Family stories

Cole's Problems

This story happened a week ago today, enjoy, there may be tears.

It was 3 in the morning when there was a knock on my front door. I was the only one awake and Richie was at work, if it was him he would of opened the door instead of knocked.

I looked through the peep hole and saw Cole sitting there, his head ducked down.

"Cole?" I questioned, not opening the door yet.

"I need your help Alaska, open the door." I unlocked the door for him and he stood there, his head still down.

"Whats up Cole?" I asked, he looked up at me. "Oh my god, what happened to you?"

He had a black eye and blood everywhere. In his eye, mouth, nose, ears, i had no idea what was going on.

"Who did this to you?!" I asked, he shook his head.

"Do you need me to call an ambulance? or at least take you to the hospital?" He shook his head and tears started to form in his eyes, mixing with the blood in his eyes.

"That bastard, he did this." Cole said, staring angrily at the ground.

"Who?" I asked, putting a hand on his shoulder, he winced in pain and closed his eyes tight.

"My Dad." he whispered. my heart sank, how could his own father do this to him? I know he left his family behind, but I'd never expect him to beat up his own son.

Cole started to hold his stomach and fell to the floor on my porch.

"Cole, I'm taking you to the hospital." I said, he didn't protest as i helped him off the porch to my truck.

"Paige, Veronica, Andrea, I'm taking Cole to the hospital!" i yelled into the house, Andrea's light turned on and she came out into the hallway.

"Whats going on?" She asked, i began to cry.

"Cole's dad, he beat Cole up and hes not okay, he just collapsed on the porch and hes all bloody. I gotta take him to the hospital." Andrea grabbed some slippers.

"I'm gonna call Richie at the station and I'll meet you up there. I'll go get Cole's mom too." I nodded and ran down the stairs, I heard Andrea talking to Richie, who was on duty at his new job at the police station.

Cole was in the front seat, his face expressed pain and he started to cough up blood.

"I think something inside you ruptured. I'm gonna get you to the hospital. just hang on." I backed out of the driveway and saw Paige in the window of her room, I stared up at her for a few seconds before tearing out of the driveway and into the main road.