Dark inside (Solby)

Father

Colby's POV

As I looked at our bed sam was looking back at me, like a deer in headlights. He was curled up in a onesie and the hoodie with a paci in his mouth but he was holding his switchblade in his hand. Crap.

"Sammy" I said walking over to him and grabbing the switch blade and setting it on the nightstand before rolling up his sleeves. "Why would you hurt yourself?" Thankfully it was only two shallow marks on his wrist, though it could have been a lot worse.

"B-becwause...." he mumbled looking down ashamed. "B-becwause day were wight, and dats how evewybody will swee us" I looked up at him with soft eyes as I wrapped up is wrist.

"No baby that's not true, no one will see us like that. They're just assholes."

"W-wanna bet?" He seemed to be slipping out of little space the more upset he got and he grabbed his phone and handed it to me. It was opened to his texts, from his dad. The most recent one was from a few minutes ago.

So what? Now all of a sudden you're in love with your best friend and act like a fucking baby? What are you stupid?! I will not tolerate your poor and stupid decisions you have made. I know that fucker talked you into all of this, but the fact that you're letting him push you around pisses me off even more. No son of mine is a two year old fag or a pussy. Talk to me once you get your shit straight. Until then you aren't my son

I looked at the text over and over feeling anger and shock. Who treats there kid like this? Who thinks that they can morph their kid into whoever they want them to be?

"Baby I'm so sorry" I said as I gently pulled him into my arms and held him close to me as I he starred to cry.

"I don't understand" he sobbed "why would he treat me like that? Why would he say all those things about me? I thought he cared about me and wanted me to be happy."

"I know. But it's his loss. He doesn't deserve you anyway, you're to good for him." Sam cling to me tightly as I rubbed his back and started softly humming to him. As I was humming he seemed to calm down, and slip right back into little space. I smiled and grabbed my phone and wiped his tears away before pulling up Snapchat and opening the cat filter and hit record. "Say hi Sammy"

"Hi!" He squeaked then he realized he was a kitty like me and giggled. "Kitty!"

"That's right those are kitty ears." I said smiling as I kissed the top of his head. "You are so adorable don't let anyone change you"

"I won't daddy I pwomise" he mumbled through his paci as he rested his head on my chest and started playing with his stuffed animal.

"We just wanted to thank everyone that came out to our show today and to everyone we got to meet. You guys have really made today super fun for us so that means a lot to us" Sam looked up at the camera and smiled as he nodded, still holding his bear close to him. I ended the snap and posted it and within minutes our phones were blowing up. Sam was very happy and he even hopped off the bed and crawled to our bags and pulled out a little car and starred playing with it. Maybe twenty minutes later there was a knock on the door making Sam freeze.

"It's okay baby it's okay." I said softly and he stayed where he was as he watched me and I looked through the peep hole and smiled softly as I opened the door, revealing Allison and his mom. Sam sat there with a look of fear in his face and tears filled his eyes but his mom quickly rushed to his side.

"Sh sh sh it's okay it's okay." She spoke softly. "I brought something for you" she put her bag in front of her and started to dig through it until she pulled out a soft blue blanket and held it out to him. His eyes lit up when he saw it and he took it from her quickly and snuggled it close to him as he smiled.

"What do you say baby boy?" I asked softly as I looked at him with a smile

"Tank woo" she smiled and ruffled his hair.

"You're very welcome little one." She then stood up and walked over to me. "How bad?"

"Nothing as bad as I had done. Two on each wrist." She nodded and sighed as she looked back at sam.

"I wish he would just except him. The way he acted wasn't right, it's his son not some stranger. I've never seen him act like that before."

"Yea I know. I thought he was better than my dad, but I guess deep down they were both the same" his mom placed her hand on my cheek as she looked at me with soft eyes.

"You never deserved how your family treated you. You're lucky to have the brother you do to look out for you." I smiled and nodded as I placed my hand over hers.

"Just like I'm lucky to have you guys as my family." She smiled and kissed my forehead

"Always" I smiled then looked over and saw ally playing with Sam. I awwwwed and smiled as I sat on the ground and watched him. He looked up at me and giggled as he waved before going back to playing. I smiled as I watched him and Allison looked back at me and held something out to me. It was the cat ears from earlier. They caught Sams attention and he lightly grabbed them from ally and crawled over to me, placing them on my head as he smiled.

"Kitty play. Please" he said with bright eyes and I smiled purring softly, but I only stayed in half space as I smiled. He pet my head and giggled as I closed my eyes and curled up into a ball on the ground. I was glad that he was able to get into head space and forget about shit with his dad