Endurance

Chapter 1

"So you think you can be a man little dude?" says none other than Drew Curtis. I feel the locker dig deeper into my back as his girlfriend Ellie tries to get him to stop pushing harder. When I start to feel my blood flow down my back. I thought to myself he's going further than normal.

"Drew, put him down please I'm sure he didn't mean to run into me and he did say he was sorry. Now put him down please!!!!" I feel the floor hit me quickly and I look up to meet Ellie's eye for her to only look away with a small blush in her checks. I think Drew noticed this as they walked away and said something a long the lines. "You let that freak make you blush and you tried to protect him. What the hell is wrong with you?" I never heard her response to him because all of a sudden my world went black.

When I come to my senses I was still laying there in the floor of the hallway. As I get up and grab my bag off the floor and slowly walk into the teacher bathroom. As the door closes Ellie comes around the corner. I set my bag on the sink and pulled out a black shirt. I pull of my shirt to reveal my binder and the scars from previous beatings from Drew. I stand and look at myself and look down at my wrist and touch my tattoo.

:Flashback: One Year Earlier:

"Mom, stop tickling me please!!!! Mom please!!!!!."

"Son, you should have not thrown soap in the house and at your mother. Now you face the price of tickles! Hahaha!!!"

As laughter spread through out the house a window breaks in the back room and we both stop.

"Mom, what was that?" Owen says as his voice shakes while trying to catch his breath.

"I don't know but I'll go check just stay here. Ok?"

Mom, please lets just call the cops are something?"

"Son, it's going to be fine now stay here!". She walks off slowly toward the door that is slightly a jar. What Owen hears next is his mother screaming. Without thinking he takes off running towards the room and stops before he reaches the door.

"Now I really don't want to make a mess out of this but you just had to come back here. So if you want your son to stay safe and unharmed you will do what I tell you. Understand?" This mans voice sound familiar to his mother but she was more concerned about Owen's safety.

"Now, I need to know everything about your business and your husband." Said the intruder as he pushed Owen's mother into the table across the roo

"What reason do you need to know about a bakery and my husband has been gone for years. What does he have to do with this?" She said turning around to face him.

"Well your husband borrowed some money from some very big people and well I'm here to collect. I'm tired of waiting and really don't feel the need to explain this to you. So ether pay the 12 million he owes or your son dies." He says as if he is lookin forward to killing someone. Owen just feels this chill go down his skin knowing his family doesn't have that much money. He slowly moves closer to were he can see his mother, but not the man inside with her. His mother looks at him and gives him a soft smile before she dose something incredible. In a split second she has her hands on the mans neck and goes to snap it but the man had other ideas for her. He looks at Owen and then back at her and smiled. The last thing Owen heard was his mother "Be strong little warrior, I love you." The next thing Owen heard was the sound of his mothers neck snapping.

:End of Flashback:

He's brought of his flashback when he hears the handle on the door shake. He quickly puts on his shirt and stuff the bloody one back in his bag and zips it. He takes a deep breath and opens the door to be meet by Ellie. They look up at the same time to meet each others eyes and for a split second Owen forgets everything. As if signaling to break the moment the bell rings to release everyone from class. Owen smiles softly at her and walks past her to his last class of the day.