Halstead Sister One Shots

Black Eye

Gracies POV (13 Years Old)

I let out a heavy sigh as I pulled my hood up firmly over my head. Luckily for me it's raining heavily outside so the hood won't raise any suspicions from my brother. I blinked back the tears as I felt my swollen eye throb. I can't let my brothers know about it. The girl who did it, Alyssa, warned me of what would happen if I told anyone about what she did. I blinked back the tears as I spotted Jay's truck and headed straight over to it.

"Hey kiddo" Jay greeted me as I put my seatbelt on and he began the drive to our apartment "how was your day?" he asked.

"It was good" I lied "how about you?" I asked, eager to change the subject.

"Busy" he admitted "I can't wait to get home and have a shower" he added.

A content silence filled the car and stayed until we arrived back at the apartment and walked in.

"Okay, I'm gonna go for a shower" Jay announced "why don't you chill for a bit and you can start on your homework when i get out" he suggested and i nodded as i walked towards my bedroom.

"Will do" I said before quickly shutting the door behind me and letting out a teary sigh.

I walked over to the long mirror on my wall and hesitantly took my hood down so I could assess the damage that was made to my swollen eye. I brought my hand up to gently feel around my eye socket but flinched and pulled my hand away when it caused a sharp pain to shoot through my eye. I walked over to my bed and threw myself down, finally allowing myself to cry. Why me? How am I going to hide this from my brothers? I can't sit around inside with my hood up! I carefully wiped my eyes dry before walking over to my dressing table and grabbing my makeup bag. There isn't much in it as both of my brothers think I'm too young to be wearing any makeup at all but I have some concealer and a few other bits. I rooted through my bag in search of anything I could use to cover up the bruising around my eye. Shit. I let Jenny borrow it last week and forgot to get it back from her. I'm totally screwed. Why couldn't I have sisters?! I bit my lip as I remembered the bag of things Hailey kept here for whenever she stayed over. She's sure to have something I can use! But they're in Jay's room. I opened my bedroom door and peeked down the hall to see the bathroom door still closed and the shower still running. It's fine. I'll be super quick and if I hear the water turning off I'll leg it back to my bedroom.

I crept across the hall to Jay's bedroom where I found his door already helpfully open. Spotting the large blue bag in the corner I quickly made my way over to it and paused. I feel so bad going through Haileys things. I pushed the anxiety to one side and began rooting through the bag for anything that could help me.

"Gracelyn, what the hell are you doing?!" Shit. I was too busy searching that I wasn't listening out for Jay! I was quick to pull my hood back up but hesitated to turn around.

"I thought I left something in here" I lied as I began to put the things back in the bag.

"Don't you dare lie to me" he warned "stand up and look at me" he instructed, making my stomach drop.

"Please Jay" I pleaded.

"Now Gracelyn" He demanded and I slowly stood up and turned towards him, still keeping my head down "what is going on with you Gracie?" he frowned "take the hood down and look at me" he instructed "right now" he said before i had a chance to reply. I hesitantly pulled the hood down and turned my head to the side that shielded my black eye. "Look at me Gracie" he said in a firm tone. I felt the tears fall from my eyes as a gentle hand firmly turned my head to face him. I watched as Jays angry features softened as he processed what he was looking at. "Gracie, what happened?" he asked in a voice full of concern.