(A/N): Heys readers thank you for clicking on my story it's my first story so there are going to be errors in it just an F.Y.I, anyways the cassie and OC romance is a slow burning romance so it will take a while for it to progress. Anyways onto the story. And sorry if this has happened to you I think we all are
Chapter 1:
Trouble
"Go clean my fucking clothes you bitch!" I hear my step-dad John yell at my mother. I groan as that is the thing to wake me up in another day in hell I look over to my alarm clock and see it's only 10 a.m. "Go clean your own fucking clothes you lazy piece of shit i'm watching a movie. "Thanks mom" I think to myself, I can hear my step-dad coming up to take out his frustrations on me. I quickly get out of bed to meet him outside of my room cause I don't want him seeing that I have a xbox one and games so he can take it and sell it for drugs or things I rather not think or know about.
As soon as I close the door I hear him come up the steps that lead to my room. Without so much as my nickname 'little shit' he gives, me a left hook right in the face. i'm no stranger to beatings from him but this seemed to have more anger behind it than usual, mom must have done something really awful. The force of the blow makes me stumble backwards forcing me to push back on the wall to keep myself up. Before I can even push myself up from the wall I feel a knee hit my gut doubling me over while knocking all the air out of my lungs.
I fall to the ground clutching my chest trying to gather my breath back, "Get up you little shit... I said get up!" I feel him pull me up by my arm. When i'm up he grabs me by my hair to hold my head still, I know what's coming next. Just as I expected I feel his fist connect with my face over and over and over again not even stopping for a breather. Finally after I don't know how long he stops and I see that his knuckles are bloody, I have know idea if it's mine which it probably is or his. "I think you had enough for now" with that throws me on the ground and leaves. I get up off the ground and go to the bathroom to check out the damage that he did on my face. When I get in there I look in the mirror and I notice instantly that my t-shirt has blood spots around the collar, then I look at my face for the damage done, my right eyebrow is cut and bleeding really bad, along with that I have a busted lip, a black eye, and a bloody nose.
I look in the cabinet next to the mirror for some medical supplies but I see anything. "Shit" I say out loud. I realize that the only way to get some supplies is to go over to Dylan's house, his mother is a nurse so they always have some supplies or another and his father works as a lawyer so they live pretty well for themselves. I don't even bother cleaning up the mess that John made. I go into my room to change out of my bloody t-shirt. When I take off my to see if I have blood on my skin which I don't have any but I start to look at the scars' that are in chest, they are not big but they noticeable thanks to John's rings.
After changing into clothes that don't have blood on them I walk down stairs to go to the door. On the way down I notice the smell of weed and not just a little but alot. I walk into the living room I see that mom and John is sitting there smoking like there's no tomorrow. "What the fuck happened to your face?" she said while laughing, "Yeah what did happen to your face?". I simply ignore them and walk to the door, I hear John yell at me "Hey your mom and me ask you what happened to your. You better answer us you little shit!". I still ignore him and walk out and head to Dylan's house.
Ah I just realized that I never introduced myself my name is Jack, my last name doesn't matter. I'm 18 my hair is black and I have natural lightly tanned skin, dark warm blues, i'm 6'3. My favorite game by far is mortal kombat X, the reason why it is my favorite game is because you get to play somebody that kicks ass and gives me ability to leave this god forsaken earth and the people who 'care' for me with it. I used to love my mom until she met John and my life has been a living hell for about 7 years now. Before there was John mom was nice and loving and caring. After John she just... stopped being a mother and just caring in all. But enough about her. I am a straight A student and I play soccer center forward best scorer on the team. With me playing soccer I am able to keep in great shape. Well I am also senior is a bonus cause I have scholarships coming out me so I can leave that hell hole I call a home
I arrive at Dylan's house after about 10 minuets of walking, I see that his parents are home. Go up to the door and knock on it only it to open for me before I even get one knock in. I see the person who opened it was not Dylan but his mother and father. Dylan's mother is a sweet caring and gentle person just don't piss her off, she is 48 with sandi blonde hair while standing around 5'7. While Dylan's dad on the other hand is 6'7, 50 and built like a linebacker with light brown hair, but don't let his appearance fool you he is a gentle giant. Dylan is 6'2 with light brown hair also built like a linebacker he's also the other forward with me, we both plan to go the same college. "Great" I think even though they know how i'm living they still don't like it one bit. "Oh my god Jack what happened to you?" she said while pulling in the house before the neighbors can see me. "Oh you know My ma just pissing off John, him taking his anger out in me." She gave me a stern look "sorry" I said to apologize. She tells her husband to keep an eye out on me while she goes and gets the alcohol, just fun. Dylan comes down to see what's going on, as soon as he see's me he comes over to check on me. "Dude are you ok you look like shit?" I look over at him "yeah i'm fine just a normal saturday at my house. I would have come over if i didn't have." We all sit there in silence for a few moments waiting for Kim (Dylan's mom) to come back.
