Another Reason [Daniel Skye]

11.

My legs hurt like crazy. I can't walk and I've been sitting on my bed since I got back up stairs last night. I have to get up to go to school or I'm dead. I try to stand but my legs go all floppy and I collapse back onto my bed.
"Come on Katie. Come on." I say to my self and I hold onto the wall as I start walking. I wince in pain as I take each step and I eventually get to my wardrobe. I look at the back of my legs. You can see where the belt hit and it's red and bruised everywhere.

All my tops are long sleeve to hide my cuts. Even if it's a 40 degrees c day, I will wear a long sleeve top. I decide on my black and gold hoodie with no top under neath and a pair of normal jeans with my black and white converse all star. I drag myself to the bathroom and brush my hair. I'll leave it down today.

I grab my bag and put my books in it and drag my self out. I'm allowed breakfast today. I slowly waddle downstairs and there is a slice of ready made toast with peanut butter on it. Yay. I grab it and take one bite before chucking it out and walking out the door. I don't eat much.

I hear footsteps behind me and Johnny appears next to me.
"Hey" he says in a normal tone. I don't say anything and he leans on me. I wince from him putting more weight on my legs.
"Sorry," he says and gets off me. Then I hear Shawn and Cameron's voice behind us.
"Yo Johnny?! Are you talking to her!?" I hear Cameron.
"Yeah I was just telling her how much of a slut she is" Johnny replies. So thats how he is.

When we are alone, he's nice but as soon as someone else is around he acts like a jerk to look cool and popular. Wow Johnny. Wow. I continue walking and the guys follow right behind me.
"Why are you walking really weird?" Shawn asks. I know he's talking to me but I don't say anything.
"She hurt her leg" Johnny say.
"Ha! Lol" both Shawn and Cameron say.

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It's in the middle of recess and I'm walking to my place where I normally hang out as a loner. When I see Johnny run up to me.
"I feel sick so I'm going to go home ok?" He says. I nod not sure why he is telling me but I limp over to my corner and sit down. Even through my jeans you can see my legs are badly swollen.

Daniel's POV

It's still school time and I'm home cause I felt like it. I get a text from Johnny saying that he's home sick. I'm gonna go see him cause I'm bored as hell. Everyone is still at school so it sucks.

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I get to Johnny's house and without knocking I open the door and Johnny greets me.
"Hey man" I say and I give him a bro hug.
"Sup?" He says guiding me to his room.
"Meh" I reply. We sit in his room and he turns on the Xbox.

"Cod?" J asks.
"For it" I say and grab a controller. I grab the best one leaving Johnny with the crap one. I laugh and we play a few games. After a while I get bored.
"I'm gonna go piss" I say and walk to the main bathroom upstairs. For some weird reason, Johnny hates other people using his bathroom so we have to use the other one upstairs.

On the way back I notice Katie's bedroom door is agar. I push it further to show a room that is decorated actually pretty sick. There is street art on the wall and a few old boards hanging on the wall. I go up to her dresser. She has a few pictures and I look at them. There's one of her riding an elephant I think when the family went on vacation. They legally had to take her.

She actually look pretty in that photo. I look at another one where it's a picture of her and Georgia. That new chick who was pretending she hated us for Katie but really she's our good friend. There's a dried tear stain on the photo. You can see it clearly. That's sad. Then there's a selfie of her on the roof. Damn. She looks gorgeous in that photo. Ew. Am I falling for her?! Ew. No. thats so wrong. It's Katie we are talking about.

I'm about to walk out when I hear sobbing and the door to her room walks in. I get under the bed and hide. Crap, if she sees me, it would be so awkward. I see pants drop to the floor in front of me. I don't look up but I see on the back of her legs are really badly bruised and swollen and red. It actually looks really painful. I'm starting to fell sorry for her. Omg what is wrong with me?!

Then I see a top fall. Ok I gotta see this. (A/n just remember this is a guy and most of them would kill to see this so shut up) I look up. Omg. Her stomach is covered in bruises and you can see knuckle marks. There are cuts and wounds that look so painful and then it looks like she hasn't eaten in months. What the hell? She walks into the bathroom and shuts the door.

I immediately get up and walk out and into Johnny's room.
"Dude, where were you?" He asks not looking up from the tv. Gosh, what do I say?
"I saw your cat and I was messing around with it" I say. Thankfully they have a cat.
"Oh ok" he says and continues playing. I hear a shower start from Katie's room and after a while I hear quiet sobs.

"Is she ok?" I chuckle.
"Hmm? Oh yeah. She does that in every shower" he says.
"It sounds like she's in pain." I say concerned. Yeah I like her. She is pretty cute and she needs someone to stick up for her or she won't survive in the high school wild.
"Do you have any idea why we give her a hard time?" I ask.
"I think we all just do it cause you do it to be honest" he says. Omg.
"Hahaha. I only do it cause you guys expect me too" I say.

"She's my sister. The past few years I have to pretend I hate her and watch her get beaten up at school and home 24/7 and it's heartbreaking. Especially when I hear her cry of pain in every shower." He says.
"Woah, Dude. I didn't know you had feelings" I chuckle.
"Shut up" he smiles and then he dies in his game. I hear her get out of the shower.

After five minuets I hear a loud thump and I get up and walk into her room. She had fallen. I go and pick her up and put her on her bed. She looked like she couldn't get up before so I decided to help.
"Hey are you ok?" I ask standing up.
"Yeah I'm fine" she says. She has fear in her voice. Omg that's because of me. I feel so bad. I like it how she acts strong but deep inside she's probably breaking.

She tries to sit up but she scrunches her face in pain so I make her lie back down.
"Do you eat much?" I say thinking she might be starving. She shakes her head.
"I'm never hungry" she says. She still has fear in her voice. Wtf?