A/N: This is the new instalment. You're going to find out some things about one of the characters. Please continue the amazing support as you guys have always done.

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Humphrey's POV

I stood outside the front door of the house fumbling my pockets for my keys. "Hurry up Humphrey! It's getting cold" my sister complained. "Hold on a second. Let me find my keys" I barked back. I love Angel, but she can get on your nerves real fast. After a full minute of searching every single pocket I have, I couldn't find the keys. There is only one answer to the question on where they were; sitting inside

"I forgot them in the house" I said. Angel sighed deeply. "Do I have to do it again?" Angel asked, with a hint of frustration in her voice. "You're gonna have to. We have no other choice" I explained. Angel took of her schoolbag, left it at the front door and made her way to the back of the house. What she's going to try to do is open the kitchen window; she has done it before, and unlocks the door from the inside. She did the last time we were locked outside of the house. This just left me alone with my thoughts

How was school today? To be honest, today was a mixture of good and bad. It was good that there were people who heard, and actually came up to me and discussed it with me. Well when I say people, I mean girls. I mean a lot of girls. They kept asking me to lift up my shirt so that they can see the scar, and they kept rubbing the area. I think they just wanted to touch my muscles. I don't know why it's not like they're anything impressive. But I'll tell you one thing, my friend Hutch is a tank, you should see him; he has an 8 pack. He really shows me up in gym class

Did Kate mind the girls? From the face of it no, in fact she was the one who made me lift up my shirt to show them, and she was asking them to feel as well. I don't think Kate's the type of girl that gets jealous easily. That's one of the many, many reasons why I love her. She was going to come over to my house after school, but when Lily came in with her schoolbag, ten minutes late which got her in a bit of trouble, she said her mum and dad wanted her home, she said she would call me later

Then what was the bad mixture of the day then? Well it was doing the small things. Like it hurt a little standing up at the end of each class, even laughing caused a little pain, and for a guy like me that's a bad thing, but I rode them out. But there were a few times when it really hurt; like when Kate's pen fell on the floor and I went to pick it up, I felt a sharp pain in my side, it was even worse than when Kate sat on my wound last night, which thankfully no one found out about. That would have been really embarrassing for the both of us

*click* i heard which brought me out of my thoughts. I looked at the door and Angel opened it, and she was all smug. "See. I'm the cat burglar" she said. "What?" I asked confused. "Doesn't matter. Get in here" she said grabbing her schoolbag and walking in. it's going to be a long time off. But its good as well, tomorrow would've been bad in gym class, don't think I have the energy for football

(Time Skip to 6:00pm)

I was sitting in the living room, watching something about the Bugatti Veyron; I think the show is called Mega factories or something, and I heard my phone ring. It was Kate; she did say she was going to call me later

I put my finger on the green phone icon and dragged it across the screen to answer the call. "Hello beautiful". "Hey Hummy" Kate greeted from the other side. "How are you?" I asked. "Good. I wish I could've gone over to your place and finished our little session but, mum and dad had to take me and Lily to some place" Kate said. "Where did you go?" I asked curiously. "Some insurance place, something to do with the house. I don't even know to be honest I wasn't paying attention" Kate joked

"It's cool that we get off tomorrow huh?" I said trying to change the subject. I was hoping that I could maybe invite her over here tomorrow, hopefully to finish that little session, hehe. "Speaking of tomorrow, guess what?" Kate said sounding excited. "What?" I asked. "Mum and dad have asked me to ask you; if you Matthew and Angel would like to come over and have dinner with us" Kate said. "Really? That sounds cool" I replied. "I'll have to ask Matthew if he would want to go, I'm sure Angel would say yes in a heartbeat" I added. "That's great I'll inform mum" Kate said.

I was about to ask her what the possible arrangements would be; to see if maybe Matthew was off work and if he wasn't, maybe work around it. But I heard her mother calling her in the background. "Ohh, there's my mum. I've gotta go. I guess I will see you tomorrow Hummy?". "Yeah, definitely. See you tomorrow gorgeous". "See you tomorrow stud" Kate said before hanging up. Looks like tomorrows going to be cool

The rest of the night was very uneventful, I just watched a few shows, ordered Angel, Matthew and I some Chinese which Matthew would pick up on his way home from work. When he got home I asked Matthew and Angel if they were free to go to dinner at the Smith's house. "Sorry bro I can't. I'm working from 4:00pm to 9:30pm. I would love to go, but if I took that shift off, my boss will literally hunt me down and kill me, he'll more than likely put a bounty on my head" Mathew so elegantly told us

After eating I stayed up to play a few games of Advanced Warfare. After playing for a few more hours I was now more or less raging in the process to the point where I was sweaty, and I screamed so much in rage that my throat was feeling dry, I mean come on this game needs to fix its lag issues for god's sake. I was sick of the game, where I vowed not to play on it for the next two weeks; I need time to calm down. I turned off the PlayStation and the TV, and went upstairs to sleep. And as I was trying to sleep, my mind kept crawling to Kate; "I wish she was here"

