Hidden in the star, book one

Chapter 12 Darkness isn't forever, is it?

Jackson only grunts at the class chaos of question, not really paying any mind, till he started yelling
"RIGHT IT'S A BIG HOUSE, YADA,YADA!
MOVE ON, UPSTAIRS OFF LIMITS!
DOWNSTAIRS OFF LIMITS!
THERE'S THE BATHROOM"
Points to a side door off the lounge
"DOWN THERE, THE OTHERE DOORS,
DONT, JUST DONT. OFF LIMITS!"
Sol lost his engine at that point and just points at the hall again
"First door left is a game room, don't break any thing. Now fuck off"
Kerry steps up putting a gentle hand on his shoulder, saying softly
"Hay Sol were here for you"
Jackson grabs his chest, clearly out of it, in a strand voice Sol replied
"Dont..call me So....o..THAT!"
He finely gets out of his daze and stomps back to the kitchen, Keller coming soon after asking
"Hay kid, ..."
Looking at the teen, that's borderline about to lose his last shit, contues
"Coffee, please dear god, where?"
As he makes his way to the cabinets, only to notice Jackson has not replied, still standing there frozen, Keller go's to him, slowly and calmly asking
"I'm here, what..., just please, I'm..."
He get no further with his plees, Sol turns and snuggle into his chest, Keller wrapping his arms around Sol rubbing circles on his back, watching him carefully, but then Jackson pulls away only saying
"I'm cooking now, Coffee there above the coffee pot"
Nothing more was said, Keller didn't won't to push the kid to much and left him be.
Keller's head was a mess with everything that's happening today, Sol begged to die, to let him go and Keller was not abiding to that request at all. But then the Jackson home tho the house looked clean, almost to clean, like it was trying to hide dark secrets behind how clean it is. There was also something missing, he didn't now how to say it. The house looked like a show home, only the right number of photos, prereversd, stage photos were around.
Keller walk around looking, still something was off, then he relies, there is no Jackson here, as in Sol Jackson. Two photos yes, but one was a baby photo and the other was a man holding a two year old Sol.
All others were a woman at party's, shaking hands with the 'important people',
Or the that man and woman in the same setting.
Jackson's parents, but Sol only ever mentioned a 'mother', yes a parent can pass away but why the only photos of Sol where tucked away like a lost memory, Keller had to many questions and not enough answers. An hour later Keller's internal one way conversation is cut short with a raging Davi Monroe yelling at the top of the stairs, heading straight for the kitchen to Sol
"SOL ARE YOU FUCKING SERUSE"
'This can't be good, the one kid that is always happy'  Keller thought
'What did he find' he asked himself and went to the kitchen to find what was happening, the class had similar thoughts, and come running out as well.
Sol turns, arks a brow, now finished with lunch preparation and sitting at the table reading a book, not looking up just comment flatly
"Shit nerd carm down, there's tampons in the upstairs bathroom"
Davi is fuming, even letting a little powder of his Della go, as things star to flout Davi continues
"Shut your dam mouth!, how long,
Sol how long?"
Davi now crying and his Della has stopped, Sol sighing softly asked
"You can't have both, shut my mouth, or talk. Pick one Davi."
Davi wispers
"How long?"
Sol, King of dodge replys
"Well depends on what we're talking about? My first vibrant, I thi.. "
Jackson is interrupted with an out burst from Davi, slaming a box on the table, content's spilling out as Davi lost it at Sol
"CUT THE SHIT, ALL OF IT!
Drugs, notes...Sol..."
As Davi lost strength in his question
Keller steps in now with
"What are these?, Yours?"
Sol let's a small nods go, all the class standing on the side line, this was all to much for them, there loving only at arms length friend was broken, when?, how?, they didn't know, no one did, Keller despret for awasers asks
"how did you?, your just a kid these, who brought this for yo.."
Sol has had enough, he stop being a kid long ago, even when he was, he was self dependent and never babied, this brought back memories, good and bad, so Sol losing his shit starts yelling back
"THERE MINE, AND I BROUGHT THEM!
