Carlos x Harry

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Next day

Evie

Carlos is remarkably silent today. Maybe it's just me being overprotective of him, but what something happened to him after he left yesterday?

When we walked through the alleys, I made sure Mal and Jay was walking a bit in front of us. "Carlos, can I ask you something?" He looked at me "yeah, go ahead E." I didn't really know how to ask about it. "Did.. did something happen to you? You seem so.. silent"

He looked down to the ground, "Nothing have happened to me." "Carlos, you look down when you lie." He looked back up on me. "You know you can tell us if anything happens, right?" Carlos was like a little brother to the rest of us VK's.

"Hey Mal!" she and Jay turned around, "We're going to Dizzy! I want to say hallo to her!" Mal gave me a thumbs up, and she and Jay continued walking.

I grabbed Carlos' wrists to lead him to our hangout spot. But when I did he seemed to  pull away in pain.

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I sat him down on the couch next to me. "Carlos, please talk to me. I want to help you." He looked down to his lap, avoiding eye contact. "Let me see your wrists." he looked up at me, "what?"

"Your wrists," I said "take of your gloves." He hesitated, before slowly removing his fingerless gloves. I gasped when I saw that his wrists was covered in bruises. "Carlos, who did this to you?"

When he didn't answer, I pulled him into a hug. He slowly started sobbing into my neck. I slowly stroked his back.

Carlos

"Carlos, who did this to you?" Evie voice was filled with worry. I didn't know what to say, should I tell her the truth? I don't want the VK's to think I'm a stupid baby that can't even defend myself.

I felt her pull me into a hug. It felt good, and I couldn't help but starting to cry into her neck. She stroked my back, and maybe she wouldn't make fun of me. I hugged her even tighter than before.

"H-harry.." She turned her head, "What?" " Harry... he did it." She seemed surprised "Harry Hook? When, I didn't think you knew him?" She grabbed my shoulders and pulled away, making eye contact with me.

"When?" she dried one of my tears. "Yesterday, after I left..." I felt more tears coming. "I was walking home, and someone was walking behind me.."

I'm not sure if I'm able to even tell her what happened. "Carlos, you have to tell me more. It might be hard, and I can't say I know how you feel, but I can't help you if I don't know what happened."

I looked down at my lap, "He, he tried to... to kiss me." I took a deep breath before continuing. "I tried to push him away, but.." Evie took my hand.

Evie

"I tried to push him away, but.." I already know this story don't know well, I took his hand. A tear fell from his eye, I felt so bad for him, but mostly I wanted to kill that jerk Harry.

"He grabbed my wrists to keep me in place, that's why.. why they're bruised. Also he only kissed me, and he left me alone a few minutes later, I'm just being dramatic about it."

He looked up, his eyes were swollen and red. He dried some tears of his cheeks.