Chapter 2- Regret
-Caugh, Caugh-
"How disgusting. Is this swine really the best you could do Joseph?"
"Yeah, look at the fat fuck, its not even worth the-"
"Hey, I said I'd bring ya an easy target, not a fucking beauty." Joseph clicked his tongue at the group of teens, turning to face Eddy who had just recieved a punch to the gut. The poor lad was hacking up a storm, attempting to catch his breath.
"Take it or leave it. What will it be boys?"
"Someone go get the pork a paper bag. I wont be in any mood to do anything while looking at that kind of face."
Eddy peered up, wiping away some drool from the corner of his mouth. The regret had fully sunk in. He had absent mindedly fallowed Joseph into a trap. What had he agreed to? Shit. Eddy mentally slapped himself for just agreeing to something so suspicious. Small job, HA! What a laugh. Nothing in life was that easy. He should have known better.
Eddy took in his surroundings, the pain in his lower abdomen had fuzzed his memory a bit. He couldnt remember much of the walk, but he knew by the looks of the old building that they werent that far off from the junkyard.
"Hey, whats with the look Eddy. I am doing you a big favor here, the least you could do is help out my pals here." Joseph smirked walking over to the shorter teen.
"The hell I will! I dont want your shitty test cheats anymore. I'm outa her-"
"Sorry Eddy, there is no going back now..."
Eddy felt a sharp pain to the back of his head right before falling to the ground. The side of his face slammed against the old tile floor, and right before everything went pitch black, Joseph smiled and knelt beside the fallen teen.
"They wont do anything too bad... Today.."
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"Eddy? Is that you? Where have you been mister? Its almost 10 O'Clock. You were suppose to be in bed by 9."
"Uh, Yeah... Sorry mom. I got held up with studying for finals and all." Eddy closed the door to his room, locking it to insure his mother would not come downstairs and see him in his sorry state.
"Well go to sleep. Your father will have a stern talking with you in the morn- " His mom had done what Eddy didnt want. She had gone down stairs and was now outside his bedroom attempting to talk with Eddy face to face. " Eddy open this door. You know I dont like you locking your bedroom!"
"Sorry mom, I'm changing and uh... Can we just talk in the morning, I'm really tired."
"I- Fine. But this door better not be locked come morning." She huffed and walked away.
Eddy released a sigh of relief as he turned away from the door. Looking into his mirror, he noticed the small bruising around his left eye and cheek. He gently passed his fingers over the bruises... His hair was dripping wet, which, Eddy made Eddy happy that there was only bruises on his face. It surely would have stung if he had cuts. Sighing, the short teen proceeded to removing his shirt to check the damage on his sides.
"Shit... I cant change in P.E. tomorrow..." Eddy bit his bottom lip in anger. He closed his eyes and recalled his crude awakening. Kicks to the side and stomach and even a bucket of filthy water to the face... "I need a shower."
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Early the next moring, Eddy got up quickly, ran upstairs before his parents could even think of waking up, and he managed to steal a few concealing make-up from his mother's bathroom. Running back down, he quickly locked himself in his own bathroom.
"Okay. OKay... This shouldnt be too hard.."
It took about a good hour and a half for the teen to get the hang of applying the make up needed. Satisfied, he hid the stolen goods and got ready for school. Just in time he might add as his father had come down to greet him.
"Eddy."
"I know. I know dad. I pomise I will keep better track of time. It wont happen again. I swear."
"Good."
"Later." Eddy quickly made his way out of the house. He felt sweat pouring down his forehead, though it really wasnt. Being a good distance away, he felt calmer. SO, the make up was working so far, and he prayed no one noticed...
"Hey Dorky!" Kevin ran up from behind, slapping Eddy playfully against the back. "I watched that drama show you like so much yesterday. Hahaha, I gatta say you got really bad taste in shows dude."
Eddy surpressed his scream of agony and played it off.
"Its a great show dont mock it. The main character-"
"The fat girl?" Eddy rolled his eyes.
"Yeah. She is really great you know. Like everyone bu-"
"Kevin. Eddy. How are you two this fine morning." Joseph made his unwanted appearance.
"Tsk." Eddy glared, "The hell do you want?"
"Oh, I only wanted to talk to you about yesterday. Care to make our convo private, I also have something to show you."
"I have nothing to talk to you about."
"Well, thats fine, I can always show everyone this video of you-" Eddy acted quickly, placing a hand over the taller teen's mouth.
"I changed my mind, lets go talk in private!"
Kevin raised a brow at the odd behavior but shrugged it off. Eddy was known to be odd at times, so he didnt think too much of it.
"Uh, we can talk later. See ya at lunch dorky." Kevin excused himself from the scene leaving Eddy alone with Joseph.
"Tsk! What a shame. And here i thought I would be able to show your pal there some good footage of last nights activities."
"Shut up! Whatever happened last night is considered assult! I was knocked out for the most part and the deal was to do you a favor! What went on yesterday was no favor! Despite all that, you never gave me the cheat sheets."
"Ah, yes. About that. I wont be giving them to you quite yet. My friends were not satisfied with what transpired yesterday. It was no fun getting off with a dead fish you know."
"Wait what?"
"Oh, thats right, you dont know what happened. Then this video will really be a show for you." Joseph laughed as he tossed the small recording camera over to Eddy. "Tell ya what, im feeling genorous, you can keep that camera, I have a much better one to use tomorrow so dont be late unless you want some of that footage leaked around school." He winked at the shorter teen before continueing forward in his own direction.
Eddy suddenly felt sick, looking down at the video camera he frowned. Playing and skimming through it showed a lil more than he had hoped to see.
"What have i done..." He slammed his fist into the wall next to him. "Shit..."
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tbc...
