Here's how Spike's anger issues come to light. Give me your description on this. Plus, there's a vulnerable side of him we've never seen before.
Chapter 2: First Night
Max opened the guestroom door and Spike came in the room and he just looks around and puts his bags on the floor and Max said, "Well, it's not much, but at least it's warm and there's a huge space."
Max felt kinda nervous as he looked at Spike and he chuckled softly, thinking back to group home that Diego used to feel that way and then clears his throat and said, "Well, if you need anything, just call up Diego. He's in the second door to the right, next to my room. Glad that you're staying with us, Spike."
Spike sat down on the floor and just looked at Max and then, Max went out of the room and closed the door, leaving Spike having the room to himself and he just sat down on the edge of the bed, putting his hand on his face, thinking that he might be kicked out any day after all the crap he's put up with years earlier.
He just lays down on his bed, looking up at the ceiling, just silence and probably just thinking for a while. Suddenly, he hears a knock on the door and there was no response coming from him and another knock on the door comes in, which made him a little irritated and said, "It's open."
The door opens and it's Zeke coming in and he looks at Spike, very uneasy. He chuckled softly and said, "Hey, I'm Zeke Silverman. You must be the new person staying with us. We just lived here for a few weeks now and..."
He paused for a few seconds and looks at Spike for a sec, which made him a little nervous and he couldn't think of anything else to say. Spike looks at Zeke and asked, "What are you looking at?"
Nothing... Well, just wanted to tell you welcome to our place and you'll love it here. See ya round...Angus, is it?"
THE NAME'S SPIKE! GET IT RIGHT!" Spike yelled.
Zeke seemed frightened and said, "Okay, Spike. Whatever you say."
He quickly went away out of his room and Spike felt remotely ticked off and he went into a closet and punched the wall hard. He starts panting heavily and then, went into his bed, trying to calm himself down. All of a sudden, another knock on the door comes in and he grew really annoyed and asked, "What do you want?"
The door opens and it was Max, again and he said, "I heard a slam. Is everything okay?"
"None of your business!"
Max did sense something with him and said, "Well, it's that I heard someone scream and there was a slam on the wall, so I just figured that-"
"Please do yourself a favor and get out of my room, please." Spike said.
"Sure you're okay?"
Spike grew annoyed and somehow out of nowhere, threw a dart, heading straight for Max and only landed on the wall. Max swallowed hard and said, "I'll take that as a yes."
"Get...out...NOW!" Spike screamed.
Max quickly left the room and Spike got out and pulled the dart out of the wall and set it back on his bag. He was seething a lot and tried to calm himself down with his anger levels increasing inside of him and he just sat there for a while.
Meanwhile, Diego and Marcus came back from the pizza parlor and brought in some pizza as well. Max and Zeke popped out of the rooms upstairs with the aroma of pizza coming out of nowhere. Zeke was super-excited about it and asked, "Do I smell pizza?"
"Yeah, this is our dinner tonight, you guys." Diego said.
Everyone grabbed a few plates and brought in some slices and ate some pizza as well. Marcus then asked, "So, how's Spike?"
Zeke and Max gave out a frozen look and they looked at each other and Zeke said, "A little...moody."
"How little?"
"Well, let's just say...he doesn't want to be bothered by anyone."
Diego looked at Max with great concern and asked, "Did something happen?"
"Somewhat. I don't know how to explain this, but I heard him scream and then a slam came out of nowhere, so I went in to see what the problem was and then he told me to get out and I think he almost threw a dart at me, though it landed on the wall."
Diego sighs heavily and figures that Spike would be difficult to deal with because of his anger issues and he knows most signs of it. He said, "Maybe I should check on him."
"Good luck, dude. And by the way, don't go to his closet, because he kinda made a little surprise in one of the closet walls." Zeke said.
"Oh boy."
Diego excuses himself and heads upstairs to check on Spike and he knocks on the door and asked, "Spike?"
There were footsteps coming in and he unlocked every lock in his room and then opened the door and asked, "Yeah, what do you want?"
"Can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Why?"
