Gill POV

"Damn it!" I muttered under my breath. 'That had been close, to close. They almost got it.' I kept running through the school. I pushed the doors to the school open and started to run across the courtyard. I heard somebody following me; I could only assume that it was Luke, coming to hit me or beat me up for kicking Owen and trying to hit him.

'I have to keep it safe, I have to.' I ran as fast as I could but, let's face it I'm not the fastest or strongest guy around, at all.

Luke was gaining on me fast, so I ran with what little strength I had left to the woods. I could hear Luke so close behind me, and I did the worst thing possible at the moment, look back.

In that single moment that I looked away, my foot caught on a tree root, causing me to tumble forward. When I came to a quick stop, I tried to get up, only to have Luke tackle me back down, and put me in a headlock. My stomach slammed against a root that was under me, knocking the wind out of me.

"What's your problem, huh? Kicking Owen and trying to hit me." His tone was a little pissed off and had its usual amount, if not more, of cockiness. His grip around my neck grew tighter, seemingly unknowing that it made it even harder to catch my breath.

I coughed and grabbed at his arm. He was used to doing this stuff to me, just like all the others. Honestly, many of the others had beaten me up before because of how much money and power my father had.

I don't think that he knew that he was actually chocking me because his grip grew even tighter.

"Huh? Well, aren't you going to answer me?"

My vision was getting blurry, and things were starting to go dark. I could tell my face was extremely pale. My grip on Luke's arm grew weak; I only managed to get three very quiet words to pass through my lips. "Luke, can't breath." I was so quiet I could barely hear myself, so I wasn't sure if he could hear me.

Almost automatically he let go of me. I fell to the ground gripping my stomach, coughing and trying to get as much air in me as possible. My lungs hurt so badly, and I felt the tears in my eyes fall, but it didn't matter. Thank the Goddess that he heard me.

"Gill, are you ok?!" Luke asked, his voice actually sounded concerned for me, no, for himself. That had to be it, nobody cared what happened to me, they only care about themselves.

Luke grabbed my shoulder and quickly turned me over. My free hand grabbed my throbbing head. I opened my, still slightly blurry, eyes to see Luke looming, on all fours over me. "Gill, I-I'm sorry I-I didn't mean to, I swear."

I was pretty sure the color was retuning to my face. I was still catching my breath, while I looked up at Luke. He was about six inches or so away from my face. He still looked extremely worried, but I made the worry out to be for him, but I blushed, unnoticeably to Luke, at how close he was to me. I don't and never did like being this close to people. It actually scared me because of all the physical abuse that I had gone through all of my life, even as a child.

When I finally caught my breath, I pushed Luke off of me and started to run deeper into the woods. I was dizzy, but I couldn't stop. I heard Luke get up and run after me. "Gill stop!"

For some reason even though I wasn't chocking the tears kept falling, and I knew why. I was scared and tired of it 'Sure I'll stop so you can beat me up, so that I'll keep quiet.' I thought sarcastically.

It didn't take long for Luke to catch up to me he grabbed my arm, I struggled weakly against his strong grip, and he pushed me against a tree, pinning my arms against it. I felt his gloved hand's firm, yet soft, grip on my wrists. I felt so weak and powerless.

I looked away from him, the warm tears still staining my cheeks. 'Let go, let go, let go!' I silently begged.

Luke POV

'He's crying.' I thought looking at Gill. His hair covered most of his face but I could still see the tears. 'What have I done? No, I already know the answer. I had almost chocked him to death.' I stared at the weak trembling boy. I slowly let go of his wrists and we both just stood there. "Gill, I'm-" he cut me off.

"Save it." He said wiping the tears from his eyes. "I won't tell anyone, I promise."

"What?" I questioned. "I…" Gill started to walk away.

"I promise you won't have to do any 'persuading'. Just let me go home…please" I could barely hear him say the last word. Gill said as he walked away.

I Just stood there staring when he was gone, and for a while after. 'Do I really seem that low to you Gill? Of course I do, I almost killed you' I sighed heavily, crammed my hands in my pockets, and started to walk to my job. 'Damn it, I'm suck an ass,' I thought angrily at myself.

Ok Again Hoped you liked it and also remember this is only my first story so Criticism is appreciated.  R&R