Metal Family [alternative]

Part 3

⚠️TW: RELIGOUS TRAUMA, HOMOPHOBIA⚠️

I'm running, sprinting even through the woods completely out of breath in a haze. My head is pounding, hands and knees scraped. Feet all bloody due to lack of shoes. I have bruises all over my body. I don't know if they're still chasing me. I can't hear anyone's feet Except my own but if I stop they might catch up. I'm a fast runner. Go, go, go I tell myself. I can't move. My mouth is dry, I'm all sweaty. My body hits the hard ground littered with sticks and leaves. I stare at the sky unable to do anything at all, it's getting dark now, the pain in my side is nearly unbearable. I've been running almost all day. I'm sticky from the humid summer. I hear footsteps.  Fuck I think. Next thing I know I'm being screamed at in Latin (which I can speak fluently because that's the language they speak in church and my parents made me learn) I'm being hit, I try to get them to stop but I'm so thin and weak from being nearly starved from this place that I can't do anything. Get up they scream at me. I can't move- I try to say but I just get hit in response. I'll save you the details from what happened next but it's not pretty. I've been beaten relentlessly the last two weeks. My lip is busted and I have a black eye. I black out.

I wake up next to Kyozetan in the back seat of dee's car. It was just a dream. Thank god. "Dee? You up? Can I have the water?" I say peeking in the front seat. "Yeah here" he says sleepily handing me the water. "Thanks man" I say drinking it. "Yaroslav is bringing us gas" dee says. I nod in response seeing if Kyoze was up. He's still asleep. He looks peaceful when he's asleep, what a pretty boy.. My cheeks are hot, i glance out the window at the snowy taiga. I want it to be warmer. I glance down at kyozetan again. "Dee?" I say looking up. "Mhm?" He replies. "Has Kyoze ever talked about liking anyone?" I ask kind of feeling guilty, I should just ask him himself instead of going to Dee. "No I don't think so, he keeps to himself with that stuff normally it's such a middle school thing to talk about crushes honestly." Dee says tapping on the dashboard. "Why?" "No reason I was just thinking about things." I respond. He makes a noise in acknowledgment.