A/N: This chapter was written by Blacklove190 and edited by Half A Moon

Chapter 2: A Flashback

*Chris's P.O.V*

"Man, what the hell happened to your eye?" Teddy asked, going to poke the bruise that covered my eye. I swatted his hand away.

"Nothing, it was nothing." I answered as we all sat down on Vern's front porch.

Flashback

"You little mother fucker!" My father screamed at me, as he hit my face. His breath smelled of alcohol. Was he drinking? Was he drunk?

He was still holding my shirt collar as he threw me across the room by it. For a moment I couldn't breathe. It's in your head; it's in your head. I tried to convince myself, but it wasn't working.

"This goddamn freaking earthquake was your fault!" He yelled at me, as I huddled myself on the floor, praying that I'd be alright. How the hell he got the idea that the earthquake was my fault, I don't know. But then I knew for sure, he was drunk.

"And then you bring this girl that you don't even know over to me, expecting me to take her in? You must be crazy you thick-headed little fuck!" He pulled me up by my neck, before punching me in the eye.

I heard myself whimper: "Dad, no."

I felt extremely weak. "No?" He said. His face was a red with fury. "You cause a goddamn earthquake and then you bring a girl to me, and you have the fucking nerve to say no?" A tear fell down my cheek; I was trying to be strong, but it's hard to be strong, when you're completely powerless.

My dad picked me up, and I knew he was either going to break my back, or drop me on my head.

"Dad! Please, no! I'm sorry!" The warm tears fell out of my blue eyes as the bruise around one of them started to form.

My dad stopped, before seeing my wet tears hit the floor. I heard him take a deep breath, and just dropped me onto the hard wooden I hit the ground, I couldn't breathe, and figured the wind was knocked out of me a little bit, but it definitely could have been worse.

End of Flashback

"Seriously, Chris, what happened? It looks pretty bad." Vern said.

I snapped out of my reverie.

"Pussy." Teddy muttered to Vern.

"What? What did I say?" Vern asked. Teddy just ignored him.

"Seriously, Chris, what happened?" Gordie looked concerned.

"My dad." I mumbled, looking down.

"Oh." Gordie said, feeling bad for asking.

"It's no big deal. It will be gone in a couple days." I told them, trying to remove their fear.

"Hey, let's go to the tree house!" Teddy suggested, trying to change the topic.

"Yeah, ok." We all agreed.

"Oh yeah I almost forgot to tell you guys." Gordie began, "I found a shortcut to the tree house." He smiled proudly.

"Where?" asked Vern.

"Well, you know the river by the park?" Gordie asked us. We nodded.

"Well, if we cut through the park and go across the river, we can get there in 2 to 3 minutes." Gordie said proudly.

"Yeah, but how we's gonna get across the river?" Vern asked.

"There's a few rocks sticking up, and we can walk across."

"That's awesome, Gor-do." I said patting his back.

"Well, let's go then men!" Teddy said hold up his imaginary gun, pretending to be a solider. And with that, we were off to the short cut to the tree house.

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