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Do I Belong?

William had no friends, he had no sympathisers, and he had nothing, no one. Even his parents rejected him as an outcast. He didn’t know what to do in the world he couldn’t fit into any group at school, from the nerd group all the way up to the popular group, he was the reject and as he was given this title he took this title and became what he wasn’t.

When he walked home from school anyone that he knew who William was would cross the street so they wouldn’t have to meet with his eyes, although there was a select few of other students that instead of avoiding William would make it there business to get William all the time and never give him a break.

Occurrences like this happened all the time, one such time was when William was walking home by himself, keeping his eyes to the ground and looked up and saw three boys that he knew that were repeat offenders with making his life unbearable and donning him with their marks of what they did to him and this time was no different but this time he came out the worst yet. As he tried to pass through the middle of the boys one stepped in front and started mouthing off at William for his bad attitude and then it just went from there with the pushing around and the shoving and when he was one the ground they started laying in to him not caring how he ended up, fist after fist punctured his heart with more reasons to end his miserable life. When it was all over he could barely move and after hours of stillness struggled to his feet and made the painstaking walk home.

Even when William gets home he receives no support from his parents not even a hint of sympathy, so William trudges on day after day not having any goal in his life but taking every punch as it comes and not living his life with emotion and everything he does is performed with a robotic sense that could match that of the body.

William life went on like this for months and he had even lost all his emotion to even contemplate taking his own life, school flew by and William was fading away day by day and not even the bullies punches hurt his painful soul any more, his parents all together started to ignore his very presence and thought him as just another thing that comes with their life.

All this had been coming along at a steady rate until one day in his English class he was as usual looking into the abyss thinking about nothing having no spark in his eye but death and sorrow and that was until his class had just got a new teacher and her name was Emily Willow, the class thought nothing of her and continued as they pleased but William began to realise that there was some one new entering his life, even though he was neither good or bad at English, but we saw in this women’s eyes a spark which he had never saw in someone before and realised that is someone that made the most of their life and didn’t let them pass it by. As it went on William began to learn more about Emily and Emily realised the neglect that he has faced throughout his years, it was Emily that taught William that it doesn’t matter what the other people said about him and just because he was called the outcast doesn’t mean that he has to become what he isn’t.

As time went on that spark that had left Williams eyes so many years ago began to return and he began to realise that he didn’t need to be part of any group who are popular or who are the losers, he could finally be himself and he took into account that he had himself and he could take on the world all on his own and he didn’t need anyone’s help. As William began to become himself again his whole happiness made an effect onto everything else he did, mainly school he made sense that school the very place that he felt the worst at was the place that he could make his escape from school and from the immaturity of his class mates into the real world where he could thrive as a real person and forget his horror past.

Throughout everything there were people that still made in their goal to break William down and sometimes they succeeded, but this time there was Emily to guide him through it all and pick him up and brush him down when he fell, but Emily also warned William that she wouldn’t be around forever and sometime soon he would have to take care of himself, William knew that this time was coming and we has prepared to take them all on and never again would he let them take him apart.

This time came before either of them realised, it was in august and it was a cold winter’s day and Emily announced to the class that she would be going to another school, William felt betrayed then realised that this wasn’t Emily’s fault and they both knew that this was going to happen so in a way he was excited to know that it was his time to take it on himself, so Emily and William were now good friends and they made the most of Emily’s time left and not just in English in all subjects so he could take any path he chose and he was no longer a ghost in the shadows but someone who could decide his future and not be held back by lack of confidence.

When the day came William said goodbye to Emily on his way to school and on the way he was filled with joy to know that it was time for him to become responsible for himself. And from that day on he let nobody ever put him down and take away his dignity.

By Jamie Davies

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