Till Death Do Us Part

Scars For The Future

"Clem! Clem!" The teenage mother looks at her boy. The boy runs to her side and she kneels to his level. "What is it goofball?" AJ lifts his drawing to reveal a scene of himself, her, and Louis at a riverbed fishing. "You like it." His voice filled with joy. Clementine's face gleams with his excitement "You're getting real good at this AJ." The boy's already toothy grin was fueled by her remark.

AJ hears the door to their room creek. Both him and Clementine look at the door to be met by a overzealous Louis. "Louis!" The boy yelps. Louis motions down his hands like he was calming a crowd "You guys are too generous." AJ watches the smiling boy walk over to his guardian and give her a welcoming hug. While hugging her Louis looks over at the small boy and motions him in "You to little dude." AJ runs and embraces both of them. They hold each other for what seemed for eternity.

AJ then hears Louis' once bouncy voice grow cold and sad "I'll miss you guys." What? AJ disengages from the hug and looks up the the older boy. He is petrified with what he saw. Louis was now covered in blood. He had a massive cut from the lining of his right eyebrow to the center of his jawline. His once green shirt was now dark red with the chest portion of the shirt ripped from a cut that seemed to follow from his jaw. The lower part of his shirt had two cuts exposing his red stomach. Louis' body slumps over and crashes to the wooden floor panels. AJ fumbles on his feet and falls on his ass terrified.

Louis' glassy eyes fixed on the boy. AJ stares at them. Clementine rushes to his side and screams "LOUIS!"

AJ jolts awake from the nightmare. His body is hot and he is sticky from his sweat. "Somebody get Ruby!" The boy hears a distress call from outside. AJ quickly jumps out of bed and puts his boots on. While doing this he can hear the disturbed voices of his friends outside in panic. He fumbles with the laces Fuck me he tells himself with his fidgety fingers. His nerves get the best of him and he can't properly tie his shoes. Fuck it. He leaves the other boot untied and runs to his coloring box. His shaky hands open the box and he grabs his gun. He sees a piece of paper inside. It read For AJ. The boy grabs it and shoves it into his back pocket and loads his gun.

The panic outside is too much for the boy. As he is putting the bullets into the revolver some of the bullets are just falling out of his hand and hitting the ground. He ignored the abandoned bullets and runs towards the main hall with only half a clip loaded.

AJ pushes the door open bringing him to the main entrance of the school. Aasim and Willy burst through the double doors leading to the courtyard with a dying Louis in their arms. "Fuck! He's slipping out of my hands!" Willy states. Louis? The little boy is in disbelief. "Louis!" AJ runs over to the boys who are stumbling all over the place trying to get Louis up the stairs. "Stop dropping him Willy!" Willy shoots a menacing face at Aasim "I'm not trying to!" As soon as Willy says that Aasim slips on some of the blood that is on the steps from the boy's body. Aasim busts his ass and hits his head on a step. "Fuck!" Aasim yells into the room. Half of Louis' body falls on top of fallen boy who acted as a cushion. "Get the fuck up!" Willy frantically tells the older boy. Aasim scrambles to his feet with the boy in his arms and they continue up the stairs.

AJ hears Ruby yell from above "Bring him in Marlon's office." He sees the boy's disappear and the footsteps above him are fast and unpredictable. He hears the door slam and muffled voices fill the school.

The double doors open again and this time it is Violet. AJ has never seen her so petrified "What the fuck happened." The boy asks the blonde girl. "AJ." The girl jogs to him and kneels beside him. She puts her bloody hand on his shoulder "Go talk to Clem... she needs it." The boy doesn't understand "Where is she and what's happening!" The blonde wasn't paying him much mind but was looking at the bloody trail that leads to the voices and footsteps. "Just go talk to Clem." She disembarks from him and runs upstairs.