Chapter Six
BROKEN & BRUISED
"This is how we live, far away from each other. Not hating us, not loving us... just breathing"
*Bruno's POV*
While sleeping I heard a knock on the door. For a moment I thought Gael had already come back from the morning lessons he had to attend to. However, as I looked at the clock, marking 6:15 a.m. I knew it couldn't be him. Manuel slowly went to open it, while I stayed in bed, and just a few seconds later I heard it. First soft quiet sobbing, that turned into a loud crying, as his producer collapsed its body against Manuel's. Yes, it was Benjamin, breaking down, made a mess crying his insides out, trembling... almost convulsing.
- Be-Benjamin! Wha-what? – "What happened?" I wondered the exact same thing.
But before I could talk I noticed the crying got quiet suddenly and Benjamin's grip on his friend's shirt loosened, he was passing out. I helped them as fast as I could, took Ben by his arm and hugged him, not letting him fall to the ground. Slowly, I guided him to the bed and sat him down, still hugging him, patting his back softly and hoping he would calm down.
A few seconds later the room fell silent, for a brief moment I thought he was asleep, so I tried to look at his face. Eyes open, lost in thought, looking nowhere in the space.
- Manu. Do me a favor, prepare the bathroom so that we can wash all the dirt away from his body
He just nodded and left. Finally I had the possibility to look at Ben carefully. He looked awful... exhausted. His face was pale, with some black spots like he had laid on the ground, his lips were cracked and he had horrible black bags under his eyes. Clothes ripped. But what impressed me the most was his hair. Hell! His hair was chaotic, it had been cut forcefully, not styled, some parts stayed longer than the others. There were some pieces of hair adhered to his skin because of the sweat and some scratches in his forehead.
I put my hand on his thighs to talk, when I felt wetness in my left hand... it was blood, I stared at it for a minute, he was hurt, physically hurt. Quickly I took his pants off, as he gasped surprised by my sudden movement; the skin of his right thigh had been sliced with some kind of blade, not just once or twice, at least five fucking times. There was blood emanating from it.
- What?! Who...? – I couldn't even form a full question, some suckass out there had hurt him. I ran my hands through my hair, trying to calm down – Fuck! Let's clean this up – I started to take his shirt off
- The water is running hot now
- Thanks Manuel. Look for some clothes to lend him, we'll need gauze, disinfectant and a bandage, he's wounded
- What?! But...!
- Don't make a drama out of it queen, just look for those things while I shower him
And that's what I did. Benjamin's body didn't stop trembling at all, even though I was being incredibly careful – I had never been like that to him – treating him like a little kid yet he was obviously scared and to make the matters worse, I has angry... no, angry is too little to what I was feeling at that moment, I was furious and I can't even explain why I was so mad.
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