Heart Beating Love

Chapter 4

Adrian gets to the ring a little after 5. His father walks up to him and slaps him across the face. "Where have you been? You missed your first fight with the lower level guy." Adrian straightens and looks at his father. "A girl got jumped and I was close so I helped her out and walked her home." A punch right to the gut catches him completely off guard and makes him double over. "Excuses excuses! You are in a world of pain when we get home boy. For right now though you get out there and fight!" Adrian takes his hoodie off then his shoes, he pulls off his jeans to reveal shorts, then he removes his shirt. His dad gives him a mouth guard and wraps his hands. Then next thing he knows he's shoved into the makeshift ring with a hundred people starring at him." Ladies and gentlemen place your bets quickly because this fight song last. In the blue corner we have Karl one of the houses finest. Then in the red corner we have the newer fighter... Zero!"  Standing at six feet zero was not dwarfed easily. But the man  standing in front of him was at least 6 foot 8 inches if not taller. They both had about the same build except Adrian was more lean." Get ready! Get set!.... Go!" The Bell rings and Karl comes barreling towards him and tackles him, Adrian hits the concrete. When Adrian gets back up he gives Karl a nice right hook straight to the kidney. Then he throws a jab straight into Karl's gut. Karl, stunned from the blow, backs up a few steps allowing Adrian to come up with a idea to end the fight. Right as Adrian goes in to punch him, Karl catches him around the waist and pummels him to the floor. The air in Adrian's lungs fly's right out of him. As he comes  up Karl comes down with an elbow straight to his torso. But Adrian has a plan , he grabs Karl's arm and puts him in a arm bar. Karl hits the floor and Adrian begins to kick him while he holds his arm in the hold. Adrian releases Karl and then goes at him with a devilish grin spread across his face. Karl swings at him and Adrian dodges then comes up with a upper-cut to the jaw,which is Adrian's favorite move. Karl hits the  concrete and the crowd goes wild. Adrian walks out of the ring with one thought on his mind, his father. Adrian's father grabs him by the arm and drags him all the way home while telling him how wrong that fight went. When they finally get home his father shoves  him in the door and stalks off to get a drink from the kitchen.when his father was drinking and pissed he had no chance in talking to him. His dad pulls out his belt and starts towards Adrian." Boy how many times do I have to teach you that women don't want you. Your are disgusting and are worth nothing. Now turn around and take your punishment you trash." Adrian turns around and his father begins to lash at his back with the belt. His father hit him over and over, and over, Adrian began to laugh and cry at the same time because the pain was terrible." What are you laughing at boy? Do you think this is funny!? Fine. I'll go get the whip, seeing how you you think this is funny. I was hoping I would never have to use this since you've been so good."  His left and was gone only a moment and Adrian couldn't believe it. His dad had always threatend to use the whip but has never actually done it. His dad walks over to him. "Look at me" Adrian turns to his father. "Here" his dad puts a piece of leather in his mouth." Now kneel by the stairs so I don't have to work so hard." Adrian walks over and kneels down by the stairs. He grabs the bars of the wood holding the railing. His dad walks across the room then lashes his back with the whip. He broke the skin and it ran deep but not deep enough to be serious. His dad got tired after a while and once he was done his dad walks over and kneels by him." We aren't going to laugh again are we?" Adrian shakes his head and his dad slinks up the stair to his room. Adrian's hands where gripped so tight his knuckles are white. He slowly releases his grip on the railing and he spits out the leather piece and crawls the bathroom. He turns on the shower to Luke warm and slowly peels off his shorts ,pain is blurring his vision. Once he gets them off he crawls into the shower. As the water hit his back he had to grit his teeth do to the pain. Yet somehow he didn't feel them like the belt lashings earlier. Maybe because all he could think about in that money is alex kissing him. She didn't think of him as trash. Adrian gets out of the shower and walks up to his room. He gets dressed in his onepair of pajama pants he grabs a ibuprofen bottle and takes two out of it and swallows them. He slowly lowers himself onto his bed trying not to cause the lashes to touch anything and he falls asleep.