I decided to make it a bit easier to read by making the text to speech device Malcolm uses bold.
I sat in the office as I gently stroked my dog’s collars looking over photos of my dogs on my phone and thinking of how scared they were and how they must have been looking for me… If I had just stayed home as Dad asked. Time slowly passed my dad walked in with a panicked looked as a teacher asked to speak with him about the abuse I had caused on another student. After what seemed an hour my father walked out with me “YOU LET MY SON GET BEATEN ON A DAILY BASIS BUT WHEN HE STICKS UP FOR HIMSELF YOU NOTICE HIM!!!!!!!” My dad led me out and we went home, I clutched the dog collars the whole ride to the house. He told me to wait outside while he cleaned up in the house… moments late he came out screaming “They are alive but barely we need to get them to the Vet!!! Help me carry them!!” I ran into the house and looked to see Drifter and Meatlug curled up to each other bleeding and breathing heavily. He took Drifter and ran back and we carried Meatlug together. Petting both dogs in the bed of his tiny little tuck I jumped in the back with them making sure they didn't slide around. We made it carrying them both in, bloody with strips of my shirt and hoodie tying off their wounds. I paced helplessly in the waiting room, I felt something cold drip down my neck I touched my back to find blood . I looked to the chair and went to sit down my vision faded in and out and I fell to my face. When I woke up I was in the hospital I sat up and looked around, I saw my Dad in the corner sleeping I saw my text to Speech on a nightstand by my bed I grabbed it and franticly typed I stood and shook my Dad awake he looked to me with half asleep eyes. “Why are you not with the dogs!!” The robotic voice roared out my Dad ushered me back to bed and told me the dogs were just fine and that after a few tests I could go back to the 'new house.' I looked to him confused and typed quickly “New house?” He nodded and touched my face “I bought a new house...” I stood back up and he tried to stop me he pressed the nurse button and told them I was awake and walking around. Moments later I was swamped with nurse’s telling me to sit down I ended up sitting down and letting them down their work. After what seemed hours of this work I was finally able to leave we went to the vet to pick up the dogs when I got there the lady and the front desk smiled “I see you are feeling better you really scared me.” I nodded and followed my dad to the back “ Son are you okay?” He paused at the door and I pushed him aside and walked into the room with walls of kennels scanning each one for my best friends. I saw Drifter his stomach with bandaged up I unlocked the kennel and took him out holding him putting him to my face rubbing his soft fur to my cheeks. I scanned the rest of the kennels and didn’t find Meatlug… I looked at my dad tears going down my face and he looked to me with worried eyes. I fell to my knees holding Drifter I went to my knees I slowly made my way out defeated and at utter loss. I heard a bark and whining to see a woman being dragged by Meatlug who was on a leash. I opened my arms and she ran to me the woman fell down and dropped the leash and Meatlug pounced on me. I laid on the ground and let them lick me as she whined and cried out for me to pet her. Every day after helping my dad move our stuff into our new house I came to visit them walking and feeding them… Two weeks passed and they came home everything was moved into our new house and because of how late in the year I didn’t have to enroll in a new school. I got a job in the summer working at a coffee place I worked on learning sign language, and worked on my paintings putting the one I had been working on in the new house. It's colors filled the empty wall in my room I had a nice big bed so Drifter and Meatlug could sleep on the bed with me. I had the master bedroom because Dad was never home so he would rather not waste the space. Before I knew it the summer was over, Drifter was now trained to help me cope with my PTSD and a few other problems his drifting behavior still happened and was rather cute to see him lost in thought. Today I start high school I know what I must do to make it kept to myself and if anyone asked me I had a long distance relationship with a girl in Japan. I walked to my new school and looked to the kids walking in slowly with groans of how they didn’t want the school year to ever start back up again. I watched as a car drove up with the music blasting parked and shut off, I watched as the got out. A rather strange man with horns, a man with tattoos of gears on his bald head, a man with teal hair and a snake tattoo around his neck and a real snake on his wrist, and a woman. The one with horns was pushed back into the car and the others looked around as if he wasn’t supposed to get out he did look around 25. “Chief, tell him he can’t come.” The Driver