Chapter Ten: Brutal Beating

I slowly made my way home after I got off the bus. I expected more hell today. You know, I wouldn't expect anything less. Not now. Not in this life.

I jogged up the stars onto the porch when i heard someone say something. I turned around and saw a girl looking at me. She was tall, skinny, and had long brown hair. She was so pretty.

"What?" I asked stupidly. I know I must have looked so surprised, because really, I was.

"I said that I think your cute." She said, smiling. Her smile was pretty.

"Oh, Th- Thanks." I said, I was so embarrassed. I had never in my whole life been told I was cute by a girl. Expecially one that was pretty.

"What's your name?" She asked smiling. I didn't have the chance to answer before Nick opened the door and glared at me.

"I gotta go." I said and walked into the house. nick looked at the girl, then shut the door.

He walked over to me and shoved me.

"What do you think your doing?" He asked, clearly angry.

"I didn't do anything, I wa-"

"Than who was that girl?" He screamed pushing me again.

"I don't know Nick. She stopped me. I have never seen her before."

"And you'll never see her again either." He said. His fingers rolled into a fist and he slammed his fist across my face. it hurt horribly.

I saw Daniel go into the bathroom and shut the door. I wished that we weren't fighting.

"I, I, I can't help if she thinks I'm cute!" I yelled, losing my temper.

"How dare you yell towards me you little faggot!" Nick screamed hitting my head into the wall and shoving me to the floor. He rested his knees on my chest to keep me held down.

"Stay put." He demanded as he got up and disappeared into his bedroom.

When he returned he had a belt. This wasn't like the usual belts he hit me wit. This one had razor sharp spikes up and down both sides.

"I've been waiting for a special moment to break out this bad boy." Nick smiled waving is back and worth in front of my face. I have honestly never been more terrified. This thing would tear into my skin. This thing would rip through my skin.

"Nick, please don't. I'm begging for you to not hit me with that. Anything but that."

"SHUT UP FAGGOT!" He screamed. "I hate it when you beg. It pisses me off even more!" Nick screamed. I saw fury, anger in his eyes like I've never seen, and it was scary.

He pulled his arm back and struck me with the belt. I screamed and felt tears fall down my cheeks. I had never known pain until now. I felt blood running down my leg were he had hit me.

I heard him laughing as he brought the belt down a second time, this time across my back. I felt skin rip off of me. The pain was unbearable. I screamed out, more tears fell to the floor. I tried to roll into a ball, but the pain i was going through stopped me.

"Stand up!" Nick demanded.

"I, Ca- Can't." I said through my tears.

"NOW!" He screamed, releasing the belt into my arm. God it hurt so bad. I screamed again.

I slowly started to bring myself to a standing position. After nearly falling twice, I managed to stand up.

"That wasn't so hard was it?" Nick asked grinning.

He hit me in the back with the belt countless times. The arms, legs, stomach. He just kept hitting me. He had even made me take me pants and shirt off so it'd hurt more. This was the worse beating I had ever received from him.

"Go to bed now and think about what you did." Nick screamed.

I lay down in the floor and rolled up into the best ball I could. I lay there crying into a small pillow I had been given. I cried so hard I thought my throat was coming out. I heard the door open and held my eyes tightly shut. I just knew it was Nick back with the belt.

"Jeremy?" I heard my name.

I turned toward the door, but it wasn't Nick. It was Daniel. His eyes were red and puffy from crying.

"Are you okay?" He continued.

I shook my head no, as tears continued to quietly fall down my face.

He walked over to me and helped me to stand up, getting blood all over him. He began crying again.

"What's wrong?" I asked he patted me with a dry towel, drying to clean up some of the blood.

"I can't believe he did this. It's just wrong. You could have died. And..." He trailed off and I heard him choke on his tears.

I turned to him and I hugged him. I hugged him as tightly as my pained body would let me and he hugged me back. I knew that right now, at this very moment, everything was back to normal. That me and Daniel were friends again. And that nothing, no matter what it was, would ever tear us apart again...

A/N- Well, here's to a happy reunion. Gosh what brutal circumstances. Thanks for reviewing guys. Love it when you do it. Here's chapter 10, I hope it was enjoyable. Thanks for reading, please review. And bye! Oh, and there is a Suite Life marathon on Saturday! Well thanks, Chapter 11 will be up soon.