Deep Scars

new kid

"Toby mate just go we both know you need to spend some time with Spencer these days" Toby gave his friend the look or so Ezra called it "okay but if you find the urge to cut again I'll be right back here with Spencer in two not caring if she finds out you get it book boy"

Ezra nodded "yeah promise mate Wesley isn't in town so I'm sure everything will be fine" except it probably wouldn't be even though they were best friends Ezra couldn't tell him everything that was going on in his sucky lifestyle especially when he already found out about the bullying.

"I'll be back tomorrow to pick you up for school got it" Ezra grinned waving him out of the door taking a sigh of relief at least he wasn't going to be home when his dad would turn up.

"YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT!!" His dad slurred from the back door stumbling into the room Ezra cowered "WHERES MY DINNER?" Ezra swore knowing he had forgotten something and now he was going to pay for his forgetfulness.

"ANSWER ME ASSHOLE" a glass battle broke as it got the wall by his head sending shards everywhere pieces sinking into his skin "I-I forgot" he stuttered just as his dad's fist slammed straight into his face sending him backwards just as the leather belt came down on him a few times sending him into darkness.

He awoke several hours later to see the first lights of the morning. He dragged himself to the bathroom after seeing his drunkard father passed out on the couch.

He pulled at his black long sleeved shirt tugging it across the raw skin of the whip marks and open wounds he stepped into the shower washing off all infections that could have penetrated him and pulled at the shards of glass that was embedded in his skin. He rubbed Savlon over his swollen cheek as it took away some of the pain that the bruise was beginning to form.

He sighed knowing Toby wouldn't let this go for a while but then again his dad was threatening to spill about the Jenna thing to the cops and I just couldn't let my neighbours go down for something that was Alison's fault.

Looking at the clock it was 5am two hours till he would have to leave the house but his dad was prone to waking up at random moments and he couldn't be prepared for when his body click would kick in so he would have to leave before 7 even if Toby wasn't picking him up until 8:30.

He placed a small ice pack on his cheek taping it down with surgical tape so he could wrap his new wounds. It didn't hurt som much anymore he was kind of pain tolerant after years of abuse. He placed plasters over the Knicks and scratches under his eye from where the glass had got him and on the back of his neck before he began to tend to the whip marks rolling large bandage around and around his upperhalf to make sure it would stay he taped it again before pulling on a clean t-shirt.

His cheek had lost some of the swelling but there would still be a bruise he'd figure out an excuse on his run and way to school.

He shoved some more books into his satchel before practically sprinting out of the house.

To: Toby
Mate I'll be at the brew see you at 8:30

From: Toby
Why are you up so early?

To: Toby
Body clock man you?

From:Toby
Work in Ravenswood see you at 8:30 reals over

Ezra shoved his satchel under the bush outside his neighbours house before beginning his run. He plugged in his headphones listening to the fray. He sighed deeply closing the eyes loving the feeling of peace until he heard a small scream he looked up to see a girl he tried to slow down but that wasn't helping anybody as he just swerved right into a bush and a prickly one at that.

"Oh god are you alright I should have probably just moved out of the way im such an idiot-"

"It's fine I probably should have been running with my eyes open well of best be going see you around."

He glanced at his watch 8 it took him a long time to get back he knew that.

~•~

"Your early" Ezra puffed as he slammed himself in the arm chair across from Toby "was your run eventful" Toby asked plucking a stray leaf from his hair.

"Oh um yeah I nearly ran into a girl so I ran into a bush instead how was your time with Spencer last night"

"Oh we went to a party at Alison's so yeah" Ezra nodded knowing Toby was his tie to the popular world "so whose this?" He nodded towards the boy sat on the other chair "oh this is Caleb Rivers he is joining our school thought Id show him around seen as though he's a family friend."

"Hey man" Ezra smiled "hello so we going?"

"Course."

~•~

Caleb was soon the talk of the school mainly the popular crowd and Ezra was sure the new friend he had made on the journey to school would be taken from his inner circle and transformed into the bullies that suddenly left him alone when Toby brought him into his inner circle and that was what brought him out of the dark and into the light.