The Revenge of One Humiliated
The one they pity, sometimes, with a furtive glance quickly averted, before turning back to join in the general mockery.
I walk, head down, carrying the weight of their stares. Carrying the weight of my family. Carrying the weight of my own flesh, become a prison from which I don't know how to escape. Each step is an humiliation. Each breath, a shame. At seventeen, I am already a ruin, and the day has barely begun. The worst, I know, awaits me behind the high school doors.