Life Isn't Fair;Chapter 5

Brandon woke up in pain, his head hurt and he could taste blood in his mouth. He slowly picked himself off the floor looking for his mom. He couldn't see anything thought, everything was blurry and spinning. He quickly sat on a chair n put his head between his knees. He took deep breaths with his eyes tightly closed. The momeories of last night hit him like a brick wall.

'OMG MOM!! shit how could i sit there and not saying anything, what have i done!! What kind of son is that?' he question himself.

Very slowly he got off the chair his long fingers lightly touching the wall for support. He looked all over the house, no one was there. Panic set in thinking those men killed his mom. He walked into a bathroom after decideding he needed a drink of water to calm him down.

Thats when he saw his face. It was swollen on one side, dry blood was under his nose and around his mouth. The blood had stain his T-shirt a darl crisom color. His eyes seem so lifeless and he had bags under his eyes.

'Damn I look like shit, no girl is gonna go out with me again. WTF is wrong with your Brandon you need to found out where your mom is, who cares what you look like.' he felt so guilty for not thinking about his mom.

He walked over to the phone and dailed the number for his mom hostipal.

"Hello Baltimore Country Hostipal. This is Nancy from the ER speaking. How may I help you?" spoke a kind voice on the other end of the phone.

"Hello is Susan Novak there?" Brandon was shocked at how horrible he sounded.

"one moment please"

"Hello??" spoke his mom in a frightened whisper.

"MOM!! its me are you ok?" Novak cried

"Brandon I want you to get out of the house, go somewhere I'm gonna leave your father tonight, we can not live there because of last night. He might get violent, I want you as far away as possible, Don't worry about me sweetie, be safe I love you." Susan said a small tremble in her voice as she hung up the phone.

Where was he suppose to go, he had dropped all his old friends once he started pot and the pothead he didnt want to be with right now, he needed a real friend. He could only think of one place. Bam's.

He quickly threw some clothes in a bookbag, washed his face trying to make it look like nothing happened, grab his skateboard, and took his secret stash of pot money and ran out the door.

He skated to the train station. A train left for philly in 30min he could take that and get a taxi to Bam's house or walk. A long walk but he could do it. A police walked by and Novak ducked into a phone booth and pretending to be calling someone. He didnt know what it was but every since he got caught throwing glass bottles in a driveway with Bam, cops made him nervous.

Soon his train was called and he got on, taking a seat next to a window near the back. He qucikly fell asleep thinking about last night. He woke us the train stopped in Philly he got off, looking for an taxi or bus stop. He saw a bus stop but there were a group of guys standing then.

He didn't grow up in Balitmore without knowing about gangs. He decided to hitch a ride or walk as far as he could.

He got lucky he got a ride from a smelly old man almost all the way there. He had about 5 miles to walk. He walked and skated, got lost a couple of times. But soon Bam's house came into view. It was kinda late about 10, Brandon was starving, not eating since last night.

He walked up onto the porch looking at the bikes that were thrown on the ground and relized either Bam or Jess had friends over. He rang the doorbell and April answered the door.

"Brandon Novak? what are you doing here? how did you get here? It's freezing outside come in right now! BAM!!! Brandon here!!" she shouted as he gave Novak some puzzled looks.

As soon as he stepped into the house where it was light more so saw his face.

"Dear lord what happened to you child?" she gasped.

"Ape, Brandon's here!!" Bam shouted as Brandon,Chris Raab, and Ryan walked down the stairs.

"Novak?! what are you doing here? Yo Jess, Novak is here!" bam yelled

"Are you hungry? I'll make some dinner everyone was gonna fend for them selves but you look like you need some home cooked food Brandon." said Ape as she resited the urge to warp him into a hug.

"Dude you look like shit what happened?" Ryan said with a laugh.

"I got in a fight at school and my mom decided to leave my dad for some reason, and I got bored at home so I thought I come here." Novak said with a smile that hurt so bad.

He didn't feel like explaing everything it was too hard, embrassing.

Deron, Chad, Jess, Bam, Raab, Dico, Dunn, and Novak all sat down and eat some dinner, catching up with Brandon.

He told them how he got here. Bam was especally quiet, he noticed how something was off with Novak, he was trying hard not to yawn and Novak never really got tired, and he was talkin slow.

"Guys I'm so fucking tired I say we go to sleep, so we can go skating all day tommorow since we got Novak." Bam piped up.

No one relly argure. Bam and his crew just grab blankets and crashed into the living room. Jess, Chad, Devon crashed in Jess room a little while later.