Ch.8
David sat on the living room, holding his phone in his hands as he stared at it. He didn't know how long he was sitting there, before Phoebe and Coop walked in. they were holding hands as they walked up to him. Coop put his hand on David's shoulder to get his attention. When he did, it scared David and he screamed out in pain.
"David?" Phoebe asked, "What's wrong?" You could hear the worry in her voice. He looked up at them and they saw the pain across his face. He quickly covered that up, as he held his shoulder.
"Um, nothing. I'm fine," he quickly replied.
"Yeah, right," Phoebe said, as she sat next to him. She grabbed his arm and before he could stop her, she pulled up his t-shirt sleeve to revel a large black and blue bruise on his shoulder extending to his back. "Oh, my God!" Phoebe exclaimed. She looked up at Coop, who had an extremely angry look on his face. She knew that this was one of the very, very rare times that he would get angry and knew that when he got like this that it wouldn't be good. Even though he was a Cupid, and would almost never get like this, there would be times, once again, almost never, that he would just snap and these were one of those times. He hated people who would do this to children. "Coop," Phoebe said. He just looked at her and nodded his head, knowing that she meant that he had to calm down for the sake of everyone. He took a deep breath, before walking over and sitting down in front of David.
"David, who did this to you?" Coop asked. He just looked down. "David?"he asked, lifting David's head up. When he did, tears were in his eyes.
"Please tell us who did this to you," Phoebe said, as she looked at him. He looked at her and opened his mouth like he was going to say something, but just as quickly shut it, and looked down. As he did, she lifted up the back of his shirt and saw that his back was all black and blue and it went up to his other shoulder. She gasped when she this and tears rushed to her eyes.
David sighed and closed his eyes before saying, "it was my dad." Phoebe looked at Coop, who once again had that look on his face, before she pulled him into her arms and he cried on her shoulder. After a couple of minutes, there was a knock on the door. Phoebe looked at Coop. He understood before going to answer the door.
"Can I help you?" he asked.
"Is David here?" they asked. When they did, David heard his name and got up. When he got to the door, he quickly stopped where he was and just stared at him. He stared back and David could tell he was angry.
He became very scared and said in a very shaky voice, "Mom? Dad?"