Kitzie’s locker was positioned in the worst possible spot. It was right next to the one person who hated her more than anything. It was like Mikey’s only reason to come to school was to torment her. But Kitzie fought back. She wasn’t scared of some schoolboy. She survived the past 6 months without any parents to look after her so Mikey fucking Way wasn’t going to worry her one bit. She still hated seeing him. He called her names, he threatened her and once he even vandalised her car.

The worst part? He lives across the road.

Neither Kitzie or Mikey could remember why they hated each other so much. But it didn’t matter anymore anyway, its just the way things were.

As she walked over to her locker on Monday morning she sighed to herself in irritation when she saw Mikey was taking books out of his locker. She was running late so she couldn’t wait for him to get his books and go. Mr Forrester wouldn’t be happy if she was late again. She walked over and put the combination in, and opened the door when she heard the lock click over. She had to pull the door really hard to open it. The stupid thing got jammed everytime she closed it, ever since Mikey punched it shut one day in anger when she called him a ‘fag’ while he was talking to some girl he liked.

“Can’t even open your locker? You must be a bigger retard than I thought.” Mikey said and smiled to himself.

“You’re the one who broke it asshole.” She retorted.

“Better get it fixed then.” Mikey said and walked away.

Kitzie cursed under her breath and took her books out and slammed her locker shut, then headed over to her first class which thankfully was not with Michael Way.

*

At lunchtime, Kitzie sat outside with her friends Molly and Mel. The girls were talking about some older boys they met outside of the school one afternoon. They were only ever interested in older guys, as if it made them seem more mature to date someone who wasn’t in high school anymore. Kitzie thought the idea was dumb. Why would she want to go out with some dude who was just as bad as the guys she went to high school with just because they were older?

Molly and Mel had been acting really funny lately. They weren’t having as many conversations that involved Kitzie. She knew exactly why they were doing it, but thought it would be easier if she pretended that she didn’t even notice. The reason why was because the two older boys who they had been talking to had started ignoring them and trying to flirt with her last time they saw them. It made the girls mad that she didn’t even have to try to get their attention. Like she even wanted it.

While she sat on the grass drinking from her juice box, listening to the girls talk, she saw Mikey and his friends walk past. Two of Mikey’s friends looked at her quickly, trying not to let Mikey see that they were checking her out. Mikey looked over at her and smirked. “Did you get your locker to work retard?”

“Go fuck yourself Mikey.” She spat.

Mikey laughed and pretended to be hurt. “So much hatred towards me Kitzie.” He stopped and put a hand over his heart and shook his head. “Where does all that hatred for me come from?”

“Oh Michael. I don’t exactly hate you, but if you were on fire and I had water, I would drink it.”

Both her friends and Mikey’s friends laughed. Mikey shook his head annoyed and walked away with his friends following closely behind.

*

At the end of the day she walked out to her car and began to put her books and bag in and then sat in the driver’s seat. She sighed in annoyance when she saw that Mikey was standing behind her car looking right at her. He was purposely stopping her from reversing. she got out and walked over to him.

“What do you want Mikey?”

“Nice little line you threw at me today.”

“Oh, so you’re here to compliment my insults?” She questioned sarcastically.

“Not really.”

“What then?”

“I came to do this.” He said and pulled a bottle of paint he must have got from the art room and opened it. Spraying it all over the back window of her car.

“You motherfucker!” She yelled and shoved him while he laughed.

“You better think twice before you push me again Kitz.” He warned

“Oh and why is that?”

He stepped forward getting really close to her as she backed away. He was tall and towered over her. Kitzie was already short as it was, but looked even smaller compared to Mikey. “Because noone’s here to stop me from pushing you right back.” He said and shoved her hard causing her to fall on the ground.

“You asshole. I’m not fucking scared of you Mikey.”

“You should be” He said and walked away.

Kitzie was home alone all night as usual. She lived alone and her friends were too busy hanging out with their older guys to come over she supposed. Just then her phone rang.

“Hello?”

No answer.

“Hello?” She repeated.

Still nothing. But she could hear someone’s breathing on the other side. It was creepy.

“Mikey, I know this is you. Prank phone calls and heavy breathing. Pretty unoriginal don’t you think?”

Finally the voice at the other end spoke. An ashy, worn-out voice. “Not Mikey.” Was all they said.

She hung up the phone, freaked out. It really didn’t sound like Mikey. But it had to be. Who else would call her and try to frighten her? He must have put one of his friends up to it to trick me. She thought, and then decided to put herself to bed, suddenly wishing she didn’t have to live alone in such a big house.