Selfish. Stupid. Creepy. Lazy. Cursed. A curse. Gluttonous. Eats too much. Talks too little. Freak. He's heard it all, really, from bullies or harsher relatives. He knew. They didn't like that his grades were better than their own kid's, so he stopped studying. They didn't like him getting into fights at school, so he stopped defending himself. Once he'd even overheard....well, that's beside the point. He'd been buried under words and sentiments like those for so long, he almost forgot there were any others.
He knew from very early on that he could never become someone others would want. The best he could do was stop being what they didn't.
But apparently everything he thought he knew about his place in the world has gone right out the window, alongside logic and simplicity.]
No one's.....said that to me.... [He feels stinging at his eyes again.]
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Selfish. Stupid. Creepy. Lazy. Cursed. A curse. Gluttonous. Eats too much. Talks too little. Freak. He's heard it all, really, from bullies or harsher relatives. He knew. They didn't like that his grades were better than their own kid's, so he stopped studying. They didn't like him getting into fights at school, so he stopped defending himself. Once he'd even overheard....well, that's beside the point. He'd been buried under words and sentiments like those for so long, he almost forgot there were any others.
He knew from very early on that he could never become someone others would want. The best he could do was stop being what they didn't.
But apparently everything he thought he knew about his place in the world has gone right out the window, alongside logic and simplicity.]
No one's.....said that to me.... [He feels stinging at his eyes again.]