Ben was a really thin teenager. He had burnished dark hair and sharp blue eyes. He was slender and gangly. He had a pale face that always had a frightened look when he was with people. Alone he highlighted the perfection of his face strikingly when he lost the look of anxiety. The isolation and abandonment he had suffered at young age explained his lack of communication with others. Adults considered him as a deprived child who was haunted by fear. His peers however saw him as a quiet freak that they could mould into a spineless person. He was their meat and they stabbed and injured his co…
