“That's fucking awesome, you did that yourself?!” I nodded and he pointed to it and walked further into my room “Is that what you were so scared of me seeing?” I nodded and he chuckled he looked to my desk and paused "You should paint little people running on it and messing with your shit that would be kinda cool.” He looked at me with such depth “I feel like I have met you…” I shrugged and typed quickly “I haven’t lived in this town for very long I lived here for a little bit when I was eight.” Jonas got closer to my face I backed up and sat on my bed as he inched foward "I remember you..." He said under his breath,turning to the picture of my mother that lonely sat on my desk. I looked to the photo and felt my heart sink as sorrow filled her empty space in my heart. Her smile and her soft yellow eyes a straw hat gently sitting on her head with flowers I had gathered tucked into the blue ribbon. "Is that your mom?" I nodded and he touched my hand “It was horrible what happened to your mom and the baby.” I looked to him confused and he covered his mouth and his eyes widened “Oh god you didn’t know…” I felt my mouth open as the sounds of the crash flooded my mind. I clutched my head and saw my mother’s lifeless bloody body in her seat, blood on the window. Blood dripping down the metal from my mother's seat to my face, tears went down my face and my body shook as I choked. I clutched my eyes shut and tried to breathe I felt like I was underwater. I thrashed around and felt something warm brsuh against my skin I opened my eyes to see Jonas standing over my his hand holding mine down and him sitting on me "Sorry I didn't want you to hurt yourslef". I stood and wobbled to the bed he pulled my head to his chest. “Your mom was expecting a baby girl they were headed to a gender revealing party… I thought you knew I am sorry to have to be the one to tell you and after all this time…” He touched my hand then quickly pulled it back, “Why didn’t your dad tell you?” I then explained to him that he was in a coma for a few months after the crash and the foster families aren’t supposed to bring up that stuff. Drifter sat on my lap and Meatlug sat next to me, Jonas stared into my eyes “Are you wearing contacts?” I nodded I wore contacts to make my eyes look brown, “How bad is your vision.” I froze and panicked and he knew it was a lie and pushed for the truth I gave it up “Sounds cool I wanna see.”I could see there was something he was hiding with make up I rubbed his cheek and he touched my hand. “It’s a battle scar.” I scoffed as I typed “Aren’t battle scars something you show off?” He smiled and rubbed away the makeup to reveal a large scar, “Does it have a story?” the robotic voice didn’t seem to turn him away as it had done so many other times he chuckled nervously and stroked Meatlug. “My dad and I don’t really get along.” I felt my body freeze as the rumors of him stabbing someone flooded my mind, “I can tell you heard it around school…” I waved my hands in defense “No it’s okay it’s better than you to know then following the rumors. My Dad gets drunk and hits on all of us I draw his attention, so my mom and little brothers can slip away. One day I came home from school and found him really beatn' up on my mom I got really mad and the next ting I knew there was a bloodly knife in my hand.” He took off his shirt and turned his back to me scars filled his back I found myself going over them with my fingertips, his back was warm. “Your hands are cold,” I pulled them back and he turned to me and gently touched my face and I turned my messed ear to him and he went over with his fingertips. "My dad didn't die and still shows up but not when I am around." he suddenly sat up, “Hey don’t you go and try to change the subject I wanna see your eyes.” I sighed and nodded I stood and went to my desk fixing my contact case and contact solution and gently pulling each one from my eye and putting it into the case, I turned to Jonas. He smiled “Beautiful…” I turned away and felt my face get hot “You must hear that all the time,” I gathered myself and sat back down typing Jonas pet Drifter and Meatlug. “No, I actually get a lot of hate for it.” He waved his hand and chuckled “they are just jealous.” I watched as my phone rang I paused at the number and answered it not saying anything “hey Janet it’s me I wanted to tell you I am so sorry.” I hung up not knowing a Janet and turned back to Jonas and we got to work on our science project and 20 minutes later the doorbell rang. Jonas stayed in the room and the dogs followed me downstairs, I paused at the door seeing a guy a blue work uniform through the peephole. I opened the door with my text to speech in hand the door swung open and a phone was shoved into my face. Two other guys flooded in with the man in blue and I knew the moment he burst through the door it was the one who attacked me last time. “Did you miss me?” He pulled a knife from his