The cool breeze caught my long black hair.
Winter was close and so was Halloween.
I clutched onto my skateboard tighter as I veered my way through the crowd of people.
I'm 16 and I'm an outcast of society, word spread fast about my mother and ever since then, life became a lot harder. Everyone knew me and they knew what I had done.
People feared me.
Mothers would turn their children away when I would walk passed and students at school avoided me completely.

It's not too bad, since it was years ago. I got used to being alone.

Apart from the school bullies, they thought it was a blast to have something to tease me about. They made fun of the fact the I was lonely and depressed. They joked about how I would kill them like I did my mother.
That's why today, I'm wagging school.
Passing open stores and bakeries to my hide out. It's along the river, under a nicely shaded tree. No one can see me there, in actual fact no one else even knows about that tree, it's on the outskirts of town so it's totally secluded.

Passing the towns center park was a water fountain, a popular hangout for teens, and just my luck. Local dick heads have already congregated around it.
I kept my head down and avoided any contact with any of them, but as always. One had to notice me.
"Hey Cindy" Trevor, the ring leader jumped up and vacated towards me.
"How's it going?" He cooed.
I stopped and faced him, rolling my eyes in announce.
"What do you want, Trevor?" I tutted

Trevor and I grew up together, we used to be best mates until the whole mother crisis. He grew scared of me, so he ran off and became a total douche to deal with.
Girls giggled in the back ground.

"Aw why so mean Cindy?"

I raised an eyebrow at him.

"I'm just checking up on my old pal" he licked his bottom lip and turned back like a smug to let his gang of posers know that he was still playing his sick joke.

He reached out a grazed his fingers along my arm. I stepped back out of his touch and he played a fake hurt expression across his face.

"Aw com'on Cinny loosen up"

"It's Cindy." I stated viciously.

He bit his lip. He's a total try-hard gangster.

"Ya know, we were just talking about you" he used his body to impersonate a rapper. He looked so idiotic doing so.

"Really now?"

"Yeah" he then signalled his mates over.
They slowly circled around me.
"Thing is, we don't like what you did to poor Tommy. G."

The truth is, this isn't the first time they've ganged up on me. The bullying has gotten more physical lately. That Tommy. G. Guy? He's the last person that's messed with me. He's not so strong or skillful at all when it comes to fighting. I broke his arm, but it was just too easy.

"And we want pay back, no one gets away with hurting one of my boys."
The others agreed in murmurs.
"What are you going to do?" I backed off a little only to bump into one of the boys. He grabbed me, taking my skateboard off me and held me in a choke hold.

I caught a glimpse of the girls still setting around the fountain, they weren't giggling anymore. They were all staring in horror, watching this all unfold.

"Well," he looked among the group, slowly closing in on me.
"We can either beat you senseless, beak some bones. You know, arm for an arm. Eye for an eye"

The guy holding me kneed my back, directly on the spin. Cried out as I was brought down onto my knees, still being held down by the shoulders.
I kept my head down, only looking at the ground as my way not to look up to him like a pleading dog.

I heard a metallic click. Followed by a slight shuffling of feet. Trevor brought himself down to my height and picked my chin up with a switch blade.
"Or we can," he bit his lip, desire in his eyes.
"Arrange something else."

A spat in his face.
"Over my dead body." I hissed.
He wiped the saliva off of his smug face a smiled.
"I intend on it."

My eyes widened as I was picked up and dragged to a more secluded area of the park.
I frailed and tried to wrench myself out the human restraints.
The guy holding me only punished me by tightening his arm around my throat. I choked and relaxed to release some pressure and at least get some air.
Trevor stopped in his tracks suddenly. His possy jerked to a halt at the sudden action. He turned back to me with a filthy grin. I wanted nothing but to desperately hurt him right then and there. He pulled out his switch blade again and aired it between his fingers in a swirling pattern, it didn't look as cool as he probably intended since it didn't seem to move with grace but instead caught on his stubby fingers, so he swang it the other way. What a fucked idiot.
In every face other than Trevors was a flush of hesitantion.

I had to act quick.
Trevor held the knife at me, pointing it in intimidation, it didn't scare me, Trevor was big on making a scene but he wouldn't do anything to drastic.
He ordered one of the guys to move in on me, he started to unbakle his belt as he walked towards me, I could see that he didn't exactly want to but he played a desirable smile for show.
This is when I had to act.
The guy holding me breathed on my neck, only whispering in murmurs compared to my beating heart that overtook any other sound.
I had enough room to move my head now. He was close enough for my attack.
I head butted him hard, hearing a crunch. My spining head made me instantly regret my move but it worked so that he let go.
Trevor was quick to jump in, he grabbed my throat and slightly pulled me up. Holding the knife in front of my face.
"Fuck..." I whispered out between the last of the air that came out of my lungs.
He tasked in pitty. squeezing his fingers into my throat before slamming my back hard into the brick wall behind us that belonged to one of the maintenance buildings alongside.
The blow coursed the rest of the precious air from my lungs to escape.
"Play nice Cindy, if you want to get out of this alive."
My eyes widened, he couldn't be serious. The word 'alive' creeped up my spine and sent unpleasant shivers through me.

He put the blade in my gaping mouth, my breath came in short puffs. He let go of my neck and ran his hand along my face and to my forehead where he pulled my hair back. His weight leaned against me and his breath brushed against my face.

"Com'on, smile for me Cindy," he said as he tugged the blade against the side of my lips.

I tried to push him off me but he only weighted down on me harder. Blood trickled down the blade and smugged my skin, I could taste it in my mouth.
"Aww, look what you have done," he teased.
tears threatened my eyes and I whimpered softly.
"Just kill me now why don't you." I threatened, slightly with a murmur as the blade saw in my mouth.
Trevor laughed in my face.
I knew it's because he didn't have the guts to do it.

"Oh I will" he smirked.

Tire screeches filled the air, everyone ones attention turned to the cloud of dust, emerging was a blue Chevy cruise.

Trevor retracted the blade from my mouth and stood back, I took this opportunity to hook him one in the jaw. He fell straight on to the ground holding his face gently with his hand while he looked up at me in shock, his mouth open to the unhinged joint from his jaw. I spat out blood on him.

"Disgusting pig." I muttered.

The Chevy's door opened for me and I ran towards it, finally escaping this petty possy. I didn't care who was in that car, I just needed to get away from here. Before reaching the passenger side, a heavy object was thrown at me. Hitting my head hard, my forehead smacked the roof of the car, and collided behind me was my skateboard.

Picking up the skateboard and finally getting into the car, I held my head as pain penetrated it, convulsing shock waves sent its way through me, it was unbearable.
blood seeped between my fingers and soaked throughout my hair.
As the car skidded along the gravel and finally started driving at a high speed. I held my head between my knees and tried to stop the bleeding. I could still taste blood in my mouth and it didn't help that blood started dripping on the floor of the passenger seat.

"Are you okay?" I deep, calming voice made its way through to me, passed the pounding in my head. When I didn't reply he spoke again.
"Okay I'm taking you to the hospital, alright? You're going to be alright?" I slightly nodded, at least I think I did.

I closed my eyes tight and tried to fight back the tears of agony that had over come me.

"My name's Jordan by the way."
Jordan...
His name was the last thing that ran in my head before my body went numb.