SKELL (fpe)

Skell was friends with Abbie—that was no secret to anyone. They grew closer during Miss Circle’s math classes; she would get so annoyed by Abbie’s stupidity that she’d order Skell to help him out. Through that help, a friendship formed—or rather, Abbie started befriending Skell. Not that Skell minded or anything; he was fine with the friendship. He even helped Abbie avoid getting beaten up by the infamous bullies—Oliver, Edward, and Zip. It was a cool friendship—really cool—but it eventually started to bother Skell a little. Maybe it was because he could never find the precious peace he always craved, or maybe it was because Abbie got too comfortable asking Skell to do his homework for him, or maybe it was everything—everything about Abbie: his personality, his nervous mannerisms, and his stupidity. Yeah, it was everything.

With that growing hatred in his heart, Skell began ignoring Abbie on purpose. Whenever Abbie asked for help with a math assignment, Skell would pretend not to know the answer and say Abbie could handle it on his own; whenever Abbie wanted to sit with him during recess, Skell would pretend he needed to use the restroom and never come back; and whenever Abbie was being bullied by the tough kids, Skell would look the other way and leave Abbie to deal with it alone...

Skell stood facing Abbie; Abbie’s lower lip was bleeding because Oliver had punched him. As Abbie was speaking, Skell abruptly cut him off, his voice low and stoic.

"Maybe you... should tell the principal about this. It’s not hard, Abbie."

What a lie. He knew exactly how hard it was to tell the principal about the bullies; she didn't care—no one at that school cared.

MYOS