YES IM 16, IT'S JUST A FUCKING NUMBER"
Keller beyond worry and frastatraedat at this point replies with yelling
"JACKSON!, ITS NOT JUST A NUMBER, YOUR STILL GROWING GOD DAM IT!
YOUR A CHILD BECAUSE YOUR LEANING TO BE AN ADULT!"
Jackson yelled back
"BUT I'VE NEVER BEEN A 'CHILD' "
Sol ripping a near by calendar off the wall, throwing it at Keller and continues
"HERE!
YOU FIGGUER OUT MY 'FIRSTS' THEN!
BUT YES, I'VE DONE DRUGS, HAD SEX,
HAVE DRUNK AND SMOCKED,
I DRIVE, HAVE A PHD,
AND GOT TATTOOS!"
Sol takes a shakey breath before saying softly
"I'm fucking done."
And with that Sol grabs his cigarette from the content's of the box, and walk off to the deck. Keller nows he shouldn't of yelled, but now, what now, he didn't know, but he new 2 things, 1 it was wrong to yell at him and 2 he's not alone, with that though Keller turns, walking in the destination Jackson disappeared.
After sitting across from the very broken teen on the deck wide rails, Keller leaning forward gently taking his hand with the lite cigarette in hand, Keller looks Jackson in the eye and as Sol cocks an eye brow, Keller looking away a taking a breath of Sol's cigarette, as he leans back exhaling the smock saying
"We all have a  pasts, and we're all humans. I'm sorry I lost my shit."
Sol chuckles replies
"Please have you met me, but seriously, why me. Dead is easy, for everyone, So why?"
Keller sihying, Jackson cuts in
"Dont try, now you know, don't try to hold back. That's wores, that's what everyone dose with shit to hard. Polite hop scotch, please don't, it's not you"
Keller smiled
"Thanks, I don't usually get compliments. But is it that hard to think someone would care about you?"
Sol snots saying
"Without wanting something, yes."
Keller looks Jackson dead in the eye
"Fine, your right, I care about you and I wont something in return.
For you not to kill yourself."
Sol let small tear out replied
"Sage, I lost so much, you have no idea,
I dont know how to live any more"
Keller repliy was to gently turn Sol as he pulled him to his chest, keeping the hand with the cigarette on the outther side saying softly with almost a brocken hint
"Sometimes stepping out of our comfort place, what we know, is the only way we can live. I wont lie trouble, it's hard, but that's life."
Jackson leaning on Keller chest and wisperd one word
"Sol"
Letting out shaky breath as he finished his cigarette and Keller only hmms.
There moment was interrupted soon after, with a panicked Cooper bursting out saying
"Sage, Monroe, he callused,  his awake but refused an ambulance."
Keller and Jackson both let out a small 'fuck', before quickly move inside where Monroe is. After Jackson see's Davi conducten, turns to a book case, opening and revealing a medical room.
Soon to return to Davi's side, med bag in  hand, Kneeling next Davi starts asking
"What the fuck this time nerd?"
Sol clipping a small on fild heart monitor on him, while Davi replied
"Oh you know, just found out my childhood friend dose drugs and smocks"
Taking pause before adding
"By the way you stink!"
Wrinkling his nose up, Sol snots and replies
"Sorrys Princess, life sucks.
Ma'ma didn't raise me to be a spitter!"
Davi chuckles shaking is head,
only for his hands to shoot up holding his head still, Jackson in a series voice
"Monny I need to know what happened, or I'm letting Max take you to the hospital."
Davi rolls his eyes with a puff before saying
"Fine, no hospital. I found...I was upstairs and crying, it's just a lot"
Sol asks
"Do you trust me?"
Davi replied with a ferm
"Of course"
Sol leans forward scoops Monroe off the floor, going towards the once hidden medical room saying
"Sound like your fine, just dehydrated.
Stupid sappy nerd."
Once in the medical room, Sol gently puts Davi down on the small bed.
