Colors (Krii7y)

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"Mom, we need to follow him," I stated. She nodded whatever it was she could sense it too. We hurried to the car and my mom immediately told my father to get into the passenger seat and she got behind the wheel. We pulled out of the school behind Cameron and followed him home without him noticing. We pulled into an empty driveway near his house. After he went in me and mom went over to the window of his house and saw what was going on. His dad was over him with what looked like a belt and was whipping him over and over again I immediately whipped out my phone and filmed it as proof and my mom and dad rushed over to the door after filming for a minute or two and seeing his dad get off of him to answer the door I put my phone away and joined my mom and dad. When he opened the door my dad tackled him and held him down while my mom was on the phone with the police. I rushed in and ran to where I had saw Cameron earlier. He was laying on the ground with blood gushing out of his nose and bruises and whip marks on his now shirtless body. I grabbed some paper towels for his nose and handed them to him as I helped him sit up.

"What are you doing here?" He asked.

"You would have to be blind to see something was wrong. My mom and I both saw it so we followed you," I answered, "the police will be here soon," I finished.

"What? No," he sounded scared.

"Why?" I asked.

"If they come I will be put in the system and taken away from my friends," he said. I turned and looked at my mom she knew what I was asking and nodded her head while smiling I smiled back.

"We could adopt you," I stated after I turned back to look at him.

"Really?" he asked with hope in his eyes. I nodded. He hugged me and I hugged back.

"Thank you," he said and I could tell that this was going to affect the rest of his life for the better. I noticed while he was speaking that he was way less worried because the gray spots in his voice were gone. I don't know how long I sat there hugging him as he cried into my shoulder, but before I knew it, the police were there and arrested his father. After the medics checked him over they basically told us he was fine just needed some rest. The police said he could stay with us for the night but in the morning, my parents would have to go to the police station and sign adoption papers. Cameron packed all of his clothes and put them in our car. He hopped in the back with me and we set out to our new house. When we got to the house I looked up at it, it was so white. "This is going to give me a headache," I thought and sighed. I smiled at the thought of having a brother.

"Welcome home boys," dad stated while opening the door to the house.

"Cameron we don't have any furniture coming for you tomorrow so we will go shopping," mom said.

"Ok, thank you so much Jess," Cameron stated while smiling at her. Mom lit up at him using her real name like she had told him to.

"Ok, go pick rooms," dad stated. We both walked up the marble stairs that connected the upstairs to the living room. The house was really modern built and very neat. It definitely flaunted the money that they had. I walked into the bedroom at the end of the house it was big but it was not the master. It had a bathroom with a shower that looked neat. I decided this would be my room so I sat my bags down. Cameron came through the door.

"So, this the room you choose?" he asked.

"Yeah, I thought it was big but not to open so I chose it," I answered, "which one did you pick?" I asked.

"The one next to this one. Your mom and dad snatched the master bedroom downstairs just so you know," he informed me.

"I figured they would. How many more bedrooms are there?" I quizzed.