After I cleaned Heath, I stayed next to him and fell asleep with my head on his shoulder. I suddenly feel someone tap my shoulder. I slowly open my eyes and see Brax, motioning with his hands to get me to stand up. Slowly I get off Heath, making sure not to wake him up and walk into the living room with Brax.
"What the hell happened to him?" he asks quietly.
"The Wests, he came home at three. Don't do anything Brax, just, don't please. He was in complete agony last night. The Wests don't care who they hurt and I don't want to be cleaning up you next" I plead.
"Okay, I won't do anything. Thanks, for helping him" he nods.
"Yeah, thanks for helping me" Heath croaks.
I turn around and see him standing up. He looks a lot better than last night, but still looks like hell.
"Of course I'd help you, you're my big brother" I smile.
"Yeah" he chuckles.
"I'm going to go for a surf" I state.
"I'll go with, come on let's go before I got school" Casey chimes in, "Heath, what happened?"
I go up to my room, leaving the boys to tell him. I change into my bikini, grabs my surfboard, then get downstairs. Case and I walk to the beach, in silence. We get to the beach and surf, then after surfing, we start walking home. That's, when we see the three West brothers.
"Oi! How's your brother? Heard he had a tough night last night" Mike laughs.
"Casey, ignore them, please. There are cops over there" I explain, seeing the cop car parked across the street.
We continue to walk forward.
"Silent treatment huh? Is he in hospital? Cause that was our goal, to get him in a hospital bed. Did it work? Does that weak, pathetic son of a bitch understand who's boss now?" Tom shouts.
"Who's boss? It's certainly not fucking you West! You prick!" Casey lashes and runs to Tom.
He punches him and throws him on to the ground and they start fighting. The other two boys try to kick Casey. I run in and throw them off of him, but it's not just me, it's cops. They split us all up and then pick up Casey. They put the cuffs on Casey.
"Come see your brother at the station Braxton, you can pick him up after he's stayed for five hours in a cell" a cop reports and then takes him away.
Leaving me, alone with the three Wests.
"All of you, need to stay the fuck! Away from my family" I demand.
"Wow! Fired up Will! I love it" Tom smirks.
I grab mine and Casey's surf board, then walk home, ignoring the stupid howls from the Wests behind me. I go into the house, throw the surfboards on the ground and slam the door madly.
"What's going on?" Brax asks.
"Casey's at the station, will be there for another five hours before we can pick him up" I explain.
"What for?" Brax shouts.
"He beat up Joe West after he was talking trash about Heath. West deserved it. Im sick of them always being dicks to us! I'm going to my room" I sigh tiredly.
I grab my phone, and call the only people I wanna talk to right now.
"Will, what's up?" Matt asks.
"Do you and Seth wanna meet me at the beach? I know that you're in school, I just, wanna be with my best friends" I state.
"We'll meet you there in ten" he responds.
I hang up the phone and tell the boys I'm leaving, then go down to the beach. I sit and wait for Matt and Seth to arrive. When they do, they come and sit next to me.
"What happened?" Seth questions cautiously.
"Are you alright?" Matt adds.
"Heath got beat up by the Wests, really badly. Casey is at the cop station for the next five hours just for punching the Wests" I explain.
"I'm sorry Will" Seth says giving me comfort.
"Are you okay?" Matt persists.
"I'm fine, I'm just, tired. I'm tired of my brothers getting hurt and in trouble" I admit.
"They're tough guys and so are you" Matt assures me.
"Yeah, I know. Anyways, enough about me, what about you guys?" I ask.
"Well, I'm failing five out of six classes. But! I'm passing one of them" Matt smirks, without a care in the world.
"Seth?" I question.
"Well, my Dad hits my mum and hits me. I love going to school cause I'm away from my crazy family and you guys are my family. You're the only family I want" he confesses.
"Mate, I'm sorry about your parents" Matt sighs.
"Seth, do you wanna stay at mine tonight? Tomorrow night as well if you want?" I suggest.
"Really, you'd let me stay?" he asks.
"Seth, I've been friends with you since we were twelve, you've come for sleepovers so many times I can't count, of course you can stay at my house" I laugh.
"Thanks Will, I appreciate it" he smiles gratefully.
"No problem"
"Matt, you wanna come?" Seth suggests.
"Can't, got shift at pizza palace" he groans.
"We'll order a pizza for dinner then" I note.
"Cool" Matt nods.
He lays down on the sand, me and Seth follow him and lay down too. We look up at the sky, which is clear blue, no clouds.
"Do you reckon we'll be stuck in this trashy, pathetic town our whole life's?" Seth questions.
"No, I'm going to be rich and famous" Matt scoffs sarcastically.
"What do you wanna do, when your older? If you could do anything and if we could, actually, get out of Mangrove?" Seth asks.
"A singer rockstar. Or a mechanic" Matt answers seriously.
"I'd wanna be a doctor, help people. Save people" Seth says.
"What about you Will? What would you wanna be?" Matt asks.
"I don't know" I answer truthfully.