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Against Family Wishes
#WritcoStoryPrompt29
I ran all the way home from the ground. The older boys had beaten me up good but I still had the strength to run as far as I could from them.
I knew my mother would be the next one to thrash me for getting beaten up, which was ironical, if you know what I mean. But I had no choice. I couldn't tell her the real reason the boys picked on me...
My lower lip had swollen considerably, the skin around one of my earrings was covered in a disgusting mixture of dirt and blood. I was pretty sure a few of my fingers were broken but my spirit was intact and I couldn't stop thinking about him, about that kiss.
My mother would never approve this kind of behavior. Her own son, holding hands with another boy, laughing, drawing attention to them in public. This is not what she expected of me.
By the time I arrived home, she...
I ran all the way home from the ground. The older boys had beaten me up good but I still had the strength to run as far as I could from them.
I knew my mother would be the next one to thrash me for getting beaten up, which was ironical, if you know what I mean. But I had no choice. I couldn't tell her the real reason the boys picked on me...
My lower lip had swollen considerably, the skin around one of my earrings was covered in a disgusting mixture of dirt and blood. I was pretty sure a few of my fingers were broken but my spirit was intact and I couldn't stop thinking about him, about that kiss.
My mother would never approve this kind of behavior. Her own son, holding hands with another boy, laughing, drawing attention to them in public. This is not what she expected of me.
By the time I arrived home, she...
