Eremin

Beaten

(POV Eren)

I finally make it to my front yard. I can see bits of smoke coming from the kitchen window meaning both of my parents are up. This isn't going to end good. I try climbing the tree beside my house and right next to my window, but my jumping out the window action from yesterday made my ankles too sore to climb the tree, so I put on a tough face and walk in through the front door. The first thing that happens is loud yelling, ringing in my ears. "WHERE WERE YOU?! YOU WEREN'T HERE LAST NIGHT! WE HAD TO GET A FAST FOOD BREAKFAST, AND WE HAD TO DO THE DISHES OUR SELVES! BOY YOU ARE GETTING ON MY NERVES I BETTER NOT SEE YOU FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK! IF I DO YOU BETER BE PREPARED TO GET HIT!" My mom yells. She then turns her body to face away from me leaving me with dad.

I run up the stairs attempting to make it into my room before he gets me, but he grabs my ankle midway, it hurts even more then when I jumped out the window. "Where do you think you're going boy." It wasn't a question when he said it, it was a threat. He loosens his grip on my ankles a little and I run into the living room. He walks towards me slowly with the look of a wild animal. I start to back up and hit my head on the wall. He gets closer, and closer, until he's one foot away from me. He grabs the scruff of my neck and holds me up in the air, then throws me across the room. I close my eyes before I hit the ground, and I slam into it full force. I can feel my head throbbing and a thick, sticky, liquid running through my hair.

I put my hand up to it and open my eyes slightly to see bright red covering my hands and the vision of my right eye blurred with it. I smile and lay into the floor thinking of bright happy colors and floating away with the clouds. However, the moment of happiness was ruined by a horrible kick in the side and more in the face and chest areas. My dad lifts me up once more and punches me in the jaw and nose. "Fight me back like a man." He growls. The familiar taste of iron fills my mouth as it has many times before today. I feel blood leaking from my nose as well. My limp or in other words, lifeless body is dropped and left on the ground and my dad makes a "tch" sound as he walks away mumbling to himself.

Knowing that my mother would stick to her words if she saw me again, already beaten up or not, I drag myself up the stairs again slowly with my arms. I think of how Armin would feel when he saw that I had just left while he was asleep. Who am I kidding? He wouldn't care. But I'll try and text him anyway. I can't do it while I'm down here. Stair by stair I make my way up. I can still feel all the blood running down my head, nose and other areas but it doesn't matter. I finally am at the top and start feeling dizzy, but no, I wasn't going to faint like I did in the library like a weakling, I was going to make it in my room and tell Armin I had went home and was happily in bed so I don't worry him.

I make it into my room and crawl onto my bed/floor mat. I take my phone out of my pocket where I had put stuff to protect it so it doesn't break. I open it and I have multiple missed calls and a few text messages.
Italics = Eren Bold = Armin
(10:21 am) Eren?
(10:25 am) Eren I'm getting really worried where are you rn
(10:30 am) Eren if you don't answer in the
next 30 minutes I'm calling the police.
(10:38 am) please don't be messing with me
(10:40 am) Eren I swear I won't just call the
police I will track your ip and see what's wrong with you myself
(10:52 am) Eren please I'm gonna cry

Luckily it's only 10: 57 so I can text before he tracks my ip, calls the police and then drops me because I'm so weak that I can't defend myself. So I start to think of what to text him for a minute. Then I know.
Italics =Eren Bold = Armin
                                        Hey srry I didn answer but I'm relaxing at my house now
Oh ok I was really worried
for a sec<3
It's fine you had a right to be I was acting foolishly
No you were good I was
overreacting<3
If you say so ig <(^o^)>

I'm happy that he's not mad at least. I would like to lay on a big fluffy cloud right now though and fall asleep forever forgetting all my problems and dreaming nice dreams for once. If that's too selfish than you can tell me but it just seems so nice and peaceful to go into a long sleep forever that I can't help but want to. Maybe this mat can serve as a cloud for now, not a real one, not as soft as fluffy or as hopeful, but I'm still able to sleep on it and I'm grateful for that. I wipe some blood off of me and sit there with my eyes closed knowing I will not be able to rest but trying anyways.

(POV Armin)

I wonder what Eren is doing right now. He's probably having a great time with his parents. I know he's ok now but he scared me when he left in the morning. And at night time when he had a panic attack thing. He must have been really tired. I guess everyone has bad days. But I'll just mind my own business because he might be busy and I don't want to interrupt him! He's obviously fine but I just have an itch that he's not somehow even though he texted me and said that he is alright. Maybe I'm wrong but I hope that I'm wrong. I would never wish harm on anyone.

This is a short chapter haha.
1093 words.
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