I decided that I needed to let everyone know that the titles of each chapter will either be song titles from Mark's album Pipedreams or lyrics from the songs…I sat and listened to the actual lyrics and they are intense, so completely different than Glee music…Give it a listen and really listen to the lyrics...You will learn part of his life and his thoughts…Peace
The Descent by Mark Salling
All your friends surround you
They're made out of air
They act like they do but they
don't really care
Noah Puckerman had survived Juvie, but barely. He would not talk about the experience to anyone.
In one month he had learned that the Puckasorus was not a badass, but a young man that wasn't ready for the harsh reality of people that really don't give a shit about you or themselves.
He learned that no matter how much bravado he had someone was there to break him down and to laugh while they did it. These psychos were not impressed with his rep, as a matter of fact many told him on a daily basis that what he did was stupid and that he was a pussy.
The first beating was his "initiation" to Juvie, that was what the guard told him. He could have sworn that he heard his ribs crack as two guys held him while James used him as a practice dummy. He could barely move the next day and the guards only laughed at his slow and labored movements.
A few days later, he was grabbed in the showers. The bruises; blue, black and red lined his chest and abdomen. He looked weak and they knew it. They rubbed their naked bodies against his, telling him in explicit terms what they were going to do to him later. He tried to fight back, but they only laughed at him shoving him around, back and forth as they laughed at him.
He was terrified and breaking.
He thought of suicide after a week in the detention center.
Now he lay in his own bed, in the dark, with silent tears slipping from the corners of his beautiful eyes. Nothing was the same, he wasn't the same person that walked into that hell hole and he sure as fuck wasn't the same one that walked out of it.
His chances were over, the only thing left was prison after he turned eighteen in a couple of months. All it would take is one screw up, one infraction of the law or his probation and he would be facing some serious time. Would life be better off without Noah Puckerman?