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Alice

6-12-2008

'Shut the fuck up! You don't know shit so why don't you just go fuck your self Mike! Yea that's right, walk away you cowards!' Alice yelled at the guys from her class as she helped her brother out of the bushes. 'Come on babe. It's ok, I'm here now, it's ok.' She gathered both their bags and headed to the bus station. 'Ouch' she cringed as he pulled on her hair 'no, Ben,' she spoke softly but firmly to him 'that hurts remember. You can't do that. What do you want? Use your words'

'My Hat Ali, I need my hat.' He spoke in his deep yet childish voice. The bullying made him nervous and frightened so his speech always declined after another episode. They didn't happen so much these days. Every one had either gotten used to him or Alice's threats and out bursts had finally driven them away. But there were always the idiots that got full of them selves and took advantage of her absence.

'Yea mate I'll get it.' she sighed as she crawled into the bush to look for his hat.

'Hey Ben how are you?' the voice didn't wait for a reply 'Where's Alice?'

'Right here, Bella' Alice called out as she crawled back out, hat in hand. 'God I could kill Mike' she ranted.

'Not again. What is it with him? You ever think it's because he wants the reaction out f you?'

'No, or else he would do it when I was around, or fight me.' Bella gave her the eyebrow 'verbally I meant' Alice corrected her self. 'No it's just because he's a dick' 'Come on Ben let's go before we miss the bus. See you later Bella.'

'See ya. Bye Ben.'

'Bye. Come on Ali the bus, the bus Ali.'

'Aaaaaaaaaaaa-lllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice…Aaaaaaaaaaaa-lllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice…' the back of the bus chanted as she got on. She could never figure out why they did this other then to stir her up. But they'd been doing it for over a year now and still they weren't tired of it. They sat down in their usual seat as she pulled out her ipod. Music, loud music, was her one escape from the world, and she escaped as often as possible.

For the love of God will it never end, Alice thought as she felt her brother tap her on the shoulder. He had learnt from a young age not to interrupt her music unless it was important. And the only thing he considered important was being picked on. 'WHY!' she yelled as she turned around and took out her head phones. It was a girl from the grade below her, a usual suspect. 'Just leave him alone! He's not hurting any one!' she could see now that they'd been throwing bits of paper at him. 'Wow paper. That's real inventive.' She mocked them as she reached into her bag. The bus went quiet for a moment before it irrupted into noise and the driver pulled the bus over.

'Fuck that bitch threw a book at me!' the girl screamed as she held her forehead. Alice wasn't surprised she hadn't missed, -before Mabel high she'd been a real jock her self - but just that the text book held its course. But awe turned to worry as she saw the trickle of blood escape between her fingers. Fuck she thought as the girls' boyfriend came at her from one end of the bus and the driver from the other. The students tried to clear the way for the two.

'That's it!' the driver yelled as he grabbed her bag 'all of you off the bus! All of you, you hear!' she got hold of Ben who was looking shocked more than anything because he didn't quite understand the situation.

The driver pushed her off the last step and she fumbled, Ben helped her up. 'I said all of you!' he yelled to the rest of the bus.

'What!'

'Why?'

'We didn't do anything!' the bus complained, but they all got off.

Alice tried to hurry Ben away from the mob and the angry boyfriend. Why did she get her self into situations she couldn't handle? But there was no way she could avoid this.

'Wait up slut!'

'Fuck off, it's your girl whose the slut around here' that's right antagonise him. She thought sarcastically to her self. 'Run home Ben. Now!' she whispered as she tried to push him away. She could tell that they were almost home. He would know the way from here. They were at the park he used to love. But he just stood staring at her in confusion. 'Run Ben! It's a race ok? Go!' and with that they started running. She let him get ahead of her so that she could act as a blockade from the mob. When they got to the corner and her house was in sight she stopped to turn around. Both her and Ben were fast runners but knew that he would run out of stamina soon, so she turned to face the not so far away boyfriend.

He charged up and tackled her to the ground. She managed to knee him in the gut and squirm out from under him, but a fat girl was close behind her and got a handful of hair as he got up off the ground. She elbowed the fat girl in the stomach hard as the guy got hold of her shirt and threw her back onto the dirt. He held her down and yelled right in her face 'You Fucking whore! If you touch my girl again-' but he didn't get to finish before he was thrown off her.

'What kind of an arsehole are you? And all of you' the rescuer glared at the gathered crowed 'ganging up on a chick like this! Cowards!' he cussed, but made it sound like the worst word in the English language. He bent down to help her up.

'Yea well it's all her retard brothers' fault!'

'That's it!' she screamed and escaped his hold. She threw her self at the boyfriend and knocked him down. She only got one punch in before he layed a good hit right on her jaw, splitting her lip open, letting her taste her own blood. This threw her off balance, the rescuer grabbed her round the waist and started to pull her away, kicking and screaming and yelling profanities back at the crowd.

'Get off me Jasper!' Alice hissed, when she calmed down a bit. They were almost at her house; Jasper was her neighbour.

'So that's what your mother was talking about' he said as he let go of his hold on her.

'You don't know anything... And neither does she!' she spat as she said this. It was coloured red which brought with it the pain from the blow.

'Fine then.' She could see the hurt in his eyes as he turned away from her.

'No Jasper, wait, I'm sorry. Thanks for that. Just now. I mean…not only for just now but…'

'Just go inside Alice, and clean yourself up.' There was little compassion in his voice, and she could understand only too much why. Then he left her at her mailbox. Alone. As usual. She thought.