"You excited?" Caleb screamed in my ear making me flinch from his loud voice, I shoved his bouncing body away from me as Ace tried to calm him down from his caffeine high.
"No, why would I be excited for school twit?" I answered back sourly, in my defence its 7:30 in the morning and I'm tired because I couldn't sleep, scared of the nightmares so I just stared up at the ceiling all night.
"Bub why didn't you get some sleep last night?" Ace asked me in a worried tone. "I did." The lie slipped through my teeth.
Ace sighed "why lie?" he put his arm around me and pulled me to his side and gave me a warm hug making me smile. "Group hug!" my eyes widened and Ace's body tensed, we started to protest and pull away from each other but Caleb had other ideas. He charged into the two of us making us topple on the ground, I pained yelp slipped my lips as someone's elbow dug into my bruised side, both boys jumped up alarmed and Ace looked down at my pained face.
"Percy..." Ace said slowly as Caleb helped me up and started to dust of the dirt. Caleb's hand brushed my side making me wince and his hand instantly froze. "Percy, what happened?" Caleb demanded his voice serious.
"Nothing," I tried to say strongly but failed when my voice cracked half way through. Caleb's hand reached out and grabbed the hem of my shirt and slowly started pulling only getting about two inches up before he stopped to look at me before continuing up. Dropping my head in shame, I heard two sharp intakes of breath as Caleb and Ace stared at my black and blue side, cool hands brushed over it making me tense up and clench my fist to stop myself from flinching away. "Percy, what happened?" this time it was Ace who said it, his voice shaky.
I took a deep breath and started to explain; "last week, before we left for our flight out here, I asked Jamie and Gordon if I could go for a walk and they said I could but I had to be back in an hour. I had walked down to the park and sat under the oak tree, even though it was only like 5:30 it was getting dark and nobody was out so I thought I was fine. I remember hearing sluggish footsteps behind me and loud laughter but I ignored it and got up to leave, he had grabbed my shoulder and shoved me into the tree – I didn't know he'd be there I thought he would be probably watching football or something but I swear I didn't think he'd ever go to the park I'm rea-"
Caleb cut me off "Who was there Perc?" I sucked in a deep breath and let it out in a shaky huff, "Richard..." I looked over at Caleb and Ace to see Ace with his eyes closed, hands clenched by his sides and were taking deep breaths trying to calm down. Caleb had his hands clenched as well but instead of trying to calm down he swore out loud, sounding very pissed.
"What did he do?" Ace asked in a sickly calm voice, meaning he was pissed off.
"He tried to get me to have some 'fun' with and when I declined so he pushed me to the floor and kicked me in the ribs, repeatedly. I thought I was going to back out but his friends called him over so he dropped me to the ground, kicked me one more time and left." Finishing off the story I didn't realise I was shaking until both Ace and Caleb wrapped me in a tight hug, being careful of the ribs of course.
"Alright guys we should probably head to school now because where like 10 minutes away from being late." Caleb said, my eyes widened and we pulled away quickly and jogged to Caleb's car, It was an Aston Martin Vanquish with a mirror finish, it's a really amazing car.
We all hopped into the car and speed away to school. Ace was wearing a black and red Ben Sherman polo shirt with black skinny jeans and tan timberlands, Caleb was sporting a plain white tee with grey –almost black skinny jeans and some black doc martins. I was wearing a cream dress with a light pink jumper over the top and some white converse.
Pulling up to our new school, all eyes turned to us. Ace stepped out first and the Caleb, Caleb opened the door for me and Ace helped me out, both boys slipped on their black ray bans and slung their arms over my shoulder. I rolled my hairs at their attempt to be dramatic. Most girls where giving me glares and a little few where looking at me with envy, pretty much all the girls and even some guys were looking at my boys with lust and want swirling in their eyes.
This is going to be a long day.