When she comes back I can see that she has a bottle alcohol and a rag. "This may sting a little." I point to my cut eyebrow "This stings a little." she opens the bottle and puts the rag on top of it and tips it upside down to get some of it on the rag. After quickly tipping she removed the rag and put it on my eyebrow. I flinch away and gasp as soon as it touched it "sorry" she said. "It's fine" I reply and she puts the rag back on my brow this time not flinching when it touched it. "Why don't you leave you house and come live with us?" Matt ask me (Dylan's dad). I would but John knows where you live and Dylan right here is really my only friend that I hang out with besides the team. After a moment of silence KIm speaks up. "Well still Jack the offer still stands if you change your mind." We all sit in silence after Kim says that. "Well Jack we are and fight back ok" said while walking me to the door. "Will keep that in mind Kim thanks and with that I left to go home.
When I get back inside my house I notice that John and mom aren't in the living room. I don't mind it at all since it's less of I have to see of those two. I walk up the stairs to my room and notice the door is open, I never leave my door open so I quickly get in my room. When I got into my room I notice that my xbox, T.V., games, controllers are all gone and I know what happened to. In a fit of rage I burst into John and mom's room waking both up in the process. "What the fuck do you think you are doing you little shit!" John yells at me. "Where the fuck is my shit!" I yell at him. "You mean the stuff you had in your room. I sold for some money." I was seeing red at that point all the stuff I had to work for just gone within a hour of me being gone. "You did what!" I said walking towards him it was the final straw. "I said" he didn't get finish his sentence because I hit him in face. I didn't stop there I grabbed him by his collar of his shirt that he was wearing and just wailing on him over and over again while my mom was telling me to stop but it felt good to finally hit back. As I was punching him I heard a sickening crack, it made me stop. "I think you broke my nose you shit" he said while grabbing his nose. "Sorry" I said before I gave him one final punch to knocking him out cold. "What the fuck did you just do" I heard my mom yell at me. I turned towards her not evening answering her, I just knocked her out in one punch.
I Go into my room and grab my backpack and fill it with clothes I take one last look around my room and leave to go to Dylan's house while saying fuck you to John and mom as I walk by there room both still out cold. As I was walking over to Dylan's I had a little pump in my step cause I just felt so happy. I arrived at Dylan's house and knock on the door. Dylan is the one who answers it this time "Hey jack what are you doing here?" Before I could ask I hear his mom ask who's at the door. Before he could answer that she walked over to the door and saw me. "Jack what are you doing here and why are you smiling?" I didn't even realize that I was smiling cause I just felt like I was walking on clouds. I didn't answer her question I just asked "Does your offer still stand?" I Saw kim smile at me and tell me to come inside. "Decided to take our offer then" I heard Matt say behind me. I jumped a little, for a man his size he is extremely quit. "Sorry there Jack didn't mean to scare you there" I just waved it off and turned back to Dylan and Kim. "What in the backpack Jack" I pull off my backpack and open it to reveal that I only had a few clothes and which I thought I brought more but apparently I didn't. "Is that all you brought Jack?" I reply back to her "I thought I brought more I swear." "No matter we can go shopping." I hear Matt say. I turn back to back to Matt and see him holding a card "Whoah there Matt you guys are letting me stay out of the kindness of your heart which I am very thankful for beleive me I am but this is just too much." I said gesturing to the card in his hand.
"Jack it's no big deal besides the way those clothes you've brought and the you have on they look pretty worn and torn." Kim said while holding one of my t-shirts. I looked down at my own clothes to only realize she was right. I look back up at her only to see a smirk on her face "Fine you win, when do we go?" I see her smirk turn into a full blown smile "we'll leave in a second we need to change... that means you too Dylan. ANd Jack we cannot go anywhere with that black eye come here i'll put some makeup in it follow me." I don't fight I just follow her to her bathroom which is in her and Matt's bed room. After she fixed it I looked in the mirror and couldn't believe how well it is hidden it's like it wasn't there at all. "Ok now that's done go down stairs and wait for me to be done ok good." I just follow her order and went down stairs to see Dylan and Matt already dressed and ready. After waiting about 5 minutes Kim comes down and we are off.
