Chapter 3

Louie was walking to one of his classes as he was listening to music on his headphones. He usually liked all types of music, but today he was listening to classical. As he was listening to his classical music, he noticed that there were six members of the football team in the hallway where he walks to class. He decided it would be best for him to walk another route, but there were eight football players that were behind him. He was trapped. Zack then came out of nowhere and pushed Louie on the ground. He took Louie's phone that he was listening to music on.

"What kinda music you got?" Zack asked as Louie stayed silent. Zack then started listening to what

Louie was playing. "Classical?! I didn't know you were such a dork. If I knew you listened to this kind of music I would've given you beating a lot sooner." Louie was scared, but he didn't like the idea of being pushed around.

"Give it back!" Louie demanded. This made Zack angry. He raised the phone above Louie's head so that Louie could attempt to grab it. Louie made very feeble attempts that Zack laughed at. Zack then threw his phone on the ground and stomped on it. "Why would you do that?!" Louie asked shocked by what had just happened before his eyes. In a world like this, there is one thing you can't do. You can't destroy another person's phone intentionally.

"You can't call for help if you have nothing to call with." Zack said as Louie threw a punch at him. The punch was weak. "You call that a punch?!" Zack then punched Louie with brute force. It completely knocked the wind out of him. "I say we take this outside. Don't you agree boys." Everyone but Louie agreed with this. They started to walk Louie outside of the school. Louie was afraid and tried to yell for help, but they shut his beak and began to exit. To Louie's dismay, it was raining. Zack threw Louie in a puddle of mud. Louie tried to get up, but his face was pushed down in the mud by Zack's foot. Zack suffocated him in the mud so Louie was struggling to get out. After about a minute, Zack lifted his foot up. Louie was gasping for air as Zack pulled him up by the arm. Zack's leg was on the back of both of Louie's legs as he grabbed one of his fingers.

"You know what, because I'm not that bad of a person, I'm gonna leave your thumb unscathed." Zack said as he snapped Louie's finger back. Louie screamed in agony, causing Zack to laugh hysterically. "So, I recently found out that your name is Llewelyn." He broke another one of Louie's fingers. Louie tried to get out of his grip as the rest of his friends laughed. This continued after every sentence. "What a dorky name for a dorky loser. And you're such a cry baby too." Once all Louie's fingers on his left hand were broken, Zack moved to his right hand. The other football players started throwing eggs at Louie. Louie started crying harder than he already was.

"Please, I'm sorry just please stop." Louie said causing Zack to laugh.

"You're sorry?!" Zack asked sarcastically. "You're not sorry for what you did. If you were sorry about that, we wouldn't be in this situation right now. You're sorry about being punished for what you did." With that said, Zack broke another one of Louie's fingers. He continued to snap his fingers 1 by 1 until all he had left were his thumbs. Zack then threw Louie back in the mud. Louie, unable to grab his hand to stop the pain, looked at his hands and began to bawl. "Call yourself lucky, I wanted to break your back, but the boys wouldn't let me." Zack then took Louie's leg and snapped it forward. Louie screamed louder than he screamed when Zack broke his fingers. The football team was then starting regret their actions.

"Dude, we agreed to only break his fingers, not his whole leg." One of the members said as Zack kicked Louie on the ground. Zack started to get angry.

"Don't you dare go easy on this son of a bitch!" Zack said as he kicked Louie on the ground continuously. "He threatened me, and I know he's been talking to Elizabeth every now and then, even though I said she's not allowed to have any guy friends. Now I'm going to show this loser how scary I can be. This is considered mercy!" Zack then pick a bloody Louie up from off of the ground. "What do you say when someone shows you mercy?" Zack said as Louie started to cough up blood.

"Thank you." Louie said as he fainted. The rest of the football team was terrified by what had happened.

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Louie woke up in a white room full of machines hooked up to his body. He saw Huey, Dewey, and Webby sitting on chairs next to him. They all jumped up when they saw that Louie was awake.

"What happened?" Louie asked as Huey explained what had happened.

"Zack got arrested after he put you in the hospital." Huey said as Louie's eyes widened. "The colleges that wanted him don't anymore. His parents pretty much disowned him, his girlfriend broke up with him. He ruined his whole life over a silly grudge."

"Wow." Louie said emotionlessly as Huey comforted him. "This is great, mission success." Huey was confused as Louie explained. "His girlfriend finally saw what a total jerk he was. Sure he caused many severe life threatening injuries to my body, he may have won the battle but I won the war." Huey was annoyed by Louie's excitement.

"He broke every bone in your body, and you're just thinking about stealing his ex?!" Huey asked as Louie looked at the flowers on the desk. They were from Elizabeth.

"Huey, she's not just his ex." Louie said as he tried to get up. He was hurting himself too much so he layed back down. He then tried to finish what he was trying to say. "He pretty much abused her. I was thinking about telling someone, sure. But then I thought about them asking her about it and her denying it. Or maybe even them asking Zack about it and him getting mad at Beth. It was really hard not to think about. I tried to have Beth break up with him, but she never would. She always says how there's some secret nice side to him, but that's just another excuse for her to not break up with him. She never wanted to believe he was all that bad, but he was, and he's never gonna change." Dewey was surprised by what Louie was saying.

"Wow Louie, that is some deep stuff." Dewey said as Louie shrugged. "Well, get some rest, you'll be outta here in two weeks." Louie was surprised by this.

"Two weeks?!" Louie said dramatically as Huey, Dewey, and Webby flinched. "What am I supposed to do for two weeks?" Webby started to answer.

"Maybe you should have solved the problem a more responsible way then threatening someone and throwing eggs at them." Webby said as Louie sighed.

"I guess I could've told someone." Louie said as everyone agreed. They then decided to leave the hospital and let Louie be alone. Louie then started to read a letter that Elizabeth left in the flowers.

Dear Louie,

Thank you for helping me realize how awful of a person Zack really was. I'm sorry that I couldn't see you wake up. My family is moving away somewhere. Somewhere nobody will remember me and the abuse that I had to endure. I'm sorry that you had to find out this way. My parents said they are changing my number, but they won't tell me what it is. They don't want me having any contact with anyone from the school. Of course I broke that rule by writing you this letter. With all the stuff that I had to go through, you were the one person who cared. So thank you, thank you for everything. I wish I could say goodbye in person, but I'm probably already in my destination. And Louie, I love you too, but we can never be together. Maybe that shadow girl will come back and be someone you really need in your life. Until then, stay strong.

I will never forget about you,

Elizabeth Swana

Louie was shocked at the letter. He didn't know what to say, so he didn't think about anymore. He just stared up at the ceiling and smiled. He finally said the words he was thinking out loud.

"Finally, you're happy." Louie said as he drifted off to sleep happy that she never has to go through that pain again.

End of Chapter 3

End of Act of Love

I don't usually give a message at the end of my stories, but for this one I'll make an exception. This was somewhat based on a true story. My brother liked this girl who was dating a very bad guy. After the guy hospitalized my brother, he was expelled from school (wish he went to jail). He was still dating my brother's crush and eventually she died of anorexia. Not every story has a happy ending, but the one I wrote has a semi happy ending. Abuse is not something you should take lightly and it's not always physical. It can have a very negative outcome to that person and those around them. Never stay quiet always speak out. For those of you who read the message thank you, for those of you who didn't, I don't really have anything to say because you wouldn't be able to see it considering you didn't read it.