Problems With Love

Chapter 46

Brandon's POV

I drive home thinking about what Kristen said about Raanta. Not wanting him to get depressed. Kristen told me her story, and she almost died. Bollig almost died too. In fact he's still in the hospital. It also brings back terrible memories for me. I run my fingers up my wrist and forearm where the scars used to be. They've faded by now, but they weren't always clean. I'm pretty sure Kristen has noticed some of the scars that never faded, she just never asked.

The next morning Kristen texted me to come over. I feel like she and Kris just need someone right now since their mom died.

When I get there Kristen opens the door before I can ring the doorbell. "Hey," she says giving me a hug. "Hi," I say hugging her back. "Shhhhhhhhh Kris is sleeping," she whispers plopping down on the couch. I go and sit next to her. "Listen we have to talk," I tell her. "I haven't been completely honest with you." "What is it?" she asks, a hint or worry in her voice. I take a deep breath, all the memories rushing back.

"Have you noticed some scars on my wrists?" I ask her. "Well, yeah," she says truthfully. "I can't remember if you asked about them, but if you did I probably just said it was nothing and not to worry about it, but that's not true." "Okay....... Do you wanna talk about it?" she asks. I nod. "So um when I was growing up I always loved hockey obviously. The part of Pittsburg I grew up in wasn't to into hockey though. I mean yeah everyone was a Penguins fan, but everyone was more into football and the Steelers. I was the weird kid who wanted to play hockey. I mean yeah I had friends who also played hockey, but they also played football, and I didn't want to. Then in high school I started to get bullied by the varsity quarterback, Steven. Total jock. Letterman's jacket and everything. I could handle it at first but then he got the whole team to join in. I got really depressed and almost quit hockey. But I didn't and started cutting. It took all the pain away. Then somehow the bullying got even worse and I almost quit hockey again, and my life. One night I just couldn't take it anymore, and I overdosed on aspirin. I just told my mom k had a really bad headache and was really sore from practice. She found me laying on my bed practically dead. She called 911 and they took me to the hospital where I had to get me stomach pumped. I was kinda groggy and slept a lot for a few days and when I finally came to I had to explain to her what happened. Of course she happened to be best friends with Steven's mom. My mom called his mom and they talked for hours about what happened. Steven ended up getting grounded for the rest of the year and of course it was like January. But he ended up getting ungrounded somehow. Anyway after he got grounded, he was pretty pissed as you could imagine. When I finally got back to school he beat me up. Broken nose. Black eye. Swollen lip. It was really really bad. I tried to hide it from my mom, but we ran into Steven and his mom at the store that night. Let's just say we made a scene in the store. She asked what happened, my mom noticed, Steven threatened me with his mom right there,she found out and yeah. It was terrible. Luckily Steven was a senior and I was a freshman so it got better after that but I kept cutting because the bullying continued, it just wasn't as bad."

I finish my story. Kristen sits there silent, probably shocked at my story. "I'm so sorry that happened to you Brandon," she says hugging me.

A/N so here's a short little update. I'll try to get more up soon