Jacks POV I walked over to the chair and sat on it and looked at the boy sat on the sofa. "Jack focus. Why are you here?" Carlile asked. "Pissed the teacher off then got sent to another class and then pissed that teacher off and now I am here." I said with a smug look on my face. "Wipe that look off your face." He spat. I looked at him shocked. "Jack you can't do this. What do you want to be when your older?" He asked. "I dunno, something to do with music and art." I said. "To do that you need to get your grades at school. You think that you can get kicked out of all these schools and go to the best colleges? It doesn't work like that Jack. They will look at what you was like at school and when they see you've been kicked out of 5 schools in 2 years, they won't offer you a place. No matter how good your grades are." He said and it was like a slap in the face but it wasn't going to stop me for being who I am. "If you think this is gonna change my attitude then your wrong." I said. "Well sunshine you better buck your ideas up because it soon be time when your a senior and making choices about your life." He said. "Who said that I want to make a choice about my life?" I asked. "So you would rather be a person who's stays at home, does and sells drugs watch TV all day? Come on Jack! You have dreams and ambitions, don't waste it all away because of school." He said. "So you giving me a zen lesson now?" I asked. He groaned in frustration. "You seriously that blind Jack?" He asked. "I dunno lets do the whole how many fingers am I holding." I said sarcastically. Someone knocked on the door. "What!?" He said and someone poked there head round the door. "There's a family which are going to be looking to look round the school." She said. "Tell them I'll be there in a second." He said and focused back on me. "Stay here and keep Alex company and think about what ypou want to do with your life because I'm not going to give up on you easily." He said and walked out the room.------------ I spun my chair round and Alex was looking at me. "He's right you know." He said quietly. "I don't need a zen lesson from a freak." I spat and sort of regretted what I said. He looked down and carried on with whatever he was doing quietly humming to himself. I went and sat next to him and looked at what he was doing. He was writing something. "These lyrics?" I asked and he nodded. "Do you want to go into music when your older?" I asked and he nodded again. "I have to get away from here when I go to college. Carlile right with what he said. The harder you work the better chances you are to getting into college." He said quietly. "Why do you want to get away from here, there's nothing wrong with you." I said. He looked at me and there was a bruise which looked like it was a couple days old. "I have my reasons to get out of this hell hole of a town. Just because your some bastard who has a perfect life doesn't mean everyone else has." He said quietly still. "My life isn't perfect." I scoffed. "Then why be a insensitive bastard who has no regards on other people's feelings. You don't have a clue what does on outside of this place. Unless you do I should really suggest you drop the whole bad boy act. Carlile won't give up easily no matter how hard you push his limits." He said at proper level. "How do you know?" I challenged. "Because I do." He spat.------------- I looked at his wrist. "You like it rough?" I asked. "No I actually don't. And I would rather not talk about it." He said quietly. "If you don't like it rough then where did you get that from." I said and pointed to his wrist. "I said I don't want to talk about it so drop the fucking subject." He growled. I'm getting somewhere with playing with his emotions. "Maybe I won't. So where did you get them from." I said with a smirk. "Seriously Jack I don't want to talk about it." He said but his eyes filled with tears a little but I ignored my caring side and just carried on being a bastard. "Oh come on, what's wrong with a bit of gay sex." I said and poked him and he flinched away. "Stop. Don't hurt me." He whispered moving further into the sofa. I wanted to stop but I couldn't, as much as I hated doing this I was actually enjoying tormenting him. "You'll have to beg me if you want me too stop." I said but it came out way too sexual. "Stop, your hurting me please stop I will do anything you want just don't hurt me please." Alex sobbed and just broke down into tears. This made me stop and I couldn't ignore my caring side any more. "Alex what's wrong? Was it something I said?" I asked. "Get away from me you monster!" He shouted and got up. "Wait what? I haven't done anything other than poke you." I said confused. "That's what they said. I've done nothing wrong but they have!" He said loudly. "Who have?" I asked. "Leave me alone! Why won't anyone leave me alone!" He sobbed and went looking through Carlile draws. "Alex your not meant to do that." I said. "Oh the bad boy has gone all good? Maybe when I slit my wrists in front of you..." He said loudly but Ashby came in the room.----------------- "The hell is going on here?" He asked and looked at Alex. "Hey, what happened?" He asked softly and went over to him. Alex backed away still holding this blade he had found. "He hurt me." He sobbed. "Who did? Who hurt you?" Ashby asked quietly. Alex pointed to me. "What did you do?" He asked fighting the urge to shout at me. "I poked him, guess I poked him too hard." I said. "We'll talk about this in a minute." He said glaring at me. "Alex, you going to give me the blade?" He asked softly. Alex shook his head. "I don't want to be here." He sobbed. "Close the door Jack." Ashby said and I gotnup and shut the door. "Remember what me and Austin said? If you left like this then you should listen to your music until it goes away." He said quietly. Austin? Who the fuck is Austin? I was confused. "It won't go away, doing the drugs didn't make it go away. Nothing is working." He sobbed. "How long have you been feeling like this?" Ashby said quietly. I have no idea what is going on here. "Last night when.. When they..." He said but I couldn't hear what he said. "Can I have this?" He asked and held his hand out and Alex put the blade in Ashby's hand. "Come here." He whispered and pulled Alex into a really big hug. I'm sure this was inappropriate but I wasn't going to say anything. "You don't say anything what you have heard or seen okay. It's important that no one knows." Ashby said and looked at me. "I won't say anything." I said quietly. "Let's go and sit on the sofa yeah?" He said quietly and they both came over and sat on the sofa. Not long after Alex fell asleep. Carlile had returned. "What happened?" Carlile asked. "He freaked out. He's not going home tonight." Ashby said. "He can't come with us." Carlile said and looked at me. "Don't look at me, he hates me since I'm the reason he freaked in the first place." I said. "Austin please. The poor boy is fucking losing his mind right now." Ashby said. Now I know who Ashby and Alex was on about. "You, you don't say a word okay." Austin said. "I won't." I said. "It'd be so much more easier if his fucking mother would at least have something to do with him." Ashby said. "Wait his mum ran off?" I asked. "Yeah, but we're not saying anything else." Austin said. "Wake Alex up and you can take him home since I have loads to do here still." Austin said. "Will do." Ashby said and kissed him. "Ah fuck man." I said to myself but it came out louder than what I wanted it too. They both looked at me. "Oh yeah, you know I said some student tried to hit on me. That's the one." Austin said. Ashby chuckled. "Find your own. He's mine." He said and hugged Austin waist. I smiled and Ashby woke Alex up and they both went home. "Does this mean I have a early finish?" I asked. "Nope, sit back down you still have to think about your life choices." He said while typing an email. I huffed and sat back on the sofa.

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