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Billy Kaplan and His Glass Heart: 2. Bullied

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October 6th, 2005 3:21 PM

Eastview High, Eastview, New Jersey

Billy didn't want to come to school today. He thought about just dropping out of school, but he thought his mother would kill him before letting him do that. He was on edge the entire day, flinching at every step and person mocking past him.

"I am sorry, Ms. Davis, but I really can't be a part of the band this year," Billy said as his band teacher roped him into joining the band again.

His Bullies would get off of football practice. This year, he needed to hunker down and get home immediately. He did that spell last night to build his strength but never wanted to use it.

"William, you are my best band member. You can play any instrument," Mrs. Davis said, and Billy looked down at his feet.

"I am sorry, Mrs. Davis," his voice was ever so slightly above a whisper,

"It's fine if you want to quit, son. I am just really disappointed in you," she said, and that broke Billy. He felt the tears coming on but didn't want to cry at school in front of his classmates.

If Billy could get lost in anything other than researching and practicing witchcraft, it was Music. Music goes hand in hand with witches. He had been in a band every year since 6th grade, and he didn't even care when people started to bully him as the chubby gay band guy.

It got bad in the 7th grade when John Kesler moved to town. John seemed to be intrigued by everything Billy did, which is how he picked up on signs of witchcraft Billy was doing by muscle memory, and he didn't recognize it. He outed Billy to the school for the first time, and soon after that, they were able to turn it back into adolescent delusion.

With superheroes and aliens starting to attack New York City and the Avengers being formed in 1986, it wasn't too hard to believe that Billy Kaplan was an actual Witch. Whoever wasn't bullying him for being fat or a witch was too afraid to even look at him.

The summer before 10th grade started, Billy, out of his depression, didn't eat for a week. Then he saw that he had lost 14 pounds when he saw that. Then, he started skipping meals more often and running around his grandmother's property.

When school came back, many people didn't recognize him. He had shed about a hundred pounds but still wasn't happy. This is when he dipped into his witchcraft. He started dipping into magical potions and serums to shed off the weight. By the time it was October, he had gone from 303 pounds to 92 pounds.

Billy thought that losing all his weight would make him happier and that people would stop picking on him. His father stopped making weight jokes, at least. He thought that maybe school would be just a little less like hell, but he had no idea how bad it could be.

Billy walked out of the school building, looking around to see if the coast was clear. He looked up to see that it was about to storm. "Shit.." Billy spoke under his breath as this meant football practice would be closing soon.

Billy took a deep breath before sprinting toward his house, "there he is!" Billy heard, and he gasped, trying to speed up. He tried to bend time to his wheel but was distracted by his fear he couldn't hold it for just one second.

Billy started to hyperventilate and run faster, but he could not outrun a group of football players in any way.

Billy knew his parents loved him as he was, but it only hurt more when he cried to them about how bad school was. It's almost like they don't believe him. It's just like the teachers do. They never do anything because they don't see anything, nor do the cops. He recalled seeing a CCTV camera a couple of blocks away. He tried to stay ahead until then, but he could tell that they were catching up with him.

"Stop trying to run away, Faggy Kaplan!" John reached out to grab Billy's arm but swiftly dodged him.

"You don't have your broom to fly away now, Witch?" Mike snapped, getting ready to tackle him down. Billy flicked his eyes up to see the CCTV camera in the distance. He had to be in range; if not, he was out of luck.

Billy tried to focus as he balled his fists up. He spun around. "Stop!" Billy screamed and punched out his hands toward their feet. An eerie fog-like black shadow shot out of Billy's hands and wrapped around the football team's ankles, tripping and holding them in place.

Billy looked down, confused, as this was not the color of his magic—his magic was neon cyan. He felt terror, quickly shook his head, and dissipated the magic.

"F-Fuck! He is a witch!" some sophomores that Billy didn't know yelped, several of them scrambled up to their feet and ran away.

"Just leave me alone, okay!" Billy said

He stepped back up, knowing something was off with his magic, though John and his friends were ruthless and hardheaded. Billy had no memory of what happened last night, but he did all these times when he performed the strengthen spells. He had been too scared actually to use them.

"What do you want from me? What have I ever done to you!" Billy cried. He wishes he could do what his father told him to do. It would be so easy if he could fight all his bullies off, but Billy was so tiny and meek that he couldn't... he couldn't even take on just one of them now.

Billy trembled, stepping back every time John came toward him. He never tried to face John, but he looked up into his eyes and quickly looked away. The memories of looking up at his face triggered Billy so much.

