It's been years since he's seen his son or his wife, he walked out when Charley was only 8 a impressional age he thinks but at that time Hue had no choice but to leave but now he was back he made a mends right he missed 9 years that wasn't very long…or was it?…he thought as he pulled up in the street and sat there looking at a young 17 year old threating his bike "I swear I will send your for scrap!" He heard the boy say …he has his mother's mouth that is for sure…He told himself with a smile. He sat for a little longer as the kid talks to a rather pretty woman with the words Lucky printed on her bouncy arse.
He shook his head and chuckled his son had taste grinning from ear to ear he watched the blushing teen as he drove up to the drive way and there he saw his wife, well ex-wife now. She was signs into the back of her minivan, she turned to him and grins at to Charley and say something that he couldn't make out and then points to their next door neighbour's house and the large skip with the pile of dirt. He leaned over in his seat and looked at the neighbour's house he see a large car parked out front and the house was all dark …must work nights…he thought …best to keep an eyes on him, after I did come out here looking for a vampire… He then he saw a car pull up with three young woman and Charley jumps into the back with the young blonde and kisses her on the lips …Son of a gun…He thought as he watched them drive off.
Jane was still loading her real estate signs into the minivan thinking about the mess her next door neighbour has left behind when she saw a shadow over cased her and for a moment she thought it was her son and she spun around and her smile dropped when she saw a man from a faded memory "Hey Jane." He smiled, he stood there holding his bags and looking at her with a large cocky grin that she remembered falling in love with and then hating it.
"What do you want Hue?" She hissed at him as she crosses her arms across her chest
"I know your mad Jane…."
"Mad no… I was when you left and for a little while afterwards no I am more pissed that you're here." She snarled as she raised her lips at him "Charley doesn't need this he's just settling finding his feet his path he doesn't need his bad father messing that up!" She told him. He frowned at her and sighed as he dropped his bags, she heard thing clink and clunk as he looked at her
"Jane I did it to protect you both." He plead, she shook her head and walked right up to him
"You did it to protect yourself…" She prodded her finger into his chest making him winces "…our son was sick and he need his father to hug him to hold him to be a strong figure in his life to let him know that whatever happens his father loves him!" She started to shout and some neighbours started to watch "Noooo… you left while our son was laid up in hospital and RAN AWAY!" She yelled before she looked around at the neighbours look at them she calmed herself down before looking back up at him "Go back where you came from Hue." She told him "We don't need you." She turned away from him and closed the back of the minivan down before walking away.
"Jane come on I know it's be 9 years…."
"Don't come on me… you… you left us broke with nothing and your son needing someone home with him as he got better I had no job, no money nothing do you know how hard it was to ask my mother for some money just to help us get back?" Hue sighed and his hand up and back away from her
"Alright Alright but I'm not leaving town I have work to take care of." He told her as she back out the car,
"Of course you do." She chuckled bitterly "Just go home please." She begged as she drove off.
She didn't Charley about his father turning up she knew how her son hated the man, she people ask her son about Hue and Charley always answers the same 'What's to know he was just a DNA donor.' It hurts her to hear this but she can't blame for how he feels. Looking up she see Charley sneaking back in though the back door, standing up she flicks on the light and her son stops in mid fear "Mum what..what are you doing up so late?" He asked
"What am I doing up so late? Try again Charley boy and is that a hicky?" She asked grinning as she walked over to him and pulled at his shirt as her son tried to hid it
"No just a bruise." He lied as she grabbed his arms and pulled his shirt away
"Oh yeah sure it's a bit big to be from Amy? Is this a man's bite?" She asked looking into her son's eyes and he sighed
"Yeah mum is's a guys." She gasped and Charley looked worried before saying "Ed did it… I think he was drunk or something because he was screaming about vampires, He's been following Jerry because he thinks he's a vampire." Jane tilted her head and frowned at him
"Jerry the vampire I've heard it all now. So why did he bite you?"
