Muzzled

p a r t 2

(This is like 5 minutes after the last part)

Liam ran back home and slammed the door shut behind him. He sighed and walked through the corridor into the front room where his Dad was. He slumped on the door frame waiting for his dad to notice his return, he didn't. Liam decided to make sure he knew he was not dead yet. "I'm back dad" Liam's dad turned around and stared at his black eye. He paused for a second and Liam looked around awkwardly. "So did you win today?" His dad asked, Liam looked down at his paws and answered "Nope, like always dad." Liam's dad looked disappointed and led back in his chair. "We're not gonna have enough money to even eat if you don't up your game Liam.." Liam stayed silent and looked at his dad. His black fur that covered all of him, the bags under his depressed looking eyes. Liam dropped his bag down into the floor and went upstairs. He ran his hand across the wallpaper that was falling off, the stairs without carpet that creaked. He ran into his room and flopped onto his bed, it shook and a stuffed animal his mum gave him fell off, he picked it up and stared at it for a second. He squished it, soft, still smelt like his mum. He missed her a lot, she left because of the whole thing with his dad putting him into the fights, it was a last option to get money. She never wanted Liam to get hurt, she wanted him to stay safe, and not get a black eye almost every day. Her white and black fur looked like Liam's, he even looked a little like her, so his reflection made him sad. It reminded him of her, yeah she might be gone but at least he gets to see her...kinda...

An hour later he shut his laptop down and went downstairs, his dad hadn't moved, at all, Liam went outside to go see his friend, Casper, he used to fight like Liam did. They stuck very close together after that one time they had to fight each other and rebelled against it, Caspers dad took him out of fighting after that, Liam stepped in the puddles on the sidewalk and looked at the cars pass by him, everybody looked at him strangely, his bandages, black eye and the ripped bit of his ear. Everybody seemed to be scared of him, as if he was going to kill somebody.

He reached Caspers house and knocked on the door, Casper opened it and smiled at Liam, "Hello mate" He said inviting him inside. Casper was a Dalmatian, he had gold rings on each of his flopped ears. He was older than Liam, 17 actually. Liam stepped inside his well kept house, much better than Liam's. They went to Caspers room and sat down.
"How was the fight yesterday?" Casper asked
"I lost, again"
" I could tell from the black eye.."
Liam bit his hoodie sleeve and Casper looked at how battered he was from the fighting. Casper only had a scar on his nose from fighting, but he was stronger than Liam and won a lot.
"I met this guy called Duke yesterday though.." Liam said
"Does he fight?"
"Don't think so, he's deaf in one ear so he thought I was called Latte." Liam laughed.
Casper laughed and punched Liam's shoulder lightly. "Y'right latte?" He teased, Liam shoved his hand away and looked at the pictures on Caspers wall. There was ones of him wearing his fighting gear, pictures of him and his girlfriend and other friends. His life seemed nice. Casper noticed Liam looking at the array of photos, "How come you haven't got a girlfriend Liam? Your nice enough" Casper said. Liam thought for a moment. "Dunno really, never really cared about it, too many other problems in my life I don't want to add more." Casper nodded, Liam yawned and led on his back on Caspers bed looking at the ceiling. "Anyway I've always been scared of meeting new people, if I mess up first impressions that could be it. But who's gonna love this messed up face" Liam joked pointing at his scars and ripped ear. Casper laughed "somebody will don't worry mate"..

They talked for a while before Liam left and walked home, he thought  hard  about the whole finding somebody thing, everybody seemed happy with there boyfriends or girlfriends, he just didn't think he deserved that kind of treatment...