"Dude, just let me in."
Spike sighed exasperatedly and opens the door and lets him in and as he came in, Spike asked, "While me and Marcus were gone, did you lash out at my Max and Zeke?"
"They just keep coming in my room, checking on me and seeing am I doing okay. It's getting annoying."
He then notices a tiny hole on the wall and he takes a look at it and asked, "Did you throw a dart on Max?"
"I did it just to scare him. You should tell him to stay out of my way, because he kept yapping at me for ridiculous crap."
"From what Max told me, he came to check on you after a slam in your room."
Diego walked to the closet and sees a hole in the closet walls, which made him a little stunned. He looked at Spike and asked, "Did you punch the wall?"
"What does it matter to you?"
"A lot. Did you punch the wall?"
Spike grew irritated and replied, "Yes."
"Why?"
"Before Max came back in, Zeke came in the room, greeting me. That was a little weird, but I can see on his face that he looked nervous and I thought that he was gonna pretend to welcome me when really, all he's thinking about doing is kicking me out of this place."
"He would never do that. Zeke was just being friendly."
"Maybe in your life."
Diego somehow felt like this was going to be a big deal and a huge challenge to deal with Spike. He turned to him and said, "Dude, let's make it easy-we understand that you have anger issues, but if you give us a chance, maybe we can-"
"Give you a chance? Why would I do that? Whatever you plan to say or do, just drop it. I've been on this road before and I'm not going back. I can see through your little game."
"What game?"
"The frenemy game. You say you're cool with me, but you're really not and you want to leave me with some other family that doesn't give a crap about me!"
"We would never do that! That's not the way our pack goes! We always help each other no matter what!"
"And then what, you leave them behind?"
Diego seeemed very ticked about this and told him, "Like it or not, you are a part of this pack and if it means we might keep going until you break down these walls of yours, so be it!"
Spike scoffs and said, "I don't believe that one second."
Diego sighed and kept his composure down and tld him, "We're only here for each other. Maybe if you see how things work about here, you'll see what we mean."
He then walks off and just left the room, leaving Spike a lot angry that Diego would try to let him break down his walls, just to help him out. He lays down on his bed to try to cool himself off. Hours later, Spike was still sitting there, just holding his teddy bear, feeling really sad and lonesome and also guilty about everything that occured hours earlier.
There was a small knock on the door and when it opens, it's only Diego and he sees Spike feeling a little sad and said, softly, "Hey, Spike."
Spike didn't even look at Diego for a sec and Diego came in the room and said, "Got you a plate of pizza, in case you were hungry."
Diego notices a teddy bear that Spike's holding and he sets the plate down on the floor and Spike told him, "I'm a bad person, am I?"
"No, of course not. You're not a bad person. You just need to try to control yourself."
"Are you saying that because you feel sorry for me?"
"No, it's not that either. Maybe we've gotten off on the wrong foor earlier today and I'm hoping we can start fresh."
Spike focused his attnetion on his bear and told him, "What's the point? You're just gonna leave me behind...like everyone else does."
"That's not true. No one's leaving anyone behind. The pack never leaves anyone behind."
"How do you know?"
"Like I said, maybe if you gave us a chance and see how we look out for each other and take care of each other, you'll see that we never turn anyone away."
"People treat me different."
That was almost painful for Diego to hear that it's about people he couldn't trust, even if he knew them or just met them and told him, "They just don't care about anyone but themselves."
He looks at his teddy bear and Spike explains, "This is the only remainder of my mom's until she died."
"You had it with you?"
"Yeah."
"Things will get better. You'll see."
Diego got up and picked up the plate and planned to leave his room until Spike said, "Leave the pizza."
"You sure?"
"Yeah, I'm sure."
Diego left the plate of pizza on the dresser and then left the room, leaving Spike hugging his bear with one tear rolling down his face and he grabbed some pizza and ate it and hours later, he falls asleep in his bed, looking at the window and whispered, "I feel alone."
Underneath that anger issue, there's a person that needs to be loved and accepted. His nightmare is coming up on the third chapter! Stay tuned for that!
