Disclaimer

The following is one of many installments for a story designed specifically for my blog.  While it does step out of my usual genre, there are some things still not suitable for a younger audience.  Violent/Graphic descriptions, strong language and sexual situations may be found through different sections.  Each entry will tell a small portion of the story during different times and may not directly follow the one prior to it.  

This story follows the direct interactions, as well as the deteriorating thoughts of a young man who is struggling not only with the relationships he has with those around him, but with the relationship he has with himself as well.

Finally, all work is strictly fiction and does not reflect the views of the author.  Any resemblance to actual person(s) is only a coincidence.

If this isn’t your cup of tea, then avoid these excerpts and hopefully I’ll see you around my other posts!

He sat on the front steps of his house, staring down at the now pac-man shaped front tire of his bike, and he thought of everything that had transpired before getting here.

“Look, I’m sorry about what happened, but you have to let me help you get that back into place.”

Scott looked warily at his nemesis from the corner of his eyes.  He hated him more than anyone else in the world right now, but he also couldn’t deny the look of compassion on his face either.

“Alright,” he admitted grudgingly.  “What do you want me to do?”

B.J. giggled from the inside the truck, where he still leaned over the driver’s seat watching.  It was a lunatic sound, brought on by nerves and just a little bit of madness, and it sent an icy chill down the spine of both boys.

“Shut up, B.J.,” Tommy warned threateningly before answering the question.

“I don’t know, maybe get you to a hospital or something…”

“NO!!!” Scott shouted with much more force than he had intended.  It caused both of his enemies to jump in surprise, but he didn’t notice.  He began to speak again, and this time the restraint was obvious in his voice.

“We can’t go there…”

“Why not?  What’s the hell’s the big deal?”

“Because my mom works there, dumbass.  You should already know that.  She helped set your arm when you broke it last year.”

A dark cloud passed over Tommy’s face and B.J., who had suddenly found hilarity in every little thing, instantly grew quiet.  The former stepped around behind him, grabbed his arm with his left hand and placed his right hand in the middle of Scott’s back,pushing him toward the front of the pickup.

“Dumbassary comes in many forms Scott,” Tommy said through gritted teeth.  This time it was his voice that was held in restraint.  “Yours is that you don’t know when to keep your fucking mouth shut.”

His knees buckled as Tommy kicked them from behind, but before he could even react, he felt the other’s hand pushing him down and forward.  His injured shoulder connected with the front end of the pickup and there there was a sickening *crack* as it was violently forced back into place.  He had screamed, and the pain had nearly caused him to black out, but it was Tommy who brought him back into focus.

“Don’t even think about it, faggot,” he growled through this teeth.  B.J. cackled again from his perch, his voice high and almost feminine in pitch.  When he was satisfied that Scott wasn’t going to pass out, he pushed him with enough force to send him stumbling back a couple of steps.

“Kick his ass Tommy,” B.J. screeched from the truck.

“Nah.  I’ve already done that.  Besides…  I promised MIsty that I would do this.”

Scott, who had barely been on his feet after having his shoulder popped back into its socket, had fallen to his knees after that last shove.  Tears, partially from pain and partially of frustration fell down his cheeks.  Beneath the surface, his old friend began whispering to him of a thousand possible ways he could get revenge.

“Get up Scott.  You and me are going to have a talk.”

Tommy didn’t wait for him to get up so much as he grabbed the back of his denim shirt and yanked.  Scott winced as some of the fabric tore and he felt his face growing hot with anger.  He let himself be led around to the back of the truck, however, and watched as B.J. got out and followed them from around the other side.  

“Have a seat,” he was told, after the truck bed door was lowered.  He did, watching silently as Tommy climbed into the bed of the truck and got a couple of beers from a small cooler near the cab.

“Want one?”

He slowly shook his head back and forth.

“Eh, suit yourself.”

Moments later, he found himself staring out into a cornfield as his most hated enemies sat on either side of him sipping their beers.

“Hey twerp.”

He was startled from his thoughts by his sisters greeting, and for a moment he almost forgot where he was.

“Holy crap Scott, what happened to your bike,” she asked when she saw saw its remains sitting before him.

“It so turns out that the wheel of a bike isn’t designed to withstand the impact from a two ton object,” he answered.  She stared at him blankly for a couple of seconds, during which time he could almost see the connections coming into place.

“You got hit by a car,” she nearly screamed.

“Something like that.”

“Jesus Christ Scott, are you alright?”

“What the hell do you care,” he shot back.

“That’s not fair, Scott.  We may not like each other, but that still doesn’t change the fact that you’re my brother.  Now tell me; what happened?”

“How about I just sit on your chest until you asphyxiate instead?” 

“Y-yeah, sure,” he muttered.

She sat down next to him and for the first time in months, there was genuine concern behind her eyes.

Disclaimer

This is post is one of many in a several part webseries.  While each part varies, this story, overall, will contain the following; Strong Language, Sexual Content, Graphic and Violent descriptions and it may not be suitable for a younger audience.

