Chapter 2
Four's Point of View
I wake up early with pain in my back. Marcus wanted to make sure I remember the pain before I left. I finally remember where I am. The closet. Great! I'm locked in here again. I start breathing really heavily. He made me afraid of confinements. As I breathe and try to calm down I remember the events from last night. He wiped my back, hung me from the roof in the back of the house until I almost fell, and locked me in a closet. What a way to be remembered by before your son goes to college.
I'm about to go back to sleep when the door opens. I'm pulled from the floor just to be thrown back down in the living room. Thwack. One. Thwack. Two. Thwack. Three... Thwack. Nineteen. Thwack. Twenty. Thwack. Twenty one. He stops and walk away. My vision is becoming blurred and black rounds the edges.
I crawl up the steps and to my bedroom. In my room is my own bathroom so I hid cleaning supplies for this situation. I run the shower and put it on cold. I hop in and I wince. It hurts like a bitch. Once my back is numb, I try myself off and clean my back putting hydrogen peroxide on it to stop any infection. The bleeding has stopped and my vision is almost clear. I start packing my bags for college making sure to bring everything. I'm not coming back this year. I'm twenty years old for god sake. I shouldn't be kicked around like a ball or thrown like a chew toy. I feel like a coward moving away. I'm running from my problems, not fighting them. I set a timer on my phone when I finish, so I wake up on time in a few hours to leave. And at that I fall asleep under the covers where I feel warm.
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I'm driving up to the office in the main building. I hop out of the car keeping it on because I'll only be in for a few minutes. I grab my schedule and my apartment key and go back to the car. I drive up to my apartment building and grab some stuff. I carry it upstairs and open the door with my key. I look around and see a kitchen, living room, bathroom, and two rooms. I see Zeke, who I assume is my roommate this year. Sweet. He's been my best friend since my first year at this school.
"Your room is on the left side." He says not even looking at me.
"Thanks. You know if your done you could help me." I say. He looks up at me finally realizing who I am. He smiles
"Four, my man, we're roommates. This I'll be awesome. Just like last year. Shauna said Lynn is coming to this school and so is Uriah. My mom wants me to show him around school and help him. So now that your here, you can help me." Shauna is his girlfriend and Lynn is her sister. Uriah is his younger brother. Lynn and Uriah are two years younger than us.
"That's great, Zeke, now grab some bags from my car and throw them in my room."
"Fine. But your making dinner."
"Well who else would make it. You can't cook." I say smirking.
"I'm hurt Four. I really am." He says dramatically. "What makes you think I didn't learn over the summer."
"You said yourself last year as we left and I quote, 'This was an exhausting year. I'm not learning or doing anything new if I can help it'. So I assume you sat on your ass and did nothing all summer." I say laughing. He joins me and soon all of my stuff is in my room. He helps me put them in the places and then I help him set up his PS4. We get it to work and we play guitar hero.
"If there's one thing I did learn over the summer, it's how to finally beat your ass in this game." He says cockily.
"Yeah right. You could be the best in the world, but I'll still be better, making you second every time." I say. Then right before I beat him he turns off the game.
"I think something happened to it. Maybe the electricity broke or something." He says.
"The lights are still on, Zeke." I say smirking. He walks over to the side of the room and turns off the lights.
"What are you talking about." He says. I just laugh and turn the tv on laying on the couch. Zeke comes back in with two sodas and and bowl of chips. By the time the bowl is halfway through, I hear banging on the door.
"Zeke go get the door." I say.
"Why me, you closer."
"There's equal distance between us, now go get the door. I'm making dinner and you lost guitar hero."
"I didn't lose, the power went out so we don't know who won. Anyway I helped you unpack. Plus I got comfortable."
"1...2..-"
"Fine I'm going."
He opens the door and in walks Uriah and a friend.
"We literally went door to door trying to find your apartment." Uriah says sighing.
"Dude, you could've just called." Zeke says.
"Shit, Will, why didn't you think of that. I thought you were smart." Uriah says.
"I told you and you put a finger to my lips and said and I quote, 'I'm trying to think of what to do'. Then walked out the door motioning for me to follow." Will says laughing and Zeke and I join in.
"Oh shut up guys. Can you show us around the school now?" Uriah says.
"Sure thing." I grab my phone from my room and we walk outside.
We show them the cafeteria, library, the park that's close by, the pool, gym, classrooms, and we finally get to the turf field. This is my favorite place of all. Marcus made me play football. It was probably the only good thing he did. Beside beating me for loosing a game. I would always come here and throw the ball around to clear my head since freshman year. We get closer to field and I see two girls playing soccer. One is the keeper and the other is shooting. They are really good. Too bad there probably whores who just throw themselves at guys. As she takes another shot I hear Uriah shout,
"Shit, who the hell is that? She's got a good shot."
"I don't know Uri. But she's awesome. What do you think Four?" Zeke says
"She's okay." I say.
"Just okay. She's amazing. I have no idea what you are talking about." Uriah says mouths open looking at me.
"That keeper's good too." Will says.
Just as I'm about to show them everything here, the girls walk past us laughing.
"Hey guys what's up?" The one girl says still smiling.
"Nothing much, just watching you two play. You guys are amazing. What's your names." Uriah says.
"Thanks. I'm Tris and this is Christina." Tris says.
"Well I'm Uriah, this is my big brother Zeke, Four, his best friend, and lastly, this is Will." He says pointing each of us. I look over to Will and he's staring at Christina. I silently laugh to myself at the thought of Will having a crush.
"Cool." Christina says. "Well we should go, it's getting kinda late." Tris nods her head in agreement. They say goodbye and I show them around the turf field. Then we go back and I make everyone dinner considering Zeke nor Uriah could cook and I didn't want Will cooking my food. I guess a little abnegation is still in me. When we are done eating the two boys leave and Zeke and I go to bed.