tainted.

Weak.

~ 2 Months After Sage and Rosie Met Connor ~

Third Person POV

"Sage! I don't know what to do! Make it go away!," Connor bawls into Sage's shoulders while she soothes him rubbing his back.

"I'm sorry Connor, I'm so sorry. I know how it's like, please, just stay with me ok?"

"SAGE! He hurt my mom! He hurts me! All I do is cry! There's nothing I can fucking do! I'm weak!," Sage starts to cry with him.

"Connor, please-,"

"-NO! I'm done feeling like shit! All I do is cry into your shoulders, please come with me! Come to my house! Please make him stop!," Connor begs and begs, Sage finally gives in even though she knows she won't be able to do anything.

***

"ALL YOU FUCKING DO IS HIT UP OTHER GIRLS! YOU HAVE A WIFE! A SON! AND YOU GO AROUND TOUCHING SOME TEENAGE GIRL'S ASS!," Connor's mother yells and Sage and Connor can hear it from outside of the house.

"I'M DONE WITH YOUR BULLSHIT! I'M DONE WITH YOU!," Sage and Connor enter the house and they see a hand slap across her face; Connor's mom. She touches her cheek and it turns red.

"WHEN WILL YOU EVER LEARN!? YOU NEED HELP! YOU GOT FIRED FROM YOUR JOB BECAUSE YOU JERKED ON YOUR BOSS! WE BARELY HAVE ANY MONEY TO PAY THIS FUCKING HOUSE! AND YOU TELL ME YOU'RE DONE WITH MY SHIT!? WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOUR LIFE!?," her voice gets hoarse from screaming and yelling so much, she takes a breath.

"Dad-," Connor tries to speak up, but his dad interrupts him.

"Connor! Shut up! Go back to school! What the fuck are you doing here!?," he clenches his fists and punches it on the table to release some anger. Sage steams with anger.

"DON'T TALK TO HIM LIKE THAT! YOU'RE HIS FATHER AND YOU CURSE HIM OUT? YOU JUST HURT YOUR WIFE, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?," Sage speaks up, done with this bullshit, Connor doesn't deserve this.

"And who the fuck are you!? This isn't your house! Get the fuck out!," Connor's dad points his finger to the door making them leave, but Sage still isn't done talking, she walks up to him and is 3 inches apart from him. She's so close she can hear him breathing.

"This WON'T be your house if you keep jerking on your boss! You have a family! Why would you go waste it on doing dumb things!? You HAVE a wife! Why are you hitting up girls my age!? Fuck off!," everyone stares at her, surprised at the words that came out of her mouth.

"OUT!," he yells one more time. Connor and Sage listen to him this time and walk out the door. Once Sage is outside she runs out heading no where in particular, she just runs.

"Sage! Sage, where are you going!?," Connor jogs up to her and sits down on the grass next to her.

Sage's POV

Connor sits down next to me, scoots closer and wraps his arm around my shoulder.

"Sage...," he says softly. My head is buried in my knees and my hands cover my face. My tears fall into my palms, I can tell that Connor is confused as to why I'm crying, I am, too. But Connor's situation with his parents is just like me with my mom and step-dad, they always fight, and I don't know what to do either.

"Sage, what's wrong? Why are you crying? Thank you," he tells me rubbing my back. I pick my head up and look at him.

"Thank you for what?," I ask confused, I didn't do anything.

"For stopping them, they never shut up. Sage, I can't yell at my dad like that, thank you. Why- why are you crying?," he looks so concerned with his green eyes staring right into my blue teary eyes.

"I-I, I don't know what to do either. Connor, what I just did there is something I can never do to my step-dad. My step-dad made my mom go insane, my mom is gone now, in a mental hospital. I'm always alone in the house because he's always out getting drunk in a fucking bar. Watching your dad slap your mom just made me remember what my step-dad did to my mom. It's horrifying. Connor I'm so sorry, I'm sorry you have to go through this, you- you don't deserve this. What I did was just temporary, I can't stop your parents from fighting, I'm sorry," I sob and cry harder and harder, memories of my mom going crazy starts flooding back into my head, memories of all the yelling and screaming, my head feels like a fucking brick was thrown at me.

"Sage I- I didn't know, I'm sorry. You can't stop them from fighting forever, but you stopped them today and that's all I need. Honestly Sage, thank you, thank you so much," his head then rests on my head and we sit there quietly for a while.

"Sage," Connor says quietly.

"Yes Connor?," I turn my head and smile at him. He looks down at the grass quickly and could see his face turn red. He looks back up at me and says three words.

"I love you."

((the feels,... do you want Connor's POV in the next chapter? or no? if you do want Connor's POV, it will be posted tomorrow. that's all, hope you liked this, have a gr8 day bYe))