Bad Boy And The Emo Fall In-Love (remake)

Chapter 2

Zane wakes up with a hangover, like usual, but no body knows that but him and his brother. You see, today Zane starts new, at a new school, with new opportunities to escape his past. He was going to peruse this new beginning, but freaked out the night before and went for a drink with his friends to calm his nerves. It worked, but now with the reminder of his thumping brain, he realizes his mistake last night.

Luckily, his little brother by a year, was there to cover for his drunk sibling. Tossing the Advil bottle along with a water into the room then got back to his own. Zane made a mental note of thanking Chance on the walk to school.

Checking his phone, he sees a message from the guy who has been with Zane since childhood. Ethan. "Fun night, huh? Tell me how the new place goes."

Ethan and Zane have a background together, a pack which will never be broken. They know each other as well as they know themselves, which comes in handy for moments like last night.

Zane battles with a lot of things, anger control, depression, PTSD, and anxiety. When Zane was only 8 years old, he was in a deadly car crash with his past Mother and Father. Neither of them made it, making Zane the only one to tell the story, and not much believed him. Eight years old or not, he can remember the day like it was yesterday.

Because of what happened then, he cannot be in cars, will not even go around a moving vehicle, and despises anyone who will call his truth a lie. Like his uncle.

After the crash, not many in the family wanted him. He was a reminder of everything the family went against, let alone looking like his parents. He's always only been attracted to guys, meaning he was very close to his male friends as a child, and the rest of his Christian family took that as a threat when his parents embraced it. His uncle, despite hating the LGBTQ community, and Zane for "causing" the deadly crash, took in little Zane after he was released from the hospital.

The first two weeks of living with his uncle was fine, then he uncle turned to a devil in Zane's eyes. After almost four months of abuse from his uncle, physical, mental, emotional, and verbal, he had escaped and reached for help. He was put into an adoption center at the age of nine, and at the age of ten he would run away and live on the streets to the age of eleven. At age twelve he would be found and placed back in, at the age thirteen he would be put into school again and the same year later on adopted by a marvelous family.

This family held a women by the name of Sara Williams, and her husband Will Williams, and their twelve year old son Chance. After a year and a half of living with the family he had finally began to accept their welcoming arms, and had fall in love with the family. He met his best friend Ethan at age fourteen, and at age sixteen they would meet John in the same high school.

John, Ethan, and Zane would being a group of reckless teenagers, who have fun but also have no limits. Johns family owns a bar, John works at the bar, and his new friends now have access to that bar. Leading to a now hungover Zane, dressed and ready to walk to his new high school with his brother at his side.

Though, his past wasn't all about being a reckless teen with reckless friend, with a sad background of loss and abuse. At fifteen he had gotten a personal trainer to teach him not only self defense but how to "work out" his past with working out. At sixteen not only would he get into a bar fight, but come across a man whom would change him for a worst. This man offered Zane a job and Zane, wanting money, willingly accepted. Though, he had no idea the trouble it would cause him in the future.

He's not worried about it now, because right now his mind is on getting his brother to school safely. Zane always makes sure he's nearest to the road, his precious innocent brother safe near the housing, away from the danger of the road. Change, being used to the overprotective ness of his brother, moves towards the housing instead of the road. Chance never had a bad background. They might've not had good money for now, but at least they had a roof over their heads.

Zane can be very protective, he's seen Zane's protective side and it can get scary. Chance knows how to defend himself, his family all does, with where they live it's a needed thing. But, Chance knows he's not as strong as Zane, and they both know Zane has the power to overtake a situations when Chance can't. So, when Zane and Chance walk around the schools main hall for lunch, and notice a large crowd hovering in a corner, they stop. Chance walks forward, Zane cursing at his brother for being to interested, and they hear whimpering, Chance looks at Zane.

Zane didn't want to intervene, about to just walk past the messy situation. Then he saw it, a boy under a larger man in a corner. The boy on the ground, cowering away, the bigger man laughing and taunting him. Zane saw himself under his uncle while he's getting beat, under his middle school bullies not knowing to to defend himself; he sees himself in the random boy.

So, he tells Chance to not take action, saying he'd help. Chance knows Zane doesn't mess around with other people, but he also knows Zane won't hesitate to help when there's a reminder of his past. Zane takes off his bag, handing it to Chance as he steps through the crowd. He pulls the man away from the boy, the guy he's fighting is about his size, not exactly looking like a high schooler, much like Zane. What Zane hates most is when a bigger guy goes against a smaller guy. The bigger size has the advantage, that's very obvious to everyone, but when the small person doesn't know how to defend themself it's automatically obvious who wins.

He's not helping the boy, in Zane's head he's only helping himself. Giving his younger self the relief of knowing they could stop one unfair fight. When he knocks down the guy, he noticed the glint in his eyes. It was pure hatred, to everything, not just Zane. Hatred and along with a damaged ego.

He waits, arms crossed, towering over the man, until the man stands and walks off. The man flips off both Zane and the smaller boy as he walks away. The crowd clears a path, getting as far away from the angry man as possible. He sighs internally, grateful the fight didn't last long. He noticed the boy, red and black mixed hair falling over his eyes, stare at him and move toward him.

Zane wants nothing to do with whatever happens next, so goes to his brother, grabbing his headphones in his brother hand. He places them on his head, swings his bag over his shoulder, and walks away. He reminds himself that he's not being cruel for leaving the guy, he already helped, just didn't want to be praised for it.