Liam was walking home with Ethan. After a long first day of school with a lot of homework.
"Here's my house. I'll see you in the mañana."
"Okay Ethan. Bye." Liam smiles and waves as Ethan enters his house.
Soon he feels something tap his bottom. Liam screeches.
"What the hell!" Liam screams as he sees the same drunk guy.
"Hey precious."
"What do you want?" Liam asks innocently.
"You." He says pulling Liam to walk with him in an alley between 2 buildings.
The drunk guy pushes Liam against the wall roughly.
"I like when people play hard to get. But they don't like it. Cause then I have to get a little rough." The guys smirks. Liam coughs exhaling the scent of his ragged breath. He hadn't brushed his teeth in days. But he has a house. Liam feels tears roll down his cheeks as he gets flashbacks of his Sam. Soon he starts to sob as he feel his clothes being ripped off.
...
Axle walks down the usual path to go home. After school he went to Starbucks to do essays and home work since he's in 12th he finishes earlier than other grades.
"Come on Kitten." Axle hears the familiar creepy voice. A few seconds later he hears a heartbreaking sob. Axle walks towards the sound. He is appalled at the sight of Liam's puffy red eyes and new tears coming down. His nose red as he sniffs continuously. The drunk man bites at Liam's skin causing him to bleed.
'Really Liam? It just has to be you out of all people.' Axle thought. Axle walks over to the guy punching him as soon as he got close enough. Axle moves Liam far behind him passing him his clothes so he can put a shirt on and buttons and zip up his pants.
"I told you to fuck off! You're a creep. Go get drunk somewhere else and leave people alone." Axle says through his teeth menacingly. The drunk man trips over himself repeatedly as he ran away quickly.
"I told you not to walk alone. But what do you do? The complete fucking opposite..." Axle says trailing off as he saw the blood trickle down Liam's collarbone. Then he sees Liam who isn't paying attention at all. Like he's under a trance.
"Come on let's go." Axle suggests.
...
Like always they walked in comfortable silence. Axle left Liam be, to think.
Soon they enter Axle's apartment room.
"Hungry?" Axle asks.
"No." Liam says politely.
"Okay. Sit on the counter, shorty. I'm gonna get the first aid kit."
"Okay." Liam says looking down. He hops on the counter taking in the beauty and masculinity of the apartment. He looks around swinging his legs as ge sits on the counter waiting. Soon Axle comes back with a small white plastic box.
"This may sting a bit." Axle says opening the towelette packet and putting peroxide and alcohol on it. He rings some of it out putting it to Liam's neck gently. Liam hisses grabbing Axle's wrist his small hand not even wrapping around it. Axle looks at him annoyed.
"S-sorry." Liam says looking down. Axle says nothing as he finishes with a bandaid.
"There..." Axle says backing up. Axle looks at Liam who is looking at Axle's tattoo's.
"They let people get tattoo's at school?" He asks curiously.
"Mmhm." Axle says trying to keep it short.
"Oh..." Then there was silence. Comfortable silence.
"Well I gotta go to work so you gotta go."
"Oh...okay.." Liam says jumping off the counter. Axle opens the door for him.
"See you tomorrow." Liam waves.
"Mhm." He says. He watches Liam as he opens the door to his apartment and walks in. Right away Axle closes his door and goes to his room to get dressed for work.
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The next day Liam attempts to run to school but just can't. His father beat him so bad last night both his legs will give out. He's beyond late. As soon as he gets there he might as well go to 2nd period AP Italian as he only has 5 minutes left.
Turns out he was a couple minutes late to 2nd period too. That's how hard it is to walk for him. He limps into class 5 minutes late but is still greeted happily by Mrs. Maldonado
Liam limps almost tripping over the door. He looks at Axle who stares into his soul as he frowns.
"This is our new student Liam Walker." Ms. Maldonado said keeping it short telling Liam he could sit down. Liam limps to the back of the class quickly yet quietly. A note was passed to him before he could even sit. Once he did he opened the sticky note.
'You look terrible. Did you go through a zombie apocalypse no one knew about?' Liam looks at Axle who staring at him. Liam nods a little and writes..
'That's exactly what I went through' Liam slides it back looking down sadly and starting to take notes and doodle throughout. Axle looks at him frowning. Axle feels something inside. Like he needs to help Liam or something terrible will happen.
'Well looks like you should get a weapon' Axle replies. Liam wasn't in the mood. And for some reason Axle felt bad for Liam. But of course he didn't let it show.
After class Liam talks to Mrs. Maldonado.
"Ms. Maldonado I am never really late. I'm sorry. I don't know what happened with me." Liam looks down.
"Oh we always those days where it feels like you can't get up. Just make sure not to do it again."
"Thank you Ms. Maldonado."
"No problem."
Liam walks out the class and sees Axle in his natural habitat.
"Hey there." Axle winks. Smirking. Of course it's fake. Axle flirts with all the girls and most of them bow down to him. But he always seems to come back to Kaitlyn. Probably because he lost his virginity to her. And she lost her virginity to him.
Liam walks away without caring. He truly didn't. He was in so much pain. He didn't think he could make it through the day. He rushed to the restroom. He get in the corner and rests. Soon enough his mind gets back to last night. Sam mercilessly beat him until Liam blacked out. Liam bandaged himself up. Sam doesn't aim for the face even when drunk. Cause then people ask questions.
*Flashback*
Sam got back tripping over himself and laughing hysterically. Liam looks at him shocked not expecting him to come. Liam thought Sam was gonna go on overtime. Looks like he just went to have 30 drinks.
"What the fuck are you doing up?" He mumbles.
"W-what?" Liam asks.
"I said....WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING UP!?" Sam screams banging the table.
"S-sorry."
"Tell me you were waiting on me."
"..."
"TELL ME!"
"I was waiting on you." Liam says. Sam kicks him in the shin.
"I hate you Bitch." Sam spits on Liam while he's on the ground yelping.
"You're worthless. And a little shit. Good thing you are losing weight. You make your mom look bad. You can be such a Bitch. When I hit you I bet your fat protects you and you don't feel it. Ill have to hit you harder." Sam says hitting and kicking Liam harder as Liam doesn't even try to defend himself.
*End*
"Hellloooo. You okay?" A voice says. Liam looks up and noticed he had started to cry. He wiped his tears but in the corner trying to avoid the pain in getting up. He looks up at the person who asked him. He had thick and sharp eyebrows. A very smooth face. Soft features yet piercing eyes.
Liam got himself together and fake smiled.
"I-I'm f-fine."
"Lie...come on walk with me. You can talk to me if you need to vent."
"B-but I have t-to get to class."
"My mom is the principal. I'll say it's my fault or you had to for....emotional reasons."
"N-no. I'm not going with you. I'm going to my house." Liam says refusing to say the word 'home'. Somehow the Troy catches on.
"Looks like your house isn't a home."
"W-what are you talking a-about?"
"Well you get a house...but the people in there aren't making it comfy for others. So it isn't a home. It's a chaotic house."
"Well I m-meant to say home." Liam starts to walk away but Troy grabs his small hand.
"Wait...please." Liam flinched away at the touch then looks down. Ashamed. He feels like he can't trust anyone anymore.
"S-sorry." Liam says.
"I know. Its cool....now I know what's wrong. I know you don't know me but still. I don't expose people." Troy says sadly.
"W-what problem?" Liam say scared. It took a while for Troy to say something making his anxiety worsen
"You are being abused...aren't you?"