Beaten up

Rick Blake was a normal university student.Average grades, average physique yeah well!! just average.He had no girlfreind as everybody looked down on him. Also he was extremely poor. His parents had died two years ago and left him and his little sister alone to fend for themselves.

Blake loved his sister tenderly and would do anything to see her smile.He would work part-time at a small café and earned $150 dollar which he would then use to buy food,toys and clothes for her. Oh by the way her name is Emma.

Emma was a cute little 7 year old girl. She also loved her brother dearly and was fully conscious of the sacrifices this one made for her. He would always buy things for her but not for himself, he had only one pair of shoes that he had worn for nearly two years and never bought any new one and he nearly wore the same clothes everyday. A discoloured black shirt which was turning grey with time.

Blake: "Come on Em wake up or you'll be late for school."

Em: "Big brother, pls just 1 more minute"

She then proceeded to lift up her blanket over her head and ignored him.

A crafty glint passed through Blake's eyes he silently lifted the bottom side of the blanket and started tickling her small little feet. She didn't expect it and started to yell and laugh at the same time.

"Em you'll be late for school if you don't get up" Blake said smiling

A few minutes later both of them were at the table eating cereals. Well at least one of them were. Em was busy watching her favourite cartoon on the tv. Exasperated Blake took the remote and turned off the tv.As soon as he did that he felt a death stare directed at him, he only smiled wryly at showed his watch.

When they were ready both of them took the subway to drop Emma to school.It would have been much more comfortable and easier to take the car.In fact Blake had his driving license but he didn't have a means to buy a car.

After dropping Emma off and making sure she was inside her class Blake went back to the subway again, this time alone.He was listening to his favourite song on an old phone which was launched nearly 10 years ago and thathe got for only $10.The phone was obsoletr but he had no choice as his financial situation didn't allow him to own anything better.

After half an hour in the subway he went out and headed toward his university, lots of students were heading in the same direction as him. Most of them were well off or at least better doing than him as he was the only one dressed in clothes with fading colors as he wore them for too long.

Blake got to his classroom which was full of students, the teacher was onthe podium speaking through a microphone ao that everybody could hear clearly, it was a class on psychology and Blake had no interest in it but had to do something to end up with a good job and let Em live comfortably.

In the front rows was seated a couple, a very beautiful girl with long brown hair and shining green eyes with a sturdy and intimidating guy.

Blake saw the guy was looking at hin with a mocking gaze and diverted his eyes, the girl was his ex-girlfreind.They had grown together and went to the same schools all the way from primary school.

Her name was sophia, she had dropped him after high school and started to date that guy, Eric, he was the son of a rich family always dressed with the best clothes, drove the best cars and dated the best girls.Blake had very soon gotten over her but her boyfreind still held a grudge against his girlfreind ex-boyfreind, so he always found ways to give Rick a hard time.

After the class was over Eric and Sophia passed by Blake, the latter didn't even look at him and passed by as if he didn't exist but the former gave a hard hit on Blake's chair which made him fall onto the ground, people around him looked at him mockingly and some started to laugh, only a few had looks of disgust as they watched Eric getting away. This was a common occurrence, Blake had tried to fight back but had gotten his a** beaten by the black belt taekwondo Eric so he gave up trying to fight back head on and had planned to take his revenge using his brain but it will have to wait as he couldn't think of a plan cruel enough.

Blake got out of the classroom and found Eric and his two followers waiting in front of the door, Sophia wasn't there anymore. Eric only gave a slight head movement and one of his followers said mockingly

"Follow us, Eric has got something to tell you."

The smirk on his face was definitely a bad presage, Blake had once tried to ignore them and leave but these guys didn't care about the other students or teachers and just pulled him forcefully to an empty place. They walked amongst the crowd until they arrived to an empty parking lot in the back of the campus

"Blake I've seen you looking at Sophia during class, I advise you to forget about her or else I'll break both your legs"

Eric was obviously finding excuses to mess with him which made Sam angry, the more he looked at these guys faces the angrier he was. Blake has forgotten about the girl long ago but these guys didn't drop it and kept pestering him, he threw away all the plans he had made to get revenge on them and threw himself at the guy on the right, head low he ran into him and pushed with all his strength. The guy was pushed onto a car behind him and the pain made him groan, Eric and his other friend recovered from the shock as they didn't expect him to attack suddenly and they ran toward him while throwing punches toward his face when he was going to get hit by both fists, he realized that he was done for so he threw caution away and charged with his shoulder into Eric. Eric lost his balance and staggered a few steps back, meanwhile the other friend's punch landed on Blake's stomach, he groaned but didn't lose time and threw his elbow at the other guy's mouth. That hit made him bleed and lose a few teeth, when Blake wanted to attack Eric and end this a ferocious punch hit him on the neck from behind and made his vision blur.

When Blake woke up he was lying on the ground, every part of his body was hurting. He tried to get up to check his body but the pain was too much. The three bullies weren't there anymore.

It was still the day so at least he didn't miss the time to pick up his little sister. After a few minutes trying to recover, Blake found the strength to stand up and walked out of the campus. Everywhere he went people were looked at him with surprise as he was covered in bruises and blood, after enduring long enough he made it home and started healing himself. He had to make a good job and leave no traces to not worry Em.