got out and I felt my heart drop as a man with blonde hair and a fit body stepped out,he threw down his cigarette and put on a jacket over his tank top that pointed to his groin 'the legend' and an arrow pointing to his face 'the man', his pants were torn and fit him well. His lips looked soft and his snake bite lip piercings made them look even better his nose was pierced at the bridge and made his brown eyes stand out. His jacket was jean but with a cloth hood and soft sleeves with patches where holes had been fixed. He talked to the man with horns and got him to stay in the car, I watched as he looked toward me I darted my eyes away to Drifter. I froze and looked up to see him walking over to me I panicked and started walking back toward my house. “Hey Baby…” I turned to thinking I had been caught staring I turned to see him hugging a girl, I sighed and looked to Drifter I saw a teacher walk toward the strange group “Excuse me did you not hear the bell go…” the teacher came toward me looking to Drifter “Can I assume you are Mister Malcolm?” I nodded and the teacher held out to a hand “I am the principal here and I assure you there is no problem with you having your dog come with you as long as he doesn’t pee on anything.” I nodded and together we walked into the school, “Students can have lunch outside and if you ever need to get out of the classroom there should be no problem if you are not comfortable with a teacher please let me know and I can change your teachers… You have truly been through some things and I know it’s not easy and if you need to take some time to get yourself together I understand.” I smiled as I looked to her so far things were going well a hot guy didn’t beat me up when he looked at me. She showed me to my first class I saw the hot guy and looked to the teacher Drifter stood by my side and looked to me and around the room. The teacher smiled and held out her hand to gesturing to an open seat I sat down Drifter followed, kids all looked to me with confusion at least no one would dare mess with the kid with a big dog at his side. I watched as other kids reached out to Drifter I stopped them and gestured to the sign on his vest that said 'do not pet' they groaned and looked to his cute little face. The teacher waited a few minutes and made sure everyone had made their way to the classroom. “Good morning class I am Miss Holly and I am going to be your Art teacher please raise your hand if you did not sign up for art class and would like to change your class.” A few students raised their hand she went around giving them papers telling them what they needed to do in order for their class to be changed. She then stood in front of the class “I would like you all to draw something that shows who you are. Not a person but an object give it the background your aura gives off. Whether it’s sad or happy, what kind of person are you?” She looked to me and the dog “Of course make sure it’s not too inappropriate but be true to yourself I am rather well known for finding the truth.” I got out my art stuff and quickly began to draw a tiny flower growing between two moss covered stones, in the distance fields of dying flowers could be seen. When the class ended she stood by the door collecting our artwork I handed her mine and she smiled.“I can tell you will be working on the wall paintings for the school,” I smiled and walked on the next class was math. When the bell rang I watched as the hot guy walked in and put his arm around the teacher "Henry how you doing?" I watched as the teacher groaned in dissappointment as he rolled his eyes. “Mister Jonas please sit down,” The teacher brushed off his arm and Jonas sat next to me throwing his bag down he put his feet on his bag and yawned. “Hey.” He said looking to me and clicking his tongue I looked away. “Hello students I have a few 9 graders in here so welcome to the school and if you aren’t new to this school please be on your best behavior." The teacher seemed to be after Jonas with his rather scary glare, "Now we will start with you please stand up and tell me your name and something interesting about yourself.” I watched as it slowly became my turn having my text to speech ready and the volume turned all the way up, my turn came I stayed hoping no one would notice a kid tapped me and I slowly stood and pressed the speech button. “My name is Malcolm Stanely and I like to paint,” I sat down with my body shaking, I took a breath “My name is Jonas and I like to have a good time.” I felt my body shake more I hugged myself as if it would help “Hey… Robo voice.” I slowly turned to Jonas feeling my gut drop “You good?” I nodded and looked to see Drifter laying his head on me and pawing me as my nails were dug into my arm. Drifter whined and nudged his head to separate my nails from my arm. I pet him and tried to calm down, Jonas played on his phone the whole time and I saw him texting someone. He seemed rather upset with each of their texts