I miss you, I'm sorry

Part 41

'My dearest love Aj,

I have always been watching you
The things you do
The things you don't do
The places you go
The places you don't go
The things you eat
The things you avoid
The clothes you wear
The clothes you don't wear
I am always watching you
And it's getting hard to hide
I want you
I will do anything to have you
So be prepared
For everything
You won't be able to escape
From me

your one true love,

- J

Aj gulps as he finishes reading the note, his voice shaky almost crumbling as the words seem to get creepier and creepier as the badly written poem went on. He looks up at the other boys, the nerves evident in his eyes.

"Who the fuck-" Kenny stutters out, "What?!" 

"This is creepy, bro. And so fucking random." Chunkz says

"It's not random." Niko turns from where he was facing out the window, to stare at the other boys, ignoring Aj's wide eyes, and shaking head, "I'm sorry Aje, but they need to know."

"We need to know what?" Sharky questions, eye brow raised in suspicion.

Niko paces over to his bed, crouching to pick up an old shoe box. Aj tries to snatch it from his hands, but Niko simply holds the box high enough out of his reach and hands it to Chunkz.

"Nik, don't," Aj whispers, not very quietly, simply just not having energy to raise his voice. 

Chunkz opens the shoe box, and finds a whole pile of crumbled pieces of paper. He picks up the whole pile, barely fitting in his hand, and starts to flick through them. The notes look like they've been around for months. The room has an eerie silence, all awaiting Chunkzs reaction, it doesn't last nearly as long as it feels as Chunkz breaks the silence, looking at Aj "How long." 

Aj looks at Niko for support, receiving a reassuring nod, "a couple months." 

"MONTHS!" Sharky yells out, "Why didn't you say anything?"

"I-I did. I told Niko. When the first one came in, It was when we were uh arguing, I thought he sent it. It wasn't him, and they just kept coming in. I didn't want to worry you guys, so i didn't say anything."

"Aje, you shouldn't not tell us something because we might worry?! we're your brothers, its our job to worry about you."

"I know, I guess, everything was already going shit, I didn't want to make things worse. You already had to deal with me an Niko arguing 24/7, worry about  me trying to kill myself, and me smoking. I-I just I felt like a burden. Like who can say, oh yes, me and my boyfriend broke up because I was raped, and then I was homeless because I got kicked out my house, Im not allowed to speak to my younger siblings or my parents, and had to live with my friends due to that, and then that same ex-boyfriend, who I thought abandoned me, came back into my life, we argued all the time and now we're back together, and on top of that Im now being stalked. Lifes great."

The boys sigh, they couldn't help change AJs past but they could definitely help his future.

"Okay, no one touch anything... We can see if the camera footage caught anyone, but for now, Niko you are to stay with Aj in his room even after your window gets fixed. This person clearly knows about you and Aj, and will clearly do anything to get AJ, so he may do something to you. Aj, you are not to be anywhere alone... buh-buh-buh, no complaining you will listen Aj. And all of you, no leaving the house alone. Understand?"

Everyone nods at Chunkz's orders, knowing they were strict but he was right. They were all in danger, and the best way to help Aj was to stick together.