Vitality

Chapter 14

*Keaton's POV*

"What the fuck?!" I screamed wiping the blood off of my lip.

"You're a disgrace!" the man I called my father continued to kick and punch me.

"Stop..... It" I tried to say while coughing up blood.

"I can't believe you're my son. I'm glad I'll never see you again. No one will ever love you, you piece of shit" he grabbed my shirt and then gave me one last punch leaving me on the pavement.

I can't believe he fucking did this. It's daylight too which doesn't make sense. My dad is also very dumb. Sooner or later a couple people noticed me lying on the ground and helped me. They also called the cops.

I sat on the side of the road with a bag of ice to my lip. They wanted to take me to the hospital to check up on everything but I think I'm okay.

"We're just going to have to take you in for questioning" A police officer spoke to me.

"Okay, did you contact my mother?" I questioned

"Yes, she's on her way to the station right now.

I was escorted to the station and on my way I thought about texting Ari and telling her that I'm alright.

Keaton: babe, I'll explain everything later but I'm on my way to the police station. Don't worry I'm okay and I'm not getting arrested

Thank God for autocorrect because most of that wouldn't have been spelled right.

I saw her name pop up on my phone but I was already in the station talking to police officers. They took me in this room and sat me down with a metal table in front of me. They asked the standardized questions and about 30 minutes later I was done. When I walked out of the room my mom was standing there, crying.

"Keaton" she cried walking over to me and hugging me. She's never affectionate like this so I hugged her back. "Thank God you are alright" she stood back to take a look at me. "They're going to find this bastard" she referred to my dad.

"They better. Let's go home" I suggested as she agreed with me. The firemen told my mother that it was safe to sleep in our house. Right away my mom called contractors to redo the part of the house that's burnt.

When I arrived home, I saw Ari's car parked in front. I couldn't run because I was still sore so I slowly walked over to her car in which she was sitting in. She immediately saw me, got out and hugged me making my body hurt, but it was a good kind of hurt.

"You don't have to clean me up this time" I jokingly said making her look at me.

"What happened?" She asked while we both started walking into my house and up to my room. We both sat on the couch and I began to tell her what happened.

"My father was the one that called me while I was at your house. He made me meet him at a nearby coffee shop because he wanted to talk to me about something. He told me that he's leaving my mom and he also admitted to purposely setting up the fire. I got really mad and bolted out of the shop into the parking lot so I could leave but he punched me down before I could open my car door. Then he just started beating me up for no reason, saying the most cruel things." I replayed everything that happened in my mind. Ari didn't say much she just comforted me which made me feel good.

"Does your mom know?" She asked referring to the whole part that my dad is leaving her.

"Yeah, she heard my whole conversation with the police. But I don't know how she feels about it. I mean she called him a bastard today so there's that" I laughed a little