[TW: bullying,transphobia,injury,animal death,blood]

Dotty yawns,waking up. Just as he thought,his arm was healed. Like nothing happened.

He quickly gets up,does his morning routine,before he heads downstairs for breakfast

"...hm...you look tired. Everything ok dot?" Lemon asks,crouching to their level

"I'm fine...just a bit of a rough night!" They say with forced cheerfulness

"if you say so..." they reply,ruffling xyr hair before they decide to leave without breakfast. They didn't need it! They were sure of it.

Later,they end up at school, greeting bow 

"hey bow! Whatcha up to?" He asks,as she turns to look at him with a smile

"looking at these pillbugs!" they replied,pointing to the little pillbugs that were rolling around and skittering

"oooh!" Dotty and bow crouch down to look at the small shiny black bugs,as they rolly-polly all over the pavement,before they watch a foot come down and stomp on the pair of bugs,a soft crunch following after as they dug their heel into the ground,turning the pillbugs into a pile of blood and mush.

"hey! Why did you do that?!" Dotty exclaimed,as bow was sad about the bugs' death for a second,as dotty looks up to who did it...

oh.

that stupid smug grin of his meets dotty's face as he says "what? Upset? It's just some stupid bugs. Come to think of it,you both got bug-like features...freaks." He shoved dotty,as bow shrinks back slightly,as dotty pushed her behind themself. "What do you want, chip?"

Now,chip isn't a potato chip or computer chip,he's called that because hes a tooth with a chip in it.

"All I want is to remind you where you stand in this school, yknow? Cause you two pipsqueaks are so easy to make fun of." He replies,snickering "I'll see you two later." He replies,before walking away.

Dotty stands up,dusting xemself off,before helping bow up

"you ok...?" he asks

"Oh I'm fine! It's not a big deal!" She replied,waving it off "I'll see you in class dotty!" She says,before quickly walking away.

"..." He sighs. She always does that. Maybe as a coping mechanism. She says she's alright,but you can't lie to a liar,can you?

He goes to his class,sitting down,before he noticed his desk was vandalised.

"oh..." He stares at the derogatory words on his desk,before quickly wiping it off before anyone else got into class,putting on a smile. Everyone else piled in and went to their seats a few seconds after,the teacher Ms.Wine Bottle going to the front and taking attendence,before she starts to teach.

Dotty wasn't really paying attention but they were trying their best to. Drill sat next to them in class,which dotty didn't mind,they were pretty cool and they liked hanging out with them,even if they didn't that often. 

"Hey,drilly..." dotty whispers to them as the teacher was distracted

"hm?" they turn to look at xem,as xe ask "Did you get those notes I asked for...?" xe say politely

"Oh yeah,here." They hand dotty a pink sticky note. "thanks..." Dotty replied,as syrup bottle gives them a smile,before the two go back to doing their work.  

"alright students,it's time for lunch." Ms.Wine Bottle says, gesturing to the hallway,as everyone stands up and gets their stuff,scrambling into the line,a bit of shoving.

Dotty hangs back slightly, just to talk to bow, who was in the back of the line,along with strawberry. Dotty sometimes liked to give either of them piggybacks if they asked.

The trio heads over to the cafeteria where they meet up with Kiki 

"hi kiki!" Dotty says cheerfully,as they look up at her,as she smiles

"heyo dotty :3" she replied,as the four all sit at a table, Bow yapping about something as kiki makes some little jokes and strawberry sometimes adds something.

dotty listens,sort of spaced out though.

but he quickly snaps back to it as he feels something hit him in the back of the head.

he reaches his hand back and feels...something gooey and small shards of something in it,before looking at the substance on his hand.

...is that egg?...

he glances over to notice chip and his buddies,snickering at him and whispering things about him.

he can't hear them but he knows it's about him. What else could it be about,the weather?

"Oh gosh! Dotty! You ok?" Bow asks,pulling out a napkin as the other two nod "yeah are you alright?" ",:["

"I'm fine guys..." dotty replied,taking the napkin and wiping the egg off of him. "Im going to go to the bathroom, I'll be back." He stands up,leaving his group as they watch xem with a slightly concerned expression.

