Jack

Taylor and I stood in utter shock. She latched onto me and hid her face in my chest, I held onto her, not letting her look at what was going on. I couldn’t believe what was happening before my eyes. I wanted to help, but I couldn’t. I didn’t know what to do. Oliver could easily kill me as well, but it hurt to see Alex be put in so much pain. Someone hitting him right in front of my eyes and I wimped out and didn’t do shit.

I watched as Oliver dragged Alex back into the school and Taylor let go of me. “Jack! We have to do something! We can’t let that happen! What are we going to do?!?” She cried out to me. I was still frozen in shock, I didn’t know how to react. You would always think that if you seen things like this in real life, you would jump in to stop it in a matter of seconds. But the truth it, you will be too shocked to do anything. “Jack!” Taylor cried to me. I put my hands on her shoulders and calmed her down.

“I don’t know what to do, Tay. How do I handle something like this?” I questioned as I sat down with my back against the building, her taking a seat next to me and lacing her arms around one of mine and holding onto me. “How can I help this? If I try and go anything to Oliver, I’ll be the one that is getting beat.”

“Can you talk to Alex’s family?” She asked in a whisper.

“I could, but if I show up at their house I’m scared that they might want to kill me as well, because of the last time I showed up.” I said with sorrow laced in my voice.

“You have to try Jacky. We can’t let this go on. He’s your ex boyfriend, I know you say you don’t care for him, but we can all see through your lies. You act like you're happier now that you're not with him, but that’s because you blocked out the memory of him.” I listened to my best friend speak, and I couldn’t help the few tears that escaped my eyes, she was right. I blocked out the thoughts and memories of Alex, but in my heart I’ll always have a soft spoke for him. No matter how much it hurts.

“I’ll go and talk to his parents and brother after school let’s out. I promise. I’m not going to let Oliver get away with hurting what was once mine.” I spoke softly. We both stayed silent for a few minutes but then we heard the bell ring, meaning we had to give up our moment and go back inside and to class.

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It was now after school, during the last class of the day, one I didn’t have with Alex, I talked to Austin and Alan about what was going on, and they said that it is a good thing that I am going to talk to Alex’s parents and Tom tonight. I said quick goodbyes to my three best friends and exited the school, rushing over to my car. I opened my car door but looked up when I heard a little slapping sound. I saw Alex and Oliver standing over by Alex’s car, his face had a red handprint on it telling me that it had happened once again. I sighed and I could feel my heart break once again.

I watched for a few minutes after I got in my car. Oliver hit him three more times in the span of five minutes, I could feel my hands going numb, and see them turning white as I held onto my steering wheel, my anger inside of me was starting to boil over and I didn’t know and I could handle it anymore. But I calmed down a bit when I saw Alex get in his car, and Oliver get in the one next to it. They both pulled out of the parking lot of the school, and went different ways. I pulled out as well, a few cars behind Alex but drove the way to his house.

I parked a few houses down from Alex’s but got out of my car after ten minutes of debate in my mind, and walked up his driveway, passing by his car, Tom’s, and his parents. I slowly walked to the front door and knocked on it. I waited a minute and then the door opened, the person who opened the door was Tom. “What the fuck do you think you are doing here? Come to get your ass kicked, Barakat?” He spat at me.

“No. We need to talk. Please.” I begged, he huffed and rolled his eyes, trying to shut the door. “Wait! Please! Alex is in trouble!” I pleaded with him, he stopped shutting the door and looked me straight in the eye.

“What do you mean by my brother is in trouble?” He asked with venom laced in his tone.

“Are your parents home? I need to say it to all three of you.” He sighed but moved out of the way, finally letting me into the house. “Thank you.” I said quietly.

“They’re in the living room. Follow me.” He spoke, and I did as told. When we got in there, his parents looked over from the tv and I saw nothing but hate in their eyes. “Mum, Dad. Jack here is saying Alex is in trouble.” I saw Isobel’s face go from anger to worry.

“What is he talking about? Jack? Did something happen at school?” She questioned me.

“Alex wrote me a note and placed it in my locker with a picture of the baby, he wanted to become friends and I agreed with my friend Taylor that I should at least talk to him. So, Taylor and I went out to the track field, and over to the tree where Alex told me to meet him. We got to talking about the baby and stuff, and then Oliver showed up. He looked like he was about to murder someone with how red his face was. He started yelling at Alex, grabbed him by his collar and pulled him away from us, Taylor and I followed and we saw Oliver hitting Alex across the face over and over again. I wanted to do something but I was frozen in shock. I’m scared. I’m really worried about him.” I spoke. When I finished I could feel a tear trail down my cheek,

“Oh my gosh! My poor baby!” Isobel jumped up from the couch and started running for the stairs.

“Come with us, Jack. If you are lying about any of this. I swear I will murder you myself.” Peter spoke, as I followed him and Tom up the stairs.

We got to Alex’s room all at the same time, Isobel opened the door and froze. She started to scream and Peter grabbed onto her and pulled her into his arms. Tom was right behind me, about to sprint to Alex, but I got to him first. I brought the shaking boy into my arms, I looked around and saw spots of blood on the ground. Tom rushed over and grabbed the razor blade from Alex’s hand and we both held onto the crying boy like this is what we were born to do.

Notes

So, any thoughts on what's going to happen after this?

~Jagk.