Chapter 1

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I'm that kid. The kid who everyone stares at, the one that gets shoved into boards, who gets laughed at. I am a walking punchbag.

I'm Anna. I'm 16 and I go to Redgrave secondary school. I guess you could say my life is pretty hard. I have problems at home with my mother. We don't get along, I have my reasons though. School isn't much better I get bullied constantly. I don't see why though, I don't see why anyone should get bullied. I'm no different to anyone else in my classes. I am at the same intellectual level as them, I am the same age as them but no. I guess there's something about me. They're bastards, they're nasty bastards. My life is getting shoved into the school lockers, the cold metal pressing against my face, the hard locks jabbing into my ribs. My life is coming home to my mum raging at me so she has an excuse to take her shit life out on somebody else.

I take my anger out on cutting. I release my anger out by cutting beautiful lines into my skin. The blood oozing out of my skin. It comes out so fast, it's as if my own blood doesn't even want to stay in my body. I don't even want to be in my own body. I am a pathetic attempt of a human.

Why can't I die? I just want to die.

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