A few minutes later I hear all three of them coming down the stairs I look over to see Kim in a white blouse with faded jeans and regular shoes. Matt in a red button up and jeans and boots. Dylan is in Metallica t-shirt and cargo shorts and sneakers. "Ready" Kim asked me. I say I am and we head off. As we are on are way to the mall I hear kim ask me "Hey did you grab your cleats from your house before you left?" I instantly go wide eyed realising that one of the most important things I need it my cleats for soccer. Kim saw my reaction "I take it as a no then. No matter you can get new. You're old ones were in pretty bad shape." I thank her again and we all make small talk along the way to the mall. When we arrive at the mall Kim instantly pulls me into the hair salon. "I thought we were getting clothes not a haircut." "I know but you really need one and I mean bad." as she says that I look behind me and see Matt and Dylan laughing at me.
"Hi can I help today" I hear a lady ask us I turn back around to see a lady in a apron approach us. "Yes my son hear needs a haircut bad." I look at "I do not need a haircut." She didn't even answer me she just grabbed the front of my hair pulled it in front of me and let it fall, when it fell I felt on my bottom lip "Ok maybe I do." I move hair back to the right side to see again to see Kim and woman starring at me with smirk. "Have seat right over here." she said while leading to a chair. I sit down in the chair and see Kim and the lady talking probably about my hair. I see Dylan walk in and sit in the chair next to me "Liking your make over so far." he said while laughing. "Not off to the best start not going to lie about that, but looking at my hair it is pretty long." He looks at me with a amused look "Whatever man see you on the other side." With that he left. Kim and the lady came back after Dylan left "Ok Jack we think we got the perfect one for you." I look at her in the mirror "Should I be worried?" I asked her. She didn't say anything she just walk away. The stylist turned me around so I couldn't see the mirror probably Kim's idea
As the stylist began to cut my hair she started to make small talk with me. It was quite pleased with how the conversation was going and i learned her name was Anna. After what seemed like 15 minutes of talking she turned me around, I was surprised to what my hair looked like. She shaved the sides down to a 1, she also cut my bangs down to my nose, and left a little in the hanging in the back. "Hang on i'm not done yet" she opened the drawer next to me grab some hair gel and put it in my hair and slicked it back and to the right. After she was done she stood back to admire her work, "It's called the undercut it's a hot style right now, I hope you like it?" I noticed she looked nervous. "I actually really like this good, thank you." Out of the corner of my eye I see Kim coming back to see my new haircut.
"Look at you Jack that new cut looks good on you" kim says as she walks up. Thanks but thank Anna she the one who cut it not me, Kim thanked her then looked at me almost like she was studying me. "Hey Anna do you think we can do something about his beard here?" No not my beard, "I think we can but I wanted to asked you first" she answered back." Oh fuck me. "Jack sweetie can you please come here and sit down" I heard Anna say to me. "Jack relax we're just going to shave it to a thick stubble ok, just relax" I sit down in the chair and she gets the clippers and starts cutting it off. I can hear her chuckling as she is cutting my beard, "What so funny" I ask her. " Oh nothing just look on your face that's all. You just look all sad that it's going away." I roll my eyes. "Well i'm a little fond of it." Now it's her turn to roll her eyes. It's still there it just looks better that all. A few minutes of silence happens before I hear say she's almost done.
"Alright Jack what do you think?" I look in the mirror to see how it looks. Again I was surprised to see how good it looked. It looks like what she said, a think stubble. "I'm not hearing any objections so I guess you like it." I looked back at her "You guessed right it looks good thank you it looks good thank you again." I hear footsteps coming from the sides I turn and I see it is Kim coming over again to checked the work. "Oh my god look at him he actually looks handsome" I turn towards "Stop you're going make blush" I said in a monotone voice. "Thank you for doing this Anna." She turned towards me "Jack you can go out and wait with Dylan and Matt." She turned back to Anna and asked how it was but that was the last thing I hear from them as I walked outside to meet Matt and Dylan."Well look at you" I hear Matt say to me. "What did they do to you they made you look uglier than normal." "Oh I look ugly now huh well at least ugly guy is the main forward on the team." The smile from Dylan's face drops "You motherfu" that's enough boys. We both him kim stop us from fighting in the mall. "Fine but we're finishing this later." As he said the he gave me a stern look.
After walking into countless stores we finally have everything I needed including my cleats. On the way back to the house Matt asked me "Hey Jack what did John and your mom do to make you leave?" I let out a sigh. "They went into my room sold my xbox, t.v., games, and even my controller. I know the thing that's sets me off is John stealing my stuff, not him beating me for no reason." Matt walked around what I said about John, "So he went into your room took everything of value from your room?" He asked me. "Pretty much" I reply back. "It's a good thing that we downloaded your account to mine then isn't it." I just give him a simple nod and look out the widow of the car.
