Breaking Glass

Shattered, part 2

***I'm sorry this chapter is a little late, I've been busy with other things. I will be post three chapters this Saturday. Just a heads up though that chapter six will be a very dark one, so keep that in mind. I hope you enjoy this chapter for now!***

Eli's body was trembling as the man who he once called "daddy" moved toward him. Fearfully, Eli sat down, the past was catching up to him.

"It's good to see you again son. I wish Andrew was here with us, but if you've been paying attention you'll know that my son was murdered." Eli frozen, he felt a little dizzy. His fear that was once buried is now standing in his living room, talking about Zach Connors.

Correction, talking about Andrew Goldsworthy.

"I…I don't think it was murder." Eli felt weak. His dad looked a bit angry, his fist clinched. "HE WAS MURDERED! DAMN IT!" The man's fist punched a wall. Eli stood up and backed away, he knew his father's anger very well, he saw it first hand on his mother years ago.

He apologized to Eli, than began to explain why he was there.

"I came here because of Andrew, and you. I had spent a few months in a rehabilitation center, and anger management clinic. I've been trying to better myself, and as you can see by the broken wall there, I get a little, um, off…sometimes." Eli looked at the busted up hole in the wall. "About a month ago, Andrew came to me; he had been let out of juvenile detention. He had been in and out for petty things. Andrew started talking about how nothing was going right, how I was to blame, than he said something about correcting a mistake I had made."

Eli knew what he was talking about. He was the mistake, Eli was the one that was going to be corrected but Clare saved him. Even with Andrew gone, Eli was dead; now that the body of his half- brother was discovered.

"He was coming to kill me, wasn't he?" Eli asked without trying to blurt out the words "I killed him though" or at least something similar.

Eli's father nodded his head.

"Yes, I was coming here to warn you, to try and stop him. Obviously someone else got to that part. Now all I want to know is who would kill him, no one knew him here." Eli became nervous, if he said the wrong thing than it might trigger another "off moment" for his dad. He thought quickly, and said only what he heard on the news followed by a lie.

"On the news they said that he had been tied up and burned at the dump. Maybe it wasn't a murder; maybe it was a hazing that went horribly wrong. After all he was the new kid at Degrassi, and they do set the garbage piles on fire once a month." Hoping his lies would settle his father down, Eli started to think of what else he could say to save his own skin.

"Either way, I'm going to make sure whoever did this to Andrew pays severely. He might have been a trouble kid, but he was still my son. You're my son, and I promise you this; whoever hurt our family will be buried."

Eli knew that his father was telling the truth about getting help for his anger, but now a new kind of rage had built up in his father, and Eli had a very short time to keep it contained.

The body of Adam Torres was found after third period, some poor freshman found him with his hands behind his back from his shoelaces, and even more disturbing was the word "SOON." in permanent marker.

The freshman is transferring schools next week.

Drew was sitting on a couch in Bianca's apartment, tears in his eyes, and angry at everyone. He was upset about the death of his brother, and had every right to be.

Bianca walked over time him, well crutched over to him. She was now on crutches, and out of the wheelchair. She sat by his side, and tried to comfort him, but nothing seemed to work.

"Drew, I can't imagine what you must be feeling." Bianca tried to sound as sincere and kind as possible. This was a challenge for her, Bianca tried to keep that bad girl reputation up to speed.

"I'm upset damn it! I lost the only person I ever loved, and knowing that frigging school it was probably a hate crime. People are sick bastards!" His words seemed to be knives when he told Bianca that the only person he loved was gone.

She was sitting right by him, and wanted to smack Drew in the head to remind him that she was his girlfriend.

But no, this was a time of compassion. The hitting will be for later. "Drew, I don't think it was a hate crime or anything. I mean I heard that someone wrote the word "soon" behind your brother. If it was a hate crime don't you think they would write something else like fag, or freak?"

Drew stood up in a huff, started to move around like a cocaine addict without any coke. "I, I just don't understand why someone would do this. It pisses me off." He started to cry.

Bianca got up, hobbled her way towards him and gave him a hug while he teared up on her shoulder. She rubbed his back, trying to make him feel better.

"I knew Adam, we were in that Fight Club, of course I had to fight because he was a girl." Drew looked at her. "Are you trying to say that he was weak?" Drew's grip got stronger. Bianca shook her head.

"No, it's just that he was really a she, he was a girl genetically. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult your, sister or brother, whatever it…" she stopped herself from saying anymore. Drew threw her down by the couch, not on it, but by it.

"You don't ever speak of my brother that way again. He may have been different, but at least he knew who he was. Something you'll never know." He grabbed his bag, and headed for the door. Bianca murmured something about him and Adam being freaks sometimes.

Something had broken inside of Drew, he dropped the bag he had on his shoulder, and walked towards Bianca. "What did you say?"

"Nothing, Drew I'm sorry. I get it your upset." She was still on the floor by the couch. Drew yelled at her again. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Drew unleashed something he never knew he had. Without even thinking about it, he started kicking the helpless Bianca, and there seemed to be no end in sight.

Sav came over to a pregnant Holly J, and sat down with his lunch tray. "So I guess you're not giving up your little friend there?" He poked at her stomach.

She giggled for a moment, and said "yea. The doctor told me I couldn't get the abortion because of my kidneys. I have to wait another month or so to be on the safe side." Holly J slurped her cherry Jello and Sav just stared at her like she was a farm animal.

"Well, what's going to happen within that time?" Sav asked his now current girlfriend, he wasn't thrilled her carrying the baby of her rapist. Holly J said she didn't know, she thought about putting up the child for adoption, but feared getting too close to the baby.

"Trust me, 9 months with a person inside you, you'll want it gone. At least that's what I think, but I have something between my legs ." Holly J hit her boyfriend in the arm at his perverted joke.

The two of them laughed, than watched as a group of kids started running by. Holly J and Sav looked at each other.

"Is there a super model washing a car or something? Look at those boys run!" Sav made another joke, than of course to kill the moment of humor Principal Simpson came on the intercom.

"All students must return to home room periods, we are in a code yellow state. I repeat all students return to home room" He sounded serious.

Holly J and Sav started into the halls, going towards their homerooms but not without asking what was going on. The story had hit fast and hard about the death Adam Torres, many were running around trying to see the body, others were in tears, but only one was standing by watching the show for their own entertainment.

***yes, there is a killer on the loose at Degrassi high school, and I don't want to give too much away but Adam will not be the last victim. The killer won't be reveal until chapter 10 but until that I would love to hear who you think it might be so far. ****