True Love At Last Sight

Chapter 8

  Chapter 8

  My heart was now racing at 100 miles per hour! 

  The things that were running through my mind right now ... 

  The thoughts of him lying there motionless ... 

  How someone would even try to hurt him ... 

  Why did no one stop them? The sick reason why someone would do this ...

  And who would do this?!

  Jesse and I ran as fast as we could to where Callum was. Even though I wasn't exactly that close to them I could still hear people screaming out,

  "You're a faggot!"

  "You're disgusting!"

  "Go back IN the closet!"

  When I reached them, I saw that they were all standing in a circle taking turns at beating him. 

  I didn't take any notice to who was there. All I could think about was what was happening to my brother.

  You could see the pain that he was in and that he couldn't take any more. I reached to where they were and attempted to get them off my brother. 

  "STOP IT!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, because that was when they decided to stop. My voice must of frightened them (I highly doubt that) because they all ran away.

  I fell to my knees and tried to comfort him but it wasn't working. Every time I went to touch him he would move away from me. 

  "Callum, its okay, I'm not going to hurt you." 

  "You already did," he said in a faint voice. 

  "How?" 

  "Who else would have told them I was gay? No one else knew Chloe. Explain to me how they found out!" 

  "Callum, I don't know how they found out, but I promise you that whoever told them will pay and whoever did this to you will pay even more!" 

  He gave me a reassuring nod and I pulled him up and gave him a light hug. I then drove him home to rest.

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  I was on my way back to school now, and all I could think about was Callum thinking that I told everyone he was gay. I thought my brother could, no, would trust me more than that ...

  I reached the parking lot and got out my phone. I knew that even if Monique was in class, if it was urgent, she would answer or leave class to find me no matter what. 

  I text her, 'MONIQUE I NEED YOU NOW ITS URGENT! I'M IN THE PARKING LOT... PLEASE COME QUICKLY!' and with that I pressed send. Not even a second later my phone beeped and I read, 'ON MY WAY'.

  Within 5 minutes, she was outside the front of the school and heading towards my car. You could see that she had obvious ran from class to get down here and was tired. 

  We sat there for a while. The sound of her panting filled the car. I was trying to figure out how to ask her if she had told and what would I do if it wasn't her. 

  "Monique ..." she looked at me directly in the eyes. 

  "I - you - did u tell anyone what I told you this morning? About Callum being gay?" 

  "WHAT?! NEVER! Callum is like the brother that I never had. I wouldn't do anything to hurt him!" 

  "WELL THEN WHO TOLD EVERYONE AND WHY IS MY BROTHER LYING ON THE COACH AT HOME BEATEN HALF TO DEATH?!" I screamed at her while tears fell down my eyes. 

  She looked at me, her face showed horror and there was sorrow in her hazel eyes. 

  "Chloe I would never do anything to put Callum in danger. But I need to know why did you think it was me?" 

  I looked up at her. I saw tears flowing down her face like tiny waterfalls. 

  "Because you were the only person I told, and I don't know who else knows and would be so mean to beat up both mine and Dylan's brother," I said in a soft voice which I think Monique only barely heard.

  We sat there again in silence but this time it wasn't panting that filled the silence, it was the sound of my sobs. 

  The things that were running through my mind, I couldn't explain. But the main thing that I wanted to know more than anything was, who told everyone? And for what reason?

  We both got out of the car. She walked over to me and gave me the biggest hug I think ever possible. She draped her arm around my shoulder and we walked back inside.

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  All I could think about through French and Media was Callum and everything that happened. 

  After thinking about it for a while, I had an idea. The first person I probably should have talked to was Jesse. So as soon as the bell rang, I ran out of the classroom, didn't bother to put my stuff away, and ran straight past Dylan and Jake, who seemed to be arguing over who knows what, and went to find Jesse. 

  After about 5 minutes, I found him in one of the classrooms near the gym. He was all alone sitting in the corner. In the dark.

  I knocked on the door. You could tell that he had gotten a fright and didn't expect anyone to have found him. 

  He unlocked the locked door and I came in and sat next to him. I needed to cut to the chase, so without hesitation I asked, 

  "Jesse can you please tell me what happened?" 

  He looked at me, his right eye was red and puffy. He had been crying and his left eye was almost shut and badly bruised. 

  "Yes I can," He replied, "Well we were walking down towards the oval, which was all the way over the other side of the school. We were casually talking, when about 4 - 5 guys came out of nowhere and started to beat us up. 

  They started calling us names and I somehow managed to get free and find you. I had to leave Callum, which I didn't want to do and I didn't even see the guys who attacked us, all though they did have familiar voices." 

  I looked at him with sympathy and he had now buried his head into his knees. 

  "Do you wanna see him?" I asked knowing that if Jesse saw, him he might feel a bit happier.

  He nodded, so I drove him there and we stayed for about half an hour. There was a lot of tears and hugging but by the end of the time they had, I think both of them felt better. 

  But I didn't. I still had the worry of who had done this and I desperately wanted to know.

  As I was driving back to school with Jesse, my phone vibrated. Dylan texted me, 'sorry I can't go on our date on Friday can we reschedule?' I let out a sigh but replied, 'yes' and put my eyes back on the road.

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