Good Boy In Training

Selfish

"W..what's going on. Where am I?" Toby asked attempting to remove the hand that held him down.

"Wait Brooks..? your hand is all cut up.. are you okay?"

Brooks quickly pulled his hand away. "Oh that.. I fell."

"You fell and only managed to scratch your knuckles..?"

"Um anyways I wanted to bring you to the hospital but Rita told me you'd probably kill me if I did. So I just brought you up to your room. Also she didn't seem to worried about your condition. Do you come home looking like this often..?"

"Look Brooks..I'm.... I'm not who you think I am alright? I'm nothing like you and I never will be. I don't come from a rich loving family and I'm not a top athlete. I'm a fucking nobody."

"Tobias I-"

"We shouldn't be seen together from now on alright? I'll stop going to the library and I'll have my classes changed when we go back to school. Well pretend we never met."

"Why would you say that-"

"Do you not get it Brooks? Someone like me just can't be around people
Like you! And what I said about you was very stupid of me to say and I apologize-"

"Tobias calm down. I don't care about what you said. You were drunk okay? And you still are..I wish you'd stop caring about what others think of you-"

"Shove it! I don't care what others think of me!"

"Then what's holding you back from
Being my friend? Tobias don't you get it? I want you to be my friend, I want the two of us to hangout alright? And screw those guys for what they did to you. You didn't deserve it."

Brooks brushed Toby's bruised face which made the other flinch.

"Just let me take care of you alright?"

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"Do you have a bathtub? You need a bath."

"I need a piss that's for sure."

Toby stood up but nearly fell down once he attempted walking.

"Here hold my arm"

"No fuck off I can get to the bathroom myself."

"Which door is it" brooks asked ignoring Toby's rejection.

".... The one to the left."

Once the two made it to the bathroom Brooks turned on the tub.

"What temperature do you like your water?"

"What? I can take a bath by myself. You can leave now.. it's getting late."

"Tobias how could I leave you in this condition? You barely made it to your bathroom alone and when we got here you had to sit down because you were in so much pain."

Toby hated having people feel sorry for him. His whole life adults always felt bad for him. His family abandoned him and he was always seen alone.

Toby looked in the mirror as he began to strip. He cringed as he lifted his bloody shirt revealing his once pale skin now stained with black and blue.

He began to cry as he saw the word "fag" carved into his inner thigh. He didn't know why he was so upset over the sight of his body. He's been beaten countless of times. Why all of a sudden it pained him seeing himself like this. Was it because of the reasoning for why he got beat?

He cursed at himself for being so stupid. Saying a lie about another person for his own selfish reasons.

"I'm so stupid." Toby whispered to himself.

Brooks grabbed Toby's hand. Which startled him because he had been lost in his thoughts.

"Toby whatever your thinking about right now I want you to forget, okay?"

Toby shook his head.

Brooks lead Toby to the bathtub and guided him in.