(Next Day; 12:32 pm)

I walked slowly out of my room, dressed in nothing but my yellow boxer briefs. I was so tired; I didn't get any sleep last night. I really missed Kate being around; even though she did sit on my wound, but her presence just eases the pain away. Wow that sounded dorky

I went downstairs to see Angel and Matthew having their breakfast. "Look who eventually got up" Matthew remarked. "Hey big bro" Angel said with a mouthful of cornflakes. "Hey" I said rubbing my eyes. "Can you at least put some clothes on before you come in here" Matthew commented jokingly. "What?" I responded. "Nothing Matthew's just in a real sassy mood this morning" Angel said with a smile. "Whatever" Matthew said with a smile as well. At least both of them were in a good mood.

"Well why you go and make yourself decent and I'll make my way" Matthew said getting up. "Where you going? I thought you weren't working until around 4?" I asked. "Oh I didn't tell you guys. I'm swapping the BMW for an Audi" Matthew said sounding excited. "Cool, what year is the Audi?" I asked. "2007" he responded. "And this guy is willing to swap that for a 90's BMW?" Angel asked. I have to admit, I was thinking the exact same thing

"I'm not going to complain" Matthew said. "I'll see you guys tonight. Have a good time at the smith's" Matthew said leaving. I heard the front door slam and that was him gone. I don't know why but it seems he's trying to ignore me and Angel this last while. Angel was soon finished her breakfast, and left it on the table. I then heard her footsteps going upstairs; I guess I'm going to wash up then. I lifted Angel and Matthew's plates and bowls and put them in the sink. I turned in the tap and got the washing up liquid out from the cupboard under the sink

My ear twitched when I heard a familiar sound, my phone ringing. It was upstairs in my room. I turned off the tap; it was a rule my mum had when she was still here, and I ran to get it. When I was at the bottom of the stairs, I heard it stop ringing. I thought it was short; normally it rings for a lot longer than that. I know that because I leave it ringing until my favourite part of the ringtone is over. Anyways I made my way up the stairs to see the missed call

I opened the door to find Angel sitting on my bed, on my phone. "Angel what are you doing?!" "Answering your phone dummy" she said getting up and handing it to me. I grabbed it off her briskly, and held it to my ear.

"Hello"

"Hey hummy"

"Hey Kate. How are you?"

"I was just calling to make sure you guys are still coming over tonight"

"Well Angel and I yes, Matthew has to work from four to nine"

"Oh alright. By the way Humphrey, you know Sally in our year? Well she's holding a party tomorrow night. I'd figure we'd, maybe drop in for a while and maybe head back to your place afterwards for some… alone time" Kate said, with her voice sounding sexy. To be honest I don't think I want to go, but if I don't go it will show Garth and his friends that I'm scared: remember the last time when Garth attacked me from behind. Well I don't, Kate had to tell me. But still I'm torn between the options

"I'll think about" I answered

"Cool. So what you doing?" Kate asked me. By this point I didn't even realise that I had walked down the stairs, it actually shocked me a bit. "Nothing. I'm literally just out of bed" I answered. I took this quick opportunity to sit down on the sofa.

"What are you wearing?" Kate asked. "Just my boxers. You know the yellow ones with the two squirrels on them and one of them is shouting to the other one 'don't touch my nuts'" I said causing Kate to giggle a bit. "What about me can I touch them" Kate said. "Anytime" I responded. "Good" Kate simply responded. "What about you, what are you wearing?" I asked in return.

"In truth; nothing. I'm only up too, and I'm still in bed" Kate said seductively. Before I could say anything, the doorbell rang. "Sorry Kate, I have to go someone's at the door" I said. I heard Kate groan in disappointment. "Ohh Humphrey you're such a tease. We were about to have some fun here" "Well don't worry, you and I will have fun soon. See you tonight" I said getting up ready to answer the door. "Bye hummy, love you" Kate said. "Love you too" I said before hanging up. We didn't do the 'no you hang up first thing' like couples are supposed to do. God, I hate people who do that

Anyways I approached the door. I opened the door wide enough so only my head was visible; I didn't want the visitors to see me half naked. I peeled through the gap, and I was surprised to see who was there. "Hey Humphrey". "Hi Beth". Yes, Beth was at my door. "What are you doing here?" I asked bluntly, but tried to make it sound polite. "Well, I need to talk to you" she said with not even a smile on her face. Something tells me she didn't come over here to have banter

"Sure come on in" I said opening the door fully, but hiding behind it so the entire street wouldn't see me in my boxers. "I'm going to go upstairs and put on some clothes, as you can see this simply won't do" I said trying to lighten up the atmosphere. She let out a small huff at the comment, doesn't look like she's a good mood at all. "Just make yourself comfortable" I said gesturing towards the sofa. Beth went and sat on the sofa, and I ran up the stairs to put decent clothes

