The past haunts

“How much does your mom charge? I heard she’s a whore” jimmy the bully said admist laughter from the other kids in the hall way. I ignored him. It was too early and I had no time for this. Everyone knew that jimmy is a stupid bully who thinks he could do anything simply because he had very rich parents. He was always with Jakes and Edwin, his two minions who agrees to everything he says.

“ leave me alone jimmy”, I said as I walked past him to my locker.

“ Leave u alone? Really Edward? Then why didn’t ur mom tell Mr Colin to stop when he was busy banging her?” He said tauntingly while the students around stood there laughing and watching.

“What did u say?” I asked confused and angry. I was prepared to fight. He can bully me all he wants, but he dared not bring my mother in to it. “What do U mean Jimmy?.

“Ouuuuuuuuu… little Edward doesn’t even know” he said with a mischievous smile on his face. He was standing in front of me now. “So u do not know? U haven’t seen the video?” He said while bringing out his phone

I was confused. Before I could ask any question,he already held the phone to my face… showing me a video of a woman and man naked on the bed. In the video,is a familiar woman lying naked on the the bed with an unfamiliar man. But this woman looks like my mom!. My own mother!. I looked closely and I saw that there were actually two men with her and I recognized one of them instantly. Mr Colin our home room teacher!!

“Is that my mom?” I asked in confusion and utter disbelief.

“What? U don’t recognize ur slutty mom? Everyone, Edward is going blind” He said admist laughter from others.

“It is bad enough that his mother is a whore, now he is going blind?” Jakes added. “Awwwww so unfortunate.”

My head was spinning. I didn’t know what to feel as I shoved jimmy aside and ran down the hall way,straight into the restroom area. I locked myself in one of them and sat down on the floor. Was my mom a pornstar? Was she a prostitute? How does she have a sex tape? Not just one man but two!! And she also slept with Mr colin of all people? . A lot of questions ran through my head.

I buried my head in my hands as I cried. I tried as much as possible not to make any noise while sobbing. I heard footsteps as two boys entered the restroom.

“U saw the video too?”one said as he washed his hands.

“Edward’s mom is so hot… damn!” The other one said. “I wish she did more of these videos”. More tears rolled down my cheeks as I heard them talking .

“And I can’t believe mr Collin would do something like that.” One of the boys added. “I saw him leaving the school in a rush this morning. I guess he saw the video too.”

They both laughed while saying a lot of demeaning things about my mom. Even after they left, more students came in and each group had one thing or another to say about my mom and Mr Collin.

I ignored texts and calls from Molly and Robert. They were my best friends and only friends in the whole school but I just couldn’t face them. I felt so ashamed and humiliated. “Where are you Ed?” a text came in from Molly. “Please reply,we will come to you.” another text came in almost immediately.

I remained in the restroom until classes were over and I came out only when the whole school became quiet. I threw my hoodie over my head as I walked home angrily. I need to understand what was going on. I need to speak to mom.