Mindy[Pov]
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Just as the class was about to end my boyfriend, Eddie, was signaling me to remind me to not forget to ask Arius. I sort of feel bad for the kid that they are trying to play a prank on, he's always quiet, never causes trouble, and quite cute honestly. " Whatever. You can be the world's most handsome man, but without power, money, or status in this world, you might as well disappear because you're genuinely considered nothing ." Those were her honest thoughts and opinion, as she looked at Arius from across the room, happen to look back so I winked and smiled. He got flustered and turned around quickly, and it made me sad knowing what will happen to him and how it was such a waste.
I looked at the teacher and couldn't help but admire his frame as he left the classroom when Eddie signaled me again. With a sigh, I pulled myself up from my seat and walked over to Arius with a flirty smile."Hey Arius, I was wondering you would wanna hang out with my friends tomorrow ?" Arius had a surprised not his face then, as if I was talking about someone else he turned around and checked behind him before asking "M-m-me?"I sighed Truly a waste, I thought and sighed. It's okay if you don't wanna go, I turned around pretended like I was about to go."No no wait, I'll go" he answered in a way that made me almost blow my cover and I had to pretend to sneeze to play it off. "Okay, we'll head to a karaoke bar after school. See you then." I waved and went on with my day without a second thought about him.
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Arius [Pov]
We didn't go to a karaoke bar like she said we would but they drove me out to the middle of a barren highway and left me. I laughed at myself, you should've known. You're different and people just don't like different. I felt so many emotions but the main thing I felt was not angry or sad but lost. Yes, I felt lost because now I learned that things like trust, friends, honesty, and family are just things that humanity made to bound something to them. With a sigh, I continued to walk down the highway towards the way the car shot off to "I guess it was my fault, huh?"
They took my phone so I'm currently walking down an abandoned highway without paying any attention to my surroundings, well that was until I heard a sick crunching and smelled a strong stench of iron. I looked up to see bloody mouth mountain Dhole, tearing the meat off a freshly hit deer and I stumbled backwards and fell on the ground. The Dhole looked up and saw me and let out a howl before jumping at me. I got up and turned around so I could run away but apparently, Dholes don't move without a pack and my shoulder just happened to be where the other Dhole behind me was aiming at before I moved. I don't know when they surrounded me but I was in the middle of ten Dholes and they seemed to be attacking me one at a time. Then it finally struck me that they were playing with me before they kill me.
After five minutes of torture and humiliation the Dholes seem to get bored and all started to attack me together. I tried to run again but the biggest one bit my heel and tore a big chunk out of my ankle. My leg stopped working and it felt as if I had a fire burning my ankle, but before I could think about my ankle the others immediately start attacking my body. I rolled onto my stomach, covered my neck and tucked my head so they wouldn't bite any of my vitals, little did I know that they wanted something better. A Dhole bit my kidney and my reflexes made me jerk away from it and another one bit the other kidney and I was horrified as I felt them tearing me to pieces.
I started feeling lightheaded and I heard a car screech and a few voices yelling that made the Dholes run, I looked over to see Mindy and who I assume to be her boyfriend and the other four boys and two girls look in my direction with terrified looks on their faces. I felt a bit of joy seeing those looks and mustered what very little strength I had left and tried to sit up, one of the boys, who I recognize as the one who punched me out the car, tried to help me up and I pushed him away even though it hurt me a lot more than him." What the hell are you doing man", I'm trying to help?" I coughed a bit before I managed to say "Thanks for the "help", but it's also your "help" that has had me like this man." With a few more coughs and a lot of groans I managed to stand up for a few seconds before stumbling towards the towns direction and falling.
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Mindy[Pov]
My heart stopped in my chest once we saw Arius being attacked by a group of dogs(Dholes), he was curled up and there were pieces of his clothes and him laying around. Eddie climbed out of the car and so did the rest of his friends, they swung bats and started cussing at the dogs scaring them away before Me and my friends got out to see the scene. Lia and Terry's faces went pale and they turned back around, I was stuck looking at the once very cute boy we decided to prank earlier.
One of his ears was had the top half missing, his crystal white, eye length hair was messy and stained with red and he had cuts, gashes, his eyelid on the left was halfway shut due to eye damage, and pieces of skin missing in general. Eddie's friend, Levi tried to help him up and was pushed away. " what the hell are you doing man, I'm trying to help?" Arius coughed a couple of times and said " Thanks for the "help", but it's also your "help" that has me like this man." Then he coughed and groaned before he got up and stumbled before falling down.
I ran to his side and tried to help him up but he also pushed me away from him and though it wasn't a strong push, I backed up being scared it might hurt him more and with a look of disdain, he said "Here to be friends now, huh? I don't want none of your help and if any of you try and touch me I'll bite my tongue off." After that, he slowly crawled towards the city. Eddie reached forward and I grabbed his hand and shook my head " He will hurt himself more, don't touch him." Eddie looked at me angrily " He'll fuckin die if I don't help him" he tried to move again but before he could get close to Arius, Arius slammed his own chin on the ground and his tongue fell to the ground with a splat as blood gushed out of his mouth.