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Secrets

Chapter Four,

Bombay's POV

It's been two days since the...incident and now I, as Mrs Germaine's chosen lawyer am here to talk with Guy. To say I'm not looking foreward to this conversation is an understatement. Guy's on painkillers and heavy medication so he might not even be coherant but I need to 'get the ball rolling' as the saying goes.

"You may go in now Mr Bombay," the nurse tells me. I smile and stand, picking up my suitcase. When I enter the private room I nearly flinch at my first sight of Guy. His face must be the only part of him that 's not bruised or wrapped in bandages, also his wrists in plaster.

"Hello Guy," I say quietly.

"Hey Coach," Guy barely mumbled, not looking at me.

"I'm here to begin the investigation so that we can prosecute your step-father," I say quietly. Guy flinches and looks at the window. "I'm sorry Guy but it must be done."
"I know," Guy sighed and turned his head back to me. There was a strange look in his eyes, one of pure sadness, I felt so horrible being about to ask these questions. "Better get it over with, fire away."

"Was it your step-father who..." I searched for the right phrasing.

"Beat the shit out of me? Yes it was him," Guy answered bluntly, actually I'm a little shocked at how blunt he was. I continue with the questions and he answers each one with such carelessness I wonder if he' putting it on.

"When did it begin?"

"When Nathanial was born."

"Was it as bad then?"

"No."

"When did it get to this stage?"

"When we won the Junior Goodwill games."

"What's the worst he's ever done to you?"

"Thrown me down the stairs."

"Why didn't you tell anyone?"

"Couldn't be bothered."

"Were you afraid?"

"Of course I was bloody afraid! What do you think I am stupid!" He stopped himself from ranting I noticed.

Guy's POV

I know he is doing his job and means well but he's bringing back memories, memories I want to forget, to bury, to erase! No1 I don't want to think of them! I don't want to! I won't!

"What happened to your father?"

"Huh?"
"What happened to your real father?"

"In Prison for manslaughter."

"Oh." He seems surprised, as if he didn't know that already. Huh, a likely story.

"Who did he kill?" Bombay asked.

"Dunno, never asked." He's making notes, probably telling himself to search that up.

"Can you describe an average day?"

"Well, I'm woken up by him demanding breakfast, I cook it then blade to school."

"Do you have breakfast?"

"No. I go to school and practise. I get home. He thinks up an excuse to beat me and does so. I cook tea, get another beating if he doesn't like it, go to bed."
"How much of your tea do you eat?"

"A small plateful if he's in a good mood, if not whatever I can grab." Bombay looks sick, well I guess it could make someone sick. Infact just thinking of my life is enough to make anyone sick, even me.

A/N Isn't this getting depressing. Now what do you think should happen, obviously step-dad to prison but what about Guy? Should he start smoking etc? Tell me.