I'm not safe here (Wroetoshaw/Minishaw)

Ch. 23

Day two off the trail 

Simon's POV

"Harry wake up sleepy head, we have court today!" I tell him as I gently shake him awake, if he is going to get a shower and breakfast before we go he needs to get up now, he is so nervous I can see it in his face, he can't prove that  Alfie pushed him down the stairs in the first place, that is a word against word situation, but the brake in here and that hole deal had evidence and witnesses and all that stuff, he can't lie about that. 

"I don't want to wake up" Harry whimpers to me making a pouty face and turning to the other side

"none off that Boggy, get up"

"I don't wanna"

"Now, breakfast in on the table, hurry up before Josh finishes it" I tell him and laugh, he just frowns but he has joined me downstairs only 15 minutes later and he is ready to go. We eat in silence and I carefully look him over, he does not look to good, he is just picking at his food. He has bearly eaten a thing. 

"Harry are you feeling OK?" I ask him

"I don't know, I'm so nervous"

"try to eat something, I don't want you fainting in court later"I tell him and I manage to get him to finish the toast. That is something. Then we are on our way to the courthouse, I think Harry get's whiter and whiter as the car journey goes on. 

"just breath calmly OK, you are going to be just fine"

"what if I make a fool off my self? what if no one there believes me? I can't do this Simon, this is just to much for me, I can't face him, I can't face his family, what do I do?" Harry confesses to me. 

"they will believe you, and you wont make a fool off yourself, I promise, you are going to be strong and brave and tell them what happened, you are going to make it clear to him and everyone there that you don't want him anywhere near you"

"I wish I could share your confidence" Harry whispered to me as he looked down to the floor as we walked to the courtroom, there were some news stations there trying to get pictures, stupid main stream media, why did this have to get into the media, I did not want that to happen. 

"the court calls on Mr. Lewis" I hear and now Harry has to stand up and go up there, the poor kid is beside himself, I can just see it in his eyes. 

"start from the beginning, how did that faithful day start?" Harry get asked

"It started pretty normally, but I had been thinking off leaving Alfie for a good while now, I did not like the way he talked down to me all the time, like just because I'm younger does not mean that I don't know what I am doing. I had enough, than later that night we got into an argument, because I did not want to come downstairs and pick dinner, or some stupid thing like that. I told him to come upstairs and that is where I did it, I told him that I was leaving him for good, and he just stared at me, then as I went to walk away and down the stairs I felt something push on my back and the next thing I know, I'm waking up on the floor and my wrist hurts so much."

"what happened after you woke up?"

"I begged Alfie to take me to the hospital, but he said he was tired and then he went to sleep, but not without getting what he wanted out off me first. then he pulled me up from the ground on my bad arm."