Behind closed doors

Chapter 2 / concerned

Trigger warnings?: blood, self harm, violence

Nick pov :

I was with clay walking to my car talking about classes before we heard shouting across the car park, guess he was a drunk or something but a word caught my attention 'Karl' why was he looking for karl? Was that Karl's father? Me and clay slowly walked a bit closer and saw techno and karl. We stopped in our tracks upon seeing karl being dragged away and a hard slap followed.

"What the fuck." I snarled quietly

"No wonder karl acts out, he's just like his father." Clay growled, i shook my head and flared back at clay

"Maybe he doesn't want to act like that" I suggested after seeing Karl's dad drive off. We looked over at techno who had also witnessed the whole thing.

"Nick? Clay?" A soft voice called out. It was George, we waved to him and jogged over to us holding his bag over his shoulder, "do you think you could give me a lift Nick? My mum is at work and my dad has to stay home with my sick sister" he asked, I shrugged and smiled

"Of course, I don't see why not. Clay would probably like the company as much as I would" I joked as clay hit my shoulder gently. We got into my car and I pulled out of the car park.

"George? What do you know about Karl's home life?" Clay blurred out, I nudged clay as in saying 'shut up'

"Well I mean it's no-"

"We saw his dad.." I replied before he could finish, George fell silent and I immediately felt guilty, I shook my head and sighed "it's fine you don't have to answer" I mumbled as I pulled up to a White House, this must be George's house. We smiled and waved bye to George as he got out and I drove off.

Next day

Karl pov:

I walked through the corridors with shlatt and techno, no one dared to speak a word of what happened yesterday and no one dared to comment about the marks on my face the only people that knew what happened were techno and shlatt. Since I had trusted them more, even more than I trusted George.

I stopped at my locker and opened it shlatt leaned against the locker beside me and grinned "there's a party tonight" he said while admiring the victims around him. I nodded.

"Are you going?" He asked,

"Yeah I am." There was probably cute guys there I could hook up with to be honest, I had heard from a classmate that other people from other schools would be coming over too.

"Techno here will come pick you up tonight at 7pm then" shlatt smiled before leaving me and techno, we watched as he pushed over a few students and we laughed a little

"How you doing Karl?" Techno asked out random, I shrugged and looked up at him, my right was bruised along with a few fresh cuts and a massive bruise on my left cheek.

"I'm okay" I replied with an emotionless smile, I stepped back to close my locker but bumped into someone behind me, I rubbed my head. God they were like a brick wall,

"What the fuck-" I looked behind me to see Nick. He crossed his arms and looked at techno before making eye contact with me,

"You missed studying with me, but don't worry I done your part" he shoved the piece of paper into my hands before turning away "your welcome asshole" was he really trying to get on my bad side?