Bully Brother {Short Story}

Chapter 4

[Calum's POV]
"I love you g-" Lydia said.

"LYDIA!" Michael and I yelled.

We ran up to the door and tried to open it. It wouldn't move. She locked it. I saw two hair grips on the floor and picked them up. I put them in the lock and jiggled them around a bit until the door clicked open. The first thing I saw was the once sweet, innocent and lively Lydia sat in a bath with blood around her and colour slowly drawing from her face. Ashton must've heard the conversation because he ran up the stairs very quickly. He and Mikey called an ambulance whilst I wrapped my flannel and his flannel around her wrists. Paramedics came rushing through moments later and picked her up on a stretcher. Mikey told me to go with them and he, Luke and Ash would follow in the car. The lady asked me what happened and I told her word for word what Lydia had said. I also told her that I had seen her father hit her but was also threatened. She wrote it down and then told me we were there. We got out of the ambulance but I was told I had to stay in the waiting room. Luke and two red faced boys (Mikey and Ash) ran in and as soon as they saw me, ran to me. Luke sat at my left and the other two boys sat at my right.

"Probably a bad time to ask, but why do you two look so angry and why do you look like you are guilty?" I asked the three boys?

"Why don't you ask him? He caused all of this!" Ashton growled.

"Luke what did you do?" I sighed.

"I-I can't say!" Luke cried as tears began to flow down his cheeks.

"Look, whatever it is that you have done may be horrible but I know Lydia and she would forgive you in an instant. She is probably not even mad at you. Just hurt." I said and hugged one of my best friends.

He hugged back and then pulled away. He wiped the tears and went to get his phone out of his pocket but the doctor came in.

"Family and friends of Lydia Hemmings." She said.

We all stood up and followed her around the colossal hospital until we arrived at Lydia's room. She pulled a clipboard out of the plastic holder that is on the wall and flicked through a few pages. She then unclipped the pages she wanted and clipped them back in on the top.

"Did you know that she self harms?" She ask.

We shook our heads in response. "No."

"Well now you do. She is surprisingly healthy and is awake. She is requesting to see two boys by the names of Calum and Luke first. Then Michael and Ashton." She said.

Mikey and Ash sat on the chairs outside of the room while me and Luke walked in. Luke sat at Lyds' right side and I sat at her left.

"Hey Lyds." I said softly.

"Hi Calum." She replied. "Hi bubba."

"Hey Pengy." Luke whispered.

"How are you two doing?" She asked.

"You see Lyds, this is why we are best friends. You are the one who is in a hospital bed hooked up to an IV and you're asking us how we are doing." I chuckled.

"That's just how I am Cal. I care more about others than myself. You could murder someone and I would still love you and care for you." She said and glanced at Luke. "I don't mean to be rude Calum, but could you let me and Luke talk alone for a little bit please?"

"Of course! Tell Luke to call for us when you want us in." I said and left the room.

[Lydia's POV]
"I have one question for you." I said to my brother.

"What is it?" He said.

"Why do you bully me Bubba?" I asked softly as tears sprung to my eyes.

"Do you really want to know why?" He said.

"Please Luke. I am begging you. I will give you anything!" I begged.

"I'll tell you why. I am jealous of you." He said.

"Why would you be jealous of me? I'm fucked up in the head and I am a little ugly shit." I told him.

"That's the thing though. You're not. Your really pretty, your super smart, you have been in more relationships with girls than I have, you haven't had to be in any fake relationships with people you hate and you have the best relationship with our family." He said, not bothering to wipe the tears of his face.

"Come over here Luke." I said and he climbed next to me on the bed to the spot I was patting. "Let me tell you something. I have been in four relationships. One of them was an abusive guy, one was a clingy girl, one was an alcoholic girl an the other one was a clingy, alcoholic, abusive, cheating girl. At least your relationships were stable. To go onto your other points, I probably have the worst relationship with our family. Only mum, Ben and Jack will actually stay in the same room as me without wanting to slap me or punch me or hurt me."

"Do you want to know the other reason?" He asked me.

"Yes Luke. I forgave you ages ago I just want to know why." I replied.

"Dad made me hate you. I hate him so much for what he has done to you because I've seen it. I might be being a hypocrite but still, he has done it longer than me. I don't think you remember this but when we were little, we both had guitars. Dad put new strings on both of ours. You accidentally broke yours and I accidentally broke mine. You took the blame for it all and dad hit you. He hit you so hard that you fell into the coffee table. I was about to run from him but I hit my head on the corner of the kitchen island because I tripped over my feet. I woke up in hospital the next day and dad told me that you put me in there. It honestly just came back to me when I saw you in that bed. I am so sorry!" He cried out.

"BOYS!" I yelled.

They all came running in and saw what was happening. They must've heard what we were talking about because they all looked like I had pulled some of their heart strings. They all carefully climbed onto the bed and pulled me and Luke into a huge group hug.

"I love you guys so much." I said.

"We love you too." They replied.