It does not reflect the views or opinions of the author and is purely a work of fiction.  All names and locations are drawn directly from the author’s imagination.  No animals were ever hurt in the writing of this webseries.  ;p

If this isn’t your cup of tea but you enjoy my other writings, please visit back time to time and let me know!  I’ll be making the occasional post between these mini-chapters as, I think of them.

 

“You’ve got to be kidding me.  You’ve got to be fucking KIDDING me!”

His bike rocked to the right and left as he madly propelled himself forward, blasting through intersections without any fear of what could happen.  He had at first been shocked that she would propose such a thing to him, but that feeling had quickly changed into seething outrage.

“Lucy Winters?  REALLY?!”

He didn’t care when people turned to cast the odd glance his way, for as far as he was concerned, nobody else existed at that moment.  The wind whipped his hair backward from around his face and combination of it and the dry heat began to remove the some of the moisture from it.  

Though he didn’t realize it at the time, he had begun to grind his teeth together, gnashing them mercilessly back and forth.  His mouth was clamped so tightly that his gums would later be sore for most of the night. 

His legs pumped downward vigorously without any sign of tiring.  His speed was fueled by the unbridled rage now spreading through his system with every beat of his cracked heart.  He felt betrayed.  For the second time since he had joined All Saints High, he had allowed her into his heart.  For the second time, he found himself being set up into one of her cruel games.

“Fat fucking Lucy Winters,” he screamed.  His voice spiraled upward, cracking on the last word of his outburst.  

He was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn’t hear the approaching pickup from behind him.  It came in fast, roaring across the pavement, a two ton avalanche of steel and rubber.  By the time that he realized what was happening, it was too late.

Tommy’s light brown Chevy blasted around him, missing him by mere inches.  The driver slammed on the brakes, angling the truck in front of him, too close for him to stop in time.  Even though Scott slammed on his own brakes, the worn bike tires only continued to pull him forward as they skidded on the asphalt.

His reckless speed was instantly stopped as the front tired slammed into the side of the truck.  The effect couldn’t have been more devastating.  While the bike had stopped, his body continued forward and he slammed face first into the door before sliding to the ground.  

“Holy SHIT Tommy!  You KILLED him,” a male voice shouted from somewhere far away.

He lay stunned on the ground, his vision blurring and the sounds around him warbling in his ears.  The driver’s side door opened above him and out steps his tormentor, who then places his feet on either side of him before leaning down.  It was a scene too much like the previous morning and he instinctively cringed.

What he couldn’t see, however, was the genuine look of concern on the bully’s face.

“Naw, I don’t think so.  He’s still moving,” he said over his shoulder.  Then, to him; “Scott, are you alright?”

He reached down and tried to help him up, but what Tommy didn’t know…

…was that Scott’s old friend had come fully to the surface.

His face twisted in pain and rage as the jock’s hands slid under his shoulders.  He was trying to help him to sit up, but he hadn’t lifted him more than a couple inches before Scott suddenly lunged forward.  His forehead slammed into Tommy’s nose, smashing it with a sickening, yet satisfying, crunch.  Tommy immediately released him as his hands shot to his face.

“My thucking nothe!  He boke my thucking nothe,” Tommy shouted.

“I’m gonna do more than that, you sorry sack of crap,” Scott’s friend said through his lips.  He pulled himself up using the siderail beneath the door and smiled as he spied something behind the seat.  As he reached in and closed his right hand around one end of the object, he kicked out with his right leg.  His foot connected with the already crouching Tommy, knocking the air from his lungs and sending him sprawling onto the ground.

From the passenger side of the truck, B.J. looked down at him with something like a mixture of shock and fear.  His mouth hung open, forming a large ‘O’, and he didn’t seem to be moving anytime soon.  It didn’t matter.  Scott’s old friend had complete control of him at this point, and he had only one thing on his mind.

Moving quicker than either of the two would have believed possible, considering what had just happened to him, Scott yanked himself up into a crouch of his own.  Now it was he who was leaning over a prostrate Tommy, but there would be no-one to stop HIM from what he was about to do.  

He looked down at the injured boy inquisitively, studying every detail about him.

“Wat awe you goin do,” Tommy asked.

“I’m going to finish what I started.” 

He began to rain blow after blow down upon the head and shoulders of his helpless victim.  Everything the crowbar connected became more and more like pulp and it…

…was that his shoulder had been dislocated from the angle of his fall.  He yelled out in surprise and pain as Tommy tried to help him to a sitting position.  

“I got it,” he growled, pushing him away.

“Look asshole, I’m just trying to help you.”

“Yeah?  Since when?”

B.J. snickered from inside the pickup.  He had crawled over from the passenger seat and now looked down at him from above.

“Just shut up and take my hand, alright.  We need to get that taken care of,” he answered while motioning to Scott’s injured shoulder with his eyes.