“You know, Lexi, I really wasn’t quite looking forward to going out here. I really just try to get myself lost in the cold night.” Several cars zoomed past us, their lights flashing.
“That’s a Porsche,” he said. “I have a ton of stuff about Porsches. I always found their designs to be really interesting.”
“Oh, that’s nice,” I said. Personally I would have liked it if we had decided to go back to the hospital, but I didn’t want to hurt his feelings.
“You probably don’t even care,” he said. “Fine, I get it.”
“We should probably be getting back inside for sleep,” I said, trying to change the subject.
I watched him leave. On the side of the well that he sat on was a picture of his family. The glass was shattered at the surface of the picture.
“Gosh, I’m sorry,” I said to myself. “I know it probably must not be very exciting being in the middle of a place that you don’t know about.”
I walked back to the hospital. Boy, I was really sleepy. Going back into my room, I lay in my bed, preparing to fall asleep. I thought about how Stephen had not really spoken much until now. Maybe all this time I had misunderstood him.
I fell asleep before I knew it.
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It felt kind of weird when the nurses all decided to leave us alone in a room for us to play in the room where we had free time. Sean rose to the top.
“DODGE BALL!” he shouted as a suggestion.
“YEAH!” everyone shouted in unison. Stephen seemed ready.
Balls launched in all directions of the field. Stephen ran around and threw balls. No more standing around and looking like a fool.
A passion lit up inside that boy. He grabbed another boy and wrangled him to the ground. “ACK!” he cried before he was sent toppling to the ground. The boy’s cries for help failed to reach his ears in time. His face began to turn blue.
“Call one of the nurses! Call the nurses!” cried a girl in skinny jeans, but Sean lifted his hand in the air. He looked at the two fighters, measuring each of their strengths. Stephen squeezed harder on the boy’s neck. If nobody did anything, he might kill him!
“That’s enough!” I shouted, pushing Stephen to the side. Stephen still wouldn’t let go. It wasn’t until the rest of the students came and pulled him off did he stop.
“What the fuck were you doing?!”
“Were you trying to kill him or some kind of dip-shit?!”
“What’s your problem man? What’s your problem?”
Sean seemed to give Stephen one final look before turning away. From the whispers inside the other peoples’ ears, he seemed to say “What a loser. Nobody wants to hang out with him…”
He ran out the door. No time to contemplate what he had just done. He ran and ran and ran. He stopped, out of breath, in front of the blank wall, for he heard footsteps coming at him.
“Wait, nobody ever came to me?” he asked himself. It was only me, Lexi Louis. Is everything alright? I wanted to ask him, but I knew better.
“Get away from me! Stop feeling so much sympathy for me!” he cried. “I don’t need you! What do you want with me!” It all came out of him all at once. “Fuck off!” he shouted. I walked backward a few steps before he ran even further down the halls.
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