I leaned over looking to his phone “Just stay in the car I can come to see you during lunch just watch some videos on your phone or something.” Jonas put his phone down and looked out the window his phone lite up he picked it up. “My phone is about to die, come on can't I at least let me go into the woods my back is killing me.” Jonas looked out the window and groaned typing quickly he replied “Fine but be careful and answer your goddamn phone if I call you and be back in the car before noon I am not driving all over to try to find you.” He looked out the window and sighed I glanced over to see someone with bright red hair dart into the nearby woods. He looked back at his phone and I looked back to my drawing plans for what I was going to paint on living room walls, dad said he wanted something with trees. When the end of the class came I still didn’t have an idea of what I wanted to do the teacher came up to me Jonas picked up his things when the teacher passed him he paused. “Malcolm I don’t want to make you feel.” I cut him off by waving my hands and gesturing that he had done nothing wrong I pulled out my text to speech and quickly typed looking to him as the robotic voice rang out “No problem it was nice to meet you I will see you tomorrow.” I darted out the room forgetting I had Drifter I turned to see him at my side, each class was similar to the next, only having one class with the hot guy who each time I saw him in the hallway became more violent with 'nerds' and rather scary with each passing glance. When lunch came Drifter and I ate outside I watched at Jonas went to his car with his friends close behind him he opened the car door and slammed it shut “He’s gone. Damn it I told him to come back!” He punched the car and rubbed his face “he’ll be fine I mean come on he can handle himself.” The guy with gears on his head said as he patted his back Jonas, Jonas turned and gave a nasty glare as he towered over him.“We need to find him” Jonas turned away the group split up looking for the strange man with horns and bright red hair I knida liked the horns. Jonas stayed and called him a few times, I turned away knowing it wasn’t my problem anf focused back on drawing lunch quickly passed. I walked back into the school and before I knew it the day was over. Each day I over heard new thigns about Jonas and began to avoid him, I even heard that he had stabbed someone. But the red haired horned man winked at me every chance he could and tried to talk to me but was rudly cut off. Today Jonas got transferred to my science class I over heard that he got into a fight with his other teacher and was suspended for a while and now we have to do a group project together. “Sorry to break this down on ya but we are going to your place to work on this my place is trashed.” I thought about the last time I had brought someone over it was just a trap so that he could knock me out and trash my place. I looked to him and then to Drifter I sighed and decided he would have attacked me if he wanted to I had seen him attack other people for his own reasons. Having science as the last class made things weird we walked out of the same class and he just followed we didn’t talk or anything. I watched as the man with horns and bright red hair ran after him “Roger fuck off,” He kicked Roger and scoffed “But you said to stay with you! And plus Snakes is always poking me.” Jonas waved his hand “Fine you can go in the woods as long as you come home on time and stay away from me.” Roger ran off and waved “No problem Chief I can control myself.” We walked on and when we got to the house I could hear Meatlug whining for me, I pulled my text to speech from my pocket “last time a person came into my house she was attacked so please follow my lead and walk slowly in the house with your hands at your side. Her name is Meatlug and this is Drifter.” I opened the door and Meatlug came to greet me she looked to Jonas and growled I snapped my fingers and got her attention I patted her head and gestured Jonas to come in. She watched him with every step and Jonas looked to Meatlug. “Can I pet her?” I nodded and took off Drifter’s vest and watched as he laid down after a hard day of work. Meatlug was enjoying being pet and Jonas seemed to really love dogs, “What kind of dog is she?” I quickly typed “She is a wolf dog.” He seemed amazed rather than scared, “So how long have you lived here?” I walked upstairs to my room he followed Drifter followed at my side. I typed as we walk to my room “not long,” I then remembered the giant painting of pride colors in my room and paused at the door. “What's wrong you got calender girls hanging up.” He swung the door open as I tried to stop him, he looked to the pride eagle surrounded by other blackbirds. I froze in utter terror as he stood shocked I slowly back up in fear he would swing at me.
Hey guys go look at my other novel A New and Strange Life
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