The white hair

FREAK WITH WHITE HAIR

Sasha looked at him in dismay, no wonder everyone was looking at her like that, she have forgotten she had white hair, she frowned and continued walking trying to hold her pain inside, any time she passed by, they call her a freak. When Sasha got to her class, all the student looked in silence, the teacher smiled and told her to seat any where she wants, but no body wanted her to seat with them, so she sat at the back alone. She recalled why her parents moved her to start a new life in another city, because her old school students kept bullying her and she couldn't take it anymore, the real problem was her hair. Few minutes later the boy that called her a freak came in and the teacher looked pissed.

“ Class started few minutes ago Raphael.” she yelled.

“ the girls couldn't let me go " he replied with a smirk and all the girls started gigglingly.

“ you think you are charming but you're not, go and sit down I will leave you off with a warning." she said.

Raphael looked around for a seat and the only seat available was the one close to Sasha, he looked irritated and quietly sat down next to her.

A girl seated in front of Sasha called out to the teacher.

“ Excuse me ma, if someone has white hair, is that person old or diseased. if it is please I hope it ain't contiguous." the girl said and her friends laughed.

“ Silence!, What's your name?” the teacher asked Sasha.

“ Sasha" she replied.

“ it's looks like the other students are afraid of you, can you explain why your hair is white.” the teacher said.

“ a freak can't explain why it's a freak teacher.” Raphael said and everyone started laughing.

“ what's so funny?" Sasha muttered. She stood up and everyone was quite, she felt scared and timid.

“ My hair is like this because...” she felt quite.

“ it's ok Sasha if you don't want to tell us there's no need, maybe you inherited it from your mom or dad, does your parents have white hair.?" the teacher asked.

Sasha felt blank, where did she inherited the white hair from, her mum and dad don't have white hair. she heard the teacher say she can sit down and when she was about to Raphael pulled the chair away, and she fell down on her butt. she stared at him angrily the class erupt with laughter, and Sasha saw the teacher laughing too, angry tears feel her eyes.

When the class was over she ran out of there, she soon found out the mean girl's name was Lucinda and Sasha already hate her, she ran to the bathroom and she heard some girls talking about her white hair calling it ugly, saying she's a witch, or she's a ugly ghost, she cried in the bathroom until school was over. when the bell ranged, she ran out of the bathroom and headed for the exit of the school, suddenly someone pulled her bag and fell her own the floor, she turned to see Lucinda and her friends holding her bag and removing her books and throwing it on the floor.

“ witches don't have bags, they have brooms.” Lucinda shouted.

Sasha got up “ the only witch I see is you" Sasha said and snatch her bag but her hand touched Lucinda's hand and she saw a vision of Lucinda in the hospital trying to survive from an illness. She looked at her and walked away, she saw Raphael waiting for someone, she hid herself from him, not wanting to feel sad, when she turn to check if he had gone, he was standing next to her.

“ Are you hiding from me?” he said smirking “ I'm the one that's supposed to be hiding from you, you know why, cause you are a freak, an outcast and an alien.” he said. she looked away and saw her driver and ran up to him and entered the car

When her parents asked her how was school, she lied and said everything was fine and the students were nice to her. Then she asked her father who she resemble, and her father looked at her and smiled.

“what really happened at school?” he asked.

“ nothing daddy, I'm just asking.” she said. “ well you look like me sweetie.” her father answered and hugged her.

A year flew by fast, and Sasha was still bullied, even when Raphael left the school because of his mother's sickness, Lucinda made her life in school a living hell and she hated that.

One day she was cleaning her room and took some of her old books to the attic when a box fell down and some old pictures of a woman with white hair and she was smiling holding a baby in her hand, she starred at the picture and she saw another paper, after reading the paper she soon found out she was adopted, she was confused and now it made sense to her, she wondered who the strange woman in the picture was, if she was somehow related to her, the hair already made Sasha conclude she was her mother. She went downstairs to see her mother with her little sister in her hand.

“what were you doing in the attic for so long” she said.

“ I just want to ask mom, I'm i adopted.”

“ child, stop asking questions that are not..” she said but Sasha interrupted. “ mum it's ok to tell me, I'm sixteen.” Sasha said.

“ no I won't, you will leave me.” Her mother said bursting into tears. “ ok don't cry mum, I won't talk about this any more I promise.” Sasha said and hugged her mum and went to her room.

When school resumed after the long summer, Sasha decided to use legs to go to school today and when she got to school everybody was starring at the entrance of the school, she turned and saw Raphael, he have changed and looked matured and more cute, Sasha felt her heart skip but she quickly brush the feeling aside, though he might have changed in his appearance, he might still be the same bully. She ran into the classroom and saw Lucinda holding her stomach in pain, when she saw Sasha.

“ the pain is too much call the doctor or...” Lucinda said and then she fainted but Sasha caught her just in time. Then Sasha saw another vision of Lucinda taking and abortion pill.

“so that's why.” Sasha carried Lucinda to the school clinic and the nurse said she will be fine.

As Sasha walked through the hallway with her head down, and then she boomed into someone and was about to fall when the person caught her hand just in time. She looked up and saw Raphael looking so charming, with his piercing blue eyes, rosy pink lips, and a porcelain pale complexion, topped with a mop of dark, neatly trimmed hair that frames his endearing features. He let her go and she looked away with a smile. “Thanks for catching a witch ” Sasha said.

Raphael looked at her and walked away. She was surprised maybe he has really changed, Sasha couldn't help but blush. One year of not talking to anyone made her go crazy, so she went down to a nearby forest close to the school and started having a conversation with the trees, she talked and laughed with the trees. Suddenly she heard someone laughing too, she looked behind her and no one was there.