The War Of Love And Hate ((Skylox))

Chapter 6: There And Back

A lot of talking in this chapter. Yay, character development!

(Adam's POV)

"Her sexuality. That's why they beat her up." Sasha said, head hung low. She stared at the brown carpeting beside her feet as she sat on the other couch.

"Is that really why? Are the people at that school that bad?" I asked her, tapping my foot.

"I'm new here, but from what I can see, yea. They're homophobe jerks." She said, anger in her voice and red on her face.

"How long has she been getting picked on? Do you know?" Ty asked with a worried tone.

"No... I only started school just yesterday."

"Who hurt her?" I asked hastily.

"This...group. There were five of them. All girls. I don't know their names. This girl, um... Alicia, I think, she told them about it."

"What? No. Alicia's a sweet girl. Danielle's best friend. She wouldn't do that." I said.

"Well, sometimes even best friends backstab. She wanted to be in the 'popular' group with those other girls."

"Normally that sort of stuff don't start till highschool or middle school. Fuckin hell, must get earlier and earlier every grade." Ty said.

"Ty, um.. language." I told him and tilted my head quickly to Sasha.

"Adam, she doesn't care." He said. I raised an eyebrow and looked to Sasha.

"You can't say anything worse than what I've already said." She said blatantly.

"Really? For a nine year old?" I asked surprised.

"Mhm. And, I'm so sorry this happened. I tried to stop them before she got too hurt, but I guess I didn't get there quick enough."

"Wait, this doesn't make much sense. Why would they beat up OUR daughter? Wouldn't they be afraid of being put in jail or even kicked out? We're the kings for Notch's sake. Shouldn't they be scared?" Ty asked.

"It's because she never told anyone. She thought it'd be embarrassing."

"Why would she-?"

"Daddy? Father?" I stood and turned to see Danielle at the corner by the stairs. "Can Sasha and I hang out now? I'm warm and dry."

I smiled faintly and said, "Yes, honey. Yes you can." She smiled widely.

"Come on! I'll show you my room!" She shouted and ran upstairs.

"Sasha, thank you." Ty said, gaining a nod from Sasha. Then she ran upstairs behind Danielle.

I plopped back down onto the couch making Ty bounced up slightly. He scooted next to me and rested his head on my shoulder. I wrapped my arm around his waist, bringing him closer to me, and he snuggled as close as possible.

"Ty, are we gonna do something about this?" I asked softly.

"We're her parents, of course we are." He replied quietly.

"What are we gonna do?"

"Well, we know Alicia and her parents. Plus we're the damn Kings. I'm pretty sure we can do whatever we want, right?"

"Eh, I dunno. We'll talk to Alicia and her parents tomorrow. For now, we need to get Sasha home. Its late."

"Okay...not it."

"Damnit." I kissed his head and stood up. "This means you need to put Danielle to bed, ya know."

He jolted up off the couch. " I can't. We both know I can't sing her bed-time song like you do. We've proved that I can't sing in front of whole kingdoms before."