Asher Hart, Hawkins resident psychopath. There wasn't that many people who hadn't heard about Asher and his family, and that wasn't in a good way. But after helping Dustin out with Dart which led to Asher making new friends, he started to change for...
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TW - abuse
The Hart Household.
The place that Asher was scared of the most, which was weird, since the house is the place that Asher calls home. But, while Asher called it a home, it was anything but a home. Grayson Hart made sure that the house was not a home for Asher. The constant beatings, yelling and tension in the house made Asher never want to be there at all, but because Grayson is the only family Asher has left, he couldn't leave. Grayson had always made sure that Asher knew that the fifteen year old wouldn't have anything if it wasn't for his father.
When he was younger, Asher didn't really mind being at home too much, with his older brother, Oscar being there too. Grayson normally used to leave Oscar alone most of the time, with Grayson not hating his oldest son, but the only time Oscar would get the same treatment as Asher was whenever the oldest Hart son decided to stand up for his younger brother. It was nice having Oscar stand up for him, but at the same time Asher didn't want Oscar to go through the same shit as he did. But, that all changed when Oscar decided to skip town, leaving Asher to deal with their dad all on his own. Now, don't get Asher wrong, he understood why Oscar left because once Asher's able to leave, he's leaving, but that didn't mean that Asher hated Oscar for doing it. If it was the other way around, and Asher was skipping town, he would of taken Oscar with him, but did Oscar take Asher with him? No. Oscar had left Asher alone to deal with Grayson on his own. All Oscar had to do was fucking take Asher with him.
But, no. Asher was stuck with Grayson on his own. No older brother to stand up for him. No mother to live with. Asher was stuck putting up with Grayson until he was eighteen. Putting up with the beatings, the arguing, the verbal abuse, the fear of going home. Asher had to go through that all on his own.
So, as Asher finally makes it back to his home, he shakily walks to the front door, quietly opening it, not knowing what was waiting for him on the other side. Asher never knew what was going to happen when he gets home. Either, his dad would be passed out on the couch, music would be blasting while his dad was getting drunk or high or both, or Asher would enter an empty house. And, right now, Asher had hoped that it was the last option, but sometimes hope isn't enough to get what you want, which Asher realises when he sees his dad, sat on the couch in the living room.
"Where have you been?" Grayson slurs out, having not seen his son in the past six months. While he had been told Asher had been arrested and sent to juvie, he had completely forgotten about it not even six hours later. So, for the past six months, Grayson had been getting angrier and angrier by the day at Asher for not coming home. Grayson wasn't angry because he wanted Asher home because he cares about him, no. Grayson just wanted Asher around so he would clean up the messes around the house that he would make. That's all Asher was good for to Grayson.
"You know where I've been" Asher quietly says to Grayson, not wanting to push any of his buttons. Asher knew that if he gave Grayson attitude, the beating that he would get would just be even worse. So, if he did his best to keep his mouth shut, he wouldn't have any problems... even more problems.
"Do I? You fucking disappeared for six months" Grayson angrily says, getting up and pushing Asher against the wall "You don't leave his house unless I say so! I'm the reason you have a roof over your head! I'm the reason you have a place to sleep! And how do you fucking repay me? You leave for six fucking months!"
"I was in juvie, Dad" Asher says in the same quiet voice "I didn't really have a choice to come home."
"Don't talk to me like that" Grayson says, punching Asher in the face "Do you know how much you ruined my life, you little shit? You're fucking nothing. You're nothing but a drugged up idiot who's going to end up dead before you reach the age of twenty. No fucking wonder you ended up in jail. Really living up to the Hart name there, boy."
"You're fucking wrong" Asher angrily says, pushing Grayson off of him. And in that moment, Asher knew one thing...
Asher really shouldn't of gone home.
860 Words Hi, just wanted to add in this short chapter to show what it is like for Asher at home, for any chapter like this, I will be adding a trigger warning at the top of the chapter, so if you don't feel comfortable reading it, feel free to skip the chapter
