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Justin looked again at both his stepbrother and stepsister and his worst fears were confirmed. Mackie had been hassling them again. He slowly sunk to the floor with a look of despair on his face.
"I thought he had gone for good after being expelled from school. I am going to have to finish this once and for all" Justin said determinedly. He quickly rose from the floor and left the room.
"What's he going to do?" Ali asked Darlene.
"How am I supposed to know, and anyway all of this is his fault. He used to hang around with Mackie."
"Yes but he's changed now and doesn't want anything to do with Mackie."
"Hmm. A leopard never changes his spots springs to mind" she said sarcastically, "and if he had said something right at the beginning instead of trying to be the hard man and sort things himself we might not be in this position".
"I think you are being a little unfair" Ali said rising from his bed. "I know Justin doesn't always do things conventionally but his heart is in the right place and I know how bad he feels about the whole Mackie situation. I'm going to see what he's going to do".
Meanwhile Justin had entered his room and flung himself on his bed. Why, why why do things always go wrong for me he thought. It just wasn't fair he had been trying so hard since boot camp to be a better person and everything just seemed to go wrong. He put his hands behind his head sighing deeply. I am going to sort this situation with Mackie out once and for all. Ali and Darlene have had enough torment. Mackie was his problem not theirs and now they were suffering.
He sat up and pondered what he could do. He rose and took of his t-shirt to get ready for a shower. He turned around as his door opened and Ali entered.
Ali took a sharp intake of breath as he saw the bruises that were already forming around Justin's middle.
"Did Mackie do that to you?" Ali asked pointing to the bruises.
"Yeh, him and his mates jumped me on the common. I would have had him but someone came by" Justin said.
"We can't go on like this. Perhaps we should tell someone" Ali said defeatedly.
"No" Justin insisted sharply. "This is my problem and I will sort it."
"But you've already tried once and it didn't work. He's back again."
Justin sighed. "Look I'm tired and want a shower. I will fix this for us. I just need to think about it first."
He walked to the door and opened it.
"I'll talk to you tomorrow. Goodnight" he said firmly.
Ali stared long and hard at Justin as he walked out the door.
"Just make sure you do because I don't know how much more Darlene and I can take. If you can't sort it soon then I'm going to tell dad." With that he left Justin's room slamming the door.