This is the second half of the previous chapter

Leo ended up nearly running into Floyd and Tiffany in his haste to get away from his Dad. "Hey, Mum just told me about the therapist thing." Tiffany said, stopping Leo in his tracks.

"Yeah, I'm sure it'll help." Floyd said and Leo could see their pitying eyes. His vision was blurring and Leo slowly realised that was the tears building in his eyes. He pushed them away, refusing to give Floyd and Tiffany the satisfaction of seeing him cry. Justin appeared by Leo's side, frowning in worry.

"What's going on?" Justin asked, turning on Floyd as soon he said that his younger brother was close to tears. Leo just wanted to get out of here. He didn't want to be here. He didn't need their help. He just needed to…Leo's hand was under his jumper, gouging at the cut he'd re-opened in his Dad's office. Tiffany noticed as her hand came to pull Leo's own hand into hers.

Leo flinched violently away from her. "I'm fine." He instantly said but he could see the red on his fingers, could see the accusing looks from Tiffany and Floy, the pitying looks from his brother…and the curious looks from the crowd they'd made.

"What therapist?" Justin asked, angrily turning on Floyd.

"To help Leo." Floyd started, backing away from the angry tone in Justin's voice. "Hey, it wasn't my idea."

"Leo doesn't need some strangers help." Justin pushed Floyd angrily and Leo just wanted to get away from this. He didn't want to see his brother fighting again. Didn't want to be standing here as, what he felt-like anyway, the whole schools eyes were on him.

"Hey, it's not my fault your brothers so messed up that he has to self-harm." Floyd shouted.

….

Justin saw red. Before he knew what had happened, he'd jumped on Floyd, punching the other boy over and over again. His brother was not messed up. Distantly, he could hear Tiffany and Leo screaming at him to stop but he kept going. All he could keep thinking about was those marks on Leo's arms. He knew that wasn't Floyd's fault but the other boy had told his Dad about Leo's self-harming when Justin had promised Leo that their Dad wouldn't find out. And he was just so dammed angry at everyone.

At himself for allowing Leo to do this. At Floyd and Tiffany because they caused this by telling everyone. At Allie for taking his Dad away from them. At his Dad for leaving and now threatening to take Leo away from him. And above all else, he was angry at Leo for hurting himself. For becoming just like Mum.

A pair of hands grabbed Justin's shoulder, hauling him off Floyd. There was blood on his knuckles and Floyd would have a couple of bruises in the morning. "That is enough." Mr Lowsley shouted as he helped Floyd to his feet. Mr Reid had a hand on Justin's shoulder and he felt himself shag a little, all the anger draining out of him. "Right, everyone get back to classes now. You four, with me."

Mr Lowsley led Justin, Floyd, Tiffany and Leo into the pastoral care office. Floyd had an ice-pack on his face while Tiffany was fawning over her brother, looking at Justin with hate in her eyes. Justin was just looking at his hands, not quite believing what he'd done and Leo was sitting as far away from all three of them as he could.

"What the hell were you thinking?" His Dad shouted as he and Allie walked into the room. Allie went straight to Floyd, who shrugged her and Tiffany's hands off of him. "Justin, I told you that this anger is not acceptable and beating-up Floyd is certainly not." Justin didn't say anything. He knew his Dad was right.

"Vaughan, it wasn't Justin's fault. I provoked him." Floyd interrupted, getting an unbelieving look from Justin. Even Vaughan and Allie looked confused at this statement.

"Floyd, that may be the case but Justin shouldn't have done what he did." Allie started but Floyd just ignored her, turning to look straight at Justin.

"I'm sorry about what I said and I'm not angry at you."

"I'm sorry for punching you then." Justin replied, eyes turning straight to Leo. His younger brother was just looking down at his hands, not saying anything.

"Are you sure you're alright Floyd?" Tiffany asked, getting a nod from her brother.

"Right. We can't let this go unpunished so Justin, you'll be staying in the cooler for the rest of the day but if you promise you won't do this again…"

"I won't." Justin promised his Dad and he was a little surprised to find he actually meant it.

"Okay, is there anything else we need to know?" Allie asked, looking at Justin and Floyd uncertainly. Justin couldn't blame her for that. He had just beaten up her son and Floyd had forgiven him for it.

"Yes, there is one thing." Floyd said, shame coming onto his face.

"It wasn't Floyd's fault; he didn't mean to tell everyone."

"Tell everyone what." Vaughan asked Tiffany but from the look that crossed his face, it was obvious he already knew.

"That Leo's been self-harming." Silence fell across the room then as all eyes turned to look at Leo.

"I'm really sorry Leo." Floyd started.

"It's fine." Leo interrupted but Justin could tell that was a lie, and so could everyone else.

"We do just want to help Leo." Tiffany tried to say but Justin knew her words would only be ignored. Leo didn't want the help, the way his younger brother had been acting for the last few days had proven that.

"I know." Leo replied.

"How about we leave you three to it?" Allie said, getting a grateful nod from Vaughan as she, Floyd and Tiffany exited the room.

"You're not going to run out on me again." Vaughan asked, getting a shake of the head from Leo. "Good."

"I'm sorry about what happened. Everything. None of this would have happened if I hadn't…" The last part didn't need to be said but Justin still felt the need to reassure his brother.

"I shouldn't have let my anger get the better of me, you can't take all the blame Leo. And me and Dad should have noticed. Or Mum because you've been acting different ever since Dad left." Justin moved to sit next to his brother, who still wasn't looking at anyone. At least he'd stopped running his fingernails over the old cuts.

At the mention of their Mum, Leo's head snapped up though. "We don't have to tell mum do we?" Vaughan didn't' say anything. "I don't want to worry her, she doesn't need to deal with this while she's getting better. None of you do." Leo added.

"We won't tell your Mum, on the condition you give this therapist a chance." Vaughan said.

"I don't want to talk to a stranger." Leo replied, moving his head to meet his Dad's eyes. Justin could see Leo was pleading with his Dad but Justin couldn't help but agree with their Dad.

"You need to talk to someone." Vaughan started. "And I don't think you want to talk to me or Justin about all of this, do you?" Leo shook his head, making a flash of hurt run through Justin. But he couldn't blame his brother, he wouldn't want to talk about what was worrying him to his Dad or Leo either.

"I just don't…" Leo started, slowly trailing off again. "I know I need help but I don't feel comfortable talking to a complete stranger about what's wrong with me."

"How about one of the teachers?" Justin and Leo both looked at their Dad in confusion. "If I talk to them and one of them agrees, would you talk to them?" Slowly, Leo nodded in agreement. "Okay. I can't let you go home but if you want to stay out of classes, you can stay in my office."

"Okay, thanks. And I really am sorry." Leo said, getting to his feet. Vaughan nodded and Justin couldn't help but smile a little. By the sounds of it, his brother was starting to sound better than he had. Maybe Leo would get better after all.

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