High School // Malec

Chapter 64.

My mother and I arrived at Magnus apartment only a few minutes after I tried to call him the last time, but he hasn't picked up once. I am probably being paranoid, but I can't shake off the feeling that something happened to him during the night. Mother and
I left her car that she parked outside the enormous building and when we stood in front of the door that would take us into Magnus's apartment, all my feelings went bananas inside me.
- Ready? My mother said and looked over at me with very concerned eyes
- Yeah, I stuttered and breathed out
My mother rang the doorbell and we both waited for someone to open the door but as nothing happened, it felt like the every idiotic piece of ground disappeared underneath me and left me standing on nothing more than a pair of shaking legs that pretty soon will give up on me completely and I would then fall down for an eternity.
- Now what? I asked with a hysteric voice and felt how I was about to cry
- Kick the damn door open, my mum answered and looked at me seriously
- Excuse me? I asked truly surprised
- Kick the door open, mum repeated and looked at me like I was a moron
I nodded my head as an answer and started to prepare myself for what I might see on the other side. It is not like I have kicked open a door before in my life, but I guess that there is a first time for everything these days.
- Wait, my mother said just as I was about to at least try to kick the door open and probably sprain my ankle
I looked at her with two questioning eyes, ready to hear why she changed her mind all of a sudden. Instead of answering, mother placed her hand on the door handle and second later, the door opened like it was the most normal thing in the world. I couldn't help but face palm due the fact that I actually was about to open a door by kicking it like some kind of maniac. I gave my mum one last look and then I could not wait any longer. I walked into the apartment and immediately ran to Magnus's bedroom that to my surprise stood empty. I was about to return back to the living room when
I heard how my mother screamed in pure horror. I didn't think twice and ran out of Magnus's bedroom faster than humanly possible and what my two eyes came across made me stop. Magnus was laying unconscious on the floor in the middle of the kitchen with blood dripping from his head. I could also see a couple of bruises on his neck and a few more on his arms and it was like getting stabbed in the chest with some kind of sharp knife.
- Magnus, I stuttered and felt how a few tears escaped from my two eyes
I sat down beside his body and took his head in my hands and carefully placed it on my lap. My mother was already sitting beside the two of us with her phone pressed against her ear, probably calling an ambulance.
- Baby, I whispered and dragged my fingers through his raven black hair without touching enormous wound
Minutes later, my mother put away her phone and started to investigate all of Magnus's wounds and bruises.
- Did his stepfather do this? I asked and felt how more tears made their way down my two tomato red cheeks
- I don't know, my mother answered
Her voice was filled with sadness but it felt like I couldn't care at all about her at the moment. All I could focus on was Magnus who was passed out and beaten up in my arms. His face was pale as fuck and if I am going to be honest, he looked like a corpse. I can't say for how long we waited for the ambulance to arrive or how long the ride to the hospital was. It wasn't until the doctors had to bend up my hand from Magnus's lifeless hand I realised how much time had passed. While they took him in to one of the hospitals emergency rooms, mother and I had to sit and wait on a couch in the waiting room. Tears was still making their way down my cheeks and I could not believe that this was actually happening. Mum had called Jace and he was already on his way over here together with Izzy. I knew that this was probably hard for both of them since they have gotten closer to each other during all the amazing weeks that Magnus and I have been
a real couple. I know that I shouldn't blame myself, but I can not help but think that this awful situation would not have happened if I just had been a better boyfriend and stopped Mags from walking away after the incident with Camille because then maybe all this would not have happened at all.
- Alec, are you okay? My mother said and placed her hand on my shoulder
- No, I said and continued to stare at the wall with 0 emotions in my eyes
It's been a few weeks since I lost my baby brother and if I would lose my boyfriend now too, I would honestly not be able to keep fighting to live a life where the two people I love the most in the whole world are dead.

// TBC \\