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Secrets

Chapter Five,

Charlie's POV

The Duck's are all sat in the Dean's office. I myself am sat between Adam and Connie. Bombay, The Dean and Orion are sat oposite all of us. We're here to answer Bombay's questions to help him prosecute Mr Germaine.

"Have any of you noticed bruises on Guy's body since you've knon him?" Bombay asked.

"I have," Adam said quietly.

"Me too," well of course Connie would have, they did go out.

"I did," Dwayne said...hey wait Dwayne.

"Couple of times," Fulton admitted, Portman nodded.

"I just thought they got them from Hockey," Ken mumbled. It seems only me Julie, Luis, Goldburg, Averman and Russ didn't notice them. That makes me feel like a great friend, note the sarcasm.

"Could you tell me when and how frequently?" Bombay asked. He had a tape recorder in his hand, recording everything that was said.

"When we were going out I noticed them, he said he was accident prone or blamed it on hockey. I never realised..." Connie broke off to wipe he eyes on her sleave. I feel quite sorry for, they only broke up a month ago and now he's in hospital.

"I saw bruises on his back in the changing rooms. He'd always wait until everyone had gone to change but I forgot something once and saw," Adam explained.

"When it rained really badly I let him borrow a shirt. When he took his wet one off he was covered in cuts and bruises, he told me it had been some public school kids and not to talk about it," Dwayne said.

"I'd just dropped my brother off at his friends and on the way back I saw guy get thrown down the steps of his house by a man I didn't know it was his dad. When I helped him up and asked what had happened he just made me promise not tell anyone," Fulton said.

"You said a couple of times?" Bombay asked.

"Yeah. Me and Portman were hanging out in the streets, you know just walking and stuff and we saw him sat on the steps of his house bandaging his hands. We asked what had happend and he said he'd trapped them in the door. Well we helped him bandage them up but when I saw the cuts and red marks on his palms I knew they weren't from a door. To me it looked like he'd been caned," Fulton admitted. A hushed silence fell over the group.

"I also saw his arm once had bruises in the shape of a large hand," Portman put in.

"We were all changing once and his shirt got pulled up and on his abdomen were what looks like marks from a belt buckle, he pulled his shirt down before anyone else noticed," Ken told his story. I'm horrified. Everyone's seen obvious signs of abuse and said nothing! If i'd seen them I would have told someone right away. Atleast I'd like to think that's what I would have done.

Bombay's POV

I'm horrified to hear all their stories, to think that I was his coach for atleast 2 years and I hadn't noticed! I'd even been to his house once to give him a lift to the airport and his step-dad had seemed nice enough to me. But maybe that was just an act.

"Has Guy ever said anything about his step-father being abusive?" I asked. A collective 'no' was my answer from all but Connie who turned red. "Connie?"

"One time after...yeah...well he was nearly asleep and said he needed to get home or Steve would belt him. I asked him what he meant and he said it was a slip of the tongue. He stayed the night and then the next day he had a black eye and was kind of bent over all day," Connie admitted sadly. I'm as shocked as everyone else. Ok, part of me is shocked that Guy and Connie have actually had sex...they are only just 16 but the other part is that Guy had only once admitted it to anyone and then he'd covered for it. Didn't he want his step-dad in prison?

"He was going to tell me before he collapsed," Adam spoke up quietly, "And he almost let it slip to Coach Orion when he was angry with him."

"Coach? What's going to happen to Guy's step-dad?" Charlie asked.

"The least he'll get is five years, the most thirty. It depends how much evidence I can gather so anything you noticed would be helpful," I tell them. They all nod. "Well, I have to go but if you remember anything, you have my number." I stop the tape-recorder. Oh how I hope I can make that bastard pay for what he's done to Guy.

A/N There we go, how long do you thing the step-dad should get? Should Nathan and Zach blame Guy for their dad being arrested?