Falling in Love With my Rival

~Chapter 4~

      "Ok so I had a best friend since I was a baby and nothing could tear us apart; or so we thought. When it was my 8th birthday, my family was torn apart and this was all because of my mom. Me and my dad had a really close connection. I would tell him everything and we were a happy family.
      "I even had a little brother who was only 2 years younger than me. He was adorable. Well, keep this in mind, my mom was addicted to drugs and alcohol, literally anything you could think of she was addicted to it. I knew this by my dad didn't. Well, on my 8th birthday, my dad somehow found mom's secret stash. It didn't end very well that night.
      "They started arguing really loudly and since it was late at night the and we had no neighbors, no one could here they besides us.They were yelling and screaming. I held my brother in my arms trying to cover his eyes and ears so he wouldn't see. Then, all of a sudden we heard a loud bang and it was all quiet. There was no more noise. I looked up and I saw my father on the floor with a puddle of blood around him. I didn't let my brother look up instead I brought him into the bedroom and closed the door.
      "I looked at my mother with a horrified look on my face. She didn't care though instead she said 'Help me get rid of the body.' I was terrified. I didn't want to carry my father's dead body. No I didn't. My mother didn't care though. Even after his death she still did drugs.
      "After his death, my mom had to find a new boyfriend. I took care of my brother and I knew he was terrified of Mom so I asked my best friend who I mentioned before, Hiro, if he could stay with him. He agreed without questions.
      I'm hear listening to Tomoki's childhood and I'm bout to bust out into tears. I can't believe an amazingly sweet kid like him would have to go through something like that.
      "It was a really sad time for me. It was years of abuse for me. I was glad that I saved my brother from this treacherous woman. She would so awful things to me. She would abuse me physically and mentally. She would call me all types of names and say how I'm a screw up and how I was a mistake." He starts crying. I reach over to him to wrap my arms around him but he moves my hands away. "Lemme finish." He says and picks his head up with a smile on it.
"Where was I? O right. Ok so so yea she would call me all those things and she would also come home drunk and she would physically abuse me. She would beat me til I was black and blue and sometimes she would even cut me with a knife. I hated it and I hated her and I still do. The years went by with a lot of abuse and agony.
"When I entered the 6th grade I thought my life would become better but I was wrong; so wrong. People would start bullying me and my supposedly my best friend didn't even help me. They would beat me at school and then I would get beat at home. My brother was sent to school at an early age so once I entered 7th grade he was in the 6th.
"Once they found out that he was my little brother they started bullying him to. I couldn't handle it. I stood up for him. I did everything I could so my brother would be happy! And what did I get from him!? 'I don't ever want to see you again' was all he said to thank me! I didn't even know what I did and I still don't. He didn't understand that he was everything to me.
"Even my old best friend started bullying me. It got to where even the teachers didn't like me. I couldn't go anywhere without someone criticizing me. I entered the 8th grade and that's where it all happened. That's the grade that I wanted to kill myself. My brother started bullying me. MY BROTHER!!!! I could t believe it. The only person I had left betrayed me.
"I started going home crying every single day and my mother finally hade enough of it. She decided to sew my mouth shut. She also stabbed me in the eye. After she did that she picked me up and drove to I don't even know where and left me there. Luckily someone found me and called an ambulance.
"My Mom was arrested for murder, having illegal drugs and alcohol, child abuse, abandonment, and for cursing and trying to hit a police officer. I started to go to school and the hospital became my new home. I was still being bullied there by everyone in sight.
"I finally gave up and decided to try and kill myself. I wanted to so bad but I couldn't do it so instead I just cut myself to stop thinking about all of it. The nurses found out and sent me to a mental hospital. There I found a friend. A real friend. But it didn't last very long. About three weeks later someone went on a crazy killing spree, and it wasn't one of the patients either. It was one of the doctors.
"He killed so many people I couldn't even count. I saw my new friend get killed right before my eyes. The doctor attacked me but he didn't kill me. I played dead until he left me alone. Once it was all quiet o went over to my new friend and cried over my loss.
"I thought that if I ever get close to someone again I'll be disappointed with the outcome. Since everyone I got close to either betrayed me or was killed I made a promise to myself. I promised myself that I would never get close to anyone ever again, but then I met you and all that changed.
"Once I met you it's like my whole entire life was meant to be this way. I suppose to be betrayed and traumatized." He looks at me with tears in his eyes and I start to cry. I can't believe he went through all that. It must've been horrifying.
I take him into my arms and hold him there, "It's ok now, your safe. You don't have to worry about anything else. I promise I will never leave you." I say and kiss his head. He doesn't react at all so I guess he didn't feel it.