Dear Snowfall,

I can totally relate to Larry in this story. I was always the new kid, as my parents moved almost every year to a new town or state. I was smart, loved to do well in school, and was always picked on, bullied, beaten, or otherwise humiliated. I remember in my sophomore year I had an incident, like Larry, and made me want to be invisible too. I spent a total of 35 days in the hospital due to burns from bullies stuffing me into a trash container and igniting the paper around me. I suffered third degree burns on my buttocks and thighs, before someone decided that they would put the fire out. Although the three bullies that did this were caught by a teacher running away from the scene. They were sentenced to a Juvenile Correctional Institution until they turned 21. I was still bullied until my junior year at high school when I had an immense growth spurt. I went from 5' 2" to 5' 11" and gained weight from 89 lbs, to 135 lbs that year. People stopped picking on me because I was a bit taller than most of them. and over the summer between sophomore and junior years. I was given a scholarship to a karate school by the staff at the hospital where I stayed from the burns. So as I started my junior year at 5' 2" I wanted to be as invisible as I could as well. And I also wound up taking our junior year Home Ec class. At least the girls in the class had enough respect for me that I was a bit better protected until I reached 5' 8" in January of that school year. I wasn't sissified or babied, but I did wind up being the class 'pet'. I did make my first girlfriend ever, a nice fleece nightgown (full length) as a Christmas present. Her mom didn't quite like that present very well but accepted her receiving it because her older sister was in the class with me, and helped by getting her measurements for me. She wore that gown for six years before it got too threadbare. I also loved the cooking part of the classes as well as the sewing. I at least learned how to cook well enough to survive as a bachelor before I was able to find my first wife. She divorced me after 11 years of marriage and three daughters because her grade school crush came back into her life, and she used my depression as a reason for divorce. Fun thing though, I wound up getting the girls in the long run, and didn't have to pay a great deal for child support in the divorce.

I truly do like your story so far. Please continue as I am very curious as to what will happen to Larry for the Halloween event.

Your writing is very good, and I have enjoyed the first chapter very much, I look forward to more. :)

Sonai67