𝔻𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕖𝕕 // 𝓚𝓪𝓻𝓶𝓪 𝓐𝓴𝓪𝓫𝓪𝓷𝓮 𝓧 𝓕𝓮𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓮 𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭𝓮𝓻

{9} Meet Alastor

TW: This chapter contains mention of abuse.

"So who's this friend?" Karma asked, putting his hands behind his head as we walked.

"His name is Alastor."

"You said 'old friend' are you no longer friends?"

"No."

"Why not?" 

"He's my ex."

"Why is your brother with your ex?"

"I don't know. Maybe he thinks it makes him cool."

"So what's this Alastor like?"

"Abusive. Rude. Cold-hearted. Tough. He doesn't have any restraint."

"Did he ever hit you?" He looked over at me.

"Yeah."

"Were you guys sparring like we do?"

"No," I looked at the ground and twiddled my thumbs.

"Then why'd he hit you?"

"It changed. Once it was because I beat him in a game of Slap Jack. Another because I didn't get him his food in time. We sparred once, I won and he beat me for it."

I look at him. Rage fills his eyes as he smiles. That's totally not scary.

"Why are you getting so angry? You punched me in the face like 4 hours ago."

"You punched me in the chest and slapped my face."

"You deserved it."

He laughed and put his arms down. I reached over and grabbed his arm to stop him from walking. Then I kissed him on the cheek. His face turned red as I started walking, again.

"Thank you for coming," I said. I felt something touch me. Then he was beside me, with his arm wrapped around my shoulders.

"Who else is going to beat your ex up for you?"

"No."

"What's that?" He smirked. Man, he smirks a lot.

"You won't beat him up. No fighting. We're going to go there. Get Nico. Then go back to my place."

"Is Nico staying at your place?"

"Probably."

"Can I spend the night?"

I look at him and he's grinning at me. "What about your parents?"

"They'll be gone for a while longer. When are your parents getting back?"

"Wednesday."

"Perfect. So I'll stay the night. Make sure Nico doesn't bring his little buddy along."

I leaned into him a little. Alastor lives a couple blocks away. Karma and I talk about random stuff like Koro Sensei, our classmates, who would win in a fight, Terasaka or one of those punching bags that comes back after you hit it. We decided Terasaka would just get angry and hit it really hard, then it would come back and he would just stand there while it bodied him.

Eventually we found our way to Alastors. The gate was open. I lead Karma to the front door. Just the thought of seeing him again scares me so much I begin to shake a little. I brought my hand up to knock on the door, then I froze. Karma grabbed my hand and looked at me. With a forced smile I pulled my hand out of his and knocked on the door. No answer. We waited a second and then Karma started to knock really loud and fast, until eventually we heard something on the other side. Karma smirked and knocked louder. He stopped when the door flung open.