Jack's PTSD

chapter nine: The shed window

The month was September and they had just moved from Lane's home in sommersham into a small rural town called Chatter is,

"Jack baby, why don't you go and play in the new garden while me and Mark unload the van and unpack?" Taylor said as she gave Jack the key's to the shed door's so he could play in the garden and be out of the way as they unpacked,

Jack took the key's gentally and headed to the first shed door; it was an old white plastic door which was stiff from age and rust,
Jack placed the key in the lock and attempted to turn it but the lock wouldn't move so Jack tried to turn it as hard as he possibly could but to no avail and a small desaster the key had snapped inside of the lock, Jack stared at the end of the broken key puzzled wondering how a piece of metal can snap, suddenly he heard a soft voice, the voice of another young boy,

"Hey Jack?" The voice said through the broken and jammed up door "see that wall to your right? Climb over it there's another door over there" the boy said to Jack as he looked at the wall noticing each gap that he could put his feet into,

Jack followed the command and carefully climbed over this steep and crumberling wall like a year before where he would chase chicken for the farmer and ripping their heads off once he had caught them so his mum could eat some proper meat,

Slowly Jack climbed over the broken and dangerous wall vaulting over it and landing  like his all time favorite superhero spiderman, he looked up and noticed the other white plastic door to the side of the shed,

"Jack try this door, I'm stuck and I want out" the boy shouted as he banged and thumbed on the inside of the plastic decrepit object, Jack ran to the old door and put the key in the lock to unlock it, he paused for a moment and thought about the other door and how the key had snapped in the lock

"Jack please hurry up its dark scary and cold in here!" The boy cried making Jack panic and so Jack turned the key and made the second key snapped inside of the rusty old lock,

*Snap*

*CAW, CAW, CAW*

Jack jumped and watched as 3 beautiful black Crow's flew away frightened by the sound of the key snapping, the little boy in the shed had went quiet and Jack walked over to the shed security window and peered through it,

The red haired pale faced boy, who's face was as white as a ghost and as soft as the gental winters snow, sat down on the hard concrete flooring bouncing what seemed to be a signed base ball against the wall in front of him,
Jack turned around and walk towards the concerventry which was where the boxes were stacked from the floor all the way up to the plastic celling,

Jack went to open the glass door when he heard the boys voice again,
"Jack please free me" the scared Boy screamed desperate to get out of the shed, "Please Jack" he shouted,

Jack sprant to the shed door and started to violently throw his tender gental and frail body against the door trying to force it open but to no luck did he get it open,

"Jack come to the window I have an idea" the boy shouted as he cried in fear and desperation ad he was clusterphobic,

Jack ran to the security window and came face to face with the boy, he had a scar running over the right hand side of his face over his red eye, his nose was as bent and crooked as a snapped plastic ruler that was glued back together and missing parts making it bend one way slightly,

"Put your hand's out Jack" the boy said as Jack done what he was told to do and a brick landed in Jack's soft tender hand's, it was heavey and sharp, jaggered one would say with a thick and dangerous edge,

"Smash this window Jack, I will hit it from this side and you hit it from outside where you are" the boy said grabbing his trusted red stainless steel crowbar,

"On three we both hit this window and smash it ready?" The boy said as Jack submissively nodded,

"One, two, three" the boy counted as they both swung for the windown smashing it open
*SMASH*
The glass from the metal wired security window fell onto the pile of bricks underneath it on the outside of the shed making a huge mess and almost cutting Jack as he stood back,

With the window shattered the boy climbed out and looked at Jack,

"Thank you Jack" he said "can I stay with you?" He asked him nicely as jack put the brick down, he was to scared to be on his own, so Jack nodded his heaf and the boy introduced himself,

"My name is MurDer and I am 5 I turn six in January" he said to Jack with a smile on his face as the boy spoke to Jack with them absolutely unaware that Taylor was stood there watching Jack confused and eye's full of burning anger and rage,
She stormed over and smacked Jack ove r the back of the head before grabbing him by his right wrist and dragging him inside and locking him in his new bedroom for smashing the shed window,

Jack sat down silently and started to play with his Lego men, Jack slowly glanced up to see MurDer sat there in the room,

"Jack what did D.H do?" MurDer whispered repeatedly into Jack's right ear slowly increasing the volume of his voice making Jack clench his hands and rip out his soft yet long brown hair with salty tears running down both sides of his face while his head hurt,

Jack couldn't sit still and he got up and he started to repeatedly head butt the wooden bunk bed corsing his fore-head to bleed,

Jacks thick red blood ran down his face and MurDer started to head butt the bunk bed frame too,
Taylor ran through and noticed that Jack had blacked out and slowly but carefully laied him down onto his bed before rushing to put tissue on the open wound and stop the bleeding.