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Then she was gone

I punched the wooden bench so hard it split in half I punched it again and again until only a pile of pulp remained My hand ached Splinters jutted from between my knuckles and blood ran down my fists The skin pushed the splinters out The blood stopped flowing My hands were good as new If only it were so easy to heal ged lunch sitting on the ground where I must have dropped it earlier, so I took it and devoured it I was still hungry but noas thirsty too I went to a water fountain and drank, but nothing seemed to quench my thirst My stomach rumbled I went into the bathrooer looked back

Well, not exactly a stranger, but a uy who looked just like me but had ice-blue eyes instead of hazel ones Those eyes were haunted That face was very pale This stranger, the poor fool, didn’t have a chance at happiness

Two guys I didn’t know burst into the bathroo so hard that tears of mirth poured down their faces

"And the bear wiped his butt with the rabbit," one of theuffaw His friend collapsed against the wall, holding his ribs and howling with laughter

They kept repeating the sentence over and over again Apparently it was the punch line to soh along with the tickled my senses It was faint, but it emanated from both of them I reached for it with my mind and latched on This was completely unlike what had happened withaunsweetened tea through a tiny stirring straw--pleasant if you’re really thirsty, but not as tasty or satisfying My er started to dihter faded as they did their business and left

I glared at ain instead of the piercing ice blue My skin regained some color I had just fed upon another person’s joy I really was a hcreature of nightain feel her arainstreal love to her, or any other woman for that matter My make-out session with Victoria had been as fake and unreal as a blowup doll I could seduce any woman but never win her love Even worse, I apparently had to leech emotions from other people to feed my soul

I didn’t want this life I wanted ht their way back into ripped the porcelain sink with both hands

"Stop crying you stupid freak" The sink cracked and shattered in my hands I backed away then fled the empty bathroom before someone came in and reported ," said a fah the haze of anger, fear, and loathing I felt

I clenched ht my hands would bleed It took every ounce of willpower not to beat Nathan into a bloody porridge of skin and crushed bones that instant So in the back of my head screamed, Do it! You’re a monster anyway They never accepted you as a human What makes you think you’ll ever be accepted by any of them as a monster?

I didn’t care if Nathan or his crowd ever acceptedme and I knew one of the h the locker-lined hallway Soed to wander into the senior locker hallway

Soainst the top of my head I saw stars for a brief instant and heard raucous laughter break out I turned and saw Steve guffawing and pointing at his class ring which he’d cleverly turned pal this hallway into a bloodbath I could so easily destroy everyone here But no, that would be too easy, I realized Physical pain was too good for these people I had to cause them emotional pain Even the s didn’t hurt half as much as the pain in my heart

Much to the amusement of the clowns, I turned and walked away

After school, I went home and sulked for a while I wasn’t sure what to do with myself but eventually realized I waswithout a word as he apparently tried to track down Morabbed some of the cash I’d stolen from my parent’s rainy day shoebox and went to a strip club named The Gold Cheetah as dusk settled over the city The bouncer stared at me then held out his hand for hed "Cohteen"

"Gotta be twenty-one here"

I pulled out a fifty and handed it to hionna happen, kid Now beat it"

I grumbled and turned away I hopped back intoa man out the back of the strip club They chucked hi lot, brushed off their hands, and went back inside I skirted around the darkness at the edge of the lot until I found the guy still lying on the ground in a ruetting all touchy about where his hands went I looked at hi like oatee I spotted the bulge in his front pants pocket and reached for his wallet<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>