Cut in Half

Chapter 8

Eric groaned loudly. Everything hurt. 'Whyyyyyy did I do this' He thought. ' I didn't know this would be so painful'

He pushed himself up with his arms but he was too hurt and weak from the climb up the tree that he just let his body rest for a few minutes.-

a few minutes past. He tried to get up again and succeeded. Slowly he pushed himself up against the tree. His vision was blurry.

When his vision cleared he tried to stand up, gripping the tree for support. When he had both of his legs supporting him, he looked around to see if anybody had seen him. Fortunately, nobody was around to see him. Eric looked at the tree, and around it.

 He hadn't too much damage for anyone to get suspicious. He looked around for his crutches, and he saw that they were still laying against the tree, about 3 feet away from him. He took a step toward them. And pain flared up his left left leg, and instantly he grabbed his leg. Eric sat down where he was standing and pulled up his pant leg, revealing a huge gash in his calf. Eric's eyes widened.

 Blood from the cut was gushing out blood.

Eric gripped his leg harder. He had to get back to his house. Forget the whole idea of suicide, and get home. He pulled down his pant leg and stood back up slowly. Ignoring the pain.He took one excruciating step after the other. He finally arrived at his crutches. He grabbed one and put it in one of his armpits. And the other in his other armpit. 

And he started walking out of the grass and onto the sidewalk.

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He finally arrived at his house. He reached for the handle of the door, but he paused. He sighed and pushed the door open. And he walked in closing the door behind him. He into the living room where his Mom was still working on the papers. Suddenly blood streamed down his leg and onto the floor . Eric looked at. And he gasped. His Mom looked Eric. Her eyes were blood shot and she had a deep purple under them. Her hair was ruffled though she smiled at him.

" Did you have a good time?" She asked. 

" Yea I saw a couple friends there so I talked with them." Eric answered without groaning in pain.

It was half a lie, he did talk to Hadlee, but he said that he talked to a couple people to cover up what actually happened. 

"And, hey Mom, did you remember that tomorrow school starts?" 

Her face twisted into confusion, then concern. " OHHhhhhhh my gosh we need your supp-" Just then the home phone range, and Eric's Mom ran over to it. Seeing his chance, Eric hopped on his good leg to the bathroom. 

When he arrived at the door to the bathroom, he heard his Mom pick up the phone. And quickly He opened the door,  walked in, and shut the door. He walked over to the toilet and sat down. He lifted up his pant leg revealing his wound on his calf. It didn't hurt that much as it did at the park. But it still hurt beyond his capacity but he had to tough it our for his Mom.

 He looked around and the first thing he saw was a small green towel right next to him on his right.

He grabbed that and quickly pressed that on his wound. The towel soaked up his blood quickly. Eric bit his lip to fight back the pain. He looked around again to see what he could to to stop the blood from dripping out. 

He looked around quickly and he saw the cupboard above the sink. Quickly, he wrapped the towel around the wound and stood up and reached over to the cupboard. He opened it and took a look inside it.