Becoming the Bad Boy [ON HOLD]

Chapter 13

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Becoming the Bad Boy
Chapter 13

My arms tightened around her waist and I pulled her closed to my body, my head buried into her hair. I felt her twist in my arms to face me and then felt her warm breath on my neck. I closed my eyes and fell asleep again, clutching my love.

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I felt something hitting my arm and I groaned before yawning. April was glaring at me, trying to remove my arm from around her body.

"I need to pee." She hissed out before continuing to push my arm off me. I chuckled before pecking her forehead and releasing her, only for her to roll over and run to the bathroom. She came back a couple of minutes later and returned under the covers, into my arms.

"I need to tell you about my past now. It's only fair." I said and she smiled at me, encouraging me to carry on. I could feel my eyes glaze over as I remembered my past and all of the things that I had tried to forget. "Well, here it goes."

"I had a normal family, just me and my parents. We weren't rich but we were happy. I was 13 when it happened. I came home from a perfectly normal day at school, I remember getting a certificate for participating in something and I was excited to tell my mother. But I never got the chance. The house was quiet when I entered and I couldn't help but find that odd.

"I walked around the house, calling for my mum but she didn't answer and I remember catching sight of her floral blouse from the upstairs window. I ran down the stairs and entered my garden but I was scarred by what I saw. I was right about the floral blouse. But what I saw shocked me. It made me finally open my eyes to the horrors that were being practised in the world. My mum was stabbed multiple times, all over her body. I remember being too numb to speak or move as I stayed on my knees, staring at my dead mother. After gaining some confidence, I dialled my fathers number and he came running, rushing to the hospital but it was obviously too late. She was already dead when I found her." I sucked in a deep breath, my heart feeling heavy whilst I told the story but I knew that once I was finished, my heart would be light because I had finally told someone how I felt.

"At her funeral, many tears were shed but none of them were mine. I was shocked and numb from the emotions and pictures repeatedly playing in my head. I couldn't make sense of what was happening. But that night, everything came crashing back. My mother was gone, never coming back to this place. Yet, I still couldn't find out who did this and why- I wanted revenge. I sat by my mothers grave, long after everyone had left the funeral and I cried, the tears rolling down my cheeks and I could do nothing to stop them. I could barely feel the rain soaking through my clothes and plastering my hair to my head because I was overwhelmed with the suffocating feeling that consumed me." My cheeks were wet as I relived the moment that changed my life. I still miss her, I would do anything to get her back but I knew she was safer and happier where she was.

"I got home late that night and I wish I never had even gone there. My father was drunk and he sat on the sofa, waiting for me to get back. As soon as I entered, he rushed over to me, his arm across my throat as he pushed me against the wall. I couldn't breathe. His face was red and I was so scared of the look in his eyes. He beat me each day and night, blaming me for her death. What could I have possibly done? He was continuously drunk, not even remembering how many scars he gave me because the alcohol would rot his mind. I was nothing to him, all of those happy years that we had spent together as a family- as father and son- all of them ruined and forgotten, just like my life."

I felt Aprils arms tighten around my waist as she buried her face in my neck. I exhaled the relieved breath I took in. The memories were playing in my head and I couldn't help but stare blankly at the wall as my mind conjured up an image of my father.

** Flashback

I could tell my eyes were red and puffy for crying for so long. My clothes were wet and my hair was sticking up because I had run my hands through it so many times. I whimpered at the empty feeling in my chest- my mother was gone. My house came into view as I walked forward. The door gently shut behind me and I looked up, seeing my father bound over to me and push my back against the wall behind me. His arm was over my throat, blocking my air supply and I tried to hard to get him to release me.

"It's all your fucking fault!" He screamed in my face, the stench of alcohol making me gasp for air. I continued gasping, trying to gulp down as much air as I could but my throat was blocked and there was no way for me to breathe anymore. I felt my eyes slowly droop as the lack of oxygen affected my body, but before that, he let go only to punch me in my stomach- hard. I bent over, the breath knocked out of me as I felt nauseous. What is going on? He kept shouting words that made no sense to me, my head was aching and I could feel a major headache piercing my skull. I felt something sharp against my temple and all I remember is seeing his angry, red face before dropping fast asleep into a deep slumber.

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"Ezra!" I blinked and looked up at April. The way her eyes were lit up with concern and sadness made my heart swell. She bent forward and tightly wrapped her arms around my neck, her head resting on my neck. My breath was shaky when I exhaled and my hands trembling as I brought them up to stroke against her dark red hair.

I pulled April's body over mine so that her legs were on either side of my body. Her body was shaking and I knew that she was crying by the way that my neck was wet.

She sat up, her eyes were red and puffy yet she still managed to look beautiful.
"I'm so sorry you had to go through that." She whispered and softly pecked my lips.

I grinned. "It's in the past now, baby. I'm just happy that I have you." I gave her a cheesy grin and chuckled when she laughed.

This, I will never get tired of. I have April and that's all that matters. Sure, Jason and Danny are included in that too. Because without all of them, my life is not complete.

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Hello beautiful people. Finally uploaded another chapter. I know it's really sad because of Ezra's past but all the sad parts have gone... For now **Evil Laugh**