That other exception

Part 2

"Wait a minute why does he get a hug when the rest of us don't?" Lui asked getting everyone's attention.

Mini slowly let go of me and turned to face the rest of the group although he was still standing very close to me, I looked over at Evan who just cocked an eyebrow at me as his eyes flicked between Mini and I.  Was he really getting jealous so early in the evening? I tried to keep myself from smirking, he was only going to make things more interesting later. 

I saw the guys close in on Mini and joined them in giving him a group hug, Evan appearing next to me was too much of a temptation to pass up.  What I meant to do was run my hand up his thigh, unfortunately with that many people we were getting a little jostled and my hand ended up sliding up the inside of his thigh.

"Hey, hey HEY! who's hand is that?" Evan's voice cracked as my hand slipped up to palm him through his jeans.

"Uh sorry my hand slipped" I couldn't help but grin at Evan as he gave me that look he used when I was going to get his 'Full attention' when he got me alone.  Excitement ran up my spine, tonight was going to be fun.  I was aware of the guys talking and Mini laughing his ass off and dragged my attention away from Evan in time to see Tyler straightening up after putting his drink down.

"Tyler Help me!!" Mini yelled before gasping in pain, I could see the panicked look on everyone's faces as they tried to decide what to do next.

"guys move away slow careful not to drop him" Everyone followed my directions and moved away, slowly lowering Mini onto the floor, I sat next to him and tilted my head, I knew that he would understand what I wanted him to do I just had to wait until he looked at me.  I didn't' have to wait long, he glanced at me then slowly pulled his shirt up to his chest letting me see the huge amount of bruising covering his ribs, chest and from what I could see the top of his hip too. some of the bruising was still red and purple meaning it had happened within the last day or two, the rest where varying shades of blue "I'm not going to lie to you Min...this is going to hurt"

He nodded and turned his head, giving me the permission I was waiting for, I was trying not to hurt him so I tried to filter out what the others were doing and saying so that I could concentrate. while I had the opportunity I wanted to make sure he didn't have any broken ribs from the beatings he'd taken up until now.  One of his ribs had what felt like a chip in it on the top and a bump on the bottom of it, which I recognised as an old break. I saw him turning white and he was slowly moving away from my hand which made me  stop what I was doing.

"I doesn't feel like anything is broken but that is a hell of a lot of bruising Mini...feels like there is an old break there though... how did you learn how to take a hit?" I let go of him and watched as he instantly pulled his t-shirt down and glanced over my shoulder at where I assumed Tyler was standing.

"I was bullied at school a lot...you learn to take a beating when you get one five times a week and twice at weekends if I went outside....what about you?" He sounded almost apologetic, and I was a little take aback that he had figured out I had taken a few beatings growing up.

"Same...I was a weak ass looking kid" I was trying not to look over at Evan, I knew that this topic of conversation was making Evan relive a few things and making him extremely uncomfortable but all I could do was try to change the subject without raising the suspicions of the others.

"you should of seen him he was the same height he is now but all arms and legs with now co ordination" Cartoonz chuckled

"Fuck you" I forced myself to laugh to try and defuse some of the tension in the room "you're just jealous because I'm now more beautiful than you...I got pretty good at self-diagnosis so..."

"Should we get him to a doctor?...you know...make sure" Tyler sounded like an over protective mom.

"No point, for a broken rib all they do is give you pain  killers...unless it's sticking out" I made sure to keep looking at Tyler while I spoke so I could watch his reactions "Min do you need painkillers?"  Tyler pulled a face, looking like he was on the verge of picking Mini up and carrying him to the nearest hospital.

"nah I'm fine...I don't feel anything unless I move wrong or someone pokes me really hard" I heard Mini move to get up so I got up and took hold of his arm to help him up, Tyler appeared on the other side of Mini at almost the same time I did.  If these guys weren't already getting down and dirty with each other then it was only a matter of time before they were. 

Mini sighed and looked around the room "lets not do the whole awkward moment thing..." he glanced at his watch and headed for the bags with the alcohol inside "it's only 11pm guys lets just get drunk, play childish games and have fun"

 I looked at Evan, he was looking back at me with such a sad look I almost went to him, I bite my lip and turned to follow Mini "you heard the man...line up boys...or if your pussy you can go to bed" I started pouring some shots, although I wasn't sure I'd be able to actually drink anything, my stomach was tying itself in a knot because I couldn't go and make Evan feel better.  it was times like this when I hated having to hide, I saw Cartoonz  put a hand on Evan's shoulder and whisper something in his ear which seemed to shake him out of whatever he was thinking about.  Evan seemed to take a deep breath and moved with the others to grab a drink, his eyes met mine for a moment allowing me to quickly wink at him, I saw him smile a little before grabbing a bottle of beer and turning to sit on the floor by the wall.