Prologue

Blaine

I don't like this. Well that's not entirely true. I don't like that I'm going to be the new kid at school. I don't like that I don't know anybody at this place. That I don't know who I need to avoid. I don't trust this school, I don't trust that their anti-bullying policy actually works. Surely it's got to be a lot safer than my previous school, that has to be a given. I mean, three of the guys there tried their to kill me so surely it has to be safer but at least there I knew the best places to hide and the majority of the time I knew my way around the school in such a way that I wouldn't be bothered by my tormentors.

I'm not trying to sound ungrateful. Transferring schools has been a dream of mine since I started high school. I never really fit in at Westerville High School, even before I came out. I liked music and reading. Since it wasn't to do with sport I became a victim to the bully's. But at least I knew who the bullys' were. I don't know anything about this place.

Dalton is massive and terrifying. Apparently there is less students than there was at my previous school but that doesn't mean that they're going to be nice. I'm bound to get lost here and then somebody will find me and they will find it hilarious and the torment will begin again. It's a never ending cycle. The last time I had a friend was the first month of high school and eventually one of my tormentors scared them off. I've gone nearly two years without having somebody to confide in. I couldn't tell anybody about the abuse that I suffered. I was even too scared to tell my parents.

I was hiding out in a small diner one afternoon doing my homework in the middle of April. It was still light out when I left but as I made my way to the car park it was pretty empty. I have to admit, the diner doesn't serve the best food which is why it's normally empty but I prefer to go there for the peace. However as I was walking to my car, three of the guys from my school attacked my. I was in hospital for nearly a month and I've only just been able to stop using my crutches. As soon as my parents realised I was in hospital they rushed to my bedside.

I was in a coma for two days and it took me a week to remember what happened but when I did, the barriers broke. I told them everything, how I was scared to go to school, how I was thrown in the dumpster, locked in lockers, had food thrown at me, everything. My mum was in tears with me and my father was furious. My brother, Cooper, who now lives in Boston after going to Harvard to become a lawyer flew straight home and him and my father managed to get the three tormentors sent to juvie until they were 18 and then a further 3 years in prison.

Cooper and I had never been that close, probably due to the nine years between us but when he came back to Ohio, it took him six weeks before I could convince him to go back home and to work and that was only with the promise of calling him every other day. He helped me to research new schools and found Dalton Academy, claiming that it was the safest school in the state. He even insisted on visiting the new school before leaving Ohio to make sure that it lived up to the reputation that it had on the website. He spoke to the principal, teachers and he even managed to talk to several student who would be in my year, even another gay teenager and they all said that Dalton was great. Cooper kept telling me that I will be safe and that there is no bullying, all the students agreed but it's still hard to trust him about that. Every school has bullying, why would this be any different? They probably just managed to hide it better. Plus Cooper would say that if he thought it was what I wanted to hear.

Most of the students at Dalton board, which is what I'll be doing. My parents believe that it would be the best way for me to try and make friends, which I doubt that I will be able to have. After much resistance I finally agreed, only with the condition that after a month they would reconsider the boarding aspect if I wanted to stay home and drive to school. It would only be a twenty minute drive anyway. After that deal was made, my parents began conversing with Dalton Academy and began filling in the necessary paperwork.

I'm going to a supposedly safe school where there is an anti-bullying policy. My tormentors are now locked up and I will never have to see them again. So why am I so terrified?

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