The City Held Its Silence byIrel Knx 118

118 Anthony’s struggle 

CURRENTLY BEING EDITED. I APOLOGISE FOR THE ERRORS. 

SPECIAL POV: ANTHONY 

When Dad threw Mum and me out of the main house and sent us to a smaller home, I was so shocked and sad. I felt like he was replacing us with that other woman called, Diana, and Marco. 

At first, I didn’t really understand what was going on. On Dad’s birthday,t I think two years ago, Diana and Marco appeared. I was shocked when I saw him he was a boy who looked just like Dad I found out that Marco was also Dad’s son and that I had a brother. 

They started living with us because Dad wanted to help them. However, things started to get weird. 

Mum and Diana were constantly arguing and getting into fights. Dad would step in and take Diana’s side for some strange reason. I would never see what caused the fights, just the fights themselves. 

There was a time when Diana was saying my mum stole her jewelry. I overheard the argument I felt something was wrong because Diana said Mum did it in the afternoon mum had spent the whole afternoon with me that day there was no way she could have stolen the jewelry. 

But Dad took Diana’s side. He always did. With time it began to feel like we weren’t welcome in our home. 

At school, the other kids began to look at me funny. They knew what was going on at our home. 

When Dad eventually kicked us out I just felt sad and rejected by my father. I kept thinking it’s because I didn’t look like him. Maybe if I did look like him he would Unlike Marco who had the same hair color and eyes as him. 

I never really talked to Marco when we lived together. He was always with Diana at all times and Mum told him not to get close to Diana or talk to him as well. So at school even though we attended together we never spoke. 

Life at our new home became depressing. Mum was never home she was always trying to talk to father but he never saw her. 

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I then lost my friends at school they told me that their families have told them to stop playing with me because of rumors about my mother. 

Some other children at school began to make fun of and bully me. At break they would gather around and say mean things to me. 

“Anthony I heard you’re not really your dad’s child.” 

“Yeah, Marco is really the real child.” 

“Anthony, we heard you and your mum were kicked out of your house by your dad,” 

I found it a little annoying but I ignored it for the most part. It was just really lonely because I had no one at school, no one at home because both my parents weren’t there. It was like this for months and just felt miserable. 

That is, until mum began to act differently all of a sudden. She suddenly stopped trying to see dad everyday and started going to work. I was surprised by this but she promised me she was going to focused on me from now on. I felt so happy. 

There were four boys in my grade and class that really annoyed me. They always picked on me, making fun on my situation with my mother. 

Their names were Zeke, Luke, Justin and Matthew. 

I recalled one time I was coming out of the bathroom during a break and found the four of them waiting outside in the hallway huddled together. When they heard me come out they looked my way. Zeke stepped forward. 

“Well, well, well, if it isn’t the fatherless boy with a crazy mother,” Zeke said. He was the leader of the group because he came from wealthiest family out of the four. 

“Don’t call my mother crazy,” I said to him sternly heat rising in my cheeks. 

“Yeah, my mum says your mum is stupid and I think she must be.” Zeke continued. The other three boys snickered. 

“I said stop it,” I challenged them again. 

Zeke then leaned forward and pushed me. “You look so mad what are you going to do about it?” 

That triggered me more than the insults they threw at me. They can make fun of me but they can’t make fun of my mother. Without thinking I lunged at him and we started fight. Unfortunately for me, he had more people than me. They got me off him and 

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they began kicking at me. 

“Don’t ever try something like that again,” Zeke said to me and they walked away. A 

while after they left I got up from the floor sore all over. As the day progressed bruises began to form. 

I did my best to cover the up so my mother wouldn’t worry but she ended up finding out 1. She looked so worried and disappointed. 

“Tony you can’t get into fights, you might get into trouble with the teachers or with the the kids families. If their families decide to sue us,” she told me as she caressed my 

cheek. 

Looking in her eyes that showed concern and worry for me I was touched. 

I felt even worse because she then suggested if I wanted to change schools. I refused, however. I still had to take care of those idiots for insulting her. I had to get my revenge. However, I also didn’t want her to worry about me. 

The biggest challenge for me was how I was going to do it without getting into a fight. And that would cause trouble for mum. I had to think of how I could do make them pay without anyone seeing me. 

I thought about it every day, but nothing came to mind immediately. 

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I was seated by a bench outside in the school yard during lunch break. I had already had lunch in the cafeteria where I ate alone as usual. And now drinking a juice as I waited for break to end. 

“What’s in the wallet, you pig?” I heard a familiar voice say from near by. 

I turned to see Zeke and and his crew surrounding a boy. Those boys just loved picking on people. The boy was defenseless as he could only watch as they went through his coin pouch. Zeke held it in his hands and threw out the coins for fun. 

I stood up from the bench wanting to help but if I interrupted they would only turn their attention to me. 

I looked around trying to find something to help him with. 

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