I ran into my room, with Angel still in it, now on her phone. "What are you still doing in here" I asked. "It's warm in your room. Who was the the door?" she asked. "My friend Beth" I answered, I put on my black AC/DC t-shirt and tried putting on my jeans. "She said she wants to talk to me about something" I said. "Ohh okay" Angel said sounding satisfied with my explanation. Just before I left my room, I turned to Angel. "Can you please get out of my room?" I asked. "Uggh, fine" she said getting up. As I went downstairs, Angel went across the hall and into her room

I went and sat on the sofa next to Beth. "So Beth, what do you need to talk to me about?" I asked. "Humphrey what I'm about to tell you, you must promise me two thing. One; you will keep this between you and me. Two; you have to promise to not judge me, and realise that we all make mistakes" she said, with her legs shaking. I put my hand on her leg. "I promise. Now tell me what's wrong". Beth grabbed hold of my hand as she was preparing to speak

"Well you know the way my table-buddy was…" Beth said but began to stutter. "Garth?" I suggested. "Yeah. Well after a couple of days, we got real friendly with each other. And he was actually charming to me. And of course me being naive as I am, I fell for it". I thought she was about to say 'I fell for him', I was about to yell at her if she said that. "Well after that we became really friendly. In fact, last week, a few days before your incident at the store, he invited me to his house. And after a while, he tried to get me drinking. Of course I refused. And then he tried to kiss me, and I pushed him away. And then…"

Her hand was shaking, and tears were forming in her eyes, with one making its way down her left cheek. I wiped her tear away with my free hand. "It's okay Beth. Take your time" I said soothingly. "When I pushed him away, he got really angry and…" At this point Beth let go of my hand, rolled up her sleeves and I was stunned by what I saw. Beth had bruises all up her left arm and a few on her right arm as well. "Did he hit you?" I asked

She just nodded while she rolled her sleeves back to the way they were. "And after that, he held me down, and he tried to undress me" Beth said. "He was going to rape you?!" Beth only nodded and started crying. I felt the urge to hug her, which I went through with. We just laid there for a full minute, with her just sobbing on my shoulder. "But before he had the chance, I kicked him in the balls, which caused him to fall back onto the floor, and I took my opportunity, to escape his house, which I did"

I was saddened by this story. I can't believe Garth would do this to Beth. She's such a nice girl, she doesn't deserve this. "But what happened after that, you said this was a week ago?" I asked noisily. "Well I went forward to our head of year and asked to switch table-buddies. My new buddy is Hutch Canning, one of those guys in our class. You know, they one that REALLY built up". I nodded to this, "and Garth's new buddy is Abigail, but even then he still doesn't leave me alone. He stares me down in class, chases me in hallways, he even came up to me, pushed me against my locker and said 'I will get you'."

"Ever since that day I have been scared. That's why I didn't go to see you when you got out of the hospital, I was scared to even leave my own home" Beth said. I still had my arm wrapped around her in support, but one question still clung in my mind, from the very first second when she was starting to tell me. "Beth, why are you telling me this?" I asked. "I wanted to tell someone who's not judgemental, and who I know can keep a secret"

"Well thanks for the compliments I guess" I said. "And I want to ask you a favour?" Beth asked. "What is it?" "Well all the girls want me to go to that party that Sally is having. And I know if I don't go they're going to think something's up, and well… the bottom line is that I need a body guard". "What? Beth are you crazy? I'm only out of hospital" I said. "I know, but at the last party you hit a good punch, you can do it again" she said pleadingly. "Yeah, but then after that he came up from behind and hit me in the head" I said

"Please Humphrey? Please, can you do this for me please?" Beth asked desperately; even the tone of her voice was sounding desperate. She looked at me with eyes, filling with tears. I wanted to say 'no I can't. I'm only out of hospital and there is a serious chance that I can get hurt. Besides it's your fault, you got yourself into this', but I didn't. "Okay I'll go" I said. A smile instantly came across her face, and she embraced me in a tight hug

"Thanks Humphrey. You have no idea how much this means to me" she whispered into my ear. "Hey, what are friends for?" I said. She let go of me and checked her phone. "I better go, I told my mum I would only be about 20 minutes, and I need to make my way back" she said getting up. I walked her to the door and opened it for her. Before she left, she turned to me. "Please keep this between us Humphrey?" she asked. "Don't worry my lips are sealed" I said doing the zip motion. Beth smiled and walked away

I closed the door, and went back to sit on the sofa, trying to take in all that just happened. Then Angel came down the stairs, with her Dr. Dre headphones on. Good, the last thing I need is her listening to our conversations. I better go upstairs, and figure out what I'm going to wear tonight, don't want to look shabby in front of Kate's family

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