Blood was sprawled on the wall. The dark red color was flowing down the wall onto the ground forming a puddle. Slowly it was trickling down the grown into the busy streets of the city. No one noticed that Sergio was getting beat up in the alleyway. He had been forcefully dragged to the alleyway after school. Sergio had no friends in school and that was fine with him. After all, he had the voices in his head to keep him company. They were violent and often lashed out at anyone who even dared to look at him but alas they couldn’t do anything. In physical appearances, he was weaker than a twig. He could easily snap in half if someone were to beat him too much. 

Sergio was just about to doze off in class when he felt something sticky hit his head. He turned around looked to see a bunch of his classmates laughing and he tried feeling his hair and then realized that they had put some gum in his head. He turned around and saw the entire class laughing at him and the teacher himself trying to hold in his laughter.

“Now now class let’s not laugh at poor Sergio. Sergio go to the bathroom and try washing it off” the teacher said. Sergio felt so alone, the entire class was laughing at him without a care in the world and if it hurt him or not. Tears started to swell up in Sergio’s eyes and started to well down.

“Look at Sergio, he’s about to cry!” exclaimed one kid and the entire class started laughing once more. He got up from his seat suddenly tried to say something in his defense but no words came out. In frustration, he ran to the bathroom trying to hide his tears before the entire class saw him have a full breakdown. Once he successfully reached the bathroom he washed his face and saw a face behind him from the mirror. Daniel was at top of the food chain with the rest of his possess. 

“What do we have here? Is little baby Sergio about to cry?”  said Danial with obvious bait. His posse laughed behind his protection and started calling Sergio a pussy and other racial slurs. 

The voices in Sergio’s head started to hither in anger and told Sergio to kill Danial, in the most brutal way to maximize his pain. Sergio who was already feeling down gave in to the voices and he threw a weak punch at Danial who caught his punch with one hand. 

“You dirty bastard, how dare you to get violent with me!” Daniel roared. 

“Get down on your knees, lick my shoes and beg for forgiveness before I make you taste the toilet water.” Danial laughed and said. Sergio who was still listening to the voices without any regard to his health yelled “ No and you can go fuck your mom!”. Now it was well known within the school that the one thing you couldn’t say to Danial were insults about his mom as she had died a year back. 

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“Why you!” Danial roared and drew his fist back and punched Sergio in the face hard. Danial’s posse leaped in to help Danial and they kicked, punched, and completely reworked Sergio over. He was coughing up blood when Danial picked him up by his shirt collar and dumped his entire face in the unfinished toilet. Satisfied with the carnage they had done they left the bathroom laughing. 

Sergio was on the ground wondering why he was alive just to suffer and what had he done in life to deserve this treatment. Not even his own parents loved him. He was nothing more than an amusement for his parents. They loved punishing him and beating him. He was often trapped in the basement with the door locked and lights off. His entire life was depressing as he often stayed in the darkness for hours upon a time. He didn’t get food and often had to eat leftovers from the dog if there even were any. He often went days without getting food from his parents. 

Sergio was on the school roof debating to end it all. He had no one and why should he live on just to suffer. The countless hours he had spent in the dark being alone with his dark thoughts would lead anyone to craziness. He had the knife upon his throat getting ready to slowly inch the knife deeper and deeper until he was choking on his blood. He fully intended to enjoy every aspect of the pain he would be facing before slowly slipping out of consciousness and joining god and angels in heaven. He could feel his blood slowly trickling out of the small wound that had opened when he heard the roof door open. He was so sure he had locked it but somehow this girl had managed to come up to the roof at the exact time Sergio didn’t want any interruptions. 

Sergio turned around with the knife still digging into his throat when the girl yelled “Stop what the fuck are you doing?” She ran over surprisingly fast and snatched the knife and threw it off the roof. She then proceeded to slap Sergio and demand what the fuck was wrong and why would he want to end his life at the young age of 17. Sergio couldn’t say anything and just started to cry and the girl understanding his pain said nothing but just hugged him as he bawled his eyes out. After what seemed like an eternity he stopped sobbing and left the hug. He then proceeded to look at the girl who had saved him and she was beautiful. Her face was the perfect symmetrical shape and her glasses were resting on the nook of her nose. The freckles that were underneath her left eye. Her hair was waving in the wind and her legs were slender and perfect. 

“What was that about?” she asked but Sergio just shook his head and replied, “Nothing don’t worry about it.”

“Well if you need someone to talk to I’m always here” the mysterious girl answered back and started walking away. Sergio felt something that he had never felt before and shouted “Wait! Can I have your number?” He felt embarrassed but the girl said sure and put her number into his phone. 

Later he texted the girl and asked if she had a boyfriend. She said she did, and when she said told Sergio the name of her boyfriend he growled in anger. Something in his heart just snapped and the voices in his head started whispering ideas to him again. Sergio just stared into oblivion and started laughing. His smile some would say was the most sinister thing they had seen, it seemed like it was out of a horror movie. Danial doesn’t deserve her was the only thought coursing through his mind and he realized something important. He could make the girl his own forcefully, all he had to do was kill Danial and anyone else who dared to stand in his way. After all, this was all for love and as the saying goes all’s fair in love and war.