Mentors (A Joshler FanFic)

Chapter 16 - Ode To Sleep (Part Two)

WARNING: This chapter contains rape and self harm. You can skip down to the bottom if you don't  want to read the entire thing I will put a basic summery of it leaving out the bad parts

Tyler's P.O.V.

He left. I stood by the door and watched him go until he was out of sight. Then I stood there frozen in my place, the silence of the empty house was violent. The silence slammed into my frame and rattled my mind. My thoughts were always my enemy, hurting me at any chance they found. They hurt me now. My mind slipped back to that day when I was twelve years old.

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My mom had just died six months ago. My father was drowning himself in booze and was gone most nights. My brother was still home with me though so I felt okay. Sometimes he acted strangely but he just missed mom like I did, it was to be expected. His friends came over a lot, they were loud and smelt strange but they were cool and let me hang out with them sometimes and it made me feel cool that older teenagers let me hang out with them.

Other times they would send me away and I would go upstairs to my room. But curiosity sometimes got the better of me and I would sneak down the hall and stand of the staircase and eavesdrop on their conversation. I could hear them doing things but I never saw any of it. I was naive. I had been up in my bedroom reading a book, I think it was around noon on a Saturday. Zack came up to my room and told me to get my shoes on because we were going somewhere. Without a word I set my book down and got up to put my sneakers on. I followed Zack outside and got in his truck.

"Where are we going," I asked innocently.

"Uh just to a friends house," Zack responded distractedly as he paid attention to the mirror while backing out of the driveway.

"Oh okay," I said staring out the window as he drove. It was a rainy day. That I remember crystal clear. The grey clouds were a bit of literary foreshadowing unknown to me in that moment. The ride took about thirty minute, my brother's 'friend' lived all the way across town. We pulled in the driveway of a rather old and worn down single story house. "Get out," my brother said not meeting my eyes as he got out of the truck himself.

I obediently did as he told and followed my brother up the cobblestone walk to the house. My brother knocked on the door a couple of times and no one answered it. "Vinny," my brother yelled. "It's me Zack, open the fucking door."

We heard some shuffling and the sound of something being knocked over before the door opened revealing who I later found out to be Vinny's brother Luke. "Are you the one here to pay off that debt with the kid?"

"Uh yeah, he's right here. This is my brother Tyler."

"What's going on," I asked confused about the situation, completely oblivious to what was happening.

"Nothing, uh you'll be staying here for a little while with Vinny and Luke here. I'll be back to pick you up later."

"Why do I have to stay here?"

"Because I fucking said so, okay. Don't ask so many goddamn questions," my brother snapped. He shoved me in front of him and Luke wrapped his arm around my shoulder and pulled me into the doorway with him.

"Don't worry Zack, after this you're debt will be cleared. The kid'll be fine, we'll call you when we're done."

Zack just nodded and turned and walked back to his truck, we stood there watching him go and his face remained stoic as he drove away. "Come on in kid, Tyler's your name, right?"

"Yeah. So you're a friend of Zack's," I asked as he lead me through the filthy home to the living room where he released his hold on my shoulder and told me to have seat on the couch. "Eh sort of, more like business associates but it really doesn't matter. Wait here, I gotta go get Vinny."