pocket and gestured to the dogs “You know how this works.” He said handing the phone to a guy next to him he grabbed my text to speech and dropped it on the ground the other guy closed the door and they began to laugh. I backed away and did the hand signal for them to get in their kennels Drifter followed but Meatlug sent a bone-chilling deep growl through everyone. Meatlug got in front of me, “did I not make myself clear you do know what will happens if it bites me right. You gonna get sued and put the dog down, I am not gonna say it again put the dog in the kennel.” I grabbed Meatlug by her collar and put her in the kennel and the boys laughed and gestured for me to take off my shirt I took it off and put my back to the wall he pinned me to the wall careful not to get his body in the way of the phone. They pinned me to the wall and began to cut me up I looked away and groaned as every stroke of the blade dug into my chest. A minute passed and they had ‘U can’t escape’ they began to cut more and footsteps came from downstairs Meatlug barked and barked. “I thought you said his Dad doesn’t come home.” The one holding the phone said as they pointed it to the stairs scared of who was coming down, they tried to finish quickly but Jonas ran down the stairs due to Meatlug’s barking. Jonas stood shirtless and everyone gasped and laughed “Look he was fucking someone!!” Jonas ran down the last bit of stairs “Fucking faggots are everywhere.” Jonas grabbed the camera guy and punched him and threw him down and kicked him a few times, the guy who cut me up grabbed me and used me as a hostage. “Stop or the fag gets it!” Jonas stopped and the cameraman stood to point the phone. Jonas took a step and the guy took a step back Jonas charged and the cold blade went to my neck he easily grabbed the guy who attacked me and beat the crap out of him then beat up the other guy. After he finally stopped he threw them outside and grabbed the phone from the guy and broke it making sure that the sim card was with him. I looked around and picked up my text to speech looking to see if it was still working it was I quickly typed as Jonas cursed them and broke the sim card. “Sorry about that I don’t know how they found me” Jonas’s eyes were filled with anger and sadness as he came up to me and ushered me to the bathroom after he got the dogs out of their kennels. “Look at these scars” he sat as he tended to my chest I sat on the counter, his hands were warm and so gentle. “Are gay…” I looked down I knew any chance of having a friend would fade each time I tried to interact with him as it did the last time. “We have skeletons in the closet. Don’t worry I won’t tell anyone… As long as you don’t tell anyone I was at your house or talked to you.” I felt tears go my face, I guess I had thought I had a friend… “Holy shit dude I was kidding.” He kept tending to my wounds he looked back at my face and wiped away my tears with some toilet paper “I …” He sighed and looked down “I am sorry I didn’t come down sooner assholes like that are so small minded people it’s sicking.” After a while he was happy with the way he had wrapped my wounds and let me down, my legs were still jelly and my body was still shaking. “Let me carry you” He said looking to me knowing I was shaking and my legs were jelly I shook my hands and he picked me up I typed as he walked "I can walk just fine on my own" he looked at me and kept walking "Geez you need to gain some weight bony." He gently set me on my bed and we got back to work on the school project. After about 30 minutes he let out a long sigh and groaned as he laid back as if in pain I leaned over him and watched as he clenched his eyes closed “I’m Gay!!!!” He slowly opened his eyes and looked at me with worried eyes and I smiled and we both started laughing. Jonas and I talked about everything that came to mind for hours, but it wasn't long enough... Jonas looked to his dinging phone and sighed looking at the dark sky. “I gotta run.” He stood and I showed him to the door he paused at the door he turned he leaned in and I froze he paused his face was so close to mine. "Bye," He pulled back and opened the door slamming it behind him. I stood dumbstruck and touched my face and I then got a great idea of what to paint in the living room I grabbed my paper and pencils and began to draw. It was a dead tree with bright almost alien-like flowers growing out of it. I moved everything out of the way and went straight to work my smile didn’t fade as I worked until my hands felt like they were going to break. I took a bit of a rest and made myself a fancy sugar filled coffee, sitting down and looking to my unfinished work as Meatlug and Drifter sat in my lap my stomach growled and I got up and looked to the cabinets and turned away finishing my drink I went back to work. I went to bed, around 4 in the morning getting a few hours of sleep not very peaceful but pure and utter darkness