A/N: Thank you all so much for the new reviews and follows i've received since uploading chapter 2. I'm glad you lot like the story i'm telling, i'm incredibly thankful for them. I'd also like to apologise for a mistake I made in chapter 2. I don't know if anyone noticed, but I accidentally refer to Mrs Anderson as Mrs Evans at one point. I read the chapter about 10 times over to make sure there was no huge mistakes but I didn't spot that one until it had been uploaded, again i'm sorry. I'm just a big idiot haha.
I would also like to say that this chapter is set 2 weeks after the last chapter which was the sleepover.
Lima, Ohio was currently in the middle of a heat wave. It had been this way for two weeks now, each day seemingly getting hotter. Sam liked the hot weather, he could sit outside at school and eat his lunch and go for adventures on weekends with his Dad. The bell for Lunch rang at Lima Elementary and all the children rushed outside into the sunshine. Sam followed and managed to grab a empty table that was partly shaded by a tree, that side of course going to Blaine. Sam sat down and unzipped his Spiderman bag. He took his Sandwiches out of his Sandwich box and then started to peel at the foil they were wrapped in. One of his favourite things about dinner was what Sandwiches his Mom had packed him today.
"Please be Chicken, please be Chicken." he said to himself multiple times crossing his fingers for luck. He unwrapped the foil and lifted the top slice of bread to see what they contained, "Erugh, Tuna, I don't think so!" Sam squirmed and thought about seeing if Blaine wanted to trade with him. Tuna was one of Blaine's favourites, at least Sam still had his Cool Ranch Doritos. He sat there looking at his Sandwiches, wishing Blaine would hurry himself up from wherever he was. Blaine knew where Sam would be and was always there as soon as the bell went. They'd both had different lessons before dinner, but that's never made Blaine late, well until recently.
Sam looked to his right and saw Blaine walking over to his table. He wasn't running over, all smiles like he usually was. He was walking slowly,rubbing his right wrist and looking around the playground as if he was looking out for someone. This was the third time Blaine had done a similar thing like this in the last week and it was confusing Sam. He let it slide though, thinking it was nothing.
"Sorry i'm late Sammy." Blaine apologised. "I erm, just had to clean away all the English sheets as it was my turn." he looked at Sam, giving him an i'm sorry smile. He sat down on the shaded side of the table and started to get his food out.
"It's ok Blaine, I was just getting a little worried." Sam looked down at Blaine's wrist. He thought there was a red mark there, but he couldn't be sure. Blaine noticed Sam looking and rolled his Navy Blue cardigan sleeve down, covering his wrist.
Sam changed the subject, "Blaine what do you have on your Sandwitches?"
Blaine giggled at how Sam pronounced Sandwich as Sandwitch. "I have Chicken Sammy, lemme guess you have Tuna?" Blaine knew anytime Sam asked this question, he had Tuna.
Sam nodded. "Can we swap please?"
"Sure thing." The two boys swapped their Sandwiches and Sam became instantly happier.
Sam returned from the bin where he had been to throw away his and Blaine's rubbish. He sat back down on the table and looked at Blaine. Sam knew something was wrong with Blaine, the lack of conversation whilst they ate their food proved this. He didn't know what to do. He searched back as far as he could remember to see if he'd possibly done something wrong to make Blaine angry with him, but couldn't think of anything. He decided to ask him.
"Blaine, are you all right?"
"Y-y-y-yeah, i'm fine" He mumbled, not making eye contact with Sam.
"That better not be a lie Anderson, lie's are bad. Doesn't your Mom teach you that?"
Blaine laughed, he looked Sam in the eye "It's a lie, i'm sorry but I don't wanna tell you the truth. It w-w-wouldn't be a good idea." He shook his head.
Sam looked confused "You know you can tell me anything right, i'll never tell anyone. I cross my heart and hope to die." he threw Blaine a sympathetic look.
"I know you wouldn't Sammy." he then lowered his voice to a whisper "It's just I swore not to tell anyone."
"You need to tell me Blaine, I don't think this is good. My Mom and Dad talk about things in whisper voices and say i'm not to know. They wave all these envelopes around and talk about money troubles whatever that means. Nothing said in a whisper voice is usually a good thing."
Blaine was sad he couldn't tell Sam what he was going through. He wanted to, more than anything in the world but he couldn't, he'd been told not to. "Sammy i'm sorry I have to keep this a secret but I have no choice." He flung his backpack onto his back. "I have to go, i'll see you in Art class." He hurried off with his face looking downwards before Sam could catch him.
"Blaine, wait, where are you going?" Sam shouted hoping Blaine may turn around and not go after all. He didn't. "So much for not keeping secrets!" he muttered to himself.
