“I am alone, alone in a world of my own”

“Living in the world that banished me”

“Forced to live in the place that denied my existence”

“That is where I live, but not where I belong”

“I am like you, one who longs for acceptance”

“I am just like you, seeking a place that never was”

“I am Hiraeth”

My feet carefully treading the road trying to be as silent as possible.

I feel fear coursing through my veins.

“Please don’t notice me” Is the only thing I can think walking through the streets.

Every time in the morning I wake up I just don’t want to get out of bed knowing that if I do I will have to go through this again every single time.

I see the corner closing in on me but the moment I walk around the corner I

“Phew” sigh out in relief because there is nothing there.

Knowing that I am not there yet I refuse to let my guard down.

Now moving up the street I start hearing voices in the distance.

Moving closer with every passing second I started to tense up afraid of what was about to come.

After the I turn the next corner I know the end will be in sight as long as I can get past that safely.

I turn the corner with my heart racing when I see them.

I try to act as normal as possible as to not grab their attention.

I keep on moving closer to the wall hoping that they just might hide me from them.

I unconsciously hide my face behind a book pretending to be reading.

Walking past the gate towards the entrance my hands start shaking.

Just a little bit further please just please don’t notice me.

“Hey our little bookworm is back again”

No! why me?! That moment my heart stops and all of my hopes come crashing down on me.

“Hihihi I didn’t think he would come back after what we did last time”

“Can you believe it?! So tenacious just like a cockroach right”

“What tenacious he is more like a maggot an infestation you gotta get rid of, right Maggot?”

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I can only bite my lips in frustration knowing that if I say anything they’re going to use it against me.

“Haha silence is agreement, how should we get rid of this pest girls”

“Flushing them through the toilet is a fitting way to go for them”

“Right to the place where he belongs”

Their laughs sounds through the skies to the masses.

The masses that were now looking at this as if it was a spectacle…with glee looking at the burning bookworm in sadistic pleasure all laughing at the pain of an inferior being in a strangely beautiful chorus of hate and demise.

But to me their maniacal laughs just sound like the last ring of the bell for my funeral, a bell that keeps on ringing in my ears day after day, month after month, year after year it keeps on ringing without end.

“Do you like the toilet water eh! well do you like it!?”

I can’t breathe

“He better be happy about it he is helping us rid the school of pests”

My lungs feel like they are burning, am I going to die?

“You’re being too soft on him Sophie he is a cockroach, cockroaches are tenacious”

“Eww, you’re touching his bag it’s infested with him you know. Throw it into the toilet we don’t want to make our lovely teacher touch this disgusting infested guys homework now right”

“Oh, you’re so mean. I like it”

I don’t care anymore.

“Come on girl you can do better than that, you gotta push him down deep into the water, LIKE THIS!”

I feel the pain fading away but I don’t care.

I thought I maybe could escape them if I was smart but everything is hopeless anyways I have tried for so long don’t I deserve a short rest now.

“Oh, he stopped resisting”

“Crap let him out I don’t want to be found out killing this guy”

-Cough, cough- can’t I just have a short rest already.

I feel my conscious gradually slipping away from me in just a moment everything is black.