Was it a dream pt1

was it a dream?

short story 1 (imp)

Their eyes were fixed on me.

Not just looking at me—looking through me.

Through the fake mask I wore every day. The mask of strength. The mask that convinced everyone I was fine.

My back slammed against the wall as another punch struck my face. Pain exploded across my cheek. My vision blurred, and my legs threatened to give out beneath me.

In my mind, I wanted to scream.

Please stop.

I can't take this anymore.

I never wanted trouble. I just wanted a peaceful life. Why me?

But the words never left my mouth.

Not because I was weak

Because of my pride.

Because of my ego.

But there was something else I didn’t understood the words from the others elder once told me

“ boy’s don’t cry .we are stronger tears are weakness a boy that cry are useless”

Those words echo’s trough my head I was crying I was bleeding in that moment I wanted to put those elders in my place

In my place where cruelty exist I wanted to see what will they do when you get tight up to everywhere

But I shake the thought out of my mind what was I even thinking

my mother used to say to me to respect elders

I forced myself to stand.

The moment I did, another fist crashed into my jaw.

Laughter echoed through the hallway.

Girls.

They stood a few feet away, watching.

Laughing.

Mocking.

One of the boys grabbed my collar and pulled me closer.

"Look at him. Still acting tough after all that," he sneered. "Who do you think you are? When we tell you to sit, you sit. When we tell you to stand, you stand. If I told you to lick my shoes, you'd do that too. Understand?"

I hated his voice.

I hated all of them.

Three boys holding me against a wall like I was nothing.

What had I done wrong?

Nothing.

The only crime I had committed was saying one word.

"No."

At this school, everyone obeyed them.

Everyone feared them.

Why because there rich and we are not

And I refused.

That single word had ruined my life.

More laughter came from the girls.

I looked toward them.

Their smiles were sharp.

Cruel.

For years, I had imagined girls are kind than boys.

Watching them laugh at me shattered that belief.

Sadness and anger twisted together inside my chest.

Blood ran down my face like rain.

"What are you staring at, pervert?" one of them shouted.

My neck got squeezed

My hand on his one desperately trying to get my neck free

I couldn’t breath

Pervert?

I almost laughed choking

I didn't even have the strength to care anymore.

I closed my eyes.

Maybe if I stopped fighting, it would finally end.

Maybe this boys bullying us

maybe this girls laughing casually at this scan

maybe there might having bad days like me and this might be the way they let out there sadness

poor souls if my suffer making them life happy it’s ok I can’t decide am I hating them or not

Then I heard a voice.

A girl's voice.

Soft.

Clear.

Different.

"Hey! Get your hands off him! He might die, you idiots!"

For a moment, everything became silent.

I forced my swollen eyes open.

It was her.

The quiet girl.

The girl they bullied too.

The girl who usually kept her head down.

Why was she helping me?

The bullies turned toward her.

For a second, I saw fear in her eyes.

She was terrified.

Yet she stood there anyway.

Standing up for someone who couldn't even stand for himself.

And for the first time that day, I felt something I thought I had lost.

Hope.

Maybe kindness still existed.

Not in everyone.

But in people like her.

Rare and precious, like a hidden gem.

my eyes drift close

then I felt a sudden push a hard one

I felt my head hitting hard on something

I heard my head cracked

A sudden sharp sound

I saw the only girl who stand up for me

rushing towards me

her voice echo’s her eyes widen

even the mocking girls voices are shaken they had seem something so brutal

but what is that I didn’t get answers my eyes shut downed am I dead ?

my head felt like it got hit by a truck when I opened my eyes the sky brighter

with moon light

stars glowing

I’m in a land of where flowers are everywhere

beautiful it’s so much beautiful

then suddenly I got remembered where am I ?

I turn around no one

I’m all along wind hugging me

flowers dances along with the wind

is this after life

a white bird fly nearby it was pure white

I looked at it

it was glowing so beautifully

then it got disappeared in air I was shocked

a soft voice came it hugged my heart

every pain every memory flew away

I looked at the voice a soft voice that anyone thinks that it’s from an angle

I had heard this voice somewhere before but I don’t remember

I looked at the voice for one moment all I saw was some creepy eye ball floating in the sky with wings it was giant not small

and when I blinked

there was an angle looking girl no wings no magic just human

she came to me and sat down beside me

I’m still confused terrified by that eye what was that

I looked at her

“ do you know where am I, who you are”

I asked

my eyes full of pain and suffer from my life but I don’t remember

what had suffered me

I was crying but I don’t remember why

“You’re home ……. You’re home rest now”

That was the answer from the girl ignoring other thing I asked

I looked at her eyes

my eyes widen

I remember there was something there was something before this.

I feel it but my memory nothing

allI remember is a happy life

I had lived with this girl and I know none of this happened

I saw a happy life with her she is with me holding my eyes with a kid that hold our hands

my eyes filled with tears I don’t felt anything

“why am I crying “

“Because you were strong enough”

It was unsettling but I knew one thing deep down

none of this happened but my heart was full of happiness and

then the lady turned at me

“you’re going to find the truth. now you have to go there are ones that waiting for you”

As she said I cried hardly I cried so hard boys don’t cry but all I want now is to cry

That words of her hugged my heart like a soft blanket then sudden light so much brighter

I opened my eyes

“where am I”

I was looking at the celling where a bright light covered my whole face

as I turn my head a sharp pain ran through my head

my eyes got widen my mom and dad rushed to me hugging me tight it hurts me but I hugged them back

what’s happened

what’s going on

as I saw doctors nurses around me I understood slowly

I might had been unconscious from the push so was that all a dream

as I thought my eyes scanned the room

and I saw the exact angle from my dream she talked to me

“are you ok “

The exact same voice from the angle I know that girl she was the one who standed up for me back then

The quite girl …… wait……my dream what was the eye what was that bird who was that girl is she …

As my head hurts by thinking I got that all problems to one and I kept it aside in my mind

Was it a dream………….

End