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Depressing Motives.

Part 8

Reid laughed sadly out loud. He should have expected Caleb's reaction. After all he was the one who always beat up on others, why should anyone believe him about the tables been reversed. Everything would change now, Caleb would no doubt tell Pogue and Tyler about it and that he was lying. He would lose everything now. He needed to go home. Home was the same, nothing had changed there. He needed the reassurance that at least one aspect of his life would never change, no matter what he did or didn't do.

He sighed before walking in the direction of home, thoughts playing in his mind about what he would do afterwards. What did he have left to do?

Before he knew it, he was outside the front door, staring at the dark oak wood. He knew what awaited him on the other side, and a part of him welcomed it, while another part dreaded it. Sadly the first over powered the second. His hand gripped the door knob and with a final intake of breath, he opened it and walked inside, the darkness greeting him.

As his eyes adjusted to the shadows, he looked around. Nobody, maybe they were upstairs? He walked towards the staircase, hoping to hear any indication that his step-father was home. Nothing. He reached inside his jeans pocket to check the time on his mobile. Half past 11, perhaps he was sleeping? He started to climb the stairs, the floorboards creaking under his weight.

Now he heard it. The familiar sound of snoring coming from their bedroom. Should he wake him up? He had the chance to turn back, to get away from all this, go somewhere where no one knew him. Start again. No, he needed this. He needed things to stay the same.

His hand gripped the bedroom door handle, his hand shaking slightly in fear of knowing what was coming. Reid just stood there, body straight and hand on the door handle. He closed his eyes. Memories played like an old movie of all the times he did something bad to somebody. Shouting at Caleb……All those girls he hurt……Using on Aaron for fun….Hitting Tyler. Oh God, he had hit Tyler. With that, his eyes flew open and the door burst off its hinges, crashing to the floor and chipping the edges. Reid was sure it had made enough noise to wake up his step-father.

He heard a grunt come from the bed and saw movement, but not enough to suggest he was actually awake.

'Oh for fuck sake' Reid thought to himself, rolling his eyes before stomping towards the edge of the bed, determined to get the beating he deserved.

"OI! Cum stain! You'd be shit if somebody tried to actually break in" Reid laughed, talking a step backwards as his step-fathers eyes opened.

"I thought I told you to never come back here" Richard screamed at Reid, climbing to his feet while wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.

"Please, put something on, I don't need to see that, I still have many years to live" Reid cringed, blocking the view from his eyes while taking a few steps towards the now door-less doorway.

"Why you little…." Richard seethed, bringing his fist above his head before slamming it quickly into Reid's jaw.

'Is that what Tyler felt? Is that how much it hurt?' Reid thought while his hands came up to cradle his now bleeding mouth.

"Is that seriously all you have?" Reid smirked best he could, sending his step-father a raised eyebrow. He needed to prove to himself that no matter what, he was stronger than this, he could withstand anything that came his way to hurt him. He needed to feel the pain to over come it. If he could over come this, then he could over come anything, couldn't he?

"Are you trying to receive a beating or something?" Richard asked, grabbing a pair of jeans and pulling them up his legs before buttoning them and pulling the zip up.

"Well if you put it that way, I can always leave" Reid shrugged, turning his back and walking out the doorway, knowing his step-father would follow.

"You little shit" Richard spat, walking behind him and throwing him head first down the stairs.

Reid's body crashed against the wooden floor below, his head just missing the wall. He spat out a mouthful of blood beside him and climbed to his feet while Richard made his way down the stairs.

"How dare you disrespect me" Richard screamed, grabbing Reid's collar and slamming his head against the wall. He threw his foot at Reid's stomach, knocking all the air out of his lungs.

Reid fell to the floor once Richard had released him, gripping his stomach in agony. He struggled for breath as Richard's foot belted into his rib cage again, causing Reid to cough up another mouthful of blood.

Reid heard Richard take a sharp intake of breath before hearing his footsteps walking away, leaving the pile of mess on the floor.

Reid coughed up yet another long and painful mouthful of blood before slowly climbing to his feet, collapsing a few times with the strain his muscles were under.

Now he could leave…run away from everything. Now he had realised his worth, or lack of it. This was all he was good for, a punch bag, something for somebody else to use when they needed it. That was his entire foundation of existence summed up.

Where to go. He had no clue, just somewhere. Anywhere was better than here. Europe. France, Germany, England? At this point, he didn't care where he went; he just needed to get away.

He sighed. How would he get to the airport? Taxi. He pulled his mobile phone from his jeans pocket and tapped in the local taxi services number. After a quick conversation, his phone was returned to his pocket before a pack of cigarettes were pulled out and a piece of tobacco was placed in his mouth, closely followed by a lighter, inflaming the piece of cancer held securely in his mouth.

Before he even noticed, a taxi pulled up beside him on the road, the driver within the vehicle looking at him. Reid smirked at the man and dropped the now almost smoked product on the floor, his shoe stomping the flame out before opening the door and sitting next to the man, closing the door behind him.

"Where we going?" The driver asked his voice rough and stern while sending a glance at Reid.

"Airport" Reid replied shortly, not even bothering to look at the man. He was to lost in his mind to really care about anything. Why did things have to turn out like this? He wasn't that much of a bad person was he? Did he do something so dreadful in his life to deserve the problems he has?

"Were here" The driver said after a while, pulling the hand break beside him up.

"How much?" Reid asked pulling his wallet from his jeans back pocket and opening it, looking at the driver to tell him the answer to his question.