with the sounds of the crash nonstop. I woke up with my heart racing and sweat dripping. I got ready for school looking in the mirror I looked at my contact case and pushed them aside I fixed my hair and hoodie. I put Drifter’s vest on and we headed out holding my backpack straps as I walked looking up to the sky Drifter knew the way and I trusted that he won’t let me run into anything. I looked back to the ground and saw school kids walking in and out I saw Jonas with his crew all sitting on his car. I watched as a group of guys came up to me my heart dropped as I knew Jonas had lied to me and only got me to pour my heart out so he could tell everyone everything. I looked to the ground as the guys put their arm around me one of them grabbed my hands and the other lifted my shirt looking to the bandages and laughing one of them tore my bandages off as they pushed me further from the school. “Oh geez man he wasn’t kidding. And what makes him so much better is that he has no voice can’t speak can’t scream for help and can’t tell his faggot friends, you watch out for Jonas.” I was led behind the school Drifter could tell something was wrong “Tie the dog up.” I looked to Drifter and tied him to the tree he was gesturing to and felt my heart sink I backed into the wall behind me. I looked down and waited to be punched they mocked me for a while and I just stood they began to poke me and turn my face to their liking. After a while, they began to punch me and kick my shins I hunched over and stood back up as they ordered. I don’t care anymore. I felt my knees collapse and my hearing fade in and out I tried to stand but fell to my face they grabbed me by my hair and I didn’t feel anything my eyelids became heavy and slowly closed. When I woke up I was in the hospital a girl wearing a leather jacket with a dark purple sleeveless dress sat in the corner chewing gum and blowing bubbles and loudly popping them. I looked around to see Jonas's friends all sitting in my hospital room Drifter in my lap Jonas laid asleep his head resting on the bed next to my hand. I looked to each chair looking these people up and down confused my text to speech nowhere in sight, I looked back to the chairs the man with red hair using a hat to hide the horns, the man with gears on his head, the man with crazy hair. The man with a snake tattoo walked in and looked to me “Oi why didn’t you tell anyone you were awake?” Everyone in the room looked at me and I waved and felt my stomach drop to my gut, “Who the hell are you anyway?” I watched as they looked to Jonas “Don’t wake him up he doesn’t sleep often.” The girl said after popping a bubble, I watched as he groaned and I gently pulled my hand out from under him and began to describe my text to speech with my hands. “A box?” They began to guess and no one got it “Did you lose your voice from passing out?” I held up 8 fingers after a while of guessing they finally got it “You lost your voice when you were 8?” I nodded and they looked back to their phones “Anyway could you wait to tell the doctor you are awake until Chief wakes up he doesn’t get much sleep.” I looked to the girl who was the only one still looking to me I pulled paper from Drifter’s vest and a small pencil. I tapped the paper and the girl looked to me I raised the paper “Did the doctor call my father?” She shrugged “I didn’t hear them say anything about calling, but you are a little muffin so most likely.” I paused at her strange choice of words and wrote, “How long was I asleep?” She narrowed her eyes “You passed out at the beginning of school Jonas was the one that found you… He told the Ambulance that he was your cousin so they let him come. It’s been three days he hasn’t left your side. Who are you and why does he care so much?” I looked to my paper and paused “We work together on a science project.” After I wrote that I frankly grabbed my backpack it was due in two days and we had barely worked on it. I worked on it until Jonas began to stir “Quick act like you are asleep then wake up after he wakes up.” I quickly put my stuff away and acted like I was asleep Jonas lifted his head and rubbed my hand “has his father come yet?” Jonas’s voice was a sweet whisper “nope.” A deep voice rang out the darkness made it hard to make out each voice “So who the hell is this guy anyway?” Jonas gently touched my face “We are working on a science project… he and I have a lot in common and he was attacked while I was at his house and I helped him out.” I slowly clutched Jonas's hand and slowly opened my eyes “Hey sleepy head.” I smiled and he smiled back “How ya feeling?” I held my thumbs up he gave me my text to speech and called the nurse in. We talked to the nurse and ran a few tests and told me after I could go home in two days. Jonas had my text to speech and gave it to me I typed as I felt my stomach drop. “I need you to help me escape.”
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