Tristan sneered at the small fifth grader. Tristan Windham was the biggest bully and jerk of the whole school.

 The fifth grader looked at the seventh graders that surrounded him. He backed up,but ended up against the brick wall of the school.

 Tristan signaled to his three mini thugs. The boys and girl then preceded to kick,punch,and insult the poor ten-year-old until the bell rang.

 The bullies sneered,then walked to their classrooms.

***

 Tristan reluctantly went back to his house. He ran up the stairs and shut the door,not wanting to meet his parents.

 But he was too late.

 "Ohhh,Tristan,"his father said in a sing-song voice. He was drunk. It was even worse when he was drunk. "Come down here NOW you pathetic excuse for a human."

 Tristan hesitantly went down the stairs.

***

 He later expertly hid the bruises with his mother's makeup. But he decided then that he was done.

 He pulled out his father's suitcase,then stuffed clothes and hygiene products in there. Tristan took the bear then,that worn out bear. That bear was the last thing Tristan's sister ever gave him.

 Tristan carefully put in the bear and swiftly ran out the door with the suitcase.