Not everything is as it seems

Just a short story that describes the life of a boy named Henry

There was a 15 year old boy. This boy was called Henry. Henry always seemed to be a very happy guy, always making people laugh always with a smile on his face. But there was a dark side to Henry... Henry had lived an extremely hard life. The first hard experience he had was when he was six. His mom and dad were going on holiday for a week and left Henry with his uncle. Henry never liked his uncle with good reason because all he ever did was drink and smoke. The first night Henry was very tired so he just went to lay in bed; his uncle entered the room. Henry asked if he was okay and his uncle just stared and smiled. Henry just ignored him and tried to sleep but within seconds of turning over Henry gets dragged out of his bed and it was no other than his uncle who dragged him out. By this point Henry was very scared and tears were rolling down his face but this had no effect on his uncle oh no. He just carried on hitting Henry and it got beyond just getting hit. After Henry's uncle was finished with him he just threw Henry back onto his bed. This carried on until Henry was 10. By the time Henry was 10 he had learned to hate his uncle with a burning passion. So one night at a party Henry lost it. He started to collect all of the poisons in the house. When Henry was finished he found his uncles drink and spiked it with all of the poison he had found. Henry's uncle died that night with failing organs. Henry was happy for the first time in his life. This is when Henry realised that his life was going to get better from here on out. He was wrong. When Henry joined his secondary school people started to bully him. Henry didn't know how to handle this until one day he found that he could cut himself. Henry was only eleven when he first cut himself with a drawing pin. As the bullying had no sign of ending henry kept on progressing through bigger and sharper blades. People would not see Henry's cuts as they were on his leg. Henry was so bad that he would have to bring a spare pair of trousers to school with him just in case he bent his leg too far and his cuts would open up. Henry managed to survive the first three years of secondary school only because a girl named Ellie had been there for him and loved him and Henry thought he had found the girl for him so in year ten Henry asked Ellie if she wanted to be in a relationship with him. She said yes. As time went on Ellie had helped Henry to stop with all of the self-harm. Henry trusted Ellie with his life and he told her everything. She was the first person to ever find out that Henry was raped when he was younger. Henry lived a very happy life now: Until the first few days of year eleven. In the first few days of year eleven Henry had started to get suspicious of Ellie. She started hanging around with other guys. This didn't bother Henry as he trusted her so much but then he saw that she had changed. Not for the better either. Rumours about Ellie started to circulate around school that she had been cheating on him with a guy. Kane. Henry believed these rumours so he asked Ellie and sure enough she said the rumours were false so Henry said okay and believed her. As the days started to progress people had apparently started to see Kane and Ellie passionately kissing in public and Henry let this go over his head until one of his friends showed him a picture of Ellie and Kane kissing. This is the moment when Henry's heart truly shattered. His world had just stopped spinning. Henry was calm until he got home from school. As soon as he got home he pulled out his blade and cut. Not cutting how he usually did either. He cut and cut until he could physically cut no more. His room was covered with blood. Henry jumped in the shower hoping that his leg would stop bleeding. It did not. The water was turning red as it hit his leg and when Henry got out of the shower he sat and thought of what to do with his life now and he sat there and thought for hours. He came to a solution. He would kill himself the next day jumping to his death. Henry was ready to go but then he checked his phone just before he was going to embark on his final journey. It was a god send. A girl Henry had always wanted to love had messaged him. Henry never dared to talk to her before this day as he thought he would be rejected. He wasn't. All they would do is sit and talk for hours on end. But funnily enough Henry got over Ellie pretty fast and started to latch on to the new girl. He told her everything. This girl had become the centre of his life, the only thread of rope left to stop him from falling. This girl’s name was Abbie. The pair became very attached. But then came the day Henry died. Henry had died but hanging himself because Ellie had said that she hates him so much and that she hopes he dies. Henry did what she wanted. Henry is no longer here to bring a smile to anybody’s face. Abbie was distraught that the boy she had only just learned to love had gone. Henry thought that this was the only long term solution to end his pain and suffering. No longer will Henry have to think about his uncle or the times which hurt him most. Before Henry killed himself he had caved into his chest where his heart is. He carved a heart with a crack in it. This is what grabbed people’s attention. The day of Henry’s funeral is here. The people who bullied him have attended. Why? They are attending to show their respects to Henry, only now when it is too late that their bullying had played a part in Henry’s suicide. Henry’s parents are here as well. They cannot believe that their baby boy has been taken away from them so early. I was the only other person Henry could trust. Who am I you may ask? I am Henry’s best friend. He told me everything, when he was feeling down I would meet him so he could spill his heart out to me. We had so many fun times together me and Henry. I loved him like a brother but now a part of me is gone. In Henry’s memory I will be raising awareness about sexual, physical and mental assault and bullying. I know that from now my life without Henry will be incomplete but I will have to tackle life head on and face all of its challenges. I promised Henry that if he went I would go as well, but instead of doing that I am going to make him proud and never give up like he would always tell me. I love and miss you Henry R.I.P . Henry’s best friend went on to become a successful entrepreneur. Every year he would donate millions of pounds to charities that were about raising awareness for bullying and domestic violence.