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Sean was walking home when he saw two boys pushing a smaller kid around. They were in his brother's year, and played on the football team with him. The other boy was probably a few years older than himself, maybe 14. His mother had always taught him if you see a wrong to right it, so that's what he did.
"Hey! Leave him alone!" Sean walked across the road to where they were all standing. He recognised the smaller boy, he might have been older than Sean but that didn't mean he couldn't help.
"Who the hell are you?" The brown haired boy, Sean knew as Gareth, shouted.
"That doesn't matter, just leave him alone" Sean shouts back before turning to the boy they had been pushing "You should go home"
"Kid, don't do this, what are you 8? I don't want them to hurt you" The boy smiles sincerely, he had a bruise forming on his cheek from where they must have hit him.
"I'm 10" Sean replies slightly annoyed but he continues "I can't just leave you, seriously man just go, I'll handle them"
"You think you can handle us do ya?" Gareth shouts at him stepping closer so he was looking down at Sean.
"You're both pathetic! Beating up people younger than you!" Sean shouts, he wished his brother was here though. Aaron would stop them.
"If you don't shut your mouth I'll break it! Now get lost"
"Not until you leave him alone" Sean replies motioning at the boy next to him
"Tough luck kid" Gareth smirks before pulling back his arm and smashing his first into Sean's face. Sean cried out in pain, his cheek was throbbing and the force of the punch pushed him to the ground. Gareth and his friend only laugh before walking off in the other direction.
"Oh my god, are you alright?" The boy kneels down beside Sean "I'm Adam, do you want me to get help?"
"I'm Sean, and yeah I'm fine" Sean lies his face hurt like hell, and he could tell there was a big bruise.
"Are you sure kid? You got quite a colour on your cheek" Adam says referring to the deep purple bruise
"Yeah, I'm just going to go home and get some ice" Sean smiles but that was a lie as well. He couldn't get any ice because he wasn't going to tell anyone about it. It was a Friday so the bruise should've healed by school on Monday. His dad worked too much to notice, his mother was visiting his aunt, and the only problem was Aaron. But he could hide it from him.
"Alright, well thanks Sean" Adam smiles in return, pulling Sean up from the ground.
Sean was one road away from his house, and he had his plan of action sorted. Aaron would probably be at football practice, their dad not even home meaning he would have the house to himself.
Once he arrived home Sean quickly grabbed some ice from the freezer and ran up to his room. He would just stay in here for the rest of the night, then by tomorrow he will have thought of a believable excuse for his cheek.
"I'm home!" Sean heard Aaron shout as he walked in the door. Things could three ways, Aaron could be in a bad mood in which he would shout at his brother for nor reason other than he was angry at something else, two, Aaron could be in a good mood and offer to order in some food (which wouldn't be a good idea, as then he would see Sean's face) or three, Aaron would just ignore his brother for the rest of evening.
"Sean! You home?" Aaron shouted again. Sean heard him coming up the stairs and quickly chucked his ice pack in to the corner of his room before sitting at his desk with his back to the door.
"Yeah" Sean shouts back but by now his brother was standing at his door way looking in to his room.
"What are you doing?" Aaron asks walking over to his brother, but Sean kept turned away.
"Just some homework" He replies quickly
"Are you alright? You seem weird"
"Yeah I'm fine" Sean replies again quickly, maybe too quickly
"Sean"
"Yeah?"
"Look at me"
"I'm trying to do my homework Aaron, can you just leave me alone"
"I said look at me" Aaron says louder but his brother ignores him "Sean!"
Sean slowly turns around to his brother "It's no big deal…" He begins to say
"Who the hell did that to you?! Jesus Sean! Did you put any ice on it!?"
"It doesn't matter who it was, and yeah I did, it's not that bad" Sean replies trying to calm down his fuming older brother
"I'll be the judge of that, now tell me who did it?"
"It doesn't matter who did it"
"It sure does matter, now tell me or am I going to have to force it out of you" Aaron glares down
"Please Aaron just leave it" Sean begs
"No one hits my little brother in the face and gets away with it, so tell me who did it" Aaron repeats but softer this time
"If I tell you do you promise not to go after him?"
"I promise" Aaron nods at his brother
"Gareth Patel"
"Son of a, okay, I'm going out for a bit, but I'll be back in about half an hour to order in some food okay?"
"Aaron! You promised!" Sean whines standing up and pushing his brother who was still quite a bit taller than himself
"I'm not going after Gareth, I'm just going to do something"
"What are you going to do?" Sean asks knowingly
"None of your business, you stay here, don't leave the house, and I mean that Sean" Aaron eyes his brother
"Fine" His brother sighs.
An hour later Aaron walked through the door again, he pulled off his jacket and shouted down his brother.
"Sean, what do you want to eat?" He asks his little brother
"Aaron! You lied to me!" Sean shouts looking at his brother's cut knuckle
"Don't start with me, first off you lied to me, you tried to hide that massive bruise on your face, did you seriously think I wouldn't find out?"
"I thought I'd be able to think of an excuse tomorrow" Sean mumbles not looking his brother in the eye
"Exactly, you were going to lie to me. It's my job as your big brother to look after you, so next time tell me!"
"Okay" Sean mumbles again
"I'm serious Sean you tell me, or I might beat you up as well"
"Well that just defeats the principle of you looking after me" Sean smirks up at his brother
"Don't get smart with me, now what do you want to eat?"