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Mortys eyes widened as he woke up from his sleep feeling like shit. Ever since Rick left the family for the two crows, morty hasn't felt worse even he dare say, worse than after breaking up with planetina. He missed rick and the adventures they used to go on, he missed hoping through dimensions and space. Its been 2 months since rick left, If only morty wasn't annoying and clingy.. he should've stayed quiet.
His hair was slighty fizzy, he could barley stand when he got up and his legs burned while his head was dizzy and warm. The brown haired boy sighed as he walked down the stairs in his pajamas
Morty felt his headache get worse when he heard his parents having a argument about Rick in the kitchen "this is the second time he abandoned us, I'm sick of you worrying about someone who was absent half your life!" Jerry said in a stubborn and but empathic tone. Beth raised her voice while she slowly got more irritated by the second "Jerry, i cannot keep doing this! Look at what its doing to morty! Have you even noticed how he is barley talking to us and getting out of his room?!"
Summer was in the diner room scrolling on her phone trying to distract herself until she interrupted Jerry and beth from the awkwardness between the family, "Please for the love of god go argue somewhere else! ." She scoffed as she went to go to school. Morty tried rushing himself upstairs as he realized he had to go back to school, putting on his shirt and almost tripping going back down the stairs again, saying goodbye as if someone would care.
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The yellowed shirt boy awkwardly walked in the halls of his school trying to wait for class to start when he saw Jessica, the popular and prettiest girl in his grade.
Morty felt his face and ears heat up and hoped nobody saw how crimson his face was. "H-Hey Jessica... Uhm.. How are y-you today?..." He asked embarrassed as he looked to the side, avoiding eye contact due to the lack of his social skills. Jessica uncomfortably shifted her position and was almost shocked that she didn't notice behind him
She responded normally while her friends were laughing behind her, morty ignored it because he didn't care and he was too focused on Jessica but her eyes. He didn't want to admit it but talking to her did make him feel a little better, she was like the Light in his days and she made him forget about how bad he was struggling and his life
He barely realized he was daydreaming until the bell rang violently, interrupting him and Jessica. He runned off to his class a bit happy, he got to talk to The Jessica! His crush! he couldn't believe she actually interacted with him. But he tried to not let it distract him in class so he could finally have good grades. now that he thought of it, it was kinda nice to go to school without having to go on crazy adventures and almost die all the time. But he still ached to have fun with rick or maybe even different mortys.
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He got so lost in his thoughts and it was suddenly already time to go home,
While he was walking to the bus, he suddenly got pulled back by a couple of jock teen boys, they were way taller than morty making him a bit nervous about whats about to happen. ─── "Hey retard, What the fuck were you trying to do with Jessica huh?" the other 3 boys laughed as they looked at the brown-haired boy "L-L-LLLook... I'm sorry!! i-i-i didn't mean to do anythi-" He got cut off as he got punched by one of the boys
"I-I-I-I-I" The older boy teased, "Shut the fuck up you stupid faggot."
Morty whined and tried to not cry while he got beat up in gut by the group of boys, "What am i even letting them hit me?.. Why am i so weak.." He thought to himself
He felt like his insides could explode at any moment by how hard they were beating him up, by the time they were done and left him, he was bleeding with bruises everywhere on his body. The bus had already left and it was 30 minutes after he was supposed to come home
As soon as he approached his house, he could hear faint talking, "they are still fighting?.." Morty avoiding talking to anyone and ran immediately to his room. He was dripping in blood and sweat, he panicked and tried to clean himself up. He got shocked when he saw a wound, "how did it even get there?... Aw jeez i didn't notice they beat me up that bad.." He said a bit worried
He felt ashamed when he saw a few faint scars on his legs. That was from a few weeks ago and it didn't matter! Not right now.
Morty tried distracting himself by going on his laptop. "Maybe I'll just watch a movie?"
He still couldn't stop thinking about what happened at school and it led to him thinking about rick. He eventually starting to tear up while his eyes slowly became blurry
He just gave up on trying to bottle up his emotions, why does he have to deal with this? Is anyone even here to comfort him? He doesn't even have friends besides rick. "I'm.. So pathetic." He cried
Now that Rick was gone, he really had Nobody. Really nobody. Why was nobody there for him when he really needed someone? Would anyone care if he disappeared? Probably not. He doubt they would notice he died, hes a nobody anyways! People don't see him as anything while he cares about them more than anything!
Why doesn't anyone see him like he does to everyone else? Am he is just that clingy?... Or is everyone cruel to me? "But why me, why am I just the target? Am I just the punching bag in my family? Everyone just takes it out on me?..." He said
Do I even matter to someone like him? Or anyone at least?
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"They wouldn't care less."
The brown haired boy said as he standed up from his wet-soaked pillow.