They burst through the door and saw Alex wielding a baseball bat, with Ryan on the opposite side of the roof backing away defensively. Alex had a small cut above his unswollen eye, and his left arm was limp, it looked as though it had been dislocated.
"YOU THINK YOU CAN STEAL MY GIRLFRIEND!" Alex screamed advancing on Ryan.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING ALEX?" Nat yelled out, he wondered how Alex had found Ryan so quickly.
"Yeah Alex what are you going to do. You going to hit me this time?" Ryan jeered looking at Alex with immense dislike.
"Alex it wasn't what it looked like" Juanita called out trying to calm Alex down.
Alex just looked at her blood dripping from his cut, and tears coming from his unswollen eye. She could tell he was way beyond pissed. As Alex moved forward Nat ran over and tackled him, taking the bat out of his hands. With the way now clear, Ryan took flight. Alex lay on the ground and started trying to kick and punch Nat with his good arm.
"LET ME GET HIM!" Alex yelled as he fought Nat.
Nat stood up a bit making himself exposed, and Alex unintentionally made a well placed kicked living Nat winded. Nat crouched to the ground trying to get his breath back. Alex got to his feet and grabbing the bat ran over to the door which was blocked by Juanita and Rosalina. Alex tried to push passed but Rosalina and Juanita stood firm. Rosalina quickly moved in low and pulled Alex's feet out from under him causing him to slam into the ground. Nat quickly sat on Alex, stopping him from getting up.
"NAT WOLFF!" A voice said from behind Rosalina and Juanita. It was his dad. "What have I told you about picking on you little brother, and you two letting him."
"What! I was just trying to stop him beating someone up." Nat said defensively.
"Yeah Mr Wolff" Juanita and Rosalina said together.
"WHY IS NO ONE EVER ON MY SIDE" Alex yelled before starting to cry.
"Nat, go and walk Rosalina and Juanita home" Mr Wolff said firmly, he hated seeing his sons fighting and lately they had been real ones.
As Nat, Rosalina and Juanita left, Mr Wolff walked over to Alex and helped him to his feet. They walked down the stairs and stopped of at the apartment next to theirs. Mr Wolff knocked on the door.
The door opened and their neighbour Dr Blackman opened the door.
"Hey Sonny" She said sweetly "Hey Alex" she said automatically, not looking at him but his dads eyes.
"Uh Jane, could you look at Alex?" Mr Wolff asked politely.
"Why would you want that Sonny when you're such a looker yourself" She said not paying much attention to Alex.
"Cause you're a doctor…duh" Alex said grumpy and impatient.
"SHHH, your dad and I are talking" she said still not taking away her eyes of Sonny.
Alex rolled his eyes and tried to walk away but his dad grabbed his shoulder.
"Because he's looking pretty beat up," Mr Wolff said gesturing towards Alex.
She finally looked down at him, he looked pretty bad. She could see blood all through his hair, a cut on his forehead a black eye and what she suspected was a dislocated shoulder.
"Jeez what have you been up to Alex?" She asked finally showing some sort of courtesy.
Alex didn't say anything and stayed defiantly silent.