"Nat!" Alex said happily as he came home from kindergarten that afternoon. Alex ran over to give to Nat a hug.
"Get away from me," Nat said annoyed shoving his brother away causing Alex to smack his head into the door.
Nat just walked away as Alex cried on the floor.
Mr Wolff soon came out to find out what Alex was crying about.
"My head hurts," Alex cried.
"What did you do?" Mr Wolff asked trying to get Alex to move his hands so he could take a look.
"Nat pushed me into the door," Alex cried.
"Well there's no blood," Mr Wolff said feeling the big lump on Alex's head.
"It hurts," Alex cried.
"You need to watch out for Nat, he is trying to hurt you," Mr Wolff said softly giving Alex a hug. Just looking at him he could see a history of what Nat had done to Alex recently, and he expected to see more.
Alex didn't say anything as his dad went and put some ice on his head for five minutes before letting him go and play.
The next day while Nat was kindergartenl Alex was in his room as he usually was, watching the beatles play. Alex knew Nat loved the Beatles and maybe it would make him happy if he played an instrument like them. During the day while Nat was at school Alex was teaching himself to play the drums by watching Ringo Starr play them. He used Thomas's drum set in Nats room, though as far as everyone else knew he only played the sax.
Alex curled up the floor and fell asleep on this day, his hand was making it abit akward to sleep at night so he was a bit tired. When Nat came home he wasn't pleased to see Alex asleep in his room.
"Wake up," Nat said kicking Alex hard in the stomach.
Alex groaned and woke with a start.
"Come on, we are going to the park!" Nat said pulling his brother up and dragging him along.
"Cool," Alex said forgetting his sore stomach.
"Hey, do you want to buy my brother?" Nat asked a kid when they got there.
"I don't know what does he do?" The kid asked sceptically.
"You can use him to clean your room and do your homework and all that sort of stuff." Nat said confidently.
"How much?"
"How much have you got?" Nat asked
"Five bucks,"
"That will do,"
"Done," The kid said.
"Awesome, Alex you go with him now, you are his," Nat said taking the five bucks before leaving Alex with this kid.
"What does Nat mean, I'm yours?" Alex asked confused.
"I own you..." The kid said pulling Alex along, his room was a mess and it needed a good clean.
"But what about dad?" Alex asked feeling a little scared.
The kid ignored him as he dragged him home.
The kid watched as he made Alex clean his room, he wasn't doing a very good job of it, he seemed to want to play with everything.
"Cole! Is that room clean yet?" The kids mom called out.
"Almost" Cole called out seeing it was a little cleaner.
"Let me see!" His mother called out before coming in and finding Alex there.
"Who's this?" She asked suspisously.
"This is Alex, he is my servant. I bought him off a kid in the park" Cole said proudly.
"You what! This kids parents are probably worried sick right now," She said
"It's ok, I think it was his brother I bought him off," Cole said trying to explain.
"Come on! We needed to go back and see if his parents are still there," His mother said angrily.
"Come on Alex," Cole said sullenly.
"Nat, where is your brother?" Mr Wolff asked
"Firstly, he's not my brother! Secondly I haven't seen him since he walked outside a couple of hours ago," Nat lied.
"Why didn't you go after him?" Mr Wolff said annoyed.
"If he wants to get out of my hair, I'm not going to stop him." Nat said harshly.
"Come on, we have to go find him," Mr Wolff said angrily.
A couple of hours of walking around the neighbourhood and turned up nothing, so now extremly worried they walked into the police station.
"I'm here to report a missing child." Mr Wolff said urgently.
"What's their name?" The officer asked
"Alex Wolff..."
"Hey didn't someone bring in a kid called Alex?" another officer asked overhearing them. "Hold on a sec,"
The office walked up to the squad room, where one of the female officers was with a kid who was quietly drawing.
"Hey dude, what's your name?" He asked quietly.
"Nat calls me stoopid but dad calls me buddy... sometimes Alex." he said missing his dad.
"Ok," The officer walking back.
"I think we have him, if you want to follow me..." The officer said leading the way.
Nat swore under his breath as he followed his dad and the officer.
"Alex?" Mr Wolff asked seeing him.
Alex lifted his head eagerly.
"Dad!" He shouted running over to him and giving you a hug.
"Don't ever run away from us again." Mr Wolff said hugging him tightly.
"I didn't... Nat gave me to some kid," Alex said quietly.
Mr Wolff realized that Nat would probably get his own way. Alex would be better of in another family where everyone loved him.
"Alex, you are going to have to go somewhere tomorrow," Mr Wolff said heavily, struggling to keep his emotions in check as he tucked him into bed.
"Where?" Alex asked curiously.
"You'll see," Was all he could say.