Beginnings

I was born in a small hospital in a small city. For the better part of my life this is where I have always been. My family was nothing special back then: Mum, Dad, elder sister, by a year. We weren't rich or poor, we had a nice little house in a nice little neighbourhood with a nice little mortgage. It was all pretty normal. I went to the local primary school which, despite being a public school, had all the bells and whistles of any of the private schools. I was always something of a shy child and I didn't mix that well with the other kids.

I'd say that I was a smart kid but I wasn't really, I was just really fascinated by the world back then. I really wanted to know how it all worked, so I read and I asked questions and I thought about science and maths and fiction. And because of that I did pretty well in school, I'm sure some of the other kids resented me for that, as I resented some of the kids who did better than me.
That was just the start of it though. I was a strange child and I didn't really fit in with the other kids, It didn't help that I was a know it all I suppose. But the main group, led by a big ugly kid who looked like he'd been there a year or two longer then the rest of us, took a special shine to me. By which of course I mean they liked to bash me up at lunch. This meant I spent alot of my youth running and hiding, or just looking for places where I knew I'd be alone, all those little hidden places around the school that only a small child could find. Or just hang out in the library, where the tough kids never went.
I didn't mind so much I suppose, the running and hiding or even the beatings, I mean it wasn't fun but there was a certain thrill to it. No, what bothered me the most was that I was always alone, It was always my fight, my burden to bear. The other kids didn't want me around, the teachers were useless and my parents didn't know what to do about it. I think my earliest real lesson in life was there is no point asking for help, you just do the best that you can with what you got.

And that's all I have to say about that.