You've got to hold on.

Jacks POV

I haven't seen Alex for two weeks, so after school I was going to go looking for him.
I'm basically walking round school in a blur and Zack and Rian noticed.
"Alex will be fine Jack." Zack said and put his hand on my arm.
"I don't think he will be, its been two weeks and I haven't seen or heard from him. What if something has happened to him." I said and looked at Zack.
"Nothing has happened to him." Rian said.
"How do you know that?" I asked and he turned me round and pointed to a person in a hoodie.
"You know you want to go over to him so go. We'll understand if you don't come to lessons and don't meet up after school." Rian said.
I smiled at them and walked over to Alex.

"Lex?" I said quietly and Alex jumped and looked at me but quickly looked down to hide his face.
From what I saw of his face he had two black eyes his cheek had a nasty cut on it and his other cheek was bruised and his lip was busted.
"Fucking hell Lex what happened?" I asked quietly.
"Nothing, I'm fine." Alex said and went to reach for his books but I gently pushed the door shut.
Alex looked at me.
"Let's go and talk somewhere more private." I said quietly and Alex nodded and followed me.
We went outside and sat under a tree after I've gotten a pass to excuse me and Alex from lessons because Alex really needs to talk to someone and I know he'll probably only talk to me.

Alex sat down and hissed quietly and I was guessing he was hoping I didn't hear him but I did hear him.
"Alex what happened? Don't say nothing because your busted face is telling a different story." I said and sat next to him.
Alex looked away and sniffed.
"Lex don't look away from me please." I said and Alex looked at me and he had tears falling down his face.
"Lex talk to me please." I said quietly.
" T..T..T..They beat me up a..a..and raped me." He said and started to cry hard.
"Lex, why didn't you come home?" I asked and pulled him to my side.
"Because its not my home. My home is on the streets." Alex sniffed.
"Lex my house will always be your home." I said.
Alex pulled away from me and looked away.
"I had it coming. I deserved it, I deserved them doing what they did to me because I don't matter to anyone. No one likes me, I've seen them all talking about me." He spat and punched the ground out of frustration.
"I just want to be normal." He whispered and looked down.
"You are normal." I said and looked at him.
"If I was normal then how come I'm on the streets I get raped or molested almost all the time. I would have a mum and dad, I would still have a family which love me." He said quietly and looked back down again.
"I like you." I said and Alex looked at me.
"No one likes me, I'm probably a walking STD." He said quietly.
"I like you Alex." I said.
"I..I like you too Jack." Alex said and looked down.
"I'm going to take you home and your not leaving Alex." I said and got up and helped Alex up and he hissed loudly.
"Let me look at you side Lex." I said.
"When we go back to yours." He said and I nodded and we went back to mine.

We got back to mine and like normal mum was home with Alfie and Alice but for some reason dad was home as well.
I opened the door and I knew mum and dad was talking about me and Alex.
"I'm worried about the both. Jack hasn't been the same since Alex left and I'm worried about him. As for Alex, that poor boy he is a mess." Mum said.
"Joyce stop worrying about the pair of them. Alex will be fine and so will Jack." Dad said.
"Do you seriously want Jack to start self harming again?" Mum spat.
"Jack is strong enough not to start that again and you know that Joyce." Dad said seriously.
I caught hold of Alex's hand before he could run off and went to the kitchen where Alex literary hid behind me.
"Oh how its nice to know you talk about me when I'm not here." I said sarcastically.
" Jack why aren't you at school?" Mum said.
"Because I have found a certain person and they seriously need our help more than ever." I said and pulled Alex to my side and he just hid in my side not showing his face.
"Alex. Sweetie where the hell have you been!?" Mum said and walked over to us but I shook my head at her once I felt Alex tense up.
"He needs loads of space right now okay, and he's a right mess at the moment. He only seems to trust me at the moment." I said and mum nodded.
"Let's go upstairs." I said quietly and Alex nodded and we went to my room.

I had Alex lead on the bed with his shirt off looking at these bruises and cuts he had all over him.
"Ow watch it you cunt." Alex hissed loudly.
"I'll ignore you calling me a cunt." I said and touched his ribs gently.
"Jesus fucking Christ!" Alex said loudly.
"Fucking hell Alex you must of busted 4 of your ribs or something. What the hell happened?" I said and looked at him while putting a cold compress round his chest.
"The beat me senseless then fucking raped me." He said.
"Lex you need to do something about this." I said.
"No." Alex said seriously.
"But they could of killed you Alex." I said.
"Well they didn't." Alex whispered and looked away from me.
I sat on the bed and lead down beside Alex and started to gently traced my finger up and down his ribs which made him wince away at first but he soon got used to it.
"Go to sleep if you have to." I whispered.
Alex nodded but he was asleep anyway.

Notes

really don't like this chapter