Hopeless and Broken

Chapter 9

Marcus's POV
Lucas woke me up today. He held onto me tightly and kissed my cheek. "What happened yesterday?" Lucas asked quietly. "I went on a walk, and then someone hit me in the head. I was unconscious and when I woke up, I was in a basement. And some girl almost forced me to have sex with her, until her younger sister, Leila who's 18, came in and took me back to where they found me. Leila thought I was too young for it because I lied and told them I was 13." I explained. He looked at me wide-eyed. "So you basically got kidnapped and almost raped?" He asked. I just nodded. He held me a little tighter and brought me closer to him. He sat there and hugged me in silence. He must have had a thousand thoughts running through his head, I couldn't even try to use our "telepathy" because his head was clouded. He laid me down gently next to him. I put my head on his thigh, he stroked my hair back. "I'm glad you're okay." He finally said after a while. "I'm glad I'm home." I stated. He looked down at me. he brought his hand to my stomach and rubbed it. "You've been eating. At least your getting better." He said. I just nodded. "You know, we should do something. Go somewhere. Just you and me. No one else." He said. "Where would we go?" I asked. "California?" He said. "We've always wanted to go to California." I replied. "Exactly, so let's go. I'll get the plane tickets you start packing." He said. "Wait. Lucas. Are we going to tell our parents and Cyu and Dari?" I asked. "We'll tell Cyu and Dari but not mom and dad. They're never home anyway and we'll only be gone for the week." He said. "Okay." Lucas bought the plane tickets. We leave tomorrow at 3 AM. I packed my bag and helped Lucas pack his. We told our brothers and they just nodded.
-The next day -
It was about 1 AM and our older brothers were driving us to the airport. Once we got there we said our goodbyes. " love you guys." Both our brother said. " we love you too," Lucas and I replied in unison. A couple hours later we were on the plane. I laid my head on Lucas's shoulder. "Go to sleep. I know you're tired. I'm pretty tired too." Lucas said. I feel asleep and Lucas's shoulder. But when I woke up, we were both lying down on across the two seats and I was on top of Lucas. I just laid back down and his chest and felt his chest ruse and fall. He was still asleep and I didn't want to wake him. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have just been cleared to land at the Los Angeles International Airport. Please make sure one last time your seat belt is securely fastened. The flight attendants are currently passing around the cabin to make a final compliance check and pick up any remaining cups and glasses. Thank you." Said the captain. "Okay now I want to wake him up." "Lucas..." I whisper yelled." "Huh?" Lucas replied groggily. "We're going to land soon" I said. "Oh.." he replied. He sat up and I did as well, I moved back into my seat and put in my seat belt. We landed after about 10 minutes and we got off. We got our luggage and went to find the nearest hotel. Once we arrived there was an entire track team in the lobby. The coach was at the desk yelling at the manager. "Hey, isn't that the emblem Julia's jacket had?" Lucas asked while pointing to the emblems on a girls tank top. "Yeah it is." I replied. Then we saw Julia come out of the hallway with Sierra. "What are they doing here?" "Hey," Lucas and I waved. They spotted us and smiled. They came over to us. "Hey, What brings you two to LA?" They both asked. "We just wanted to get away, what about you two?" I replied. "Oh Julia has some big track meet here, she's been worked up all week. Apparently it's pretty important." Sierra said. "DUH ITS IMPORTANT!! You idiot, This is the freaking qualification tournament for the Olympics!!! Of course I'm going to be worked up for this. I'm basically going against all of my teammates now." Julia replied. "You never told me this was the qualifications! Mine is next week!" Sierra replied. "Woah, qualifications for the Olympics, they're definitely going big." "You guys wanna come watch her win?" Sierra said with a smirk. Julia just rolled her eyes. "I may not win, not only do I have to compete against my teammates but against everyone else going for the track & field Olympic events." Julia said. "Yeah sure, we'll come watch her beat everyone to a pulp." Lucas and I replied. They both laughed. "YO WHATS UP TEAM CAP." Some girl said while running up to Julia. "Hey, Brooke," Julia replied. Then another team came in. "Ugh its them." Julia and Brooke said. The other team was in navy blue and had a different emblem on their shirts. "Who are they?" Sierra, Lucas and I asked at the same time. "That's our rival team. They're complete and total bitches who think they're the shit." Julia replied. "Oh heyyy Julia . Oh and the copy cat clone. Oh, Julia you ready to eat my dust? You better be because I'm going to beat your ass" said a girl from the rival team. Julia walked up to her. "I wouldn't be too sure about that. Last time I checked, I beat you in every single race we've ever had since we were 6. Not to mention my time has always been faster than yours and it still is. So what makes you think this year is going to be any different.... Andrea?" Julia said with complete confidence. "Oooooooooo" said both teams. "Oh this is going to be good." "Yo I heard these to have been at each other's throats since they were like five." I heard someone whisper from behind us. Julia and Andrea were just glaring at each other. "Well duh, their parents we're rivals too. You know both their parents were in the Olympics for track too and Julia's dad beat the shit out of Andrea's. They've both been trained for track since they were little and naturally without the force of their parents, they started hating each other." Said someone else in the background. "Ooo Damn this is getting intense." Lucas whispered in my ear. "Andrea let's— JULIA????" Said the coach of the rival team. "Oh hello Mr.Davidson, how's it going? Ya miss me?" Julia said with a slight glare, a smirk and a mocking tone. " I haven't  seen you since you were 7!" Said the coach. "Yeah..." Julia replied. "I used to be your coach." He said. "One heck of a coach you were! You couldn't even teach me shit! You were never a true coach." Julia yelled. "Oooooo shit!" Brooke yelled out. "You were always my least favorite." Said the coach. "Was it because I was faster than you and you felt embarrassed that a seven year old you were supposed to be coaching can beat you in a race with ease?" Julia said with a cocky grin. "DAMN!" Someone else on Julia's team yelled out. "Shit just got real." "I can't wait till Andrea here beats you, then we'll see who's laughing." The coach said. "I'll still be the one laughing. You wanna know why? Because She won't beat me, she won't. Your team is full of conceited little bitches who think they're the fastest in the world when there are plenty of people in the world who are faster than them. I'm not the fastest person in the world either, but Im still more humble than they are. Yes, we all gloat here and there, but there is a line the girls on your team passed between gloating and being a total bitch." Julia said. "Holy shit Jewels, I like this new you." Someone shouted. Julia walked off and she left then rival coach and team stunned. "DAYUMMM" Lucas and I looked at each other. "Alright team, I got us our rooms" Said the coach for Julia's team. The team left to get to their rooms, Lucas and I got a room right next to Julia and Sierra's . "That was one heck of an argument in a hotel lobby!"