Bruised

Chapter 3

It was 12:45 a.m and Nate was doing his night run. Joe decided that because he needed to know theplace so they had been both doing it a few days now. They had been running for about an hournow and they were going by some streets the new boy didn’t know yet. “This alley was where Ikissed Malia, my first girlfriend” Nathaniel said when Joe started walking in that direction “Forget it, it’s a dead end ma friend” he said still joking.

“No, look, there is someone there! Seriously Nate, I think he’s bleeding” And as he was walking towards the unconscious man on the ground he realised who he was “Matt!” he yelled as got down to grabbed his head from the ground. He was alive, Joe had checked that “Matt wake up damn!” he slapped him twice.
“I’m calling an ambulance” the other said in panic. “No! No no, we can’t take him to the hospital Joe” he said and he could feel the boy inhis arms starting to move “He’ll kill me if I take him there, look, your mum is a nurse right? Can you please help me?” Nate almost begged.

And then Joe was already on the phone “3 minutes and my father will be here, how he is?”

“Breathing.”

Mrs. Petriece was already on the door when the car stopped at their mansion, once they laid him on the nearest table. The middle aged woman gave him some painkillers and started taking care of his wounds. He was already awake but the words he was murmuring were barely impossible to hear. After some time she was finally over cleaning wounds and now she was talking to Joe and Nate “Do not get in trouble!” she said and although it was easy to know she was not very worried “Your friend has at least two broken ribs so you better spend here the night” she said with a soft smile and then she and her husband took the stairs that Nate knew lead to the bedrooms.

Less than 10 minutes later Joe had fallen asleep on a chaise longue in the right on the side of the huge living room and soon Nate had done the same. But Matthew couldn’t sleep, he wouldn’t surely make noise or leave considering how nice the family had been and how worried Nate would be on the next day. As he laid there in pain he thought about the last thing that came into his mind before it all went black. His dad. And he thought about how much he missed him.

He didn’t know for how long he had been there by himself thinking but suddenly he heard noise from what it seemed like keys and then the front door was opening. A red haired girl. A red haired girl in a short dress and high heels. A red haired girl with tears in her eyes. “Who are you?” she asked confused “what are you doing at my place?” she asked again as she locked the door.
Matthew didn’t move, and as he opened the mouth he felt a sharp pain on the left side of his chest causing him to flinch “I  am hurt” he said very low.
“You are clearly hurt” she stated as if it was the most natural thing on the world. “Why aren’t you sleeping like these two? Need more painkillers?” she asked and walked closer to him “I’m Stella” but the pain weren’t really letting Matthew talk “I see you are not in the mood for talking, you probably want to sleep” she said and took her high heels off.

“Wait” he said in the same tone as before “It hurts” he made a pause “when I talk” he said and paused again “and I can’t sleep” he said and tried to smile but quickly realised the pain he felt was too much. “I’m Matthew” he added and then stopped talking.

“I’ll go ask my mom if she has anything for the pain and I’ll be back soon” she said and went up, leaving Matthew alone with his wounds and bruises. He couldn’t avoid thinking about how pretty that girl really was and about how that family had helped him so much in just a few hours.

When the girl came back she had changed her curly ponytail into a messy ponytail and she was no longer in her dress but instead had her pyjamas on and a glass of water on one hand and a couple of pills on the other. “Here” she said and realising that Matthew could barely move she put the medicines in his mouth and then gave him some water. “So what happened to you” she said and sat on the carpet in front of the sofa where Matt was. “Long story” he murmured.

She looked at her phone “it’s 3 a.m” she looked at him and smiled “I have all night.”

“I’m a kickboxer” he started but was quickly cut off “Then you would have had no problems in going to the hospital” she said with a small laugh “I can smell bullshit from miles away I must warn you” she stated as if she felt offended. “I’m an illegal kickboxer” he said right after.
Stella didn’t seemed surprised though “You don’t seem the guy that gets his ass kicked much”. And that made him made the mistake of trying to smile again “Cause I’m not” he added and closed his eyes for some seconds “What happened tonight then?” She asked curious but Matthew didn’t really feel like talking about it, not in that moment. “And you?” he made a pause and looked at the girl in front of him, at her green eyes that were no longer teary “You were crying when you came in” he said and then flinched in pain again.

She looked at the floor staring at the nothing for a bit “It’s a long story” she smiled when she looked at Matthew again “I have all night Stella” he stated “I have all night”. 

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Hope you are enjoying bc I'm deffo loving to write this.
I would like to thank vals in this chapter bc she has supported me since the very beginning!!

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