"Because I told him he was bat shit crazy and I started to walk away…" he lied, most of it was a lie he did met Ed and he did tell Charley at the thought no he believed Jerry was a vampire.
"I think I'm gonna call him mum tomorrow that bite looks nasty, go and that clean up." She kissed the top of his head
"Mummm!" He whined as he pulled away from her and walked up stairs.
Charley got to his room and closed the bed room door and leaned against it letting out a deep sigh "Fuck that was close." He thought as he touched his neck "Fuck Jerry why did you have to bite so hard." He told himself as he walked around his bed room throwing his bag onto the table, he thought about Ed and how messed up he had become "Vampire yeah right and my dad loves me." He said as he started to pull his clothes off.
His hips had hand mark bruises around them and around his wrist, he wasn't a shamed of them he was just hiding them from his mother and his girlfriend. He felt bad lying to them but the way his mother reacted seeing the hicky he didn't want her to know he was letting his older neighbour fuck him. "God I'm a bad son." He thought as he fell onto the bed pulling the covers around in a comforting cocoon as he closed his dreaming about the man next door holding him down and filling him up.
Week later…
Hue turned up at Charley's school he was going to ask about the missing families when he see Charley walk out of the school talking to that sweet blonde girl. They walked out the doors he was retelling about the bite Ed gave him when he looked up to see his dad standing not far from him. He was older than the last time he saw him and had pepper grey hair thought out his dark mope, Charley could see the wrinkles on his face and where the sun tanned him. Then the man started to walk up to him as smiled flashing his white teeth at him and at Amy "Hi I'm Hue Brewster Charley's father." He tells the blonde as he held out his hand to her.
She dropped her eyes to his hand and saw scars on them as she reached out to shake it feeling the rough large hands grasp her "H…hi it's nice to-to meet you." She tells him as she looks to her boyfriend…if looks could kill…she thought. He turns to meet his son's eyes and see anger and surprise swells with in them.
"What are you doing here?" He growled thought gritted teeth
"To see you kid." He smiled at him unfazed by his anger, then he see the hicky himself and panic sets in…that is not a hicky!…His mind screams at him. He grabs Charley's arm and pulls him closer before he held the teen's head to the side and looked at the bruise bite seeing two small puncher
"HEY GET OFF ME!" He yells as the teen pulls himself free away from Hue "KEEP AWAY FROM ME!" Charley yells as he storms off to follow closely by Amy.
"Hey Charley, Charley!" She calls to him making him stop and look at her, he paced up and down muttering under his breath this was the last thing he need today, he didn't feel away and he didn't need his bed beat father turning up "Charley look at him." She said softly as she reached out to touch his face but he jerked away
"No I can't I just need to go home."
"Come to the car we will drop you home?" She whispered softly
"I need time alone Amy, he's back and… I can't I'm sorry." He tells her as he turns and runs off leave her alone wondering what is going on with her boyfriend.
It took hours to get home, with the sun beating hard on his skin he started to go red but he need to think. Once he reached the familiar streets of his home he walked up to Jerry's door and let himself in. "Jerry? You up?" He called out, he knew that the man worked all night and need his sleep
"Hey beautiful what are you doing here?" Came Jerry's voice as he came out of the basement, he was wiping his hand in to a white towel as he closed the door, Charley blushed at the nick name and smiled back for speaking
"I'm sorry I know you busy to day but…fuck my dad turned up grinning like nothing happen and-and I don't know what to do?" He dropped onto the sofa and looked down at his feet as he heard the man walked over to him and sit next to him
"What does he want?"
"I don't know but I really don't care." He muttered as he rubbed his eyes, the dark haired man looked the boy over and saw the bright red skin in places where the sun got him "Jerry." He whispered as he climbed onto his lap and rested his head on the man's shoulder
"You need to rest that sun burn looks bad." He whispered to the boy as he rubbed his back, he could smell himself all over the boy and it made him grin darkly as he kissed the side of the boy's face.
