Mini blade

XIV

Tw: blood

Injuries

We all knocked on the door and it was opened by a worried foolish

"Hey guys came to see clay," he asked and we all nodded and he let us in the see puffy at the dining room table with her head in her hands

I walked up to her and wrapped my arms around her and soon the others did too and we sat there until she finally hugged us all back

"What happened puffy," I asked "I don't know for sure but someone found him on the ground in a puddle of his blood with cuts and bruises all over him" she explained and stated silently crying "you can go see him if you would like he's cleaned up," she said and I kissed her cheek and walked upstairs and told the two to stay down there for a second

I slowly opened the clays room door and saw him and covered my mouth so there was no noise when my tears started streaming down my cheeks

I saw him lying lifelessly on his bed with bandages that were slowly starting to stain with blood and bruises where the bandages weren't I slowly walked up to him and sat on the chair beside him and to my surprise he turned his head and opened his eyes and gave me a smile

"I look like shit don't I" he spoke in a quiet laugh that made me giggle as I lightly rested my hand on top of his "don't cry" he whispered and I quickly wiped away my tears "I'm sorry I should have been with you I should have gone to the lake with you I'm sor-" "it's not your fault" he coughed cutting me off when I heard footsteps walking up the stairs and soon I saw Nick George and puffy walking in

"Hey guys" he spoke and they all rushed over to us "how are you fooling duckling" puffy asked "I'm fine mom" he reassured her "you don't look fine" I heard George mutter "oh come on guys I'm not dead" Clay said trying to lighten the mood "don't joke about that" Nick shouted "oh come on now" clay rolled his eyes "I'll be back soon with food ok" puffy spoke before leaving the room and us with clay

We sat in silence the air very tense before I heard clay whisper to us "oh come on guys I don't think I look like total shit" he joked this time lightening the mood and earning chuckles from all of us "sorry to break it to you dude but you look pretty shity," Nick scoffed "don't say that to him Nick" George glared and hit Nick in the chest "oh come on George he doesn't want to be babied" nick rolled his eyes snd I looked over at clay who had a smile

About half an hour later the two other boys had to leave and puffy brought clay soup and new bandages

"You can leave if you want kora I'm sure your dad is worried" puffy offered "no I'm fine I would rather stay and make sure he's ok and my dad already knows and I'm sure you have to go back to work soon so I can take care of him"

Puffy has oddly become my mom over the years she takes care of me makes sure I'm ok and is just overall a lovely lady and I love her with all my heart and I know her work gets busy and all because she is in the medical field and needs help sometimes

"Thank you kora" she hugged me and handed me the soup and bandages and went back into her room which I assumed that she was getting ready for work

I walked back into clays room to see him staring at the ceiling I slowly walked over to him and set the stuff down

"I need you to sit up," I told him and he looked over at me "alright" he whispered and I helped him sit up and then I fed him Puffy let me help her work in the little medical place she ran and taught me how to bandage, stitch, and clean wounds so if anyone got hurt I knew what to do

"I have to clean your wounds now ok" I gave him a reassuring smile "so what happened," I asked as I slowly took off the bloody bandages and saw his jaw slightly clench "I don't remember to be honest I was just walking back from the treehouse when everything went black it's your birthday soon" he changed the subject and I took the hint "ya it is" I replied as I finished talking of the bandages and started cleaning all the wounds and saw just how many he had

As I clean the text of his wounds we made small talk and I tried to make him feel better making bad jokes or comments about Nick or George making clay smile or chuckle in return. Once I was done I went downstairs and put away the dishes and disposed of the old bandages and I saw foolish sitting on the couch reading

"Hey foolish," I said making myself present "hey kora," he said in return "Clay is awake if you want to talk to him" I spoke "I'm not sure he would like to talk to me" he stated "no way your his brother of co-" "my friends the reason this happened don't you understand kora" he yelled cutting me off "it's the reason he won't want to talk to me is that he has refused to talk to me for about two months now" his voice cracked and I could tell he was about to cry "it's my fault this happened since you guys haven't been hanging as much some of my friends started bulling him and now he hasn't spoken a word to me ok so just leave me alone" he turned back around and my mouth remind open shocked at what he had just said and run back upstairs and shut the door

"Why didn't you tell me," I asked and he looked at me confused "what do you mean," he asked "that some kids were picking on you" I raised my voice "it's nothing" he looked away from me "it's nothing clay" I gave him a look "I didn't want any of you to know because I don't know I was embarrassed" he turned his head to look at me "we are friends and friends stick together you hear me" I bit my lip trying to prevent me from crying "don't cry" he looked at me and I went and sat back on the chair beside him and he held out his hand and I took it "I just don't want to see you like this," I said in a hushed tone "I promise it won't" he squeezed my hand "ok" I smiled

Soon after clay fell asleep and I went and got a blanket snd a pillow sat back down and grabbed his hand again and slowly drifted off to sleep

Hello, eat food drink water stay swagy and have a good day <3

-eve