"C'mon Kaplan, you know what it is," John said, "Some of the players from JV are now in Varsity. They need to bond by beating up a faggot like you," John snapped, and Billy looked down.

"I don't deserve this. Just leave me alone!"

"You deserve this!" Mike snapped, making Billy flinch. "You know exactly what you did to Johnny. You deserve to be six feet under," he said with malice, and Billy raised an eyebrow.

"W- What are you talking about?" Billy asked, confused, as Mike looked at him. he was disgusted. John looked like he was about to change the subject. "What the fuck do you think I did?" Billy said, taking a step toward Mike, which surprised them.

"You know what you did... at that party a couple of years ago," Mike glared, and Billy glared up at John.

"What the hell did you tell them?" Billy snapped and then shook his head as John opened his mouth. He pinched his fingers and mimicked a zip, binding John's mouth shut as he didn't want to hear the lies.

Billy thought he was physically and magically weak, but this couldn't be further from the truth. A wizard's power never really hits a point. Magic is like a muscle. You must exercise to make yourself stronger. Sometimes, Billy did things magically by accident that he never could think of if he tried. He couldn't go a moment longer with these people believing Johns's lies, whatever they were. He closed his eyes and projected the memory into their minds.

------- TW: Implied SA

Billy wanted to avoid coming to this party. He had been talking to a guy in Westview and was invited. After talking to him on Myspace for years, he was told that he would finally meet him in real life.

The longer Billy waited, the drunker he got. This guy had been so nice to him. He had fallen in love with this guy he met online, and he was being stood up. Eastview and Westview were next to each other... so he decided to head home.

As he was walking, he could hear footsteps behind him. "Billy... it's Oliver," John spoke. Billy looked behind him and widened his eyes. This greatly upset him. This had to be some horrible, cruel joke.

Billy looked at John, hurt and angry but most of all scared, and this set off John. Billy started to run away, and John quickly caught up to him, grabbing him and pulling him into the trees. "Stop! Leave me alone!"

"Shut up!" John punched Billy in the face until he was knocked out.

Billy was in and out of consciousness after that. he could remember looking up with John on top of him. Thrusting into him, he was pretty out of it. When he began to fight back, John would choke him until he lost consciousness again.

When Billy woke up, he was staring at the full moon. What had happened was pretty clear as he looked down to see his clothes were off.

------- Billy stopped sharing his memory, and everyone stared at John, confused as he had been lying to them. This was far past them just beating up some queer kid. John was always the one who took it way too far into really hurting Billy.

"What? He made it up," John said defensively. Billy had enough, so he screamed and pushed his hand forward, sending John several feet back.

"I hate you!" Billy screamed out, feeling like he could kill John. That's when Umbraxus decided to leap out of Billy. "Ahh!" Billy screamed as this Umbraxis was like fear-embodied. It made him want to run away, but he saw that the Demon was fighting the bullies. "Stop it!"

Billy tried to stop the Demon with his commands or powers, but nothing worked. Umbraxus pointed down to the floor, creating a portal to hell. Everyone was screaming for help, and Billy's heart was racing. He had no idea what to do in this moment. His hands were only against bullies, not an extremely scary and powerful demon.

Billy closed his eyes and tried not to focus on him being terrified. He tried to focus on his power and his knowledge as a Wiccan.

"Exorcizo te, malum obscurum, ab hoc loco discede; luce pura vincaris et numquam reverteris!"("I cast you out, dark evil, depart from this place; be vanquished by pure light and never return!")

Billy chanted and blasted Umbraxus with his pure power, sending him shrieking. He dissipated into black smoke. The boy wasn't too sure if this meant he had defeated him or if this was just a distraction for the Demon to get away.

"Help!" Mike screamed, and Billy looked down to see seven of the bullies holding onto the edge as they were being sucked down to hell as the portal was closing. Billy quickly grabbed the air with his hand and lifted it. Cyan hues glowed around all of them. Once he had a hold of them, he made them float up and out of the portal just in time for them to wear clothes. He flicked his hands and freed everyone from his hold on the magic.

Billy started returning to reality. He looked around to see everyone knocked out. He was unclear if they had just lost consciousness or lost their lives. Like anything in his life, he blamed it on himself. He thought the absolute worst.

"I-I am a monster," Billy whimpered as he had no recollection of how that Demon got inside of him. He looked around to see people frozen in fear. Billy knew what people had done to the Witches in the past, and people were afraid of his power. So he ran to the only place he thought could help him and the citizens around him.... the Avengers Tower. Please Vote, Comment, Add to your reading list, and share with your friends:) Check out my subreddit for my writings r/QuinnLake

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