"Ten Forty" The driver answered, receiving the fifteen dollars Reid handed over, digging through his pocket and handing Reid four sixty in change.

"Thanks" Reid said before opening the door and climbing out before closing the door and walking into the airport.

He sighed and looked around, searching for the reception desk.

"Hello. How can I help you?" The lady behind the desk asked, giving Reid a gentle smile.

"When is your next available flight to London?" He asked, his gaze jumping around the airport in search of at least one of his friends. Deep down he wanted them to come and stop him from doing this, but he saw no trace of them.

"There is a cancellation on the next flight in half an hour if you would like to accept that one?" She asked, typing some things into the computer in front of her.

Once he had paid for his ticket, he walked over to the seating area and sat down. Half an hour. He had half an hour to change his mind. Half an hour for Caleb, Pogue or Tyler to find him and change his mind.

Tyler. Oh how he missed him. He would give anything for him to walk through those doors and sit next to him. To tell him everything he needed to hear, more so from Tyler.

Reid was brought back to reality when he heard his flight was boarding. He climbed to his feet and sighed, taking one last look around he finally accepted that nobody was coming for him. Nobody cared enough to come and stop him from leaving.

He handed over his ticket and passport before making his way onto the plane. He walked through the white corridor before turning on his heel to look back, one last time. His eyes bulged slightly. There, in clear view, stood Tyler, Caleb and Pogue. He took a step backwards. No. He was seeing things. They weren't really there. They couldn't be. He turned on his heel and walked away, he had to accept they weren't there, that they didn't care about him. That Tyler didn't feel the same way about him.

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Tyler burst into the room, his eyes scanning the layout, searching for a blonde haired boy, but all he saw was Caleb sat in a mess, staring at the floor in what appeared to be shock.

"Caleb?" Tyler asked timidly, unsure of Caleb's emotions, weather he would lash out at him or cry. Either one didn't appeal to Tyler at all.

"CALEB!" Tyler shouted, placing a hand on his shoulders and shaking it slightly, hoping to wake Caleb from the dream state he appeared to be in.

"He's gone" Caleb whispered, his vision staying on the floor, his lips barely moving to form the words he spoke.

"Who…what? Caleb what?" Tyler asked, fear raising in his voice at the thought that he was talking about Reid. He hoped he wasn't talking about Reid, he couldn't be. He couldn't lose Reid, not right now. He needed him; he needed him to help him get through this.

"Reid, he's gone. He just stood up and left, after he told me" Caleb sighed.

"Gone where? Told you what? Caleb what the fuck! Tell me what happened!" Tyler screamed in a panic. He started to walk around the room, searching for anything to give him answers.

"I don't know. He's just gone" Caleb mumbled, raising his vision slightly to stare at Tyler's form. How could he tell him? He knew their relationship, no matter how rocky; knowing they had lost the other one would destroy them.

"Caleb! Tell me right now what happened. What did he tell you?!" Tyler screamed, turning on his heel and looking at him with a scared look.

"He just, he told me about his family" Caleb replied shortly, his vision going straight to the door that had just been slammed open and a crying Pogue stood in the entrance.

"Pogue, what's up?" Tyler asked, walking over to him and leading his distraught friend over to the other bed, sitting him down before staring at him.

"It's Kate" Pogue wept after a few breathes.

Tyler wanted to scream. What was with everything today? Why couldn't he be the one crying and having his friends sat asking what was wrong. Wasn't it Caleb who was meant to be doing this? Wasn't Caleb meant to be the strong one?

A tear slid down his cheek. This was all too much. He had just lost his girlfriend, the one person he loved and thought he knew completely inside and out. Now his best friend and brother. He had just been told that he had gone somewhere, but where? He needed to find him before he left his life forever.

"Tyler?" Caleb asked suddenly, staring at the boy who had tears now pouring from his eyes and down his cheeks.

Caleb stared blankly at Tyler. The pain he must be going through now, the pain Reid must have gone through for most of his life. The pain Pogue was going through. It was all too much. Tears started to pour down his face as well, closely followed by Tyler falling to his knees in a heap on the carpet, between the two boys sat on the bed.

It was a sad sight. Three boys crying their eyes out over something that happened suddenly and drastically in their life. Three boys who felt like their entire would crash down at any second. Three boys who knew what they wanted and had to do, but had no motivation to do so. Three boys completely unaware of what was happening to their fourth member.

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"He has to be here, somewhere" Tyler said, rushing around the airport in a mad search for Reid.

"But where?" Pogue asked, his gaze jumping everywhere in search for the blonde boy.

"There" Caleb said, pointing in the direction of the boarding area for the flight to London. Something told him that was where Reid was going. He just knew he was going to be on that flight.

"That's him!" Tyler shouted as he came to a halt outside the check in.

None of them could say anything, they were to shocked that they had actually found him.

Then they saw him turn around, Tyler's hope raised. He looked at him straight in the eye. He saw his eyes bulged slightly and then he took a step backwards.

NO! NO! What are you doing!?

Tyler wanted to shout to him, tell him to stay, but his voice betrayed him, he couldn't form words to say. He just stood there, staring at the boy retreat, knowing now that Reid couldn't share the feelings that he had for him. If he did, he wouldn't leave.

Well there you go people. FINALLY! Lol. Sorry for the wait, but it is a lot longer than the last few chapters. You will find out later how Tyler found out about Rachel and what Kate told Pogue, you will just have to be patient and find out lol. Ciao xxxx

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