Save Him

7. "Part Two"

"I'm sick of you, I was going to just let you run free... ya know boy.." Gerald clenched the steering wheel as he drove down the highway. "I tried with you and your sister.. My dad did me the same way but worse and y'all were ungrateful? At least I ain't let men or women touch you.. Y'all kept y'all virginity's and I wouldn't let that happen no matter then money or the drug.." Gerald stopped the car abruptly causing Quincy and Chrissy to jerk forward in their seats.

He heard the voices arguing back and forth in his head and he couldn't take it. Some were telling him be a better man than his father and others told him it was already too late and in order to be better he had to kill his son.

"Gerald.. lets just stick to the plan okay?" Chrissy began to panic, she had convinced him to just let Quincy go and they could start over and make a new baby. That was the plan; until he put it all together and figured Quincy had been running his mouth again. Chrissy never wanted this for her step son, she had always tried to get him and Kaycee out of this situation and after she'd failed, she just knew she was going to save Quincy.

Quincy didn't care what was going on; no beating his dad could give him could replace his heartbreak he endured from Taelynn. He finally opened up to her, and to him she had played him like everyone else and he thought that their friendship was pure. He felt bad about talking to her the way he did in text; but she had hurt him and he was at his breaking point with it all.

"Can you just kill me already" Quincy shrugged and let the tears flow freely.

"I don't want to son" Gerald began to bang his head, to knock the thoughts out of his head. Why wouldn't they just let him love his son?

"No Gerald; you can do it." Quincy egged him on. "You a pussy all of a sudden dad?" Quincy chuckled and Chrissy already knew what he was doing.

"Quincy don't.." She begged and began to cry. "He's going to let you free; just go okay?" She begged. But what was the point? Where did he have to go? He's never had anything and nobody ever gave a fuck.

He got out of the car and opened his dads door and punched him. "Get out and fight me like a man" Quincy yelled, and anger took over his body as tears clouded his vision as he repeatedly punched his dad and hit him in the temple causing Gerald to black out. Before Gerald could get out Quincy hand banged his head on the steering wheel.

Quincy had finally let his anger come out and he didn't care. He vowed to never use the strength his father had given him; but in the moment he wanted him to feel all the pain he had caused and the hurr he felt over his sister, and all the years they suffered and why? Because Gerald was Bipolar and schizophrenic?

"Quincy stop" Chrissy yelled and pulled him off of his father as Gerald regained consciousness.

"Oh here he goes" Quincy noticed the looks in his fathers face; the same look he'd get when he came the evilest voice in his head. "What you gone do Joe?" Quincy laughed calling out his name. His dad would change personalities and he knew from the look in his eyes; who he was at the moment.

Gerald got out the car and punched Quincy; but Quincy didn't back down. Not this time; he punched his dad back and they began to fight back and forth until Gerald punched quincy so hard he fell back and when Quincy smiled; it only pissed him off more. He went back to the car and grabbed his gun.

Chrissy had tried to grab it but it was already too late; he had shot Quincy in the chest twice. Gerald placed the gun into Quincy's hand as he drug him on the side of the highway; and let him fight to breathe. "If you live this don't come back around" Gerald whispered and dragged Chrissy away from him as she cried over him and tried to stop the bleeding. Getting in the car; he sped off and didn't care where his son lived or died. Whichever; he was now free.

As Quincy struggled to keep his breathing steady; Taelynn had tracked his phone and leaving her parents, no matter the pain she was in she needed Quincy to know she'd never do anything like to him; if she'd known that the couple her father was speaking about was them she would have never agreed to meet them.

She finally realized the reason she was always so obsessed with Quincy was because she liked him as more than a friend, and the text he had sent her broke her heart.

Driving down the highway; she pressed down on her brakes causing the car behind her to slam into her but she didn't care. She quickly got out of the car; and noticed him. That boy from all of her honor classes, the boy she wanted to save so badly. There he laid on the bridge with a gun in his hand and blood soaking his shirt.

Taelynn quickly pulled out her phone to call the police as she took her shirt off and put it on his wounds; she didn't care that it left her in just a bra and it showed her scars from two days ago. She began to cry as she talked to the police; and she jumped when Quincy started to cough. She thanked god because she thought he was dead!

"Help is on the way.. did you do this?" She pressed harder on the wound to keep him alive by feeling the pain. "I didn't set you up Q; I promise. Please keep your eyes open" She cried and smacked his face as the police had told her too, and kept talking to him so he would stay awake.

"I know you were going to tell me you liked me.. the night of my party you know?" She chuckled. "I was waiting so I could tell you I felt the same way since ninth grade and I was too scared to approach you" she smiled and smacked his face again as he tried to close his eyes. "Please Q hold on; you're going to be okay and you're going to come live with us alright? I promise you'll never go back" She kissed his forehead and she felt his hand squeeze hers.

Quincy heard everything she was saying; and as bad as he wanted to give up he tried to stay awake for her. He listened to her tell him stories that kept him wanting to hear more; so he could hold on just to listen to her talk. But what stood out the most is that she liked him just how he liked her.

"Help is here; Keep squeezing my hand okay?" She whisper and never let his hand go as they were rushed in the back of the ambulance. She told them to tow her car if they had too because she wouldn't leave his side; no matter what. She was going to be there for him; even if it meant staying in the hospital with him.

She soon became uncomfortable with the men in back of the ambulance and began to panic. She felt Quincy squeeze her hand and she looked at him as his eyes were on her; as if he was telling her he was there for her and not to worry about what had happened to her.

Just like she was going to save him; he was going to save her.

It'd be a long journey but they had each other.