"Jesus Christ! Do you guys always have to listen to every conversation I have?"Jack yelled at the door to the kitchen. When Sofi, Angel, and Bobby appeared looking puzzled.
"What was that about? Who was that girl?" Bobby asked truly curious as to what his baby brother would have done to make a girl leave that fast.
"You guys really want to hear it all?" Jack asked them.
"Yea, give it up Jackie boy" Bobby said.
"Here it goes, im starting from the beginning and Im not gonna repeat anything. It started when I was 14...
flash back...
"What do you think your doing boy?" Jack heard his father say to him as he was getting ready to go outside.
"I was gonna go play outside dad."Jack said knowing this wasnt going to end well, it never did.
"Play outssside?"jack could hear his father slurring his s's, and could tell that he had been drinking agian,"You think that those kid's want to play with a worrthless paice of shit like you?"
"Dad, please, calm down" Jack said,wishing he hadn't.
"CALM DOWN? DONT TELL ME TO CALM THE FUCK DOWN!" his father yelled as he grabbed Jack by the collar and pinned him up against the door. With his other hand he repeatedly punched Jack in the stomach.
"DAD! STOP IT PLEASE!"Jack yelled trying his hardest not to cry. He knew that the second he started crying his father would hurt him worse.
"Well because you said please." His father said with a smirk, punched him one last time in the face and through him out of the front door.
A little over an hour later an 8 year old girl was walking home from the park and saw a boy lying on the ground shaking with a purple bruise forming on his face. She walked up to him and asked him if he was ok. He groaned in reply. She may have been 8 but she was smart enough to know what to do. She grabbed his arm and put it over her shoulder and helped him up.
"Look here...you gonna come home with me tonight?My mommy should be able to help you, ok?" she said sweetly.She didnt wait for a reply she just started walking with him. He walked with her because he didnt know what else to do. When they reached her house, which was only 4 houses down from his, her mother came out and gasped at what she saw infront of her.
"Oh my goodness!Kelly bring him in here now, the poor boy." When Kelly carried Jack into the house her mother came and picked the boy up and put him down on their couch. Since her mother was a nurse she knew what to do. She checked his pulse and looked at his eye.
"Mommy?Whats going to happen to him?Will he be ok?" her daughter didnt even know the boy but was worrying her little heart out for him.
"Yes Kelly sweetie, hes going to be just fine"
The boy woke up the next morning in house totally unlike his own. It was warm and welcoming, and he saw a woman sitting in a chair next to the couch he was on.
"Oh sweetie your awake!" The woman said with a sincere smile, "Hold on, I'll be back in one second" she got up and walked out of the room . In less than no time she returned with a cup of milk and a plate of eggs and bacon. She put it on the table infront of him and sat back down in the chair. He drank most of the milk and started to eat the eggs when she talked again.
"Hi, Im Carol. Whats your name honey?"she asked him softly.
"Im Jack, Jack Sable." he said barely above a whisper.
"Jack, thats a lovely name, how old are you Jack?"
"Im 14."
"14, I hated being 14. such a confusing age."She said with a slight smile,"Well Jack, Do you remember anything from last night?"
"I dont know...I remember my father throwing me out of the house then a little girl helping me walk somewhere,thats all.."
"Well, my daughter Kelly found you lying on the ground last night with some pretty nasty bruises Jack. When she carried you to our house we put you on the couch and you fell asleep. Now sweety, you might not want to answer me, but was it your father that hit you?you can tell me"
Jack looked away, and nodded. "Oh Sweety." Carol put her hand on his knee, they just sat their in silence until they heard a noise coming down the stairs.
"Mom!Mom!Mom!Mom!" Kelly yelled as she ran into the living room with her backpack in her hands,when she saw Jack she stopped.
"Kelly sweety look who's awake!" Jack smiled at Kelly and Kelly blushed, but smiled back.
"Hi! Im glad your ok! Wanna play before i go to school? Its my first day back. Im supposed to be in the 4th grade but they moved me up to the 5th grade because I'm really smart!" Kelly said not breaking eye contact with Jack." Come on!Lets go play video games! None of my friends want to play them because they say their for boys, but your a boy so maybe you can actually beat me!" Kelly said grabbing Jacks hand and dragging him into the playroom.
End Flash Back
"From that point on we would always hang out, it didn't matter that she was 6 years younger than me. We had that whole connection thing you know? And Her mom never told the police about my dad because I begged her not to. I convinced her that it wasnt that bad. I dont think she ever beleived me though." Jack said, it was hard for him to tell this all at once but he felt better knowing that his family knew more about him .
"Still doesnt explain why you left her there, or why she left you here." Bobby grunted looking up from the bag of chips he was demoloshing.
"Fine, I'll tell you the rest." Jack said bracing himself for it.
flash back...
Over a short amount of time Jack and Kelly had grown to become eachothers best friends. They would do everything together, he would do 8 or 9 year old girl things with her like watching cartoons or playing with clay and she would do 14 year old boy things like reading comics and playing baseball. They both had other friends, even though Jack didnt like to tell his other friends about his life, and they would have to spend time apart occasionally, but other than those times they were inseperable. A few days after her 9th birthday party, her mother took Kelly and Jack out for pizza and ice cream, Jack's father finally went to far. He had thrown Jack out of a second floor window breaking his left leg and arm. When Kelly heard someone screaming she ran outside and saw Jack lying on his front lawn bleeding and screaming. Carol called 911 and when the ambulance came to get Jack Kelly was sitting right there with him crying and screaming just as loud as he was. When the ambulance driving Jack away Kelly ran after it yelling "JJ!" at the top of her lungs.
End Flash Back