A Forest Away (dnf)

Ten

As I was waking along the hallway I find George at his locker. Maybe I should say hi to him!
"George!", I say as I approach him. He then turns to look at me which causes me to stop in my tracks.

He had a huge plaster on the side of his face.

"Hi Clay", he tells me softly. "What happened to your face?", I could feel the sensation of worry come over me.

"Oh.. it's nothing really I was just play fighting with my cat, I guess she took it personally", he says while huffing out a slight laugh. I'm not trying to accuse George of anything but by the look on his face, it looked like there was something he wasn't telling me.

But I wasn't gonna pry.

"Oh okay, I didn't know you have a cat?",

"Yep I do, her name's Luna here I'll show a photo of her", he says while digging into his backpack and pulling out his phone.

He swipes on it a couple of times but then eventually shows me the screen. "This is her", he says while carefully handing me the phone.

I gently take it out of his hand and stared at the picture. It was Luna laying on a laptop. "Aw that's so cute, I'm not allowed to have pets", I tell him. I can see him think for a moment "Why don't you come around my house so you can meet her? If you want of course", he asks.

"Sure!", I say a little too excitedly.

"Are you free this evening?"

"Um yeah I am"

"Well I'll see you then, just meet me in front after school", I give him a nod but then the bell rings. "We should start to heading to class", I tell him. He then gives me a soft "okay" and we began walking. I slowly look over to him and see him hold his books closely to his chest.

*George's POV*
That was close. Luna didn't actually scratch me, she would never do that but I had to at least say something so I could cover up from what actually happened.

*Flashback*
I rush through the forest trying my best to get home. Once arriving at the front door I quietly open it and make my way in side. I shut it it behind me and place the things I had on the ground.

"Father?" He then appeared out of nowhere which catches me off guard and makes me jump back into the door "George I told you a billion times to not leave this house when I'm gone, and what do you do!?", he yells as he approaches closer to me.

I could feel myself becoming smaller and feeling trapped as he towered over me. "I-I'm sorry father, I-I just don't like being inside all the time", I try to tell him "You're gonna stay inside this house wither you like it or not! This is your home! It's where you belong!", I could feel tears threatening to fall against my eyes.

"This place doesn't feel like home!", I say to him as I slightly raised my voice. I freeze at my actions uh oh

TW abuse
"Not only did you disobey me, you are talking back to me now!", I can just see the anger start to raise in his face. Suddenly he grabs me from both of my shoulders and throws me into a small glass mirror that sat next to the door.

The sound of glass shattering filled my ears.

He lets me drop to the floor after the impact.

He lets out a huff of air "When you learn to start listening to my orders and learn to respect me you're never leaving this house understand, and this better get clean up when I get back", he finishes saying as he steps over my legs to get out the door.