Walking back from Tina's place afterwards, after he was sure her shitstain of a stepfather was gone for the night, he couldn't help but let his thoughts drift back to what had lead him to all this hatred in the first place.
It had been three years ago when Steve had found out about Tina's step dad, Mitch. Mitch the Bitch as Steve often referred to him. Tina's mom had married him after her dad had dropped the pair of them for his secretary at work, marrying her and leaving the state without looking back. Mitch soon came into the picture afterwards, moving right on in to support Tina and her mom. That was all fine and dandy until seventh grade when Steve had found Tina in near hysterics outside of the school, having refused to ride the bus home. It had taken a lot of talking and walking for him to get her to spill her guts to him about what had happened to cause this. That her creep bastard of a stepfather had crept into her room the night before and forced her to do.. Just thinking about it made his stomach churn, it made him want to beat his face into the concrete until the man's skull broke into pieces and embedded themselves into his hand.
Of course he had a fucking fit over it, because Tina was HIS girl, and it was wrong. It was so fucking sick and so fucking wrong for anyone to go through that. Tina had begged and pleaded with him not to tell, how her mom and her would lose everything if Mitch left or was carted off. They needed him to survive, plus Tina promised that he wouldn't be able to do it again that she was going to make sure of it. She had been wrong, oh so wrong. Being a kid at the time, despite the fact that he hadn't looked like a kid since he was a toddler, Steve didn't know that, but he knew it now.
He hadn't tried anything again until eighth grade during a three day weekend when Tina's mom had left to see her sick sister a few cities over. That night Steve had been woken up to rocks being thrown at his window, and once he crawled out of bed, to see Tina standing there tear streaked and hurt. He was dumb, but he wasn't THAT dumb. He snuck her into his house which was pretty easy considering his dad could sleep through a damn tornado. He let her lay in his bed and cry herself to sleep, and it was maybe right there that the budding anger he had towards that fucking monster turn into something lethal.
He ended up breaking his television set in a fit of rage when Tina refused to tell anyone else, to let him tell anyone else. It was the same argument from a year ago, who fucking cared? He would take care of Tina because he loved her. Who cared that he wasn't nowhere near an adult age to support her, he'd fucking find a way. It didn't happen though and with that another secret was buried, much to his rage. Maybe he loved Tina too much which is why he found himself shutting up for her, to do anything that would displease her or upset her. Steve didn't want that even though every instinct in his body was screaming at him.
That's how it went for the next few years, Tina finding him after Mitch The Bitch had done something to her, he would let her cry it all out on him, feeding the monster in his chest even more. That's why Steve didn't care how Tina acted towards others, she had every fucking right to be that way with the shit she was dealing with. If anyone wanted to smart off to her, let them, Steve could use a punching bag to let out his own frustrations on. If they knew, they'd understand why Tina was that way. No one knew though, and Steve could feel the secret slowly eating away at him.
A/N: Now we know why Steve has that sort of anger and rage about it. Leave a review if you can~!