Hidden Tears

Chapter Nine- Endless Pain

John
Days. It's been days since I've last seen Alex. Since we fought, since he almost killed himself. Everytime I try to talk to him he would ignore me or walk away. He wouldn't even glance at me.

Today he wasn't at school or at least I think since I don't have a class with him. I haven't seen him anywhere. I check the bathroom during class changes. He's not there.

What made me think the most was what he said before. "Because of you I almost died! "

I don't understand what he meant by that. Every time I tried talking to Lace she would glare at me, ignore me, or tell me to go away? I want to talk to the leader of the Cross Gang, Chase, but I can't. My parents and sister haven't been much happier when seeing me without bruises and scratches. If I talk to Chase I'll probably get beaten up. Though I want to know what happen to Alex.

I make my way to the gang as they are outside the back of the school leaning against the wall and laughing at their own stupid jokes. My heart stopped a beat once one of them sees me and smirks.

Glancing at Chase he says, "Look who shows up."

They all turn to me and Chase smiles widely.

"Well," he said. "Didn't think I'd see you again."

What? "What do you mean." I say angrily.

"Well I didn't think you'd come back since the incident." The rest of his hand laugh.

"Didn't think you still had guts to laugh after what you did to your sister." I obviously didn't know what I was talking about. That's the first thing that came out of my mouth before I could stop it.

But it worked. Chase's gang stopped laughing and his smile faded. "What the hell are you talking about?" He growls.

"What did you do to Alex?" I ask instead of replying.

"Hey we asked you-" Gran spoke up but was shut up by Chase telling him to shut it.

"You really want to die, don't you?" Chase asks taking a step forward. I didn't move back though, I stood my ground as I repeated my question.

"What did you do to Alex." I raise my voice a little warning him that I wasn't going to back down.

He goes up to me and grabs me by the collar. "Alex? I'll won't tell you what I did. I have a better idea."

He looks back to his buddies who chuckle a bit. He smirks and turns back to me. Shit. I knew this was a bad I idea.

"How about we show you?" With that he throws a punch to my face hard enough to throw me to the ground but I didn't fall as Chase still had his grip on the shirt.

Next thing I know my arms are grab and so are my feet. A gag was put in my mouth silencing me. They pick me up and head to the little woods behind our school.

All four, Chase, Gran, Roock, and Jordan, held on to me tightly. My head is faced the opposite from where they're walking so I can't see where we're going. They suddenly stop and I turn my head lightly to see why. I'm face to face with a big lake. Now I see where this is going. Shit.

My body suddenly hits the ground roughly as they let me go my gag still between my teeth.

"Welcome to our secret place." Chase says with exaggeration in his voice.

I'm picked up roughly and my arms are pulled back behind my back.

Chase turns back to me. "You want to know what happened to him? Well you're about to find out." He chuckles and looks at his friends. They nod and head to the lake.

Oh god. No, no, please! I want to scream but I can't. I shake roughly trying to get out of the grip they hold on me. I guess I was struggling too much that Chase came up to me and punched me right on the gut. I gasped only to choke on the cloth in my mouth and I tried to cough. He grabs me hair roughly pulling me face to face with him.

"You wanted to know what happened didn't you?" I was still choking on the gag as he talked. He forcefully took the cloth out of my mouth and I cough roughly.

"Now you're going to get a taste of what he got!'' He yells throwing another fist to my abdomen as I lean forward from the punch his knee roughly makes contact with my face. I spit blood out and cough even more violently.

"Go." He says to his gang but they don't move they just stare at each other. "Now!"

They hurry to the lake pulling me along with them. I feel them hesitate for a minute until Roock spoke up.

"Come guys." His voice was rough. "Let's do it like last time."

"But Ro-"

"Gran." Jordan silences him. He shakes his head to him. "Don't."

"Hurry it up!" I hear Chase from the background.

They move forward and kick my feet from beneath me. Someone grabs my hair and pushes my head in the water. I take a deep breath before my face enters the water but it wasn't enough. They left my head in the waters longer than I could resist. Before I passed out they pulled me back up. I cough worst than before and gasp then my head is back in the water. The cycle went on and on, next one worst than before. After a couple more of the "head and water" as my head is brought back up its faced with a punch, back again in the water back out another punch along with a slap. Then back to the water then the next and the next and the next. Endless torture, endless beating, endless pain.

The last thing I hear were Chase's laughter before I was met with darkness.