Rise, Rose, Risen {Poofless}

Muted

Rob's pov

I suddenly wake up from my slumber. I feel myself in water and when I open my eyes I realized I passed out in the bathtub. I slowly get up and start drying myself.

I get back into my bedroom and put on fresh clothes before I start to do my homework. It's too much trouble really, I'd rather play games. I shake off the thought and get to my homework.

After few hours I'm done and I look at the time. 10:32pm, might as well get an actual good sleep. I plug my phone in to charge as I sink down under my covers and I quickly feel my eyelids grow heavier and heavier.

-Time skip until morning-

I wake up, as usual and get dressed, as usual. The same routine again. I get a white jumper and some blue jeans and I grab my bag and leave the house before my dad notices I'm awake. The house reeks like alcohol anyways, he's probably got drunk again.

I step outside and feel the cold morning breeze hit my face as I walk down the road. I plug my headphones to my phone and start playing music as I walk towards the school.

-At school-

As I arrive I see Lachlan, Vik and Brandon in front of the doors. "Thank God you came here Rob!" Brandon says sounding very grateful. "Why?" I question him. "They've been all romantic and cheesy and ew" he says laughing which makes me and Lachlan and Vik laugh as well.

We wait for a while for the others and after it we get to our lockers and separate ways since we don't all have the same classes. My next class will be with Jerome, Matt and Brandon. We have biology, I'm not really too good at it but Matt starts helping me. He's really smart. The class goes by quickly and we get out to find the others.

Our luck is that we have sports together. All of us. But the unlucky thing is there is also James, Daniel, Brian and Scott, the asshats who bully us.

We get to the field and our teacher tells we'll play football. I'm fine with football, it's quite fun but I know Vik will hate this. He doesn't like sports, especially when it involves balls. Even though he's gay. I giggle at myself about the joke but as I see James and the others get into the field my smile dies down. They will kill me when we play.

We start the game and I was one of the attackers. As I run with the ball dribbling James runs right into my legs causing me to fall over after a small flight and hit my face to the floor. I can soon realize my nose is bleeding. And to top it off I feel sick and nauseous. As I attempt to stand up I stumble and the teacher thinks it's best if I go to the nurse.

I head away from the field to the nurse and as I knock on the door it opens almost on an instant. The nurse gets me in and clears my nose and making sure it stopped bleeding. After the nurse took care of me he said I was fine to leave really. I went back to my usual classes earning few looks.

When I'm back at home again I notice my dad isn't here. He must be getting beer or something. I don't mind him being away for obvious reasons but I'm so lonely. I decide I'd call the guys and play some games with them. After an hour I hear the front door open and hear footsteps near my door. I quickly mute my Skype before he could hear the guys' voices and think again that 'I'm with a faggot'.

When he walks into my room he smells like vodka a lot and his words are slurred. I'm 99% sure he went to a bar. Again. "Whet yau dym fux?!" He shouts but I can't make out what he's saying. I slump down as he raises his fist to hit me. He misses it because I dodged but the next hit he doesn't. It hits me straight on my jaw and then he kicks my legs.

Brandon's pov

I was the only one left in the call with Rob. He had all of a sudden muted us and himself so I paused the game and went on Skype as we also had face cams on but we couldn't see them unless we were on Skype.

As I pressed on the chat and saw his cam go on I saw a tall, a bit chubby man wobble to him. I couldn't hear what he was saying but his lips were moving. Rob looked scared and I tried to get his attention but it was impossible being muted. I watched as he dodged the guy's hit but the other one hit him in the jaw. After that incident I could see Rob getting kicked on his legs.

Soon the guy left and I couldn't help but think 'was that his dad?'.

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