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Life Isn't Fair
By Grave
Chapter 6
Since
it was Thursday all the boys ditched the next day. Sure April and all the parents got mad but Ape understood. She tried calling
Susan but no one. Something wasn't right.
"Novak, sweetie will you come here?" April called from the next room.
"Do
you know why your parents are getting a divorce?" asked Ape.
Brandon tried to think he hadn't talked in his sleep
had he?
"Uhhh no they never told me, they just didn’t want me to be at home when they were doing all this" His
heart felt like it was trying to jump out of his chest.
"O ok you can go back with the guys." She studied him as he
walked back in the bruises were starting to get better and the swelling had started to go down alot.
But she knew
that the beating he had taken wasn't from a kid. She was worried about him, she had noticed a change in the years. His skating
wasn't as good, he always was tired and hungry. He didnt seem to care about skating as much.
Her thoughts were interrupted
by the phone.
"Hello!?" said a angry gruff voice.
"Hello April speaking." she answered.
Politeness
was a key in making new friends she thought to her self.
"Is my son there? Brandon Novak, his mother sent him here.
I'm supposed to pick him up and take him to his Grandparents." said the man.
"Umm yes he's here hold on please." she
covered the phone and whispered
"Brandon your father is on the phone, he wants to talk to you, he is taking you to
your grandparents.
Brandon's eyes were as big as grapefruits and his mouth hung open.
'He doesn’t
know this number, only mom does. MOM!!??'he must have found her and gotten it.'
He dashed to the phone and answered
it.
"Hello??" his voice seemed to quiver and he hated how weak he seemed.
He noticed the house was very quiet,
and knew they were listening to him.
"Brandon, why I ought a skin you alive you filthy lil son of a whore. How
dare you leave this family!! Wait to I find you, you are gonna wish I flushed you down the toilet when I had the chance boy!!"
His father was screaming at him.
Brandon silently hung up the phone and in a second was running out the door and up
the street. He heard people yelling at him to stop and footsteps getting closer.
He saw the woods if he made it in
there, he could hide and his dad would never found him ever. Tears streamed down his face.
He hit the woods branches
tearing at his clothes, rock trying to trip him.
Bam was staring at the phone on the hook and the next thing he knew
Novak was out the door.
He got up being faster then anybody right now took after him screaming,"Novak stop we can
help!! WAIT BRANDON DONT DOO THIS!!! I CAN HELP YOU!!!" he heard more footsteps and saw Jess running right behind him and
then passing him.
Brandon was at least a block and a half ahead. He turned and Bam knew where he was going.
He
yelled back to Raab and Dico and Ryan "He’s heading for the woods, cut him off."
He had no clue what had happen
to his friend, he had never liked Novak's dad. He seemed cold and only seemed to like Novak when he won. He talked to Novak
about this once but he dismissed it and said his dad was a busy man.
Jess was tearing though the woods he saw Novak
up ahead dodging trees and stumbling. He saw some people to his left and realized the guys had gone back and cut though the
woods.
He caught up to him his fingers wrapped around his shirt tail but it ripped as Novak made no attempted to slow
down. Jess grabbed Novak in a bear hug tackling him and pulling him to the ground.
Novak started screaming.
"LET
ME GO LET ME GO HE CAN'T FIND ME HE IS GONNA BE SO MAD I CAN'T STAY HERE LET ME GO LET GO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!" tears streamed
down his face as his smaller body tried to get away from Jess' bigger one.
Bam came seconds later telling Novak to
calm down and they could help. The gang came into the area not having any clue how to help. Jess was having a hard time keeping
Novak down. He needed help, but he wouldn’t calm down.
Jess did the only thing he knows that would calm Novak.
He saw it in old movies when people went into hysterical, they hit them.
In a flash Jess was straddling Brandon’s
struggling body and WHAM he punched him in the face. Novak was knocked out cold. A little bit of blood ran from his nose.
“Shit, I didn’t even hit him that hard.” He said out loud.
“Guys what the fuck just
happened? What do we do?” said Raab a quiver in his voice.
“We take him back to our house and get him
to calm down and then once we know why he doesn’t wanna talk to his old man, we can help.” Ryan said soundly a
little unsure or everything.
It wasn’t even day when of your best friends runs from you and when you catch him
you have to knock him out.
Jess stood up brushing dirt off of him and picked up Novak cradling his body. Raab and
Ryan went first moving anything that could trip Jess.
Jess followed feeling guilty because he hurt Novak even more.
Dico and Bam followed. For once Dico didn’t have anything funny to say. All he could think about was Novak face as he
talked on the phone.
When they got back to the house, April told Jess to put Novak in her room on the bed. She sent
Bam in the kitchen for ice and some water for him when he wakes up.
She sat in the room with Bam and Jess watching
him sleep. Soon Novak showed some signs of waking up and Jess moved next to the bed incase Novak was still scared.
He
opened his eyes and he felt so stiff and weird, like the night he woke up after they hurt his mom and him. But it wasn’t
the men in the room he saw it was April Bam and Jess.
They all looked really worried and concerned. April helped him
sit up giving him the ice to put in his check, and some water to drink.
“Brandon, you are safe here, I want
you to know that you will always be safe here no matter what. All of us will never let anybody hurt you. Do you understand?”
asked April
He nodded.
“Umm sorry for punching you Novak, I didn’t know what to do, you went kinda
insane.” Jess said quietly, like he was afraid if he talked to loud Novak would freak out again.
“Do you
want to tell us why you didn’t want your dad to pick you up?” Bam spoke up, he was tired of sitting there, he
wanted to know why Novak freaked out.
April shot him a mean glance and angrily mouthed BAM! So Brandon just told them
about the one night with the men but he never said he dad did drugs, instead he said they wanted money and were robbing them.
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