She's a keeper

26

Nelli's Perspective

I have the ugliest battle wound forming on my belly. I sighed and pulled down my top. I put my coat on and left the house.

I have so much hate in my heart right now. What did I do to deserve this?
Nothing. Girls are fucked like that but try know when I catch this girl, She's done! She's dead! Fucking finished!

I can't laugh , piss, eat or even breathe without this shit bothering me. I don't even know why Im walking. I'm gonna be in so much pain when I get home.

I went to the shops to get myself a chocolate and a drink. Call me silly but I walked down the alleyway, bare in mind it's dark. If anything goes wrong, Im pissed. I can't run anywhere . It's so cold my wound is hurting I was gonna turn around and go home but I fell.

I screamed not because it hurt, it did, but Im laying next to a body.
I got my flash out to see what Im next to.

It definitely was a body. It was a black boy with swollen eyes and cuts on his face. He had dry blood around his nose. His lip was split open.

My heart broke at the sight of it. I called the ambulance. They were taking forever.
I analysed the boy even more and searched through his pockets, there was nothing there. No phone, card, oyster.

Wait, im so dumb. Me being here could be a danger to my health let me just leave before the people come back and finish me off to.

I stood up about to walk to same way that I came. I felt something tickle my leg. ITS A RAT! I kicked it with so much force I heard a loud groan? Rats dont make that noise?

It was the boy, he grabbed my leg. I looked down flashing my light at him. His disfigured face started to look clearer now.

"Izzy?"

"...n..nelli... please... help"
He spoke through clenched teeth, he was clearly in serious pain. The accomplice to my potential murder or even the murderer himself is infront of me. Possibly dying. I should leave him here. I hated him before Im sure I can continue doing so.

I continued walking and almost got to the end of the alleyway when it clicked. He's deffo been beaten up for a reason, Me, my brothers did it. I know they did. I turned around and walked back to Izzy. I need to make sure he gets to hospital and doesnt say a word when questioned.

Me- Look, I don't wanna feel bad later on. I called the ambulance. Im gonna go to the hospital with you and give you my phone so you can call your mum or something. Im gonna go after that.

He flashed me a weak smile. I must admit looking at him was breaking my heart. I got on my knees and put his head on my lap.

"The police are gonna ask too many questions, you need to clean me up." He struggled while trying to preserve whatever breath he had left. He was right. Where am I gonna take him? I deffo can't bring him back to mine.

I thought about this hard as quickly as I could because I had to get away from the ambulance. Okay boom, Im gonna call a cab. Im going Clarissa's. I helped Izzy up, when I tell you I almost died. My belly was hurting so much so we were both in pain and breathing very hard. I put his arm over my shoulder and we limped to the main road, the opposite direction of my house.

We stood there for about 10 minutes just in silence, we were both in pain, then the uber pulled up. I struggled him into the car and we sat in nothing but silence on the 20 minute ride to Clarissa's.

I knocked at her door with all the energy I had left in me I felt like I was gonna pass out. My wound was hurting me so much.

"Calm down man Im coming." I heard her behind the door. She swung open the door but she still hid behind it because she was naked.

"Nelli, you should've called. Im in the middle of..." She laughed "Come in anyways" Her eyes went off me and to Izzy.

"Oh my gosh babe, Eman used to come to my house like this all the time, take him to the little wood house behind the kitchen. There's first aid stuff there, I'll be there after Im done." She said just before skipping upstairs.

"Don't tell Emmanuel Im here thanks love"

She nodded and proceeded running away with her jiggly bum. I took the keys off the kitchen counter and brought Izzy to the shed thing. I unlocked the door and the shed looked like a bedroom. It had carpet, a nice bed, lights and everything. It was like an extension to her house, but there's a separate set of keys to get in. I laid Izzy on the bed and he damn near screamed. It's only now that I realised there was a knife which wasn't fully pushed in, just in his leg. I could've cried at the sight of it. I opened the draws and cupboards looking for somehting to clean and patch up this boy with but I couldnt find a thing.

I felt Izzy watching me which was making me feel pressured. I reached ontop of the cupboard and there was a green bag. It was slyly heavy. I got it down and unzipped it. I started cleaning up Izzy. He would wince every once in a while. It came to removing the knife, I have no idea what to do here. I got a damp towel, I pulled out the knife with force and Izzy shouted so loud it was ridiculous. I pressed the towel on his wound. I quickly lifted the towel and sprayed alcohol on it.

I could see the veins in his face bulging and his teeth were clenched. He had tears in his eyes, I must admit it was quite a funny sight. I wiped away his excess blood and patched him up. I disinfected the rest of the cuts on his face.

I laid on the bed next to him because I felt myself getting dizzy.