Broken Stars

Caught (Part 1)

Joe's Pov:

I was lost. Mentally. Everything I do is wrong, as I am told on social media every second of the day. Nothing could relive me. Nothing except a small little piece of metal that makes you feel as if your doing the right thing for life, it's amazing how something so small as my little piece of metal can cause such a big difference in a persons life such as mine. Admit it I'm just a depressed boy who waits for something good to happen in my life, which never comes. Never.

I was in my bathroom on the freezing white tiled floor, opening my wrists with that little piece of metal. It felt as if a pain can be relived with a different type of pain. "Joe! Have do you know where my camera is?!" Casper shouted from his room, I was shocked. I didn't know Casper was home, I was always carful no one would catch me cutting. "Nah sorry mate!" I yelled back sounding as if everything was okay. "What are you up to Joe?!" Casper questioned, that's when I knew I had to hide my cuts and blade because he would walk in whenever he asked the question. But how?

I quickly threw on my jumper and left the blade on my toilet floor along with blood produced from my wrists. I shut the door, jumped on my bed and opened my laptop making sure to look causal for Casper not to suspect anything. I was right he did walk in. "You alright Casper?" I asked with my voice still hoarse from crying "no. Not really. I need a shit and the toilets broken can I use yoursssss? Pleaseeeeee?" He pleaded bending his knees to make it look as if he would die if I were to say no. The problem is my blade is in there along with my blood. "Sorry Cas, my toilets broken too" I pretended to frown "Then were the fuck am I gonna shit?!" He moaned. "Poo in a bag. Then put the bag in the bin like a baby nappy!" I laughed he joined in. "Gotta go" he ran out of my room and then I gasped. "That was close" I spoke to myself, opening the door to my bathroom. "What was close?" I heard and turned towards the door way presenting Casper with a look of concern.

Shit. "Joe." He was serious "What are you not telling me?" I slowly shut the bathroom door "Cas-" He interrupted me "Joe. What's behind the door?" He asked. "Nothing." He walked over to me and pushed me out of his path and opened the door. I laid on the floor crying, one of my biggest secrets have been reviled. "Joe." He shuttered "H-How long have you been doing this for?" His question was hard to answer while in such shock. "A-A y-year" My voice jumped "Show me" he walked out of the bathroom and knelt down beside me on the floor. I slowly motioned my arm towards Casper and allowed him to remove the material covering my scarred wrists. He did so. "Joe" He began to cry "Who did this to you?"