Cooper steps up asking more Keller then anyone
"This is serious, we can't just play doctors here, really?"
Keller firmly replies
"Enough Max! He would not hurt someone, he has PHD probably for this, so stop."
Cooper desperately replied
"Sage how can you let him,
How can you teach a child if you letting him be an adult. We can't stop him from you know.."
As Cooper training off Keller had enough of Max lack of faith yelled back
"SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND LEAVE COOPER"
Cooper was speechless,  little did most know, this was his husband. He new he over stepped, but to anger his husband as well, he didn't mean to, he is worried about Jackson and how they are ment to look out for him without firm boundaries.
But he really mess up, and decided to retreat outside to give him and his husband a needed break.
While this went down Sol had got Davi IV drip all done, and was retreating upstairs when stopped be Keller's voice
"Where do you think your going?, hmm"
Sol replies looking over his shoulder from the second step
"Shower, Nerd tells me I stink,
won't to join?"
Keller start walking towards Sol, only saying a simple 'yes' as a reply.
Once upstairs Keller contues firmly
"I'm taking a nap on your bed, shower, don't.not.cut, Or die"
And with that flops on Jackson's bed and takes a nap, while Sol moves forward to take a shower. Keller opens an eye looking towards the bathroom, only Silenlen, he didn't like this, the water was turned off a few minutes ago, but he can't even here movement. Without a second thorough Keller moves towards the bathroom door knocking and asking
"Hay kid! I said don't die!"
No reply, Keller was more worried now, then a small
"Get your husband"
Is heard through the door, Keller waste no time dashing off to retrieve Max, only braving it to mid way down the steps before yelling
"MAX UPSTAIRS NOW"
Not even waiting for a reply,
Quickly turning and going back to Jackson, knocking on the bathroom door saying softly
"He's coming trouble, you ok right?"
Only receiving a soft humm as Cooper bursts into Jackson's bedroom, franticly asking as Keller step to his husband side
"Yes, what, oh go Sage were is he wha....."
His concerns are cut short with Sol's voice softly saying
"I'm hear"
There stood Sol in the door frame of the bathroom, only in his boxes, more concerning tho was his wight, he look like a sake of potatoes would way more, but then more alarming were Sol's legs, there were so many cuts, brutally cut over each other, then with no mercy, two words carved into his flesh, one on each thigh,
  'monster' and 'week'
Apartly Keller had noticed this first, because Cooper turned  to Keller asking
"Really Sage"
Both Keller and Jackson were lost, then Cooper points to Sol's arm and continues
"Is that your brand of darkness on his arm?"
Now turning to Jackson asking
"Little J is it permanent?"
Keller sighed at his husband asking
"Let me guess Max, you haven't looked at his legs?"
Shaking his head and moving towards Sol, calmly starts talking
"Sol, I don't care who, but you need someone. You need help, please."
Sol started crying again,  small and soft ones this time, quietly saying
"You, I trust you, no one.."
And collapsing onto the floor with Keller holding him tightly, Cooper frozen on the spot, silently crying, now seeing Jackson's legs, he's devastated beyond words.
Sol's voice cuts in lowly
"This is only the opening act to this shit show of mine. You don't won't front row ticket, you should just run while you can.
But I do sing and dance, should be entertaining tho "
Sol showing off jazz hands as he finishes,
Cooper braking from his dazed state and starts yelling in a panic
"NO, I MEAN YES, I WONT TICKETS, WE WON'T TICKETS, WE.."
Keller interjects his husband panicked rambling
"Shit Max, he gets it. We're not going anywhere."
Sol hmms, saying
"Well let me get dressed and go downstairs, I'll tell you what I can."
Keller
"That's fine Sol, whatever your comfortable with."
Sol go's quite for a moment before standing and wishing as he went to get dressed
"I promised you"
Keller only node's remembering there pinky promise, and his silent resolve to look after Sol. Secretly prying to whatever God that seems to be willing to help Keller today, that he can save Sol.