It's only 2:30 when we get back to the house and unload all my clothes. Kim and Matt announce that they are going to go take a nap so me and Dylan decided to play some MKX. We go up to his room to warm up his xbox, "He dude you hungry, we can order some pizza." Has soon as I heard pizza my stomach growled. "I'll take that as a yes then what do you want on it?" I answer immediately "Pepperoni, green peppers, mushrooms." "Ok i'll order that and 2 large pepperoni and some Dr. Pepper, cool" I give him the thumbs up and leaves to make the call. While he was gone I put in the game and get to multiplayer select 2 player. I pick our favorite characters'. His favorite is gunslinger Erron Black and mine is possessed Kenshi. After I get everything set up I take my seat in my usual place which is his extra white and black gaming chair.
He comes back into the room after about 5 minutes, "I should leave more often so I don't have to do this as often." I don't even turn around I just give him the finger while still looking at the screen.
He takes his place in his normal in his normal spot which is a red and black gaming chair. After he gets settled and everything we start off. Me and Dylan are no strangers when it comes to this game so it's a pretty even match from the beginning, we usually best of 21 games. The pizza came around game 3 he was up 2 to 1, we both get up to go the pizza. After we grab the pizza and fill are plates with pizza and cups with Dr. pepper we jump right back into the action.
"NO NO NOOOOO!" I hear him scream, he was about to throw his X-ray but I beat him to punch and threw mine which won me the game and when it came to finish him I used 'my puppet' to do it. It was now tied 10 to 10, we had a rule we had to stop playing for 20 minutes, so we just went down stairs and hangout for the time being. While we were down there we refilled our plates and drinks, when we heard the alarm on his phone go off we went back upstairs with our food and drinks and resumed where we last left off.
It's the final fight we both have a round won under our belts. We both have barely have health with our characters, both of our X-rays our at full just waiting to be used. He makes the mistake of using his X-ray, I quickly blocked it and hit him with a combo which caused a brutality, I just won.
I looked over to Dylan to see his face in disbelief, "What cat got your tongue" I said with a smirk. "Shut up" was all he said before he stormed out. I let out a small chuckle before following him out.
"I had you man I had you." I chuckle at his disbelief "Right key word 'had', you can't forget that." He throws pillow at me, I quickly catch it and throw it to the side. I felt him tackle me "Ok let's see if you can beat me in real life." He said as he got me in a leghold, to which I twisted to the side to get out of. Before he could even react to what I just did I mount him and hold a fist 2 inches from his head. "Redo?" he asked. "Not likely." I replied.
"Whats all that racket down there?" we here Matt ask. We scramble to are feet and sit on the couch and turn on the T.V. before he comes down stairs. "Oh nothing Dylan just tripped and fell." I quickly said without thinking. I see Dylan turn to me and mouth 'really'.
"Dylan you need to be more careful ok" Matt said as he came down the stairs. "I'll be careful next I promise dad." He said with a eye roll.
Pretty soon it was 10:00 p.m. Dylan got ready for bed and I went for a shower. Before I took my shower I looked at myself in the mirror looking at my scars', the major ones that are noticeable ones are older. It happened when I was eleven, John and mom came home from a night of drinking. John wondered what would happen if you whip a kid with it a few dozen times with a belt. As it was happening I felt every single skin tear as it happened, I begged and begged for him to stop but it fell on deaf ears as he continued tear my skin with his belt. I could feel more and more hot tears run down my cheeks as each whip tore my skin open leaving a gash in it's place. As the result most of my back and some of my chest are covered in scars from his belt. All this happened while my mom just sat there and laughed as it happened
After my shower I asked Kim where i'm going to sleep. "Follow me." was all she said. I followed Kim to a room that was next to Dylan's room, "This is our guest room, but nobody is ever stays in it so consider it yours." I just stood there speechless. I mean it is my best friend's mom but for her to do this is just amazing. "Jack you okay?" I quickly get back out of thought. "Yeah yeah i'm fine. And thank you for the room I really mean it, thank you." "It's no problem Jack you are family now." She looked at her watch then spoke "I should probably let you get to bed goodnight Jack."
She was going to the door but I stopped her and gave her a hug. "Thank you." was all I said. She returned the hug "You're welcome Jack. Now go to bed and get some sleep honey, k" I just smiled back at her as she left the room.