Blaine walked around the back of the school. This area was deserted and off limits, or at least that's how it appeared. He knew it soon wouldn't be. He slowed his pace down and tried to be as silent as possible. "Ok Blaine you give them what they want and then that will be it, that's all they need." He whispered to himself reassuringly. All of a sudden, seemingly out of nowhere he could see nothing. It took him a moment to realise a pair of hands were covering his eyes. His backpack was ripped off his back and he was pushed to the floor, landing with a hard thud. He knew who was doing this.
Blaine turned around to see the 5th Grade bullies who had been tormenting him for the last week or so. There were three of them. The ringleader was called Kyle, he had a ginger buzz cut that covered his wide, ginger freckled face and wore a red striped T-shirt and tatty looking dark blue jeans with matching trainers. The second in command was Jordan. He was the one who seemed to do all of Kyle's dirty work. He was the one who took Blaine's money, who tripped him in the corridors and grabbed hold of his wrist so tight today, before lunch, Blaine thought he was going to break it. The third, who mostly stayed in the background was Alex. Alex didn't do much other than shout verbal insults at Blaine when directed to by Kyle. Blaine even thought he sometimes saw sympathy in Alex's eyes whilst the other two were stealing his Pokemon cards.
"You better have some good stuff in here Anderson." Kyle growled throwing his backpack towards Jordan who began rifling through it.
Jordan snorted. "Look the little baby as a Spiderman action figure." He mocked Blaine nastily.
Blaine scrambled to his feet. "Give that back it's mine, not yours!" He began to get angry and started to jump for the kept lifting it higher so he couldn't reach it. He laughed as the smaller boy got more desperate and angry.
"Jordan stop it you're gonna make him cry!" Alex expressed looking at Blaine's futile attempts to get his possession back.
"Alex ssshhh, that's what we want, isn't it?" Kyle declared in a harsh tone.
Alex remained silent and looked away. Blaine wasn't giving up. He kept reaching further and further for his toy until he was pushed back down to the floor by Kyle. He snatched the toy out of Jordan's hand and got up close to Blaine's face.
"This is what you want right, baby B?"
Blaine nodded.
"Well i'm sorry, but I don't wanna give him back to you" he laughed in Blaine's face. "I really just don't feel like it."
Blaine, close to tears begged him. "But please." He managed to get out.
"Come'on Kyle, give it him back. He's only a kid." Alex told him.
Kyle ignored him completely and stood up, looming over Blaine who appeared tiny sitting on the warm ground. "I'd love to give it you back, I really would, but I don't want to. I think i'd much rather break it." Kyle dropped Spiderman on the floor, his right arm and both feet snapping off and rolling towards Blaine.
Kyle didn't have enough time to react before Blaine lunged forward and scooped up his Spiderman toy and it's various broken limbs. Kyle's face turned red and he knelt down in front of Blaine again. He grabbed Blaine's right wrist and started to squeeze it, getting tighter the more Blaine struggled. Tears started streaming down his face, his hazel eyes all watery.
"Listen to me, you aren't supposed to outsmart me. I wanted that figure. Now i'm gonna let you keep it, as a gift, from me to you, ok?"
Blaine nodded, the tears still streaming as the pain from his wrist being squeezed started to become unbearable.
"Although if you tell anyone about what's happening here much worse will happen than Spiderman loosing a few limbs, you got that?"
Blaine managed to get out a simple yes. He stared into Kyle's eyes. He didn't like how evil they looked and didn't understand how someone could be so angry and horrible.
Alex motioned forward and pulled Kyle up to his feet, freeing Blaine's wrist in the process. "Kyle it's not funny anymore, he's hurt. Let's leave him alone."
Jordan threw Blaine's backpack down on the floor so it landed at his feet and scoffed at the crying 1st grader who was still on the floor. He started walking away with Alex. Kyle turned to Blaine, "remember what I said." he told him and walked away with the rest of his gang.
Blaine felt his wrist hoping the pain would go away soon and started wiping his tears away. He couldn't let anyone know there was anything wrong, especially Sam. He collected all the pieces of his Spiderman toy and put them safely in his bag. He was glad Spidey wasn't badly damaged and could be glued back together. He struggled to his feet and hoped nobody would be able to tell what had just happened, or that something was wrong. Blaine was only six and believed every word the bullies had told him. He threw his backpack on, bushed his eyes once more with his sleeve to make sure the tears were truly gone and carried on with his day. He used to love school, now he hates and fears everything about it, like he fears the monsters under his bed.
A/N: Wow well that went a little dark but I hope you all liked that it. I apologise for the lack of Sam in this chapter but he'll be in the next chapter more. I'm sorry if there is any spelling or grammar mistakes and I would also like to say that sadly I don't own Glee or Sam or Blaine. I only own the plot and I suppose Kyle, Jordan and Alex although that's not that good aha :) I hope you liked it though. Don't forget to review :) - Jake.
