Chapter 5

Kazumi reached his apartment and fell on his stomach on the bed. He didn't even bother to clean himself up or apply ointment on his wounds. He fell into deep slumber the moment his body touched the hard surface of the bed.

The apartment was old, shabby and messy but clean. He choose the apartment only because it was available under his budget and was close to his school. He was dreaming and reminiscing about the good old days when he used to live with his parents in his hometown and was a carefree child without having anything to worry about. But everything just shattered when he came to know about the secret, which his parents were hiding from him from his childhood. The secret which also led him to leave his peaceful life in the hometown and move to the hell, well to the concrete jungle, where no one know anything beyond money and not even a single soul will make friends with you unless you are rich and match their standards. He still distinctively recall that day when he came back from his school and saw his parents spacing out into nothingness, when he went there and sat in front of them to pull his parents out from their day dream but the moment he made eye contact with them, he felt like the ground was slipping under his feet and his soul leaving his body. He wanted to ask them but he could not utter a single word. His parents were looking at him with a confused and concerned expression and asked,"Baby, Is something wrong?”

He can not tell them, No he don't have the courage to tell or ask them. So, in spite of being heart broken he showed a innocent smile and went to his room, only to cry silently, cry his heart out as if it was about to burst. He mumbled, "Why always bad things happen to me? Why me? I thought they are my everything and would never lie to me but why didn't they tell me that I was not their own flesh and blood. That my biological parents didn't want me and threw me away, that they found me crying and took me in, that I am not worthy enough in the eyes of my own biological parents." He wanted to hate them but couldn't bring himself to hate his foster parents because he couldn't find any reason to do so. They truly loved him and treated them as their own.

Kazumi woke up from his dream while gasping and eyes damped with tears. He looked at the wall clock, it was past midnight. He rubbed his hands against his face and felt the stinging pain on his face which reminded him of the earlier incident and he forced himself to get up from his bed, marching his steps towards the bathroom to take a relaxing shower and calm his inner self down. After about 30 minutes he came back with water still dripping from his hair, he looked at his own reflection and saw the clearly visible wound marks on his face and body. "I should not go to the school in the morning because Ren will probably question me about all these bruises and surely I will not be able to not answer a single." he said to himself, he applied ointment, ate some cup noodles and again drifted back to dreamland. 

The next morning he woke up from the irritating buzzing of his phone, he ignored it a few times but eventually it kept on buzzing. He growled and took his phone, trying to see the messages. It was Ren, asking him to get up quickly, eat his breakfast and not to be late for the classes. He started to type, "I will skip the school today. I am not feeling well so, take the notes for me too buddy." and sent it but before he could put down his phone , the mechanical device buzzed again and notified about the new message. Kazumi looked at it when again a new message popped up, "Are you OK? Do you want me to come over? Did you take any medicine? Have you had your breakfast?" Kazumi smiled a bit when suddenly his phone rang, he saw the caller ID and received it, "Good morning Kazu, What happened to you? Are you ill? Want me to go there?"

Kazumi was still smiling thinking about how this friend of him is always concerned about him and replied, "No it's nothing serious to worry about, I just- I don't wanna go to school, so help me ask for leave and you don't have to come to my place I just want to sleep and I'll be fine."

They talked for a while until the person on the other line was assured. "Ren really worries a lot and sometimes overreacts too" Kazumi mumbled after ending the call. He looked at his phone, it was 8 in the morning, he should go back to sleep as in the evening he have to go for his part time job in the convenience store. He was smiling while trying to get back to sleep. No one would ever believe that Ren, the most handsome boy of the school have a secret which he didn't share with anyone. But of course it is a secret after all that is why no one knows about it, well excluding Kazumi. 

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While Kazumi was sleeping peacefully, there's someone who is at the roof top of the school surrounded with several boys who were physically more superior than him. One of the boys among the crowd who appears to be the leader shouted, "Kneel down before us and show your respect towards your senior." When the person in front of him didn't even flinch he lost his patience and spoke again,"Playing hard huh!! Boys teach him how to respect us" and with that being  said all the boys ran towards the boy, who was standing at the centre, with clenched fists.