When she left the room I just sat and the bed and began to cry. It was the first time in so long that I actually felt loved even though it's my first here I feel like they care for me more than my own mother. And it just felt good to people love. After about 5 minutes of crying I decided to get some sleep. That night of sleep was the best I had in a long time.
When the morning came around my alarm went off wake me up. Have you ever had that feeling like something big is going to happen, well I had that feeling when I woke up but I just shook it off. When I shook the feeling off I walked over to my closet and picked out my clothes which was a black t-shirt, red flannel, and some jeans. After I got dressed I went to go see if I could find something to eat before me and Dylan had to leave for school.
I walked down stairs and I saw Dylan already down there eating a bowl of cereal. "Hey Jack sleep good?" He asked me, "Slept like a baby. You?" He just shrugged "Could have been better." I grab a granola bar and start eating that. Me and Dylan just sit there in silence while he is eating his cereal and me just eating my granola bar. Dylan broke the silence "Hey we should get going come on." He said as he got up. I follow him put the door and head to his car.
We arrive at school 15 minutes later and head into the cafeteria and sit with the rest of the team. When the bell rings we all head to are classes, since me and Dylan have the same first hour we still talk a little bit before class starts.
When lunch comes around and I start to get that feeling again this time a lot stronger. Me and Dylan and most of the team have the same lunch saw we all sat around at the table. I could feel someone coming up behind me and from the look of Dylan's face and the sudden strong smell of alcohol I knew it wasn't good.
"Hey there son how you doing?" John asked me. I got up and turned to face him, I saw that he had a banged on his nose from wear I broke it. "Better than you I imagine, you know with your broken nose and everything." I can see the anger flash in his eyes but the way his body is speaking he is trying his hardest to hide it. "Is that how you talk to your old man." He said with a fake chuckle. "Come hear and give me a hug."
He said while he tried to hug me.
I push him away "Old man? When have you ever been my old man? If anything you have been shit to me." I said while raising my voice. "What are you talking?" Really? This fucking asshole.
"What am I talking about?" I said in disbelief "I'm talking about all those times where you and my mother who isn't my mother in anymore didn't feed me, beat me hours on end, and steal and sell my shit for extra dope money, and your personal favorite whipping me with your belt a couple dozen of times!" I was full on yelling at him now and I had the attention of everyone in the cafeteria just the way I wanted it.
"Really what proof do have against me then?!" I took off my shirt so everybody all the scars' that I had my body. "Here's your proof right here." I got up on the table so everybody can see what he did. "Right here on my chest and back!" I heard a gasp from everybody in the room. I looked down to see the look of hate in my team's eyes.
"You son of a bitch i'm going to kill you" He said while lunging at me but my team of brothers were there to stop him from going any further. I got down off the table and put my shirt on, I was about to put my flannel back on when I heard "GUN GUN GUN!" I turned around just in time to see John fire off 3 shots at me all hitting their mark. That was all he got before one of my teammates tackled him.
Time seem to slow down, I look down at my chest to my white shirt covered in maroon. "JACK!" I Hear Dylan's muffled voice call out to me. I feel my whole body go numb and I fall to the floor, I look to my right and see John being held and hit on the ground, several feet away I seethe girl, but something else is on the ground and it's growing. I quickly realized that it was my blood coming out of me quickly.
I began to feel pressure being put on my chest I look to see what it was. It was Dylan, he had my flannel in his hands putting pressure on it to keep it from bleeding but I knew it was no use. I used all the strength I had left in my body to move my right hand to stop him from doing anything more. Dylan saw what I was doing with a look of hurt, pain, sadness, and confusion. His met mine and he saw what I meant. He just stopped and sat on left hugging his knees to his chest, I can hear him crying.
"Don't worry about me, I made my peace a long time ago and besides I will save you a seat in heaven." I saw him look up a laugh with tear filled eyes "Good cause I didn't want to carry your ass out of hell." I let out a laugh, I didn't care that it hurt it just felt to see him smile. As I let out my final breath I was thankful for that I could have friend like Dylan with me all the way up until now. Little did I know that my final breath was actually the beginning of a new one.
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(A/N) Hey guys thank you for reading my first chapter of my first story it means alot that you reading my story so thank you. Now onto a more serious note, in the story I featured abuse. Now abuse is no laughing matter, I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy. If you were reading the story and it brought up bad memories it was not my intention to do so at all so my deepest apologizes if that happen. Anyways guys thank again and please give me your reviews I really want you guys to give me feed back. Also Favorite and Follow if you will. Until next time this is z0mbi3 signing off
