lucinda, smiling and looking cheerfully as he typed on his I-pad.

"You scared me" The I-pad read out in a male's voice.

Lucinda smiled "I can see this app you got is working for you".

"Yes, you could say that" it read as Jose picked up his bag, hanging it over his shoulder, and turned to Lucinda

"Lucinda, I heard we might have a pop quiz in math class today" it read out. This made Lucinda scream dramatically--

"Damn it! Why?!!! Hmm come to think of it, when do we have math?" she asked

"The fourth period before lunch".

"Hmm I've got an idea, ...I skip the class and you cover up for me" she said smiling to her plan.Lucinda hated math. She always failed the class, and now her mom told her that if she failed another math test, she was going straight to summer school. Sighing, Jose shook his head.

"Please, I don't want to go to summer school and I promise never to talk about you to my mom ever again!" she said pouting. Jose shook his head again... Lucinda talks about him to her mom? Of his pale olive skin, his silvery blue eyes, his hair cut which suits him perfectly, his silence and many more things like how he was gay and other stuffs? What? José let her words register in his head before typing "you talk about me with your mom?" it read out as he furrowed his brow at her. It was then she realised what she had said as she blushed a light shade of red, "Oops! so I said that out" she whispered looking at José.Jose nodded "Fine I do, so cover up for me. Say I fell sick and I'm with the nurse" she saidwith a sigh but Jose shook his head again.

"Oh I see. Well then, or I will poke you." she said, showing him her index finger which was ready for poking, moving closer as Jose backed away typing fast.

"Fine, please don't touch me" It read as she smiled triumphantly.

"So what do you tell your mom about me?" it read as she just shrugged "nothing much, just

that I have a new gay friend" she said drawing the 'gay'. José's jaw dropped in shock. First of all, he wouldn't really label himself that because he wasn't attracted to anyone yetand secondly because he never said he was gay in the first place. "Why would you say that?"

"Well... You are girlishly built, you're slender and girlishly cute but hot at the same time that if you weren't gay I would date you" she said making him blush as the warning bell rang and they waved at each other heading to their other classes. He paid attention in his classes, time passed then it was math period. Rushing through the almost empty hall, he walked in before anyone could plan on getting in. His teacher looked at him confused as José shrugged, looking back at his desk. Soon students started walking into the classroom; When everyone was settled, the seat beside Jose was still empty because Lucinda skipped. As the teacher passed everyone the pop quiz questions, he stopped when he didn't see Lucinda.

"José, where is Lucinda?"

Jose typed, "she fell ill this morning, she is with the school nurse" it read as the man nodded before passing round all the questions.

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The pop quiz wasn't even hard, José quickly finished first as he stood up and walked to his teacher's desk to drop it before he left. Just as he was about leaving, the teacher called out to him, turning to look at the man who then spoke-

"Tell Lucinda to meet me before today is over, so I would inform her of when to come for her makeup quiz" he said, José nodded and left. He got to his locker packing his books and putting it back in his locker, in the process the bell rang as other students rushed out of their classes. He kept arranging his books for the period after lunch into his bag, as he was doing so, the jocks and their friends were passing by José's locker; breathing calmly, José kept facing his locker."Hey! Guys look at the new kid we heard is a mute" one of the jocks named Lucas said, but José ignored them as he tried to rush away from their preying stares. Unfortunately, he wasn't fast enough, he was pulled back by his upper arm which was then held tightly as the person's nail dug into his flesh. He gasped at the pain as he tried to look at the person hurting him, but all he could see was his devil of a stepfather smirking at him. His breath became ragged as his vision became blurry, blood drained from his face as he tried to swallow the lump in his throat, his once bright silvery blue eyes became totally dull.

"Hey, you don't get to walk out just like that" the boy who held him said, his name was Jake. Jose couldn't concentrate on the words the person was saying as he shrieked in horror and pain as he slid down to the floor, pulling his legs to his chest.

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Lucinda rushed into school to meet up with Jose before he heads to lunch, so they could go together. As she walked in, she saw students laughing and staring at their phones but she ignored them, as she walked towards where Jose should be. She saw the jocks and cheerleaders gathered around someone laughing, 'hmm, poor kid, who are they tormenting now?' she thought to herself as she got closer, only to see that the kid was José, who was crying rocking himself back and forth on the floor with his legs pushed to his chest. Angrily she pushed through them shouting-

"WHO IS THE DIPSHIT THAT TOUCHED HIM?!" everyone started walking away as she growled at them.

"Come on fellas! Let's leave this crazy girl to her weird friend" Jake said, walking away with the others following him. Concluding it was Jake, she ran after him hopping on his back and pulling his hair.

"Get this b*tch off me!" he shouted as he tried pulling her off him.

"This is for Jose!" she screamed, hitting every part of his face as his friends tried pulling her off him, finally succeeding in doing that.

"What is going on here?!" they heard Mr Fletcher's voice as the screaming and trashing around stopped. Looking at the panting Lucinda arranging her hair, and the panting Jake who tried to arrange his hair and clothing which didn't seem to be possible.

"Both of you, to the principal's office, Now!!" Lucinda walked back to the crying José who

was getting a little bit calm and whispered "head to the clinic while I get the principal to sign out for you to be picked up by your mom. You got it right?" she said as he nodded,standing up slowly as he wiped his teary eyes, while she followed Jake to the principal's

office. Minutes had passed when Amy rushed into the school, to the principal's office. Seeing the pale looking José, she smiled sadly as Mr Watson explained what had happened to him. Thanking him, Amy signalled José to follow her to the car parked outside. When he entered, she started the car and drove away in silence but she had to speak to Jose.

"Jose, could you help me here? Tell me what that boy did to you?" she asked but Jose never answered her. When they got home, José rushed to his room, dropping everything on his table, and fell on his bed crying. 'I'm such a freak' he thought to himself then he fell asleep.