Someone Like You

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Warnings:
-Physical (child) abuse (blood)
-Suicide attempt
-Car accident

Clay's POV

I was walking home after I sat with George on the bus. Sapnap went home earlier otherwise I would have told him to sit with us. I felt nervous as I walked the last minutes to my house, not really knowing why I was this nervous. I had the feeling something was really wrong which worried me and made me upset.

I breathed out to relax my muscles and sighed, going up to my house with sweaty and shaky hands. I couldn't tell why I was this anxious so suddenly but I did know I really didn't like this feeling. I wanted to know why I felt like this.

I closed my eyes shortly and I was about to open the door as it suddenly opened before I had the chance to do anything. I was shocked when I saw my dad flash before my eyes and turned around to see where he went. Before I could do anything, my shoulders were tightly grabbed.

⚠️ Physical (child) abuse

I didn't even realise what was going on as I fell onto the floor, looking up to see my dad leaning over me with a very mad face. He looked so mad that it scared me and made me look away immediately.

'One of your friends came up to me, Clay!' he screamed at me. I could feel his spit on my face as I rolled to my side. 'YOU TOLD EVERYONE I ABUSE YOU AND YOU RAPED A GIRL?'

I felt all the blood in my body leave my face and got lightheaded because I was so incredibly anxious now. My father grabbed me by my throat and lifted me up. I started coughing because I felt so breathless, trying to push his hands away.

He didn't even talk anymore and turned around with a furious look on his face. I saw him grab a kettle, not thinking anymore. He threw it to me, causing it to hit my chest very hard. I winced, he clenched his fists again and punched me into my face.

He grabbed me by my hair and pulled it so hard that I felt him pulling some of my hair out. I groaned softly, trying to be as quiet as possible so he wouldn't hurt me even more, but that was already too late.

He lifted his foot in the air and kicked me into my stomach which immediately caused me to gag and curl up as I knelt down on the floor, closing my eyes to just let him continue without making any sounds. Maybe he'd stop soon...

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After my dad beat me up for at least ten minutes, he still had the same furious look in his eyes. I knew I was bleeding a lot since there was blood next to my face on the floor and a few bloodstains in my clothes.

I couldn't move my body anymore from the pain. This was way worse than he had ever done before and he wasn't even done yet. He kept hitting and kicking me while I laid in silence, hoping for him to finally stop.

He lifted himself up again and grabbed an object. I couldn't see what it was, but he threw it on my body. I sobbed softly and tried to push the object away as I rolled to my back.

'Please, stop,' I whispered. 'Please.'

My voice was really weak which caused him to laugh. He picked me up and opened the outside door, throwing me on the ground. He slammed the door behind him as I started crawling away so he wouldn't get to me anymore.

⚠️ Over (still wounds/blood)

As soon as I was sure he wouldn't get to me anymore, I lifted my hand up to my face. It was completely red when I returned it and I sobbed softly as I grabbed my phone with very badly shaking hands.

I noticed my screen was completely shattered and it didn't turn on anymore which caused me to start crying softly. I felt so incredibly hopeless and I had so much pain that I kept crawling away while blood dropped down onto the floor. I didn't know where I was bleeding from, but I knew it came from many places.

I didn't want this anymore. I genuinely felt so hopeless that I couldn't think about anything else than suicide anymore. I couldn't deal with all this misery, it was too much. The daily beating, the constant bullying and a traumatising past with sexual abuse made me lose all my joy to live.

I tried to lift myself up to go to the road very close to the house and I sat up slowly as I sat next to the road, staring in front of me. I really wanted to do this so badly that I forgot about anyone I loved.

⚠️ Suicide attempt (car accident later)

I didn't think anymore and crawled onto the road. There weren't many cars here, but if one would come, it would easily kill me. I could only hope for that moment to come really soon.

I laid down on the road on my side, closing my eyes. I was excitedly waiting for a car to hit me and tapped the road with my hand that wasn't hurting to count the seconds it was taking for the car to finally come. I wanted this pain to be over, not only mentally... The physical pain was so bad that I didn't know how to deal with this anymore.

I suddenly heard a car in the distance and I had a smile fill my face as I heard footsteps too. I was confused, but focused on the car. It was going to be over very soon.

'CLAY! GET AWAY FROM THERE!' I suddenly heard a voice scream. I slowly opened my eyes, feeling a really bad headache overwhelm me because of the sudden lights. I got adjusted to the lights and then saw George stand next to the road with tears rolling down his face. 'PLEASE, THERE'S A CAR!'

George noticed I couldn't get up and then closed his eyes as I saw him freeze as he was thinking what to do. After he stood in silence for a few minutes, he ran forwards.

'Clay, remember that I love you more than anyone. So much more that I'm giving my life for you,' were the last things I heard him say.

I looked up slowly to see him suddenly jumping on the road in front of the car that was about to crush my body. I heard the car's passenger step on the brakes so hard that the tires were squeaking and then I heard a loud sound.

I looked to my side and let myself realise what happened as I saw George lay on the ground in dead silence, blood coming from his face. The passenger jumped out of their car and held up their phone while calling someone.

'AN AMBULANCE. THERE'S A BOY WHO IS BLEEDING BADLY ON THE STREETS AND ANOTHER BOY JUMPED IN FRONT OF MY CAR. WHAT DO I DO?'

I closed my eyes because a very bad headache overwhelmed me and then passed out.

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Summary:
Clay gets beaten up so badly that he can barely move anymore. He goes to the road to commit suicide, but George sees him. George jumps in front of the car to save Clay and they're both unconscious