He goes into the male bathroom,because the teacher's finally let him because they were too tired and annoyed by him to even care at that point.

He wipes the egg off,struggling slightly as some of it had dried out and stuck to him,as he vigorously wipes it off,getting a lot of it off before he sighs,staring at him reflection.

...his face looks weird. Maybe his eyelashes are off...

he quickly adjusts them,before he hears someone walk in.

"so,didn't like my surprise?" the voice said,as dotty sighs,glancing back in the mirror to see chip there,with two of his buddies right behind him.

"no,I didn't..." He replied,standing up and staring at him with an irritated expression.

"Oh, how sad! Also,aren't you in the wrong bathroom?" Chip sneers slightly

dotty's antennae twitch,before he replies "I don't think so."

"Really? Cause the girls bathroom is that way..."  one of chip's friends, Kinetic, said from behind him.

"...And I don't see a boy standing in front of me."

". . ." It's fine dotty,grin and bear it. It's just how it is here. "It doesn't matter what you think of me, because you don't get to decide if I'm a guy or not." He replied

Chip steps forward,looking him over "you look to feminine anyways to be a girl,freak." he flicks xyr forehead,as xe smacked his hand away,irritating him "don't be such a bitch." he grabs xyr wrist,pushing them down as his friends grab his arms as dotty squirms,chip standing in front of him and looking down with a smile

"if you so certain your a 'boy'...

why don't we treat you like one?"

he cracks his knuckles.

[...]

"...hey,don't you guys think it's weird dotty hasn't come back?" strawberry asks,as she uses a fork to fiddle with her food.

"now that you mention it..yeah...is he ok..?" Bow ponders,as Kiki shifts "I hope they are..." they mumble,resting their head on the table as bow hugs her and strawberry does the same.

[...]

Dotty coughs up a bit of 'blood' after chip punched and kicked them so many times,bruises starting to form on their stomach as they coil and shrivel up, Kinetic and Femur still not letting xem go.

"you see dotty? that's just what happens when your delusional." Chip replies,as kinetic and femur let him go as he curls up on the floor,blood dripping from his mouth as they leave.

...just roll with the punches,it's all you can do.

He stumbles up to his feet,staggering slightly,before he checks himself in the mirror.

He looks even uglier with all those bruises. Dotty quickly patches himself up, before he sighs and heads out of the bathroom.

He sits back in the cafeteria with the others,as kiki and the others hug him "we were worried about you! you were in there for 20 minutes and lunch is almost over..." Strawberry says,as kiki doesn't let him go. They return her hug,wrapping their arms around her as they reply

"I'm fine guys,honest..." but like they said earlier...

you can't lie to liars.

Kiki and bow walked home with dotty,as strawberry's house was the opposite way so she went with heart to get home.

"I'll see you two later! Bye!" Bow says,before she heads into her house,as kiki and dotty walk together,hand in hand.

"you sure your ok...? You seem despondent..." Kiki says,putting a hand on his cheek as dotty holds it there "I'm sure,hun..."

they make it to his house,before he hops up and gives her a kiss on the cheek,before going back down. "cya tomorrow,bye kiki."

"bye love! ^^" She says,before she goes to her house.

He sighs. He didn't eat really anything,but he didn't feel hungry. 

He just sorta crawled up to his room and fell into his bed,gripping his pillow and burying his face in it, letting all the tears xe let xemself bottle up,before crying quietly into their pillow.

What was so wrong about his existence that people had to hurt him for it?

Sav3 was watching them,of course,but it didn't need to torture them today, but it still liked watching dotty in despair.

Zella came up after a few minutes, noticing dotty passed out while they were crying.

Xe sigh,brushing some of the hair out of their face before kissing their forehead

"I wish you'd tell me whats wrong,moth..." She whispers,looking at the red puffy eyes,before leaving the room.

The room was quiet and dark,only thing that could be heard was the gentle wind blowing outside. Just a moment of peace.

[CHAPTER 1 END]  

(the bullies were needed,also god I hope I represented the characters that are ppl's sonas featured today right ;-;)

(but sorry for the long wait guys, I hope you liked this chapter!)

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