We immeadiataly turn the first corner we see and keep running. I hear Eric and one other person behind us.
"Harris!" Eric calls out in a singsong voice. "You can't run forever." We keep running and I can hear them getting closer. At some point they catch up, and Eric launches himself at me. We hit the pavement hard and he rolls over, pinning me on my back.
"Eric," I growl. "What do you want." Eric smiles as he stands up, keeping his foot presses against my chest I get a good look at his friend, who I now recgonize as Henry DeVito, a 19 year old. Henry's not that bad a kid, but him and Jax don't get along so great. He has a younger brother named Quinn in 10th grade, and he follows Eric's footsteps. He vapes, drinks, steals from people, deals drugs. He does it all. Henry's clean as far as I know, pretty athletic. He doesn't actually hate me that much
"What do I want?" He grins. "To get revenge on your whole family, and if something were to happen to their precious baby brother,I think that would be good."
"Were not trying to kill the kid." Henry chuckles.
"Oh, he'll be fine." Eric sneers. He looks at Tori and I take this oppurtunity to lift myself up partial and punch him in the balls. He relases his foot off my chest and I kick him and again. He falls too the floor and I grab Tori's hand and urge her to run.
"Dammit!" Eric screams, raising to his feet. He flicks open his switchblade as Henry grabs his arms and restrains him from being able to run at us.
"Yo, chill." Henry says. "Put the knife back." I don't know what happened, but 5 seconds later they were both chasing after us again.
I pull Tori into some bushes after the next turn and we keep quiet as they round the corner and come into view.
"Where the hell did they go." Eric growls We peak through the bushes as they continue running down the block. and wait till they leave. I call Joe as we get out of the bushes.
"Where are you guys?" I hiss quietly, making sure no one will here us.
"Well, we ran to the main road, and we saw Donovan, Tyler, Landon, and Devin in a car, so we flagged them down, and now were all at Ryan's house." Joe explains. Devin Cartoni is 17 and in Landon and Jay's grade. He's so funny, and nice. He's chill with letting me take hits of his vape, and smoke weed, but Donovan, Landon, Jay, and Tyler never let him give any of us any.
"On our way." I reply. Tori and I make our way to Ryan's house without seeing any of the kids. We let ourselves in and head to the basement.
"Zach!" Ryan cheers as we enter the basement.
"Hey guys." I respond. Taylor wraps her arm around me.
"We thought you were dead." She laughs. I drape my arm over Tori's shoulder and we sit down on the couch. We watch whatever dumb movie Donny and Landon picked out.
"Bye guys, my moms picking us up." Taylor says. We say goodbye to the girls as they walk up the stairs.
"Hey their loser," Landon grins, now getting up from the couch and walking over to me. "Didn't know you had a girlfriend."
"You have to be nice to me," I remind him. His eyes turn to ice, and anger flashes in them.
"Shut up loser." He punches me in the stomach and I crumple to the ground.
"Ow," I whine. "What the fuck." He kicks me hard in the ribs before sitting back on the couch. I should of know that dick couldn't be nice to me. I sit next to Joe on the opposite side of the couch from Landon.
"Ugh!" Joe groans. "We left our bikes at Liam's."
"Just get them tomorrow." Ryan says. "You guys can just spend the night here if you want." He looks at Donovan who shrugs.
"I'm fine with it sure," He says.
"I'm down," Joe agrees. I nod my head in agreement.
"Hey Zach." Devin smiles. "Cool shoes." I look down at my pandas and feel my stomach drop as I remember how I got them. I look at Landon who just tackles me too the floor.
"Little shit," He growls, grabbing the front of my briefs and lifting me up by them.
"Ow, what the hell did I do?" I whimper, grabbing his hands, trying to pry them off my underwear.
"Nothing," He shrugs. "Just exsisting I guess." He starts violently bouncing me up and down. I close my eyes shut as tears threaten to fall. After a few more bounces I can't help it and let a tear fall.
"Is the little baby crying." He teases. He hooks waistband of the back of my briefs on the stair post, my feet inches from the ground.
"Ow fuck." I cried as he let me drop down, completely supported by my underwear.
"Oh, you gotta dirty mouth too?" He smirks, grabbing the already streched out front of my briefs and pulling them up to my chin. He slides my arms through the legholes and up on my shoulders.
"Ow, Landon." I groan, as more tears slip down my face. "It hurts." He steps back to admire his work before heading up the steps.
"I gotta go," he tells his friends. "Wow, a hanging wedgie and frontal shoulder wedgie in one." As he leaves I glance at the 5 other boys in the room.
"Anyone wanna help?" I ask.
"Sure, I guess." Donovan sighs and releases me off the stairwell. I unhook the legholes from my shoulders and breathe a sigh of relif.
"Do you guys know why he did that?" I ask. "he was supposed to be nice to me." Donovan Devin and Tyler all exchange glances.
"Well, he said he wishes you were never born, and that your just obnoxious." Tyler finally says. I nod my head, trying not to show how upset I was. I mean, I knew he hated me most of the time, but i never even did anything to him. Landon wasn't always like this. When I was 5, he would always play with me, he would still get angry at me from time to time, but he never hurt me for fun.
"Yeah he said that you always bother him, and you just make him mad for no reason." Devin continues. I nod my head and continue watching the movie. At 1:00 we decide to head to sleep. Donovan, Devin, and Tyler head upstairs and we stay down.
"It kinda sucks that Landon's like that." Joe says.
"Yeah I guess," I shrug. "It's fine though, I don't need him." I close my eyes and let myself drift into sleep.
I was woken up to freezing cold water being poured on me.
"What the hell!" I screeched. I shot up too see Ryan and Joe also soaked, and Donny, Devin, and Tyler laughing like crazy with 3 empty buckets.
"Donovan!" Ryan screamed. He ran up and punched Donny in the arm. Donovan put Ryan in a head lock and playfully grinded his knuckles on his skull.
"God dammit guys." Joe sighs. "C'mon Zach let's get changed." I change into black basketball shorts, and a blue basketball shirt.
"We have to get our bikes from Liam's house." I tell Ryan. "We'll text you after." Joe and I start our walk to Liam's house and grab our bikes.
"I mean, it's already 11." Joe starts. "We might as well get lunch then work on the track." I agree with him and we go get some food. Hopefully I won't have to encounter my brothers today, and tomorrow Jax and Trey come home with my cousins.
