Red tulips (fixing)

~Chapter one~

~Like father like son ~
———————————————————————————-
"Aw topaz where's your boyfriend" Samual said with fake sympathy .

the prick had been tormenting me since I was 12 ,in all honestly he was just another meathead jock you couldn't become friends with if your IQ was higher than that of a cactus.

"Same place as your popularity, all in your head" I smiled back as I walked down the front steps of the school building.

" what you say gay boy, wanna speak up" Samual yelled causing a group of older and younger students a like to crowd around use.
"What did you say, Basic English you illiterate bastard" I snired . Now I'm not saying that I didn't bring any of this upon myself I was sarcastic at the best of times and an utter arsehole at the worst.
Before I could finish my thought however there was a fist flying into my face, kind of like the reality that the others boys didn't like boys. It hit hard and fell harder
"Oh you Imprudent son of a bitch" I grumbled as I pulled by hand to my rapidly growing eye.
"You what" Samual asked shaking his hand that seemed to me bloody. It was only then that I realised my nose was bleeding.
"Why do I put in the effort it's not like your going to wake up one day and think, 'wow I'm a bad person" I mumbled getting up.
By now there was a mob of people all cheering for the skinny kid to be pummeled into the ground.
"Big mouth , for a fag " samual chuckled
"Small brain, for a human" I snapped glaring at Samuel
"Oh so now you want to put up a fight I thought you where scared " Samual spilled
"Oh please sammy the only person Hera who is scared is you" was all I said before I walked away.
I was not followed.
————————————
"He hit you again didn't he" max my little sister said as we sat at the back of the public bus.
"No he gave me cookies and told me I'm perfect" I rolled my eyes. Me and max are very different. She loves all that girly crap and all that 80s music. Personally I'd rather listen to panic at the disco and wear a black jumper that's way to big.
"Very funny"max smiled playing with the hem of her skirt.
" you really need to start standing up for yourself, if you don't one day he's going to beat you till you can't walk" Max said in a concerned voice.
"Yeah as If the fucker could catch me" I said digging around in my school bag looking for my phone.
apparently Max had looked into my bag seeing the pack of cigarettes and the lighter I had been hiding from her and are mum, who was a cop, may I repeat a officer of the law.
" Forget Samuel beating your arse mum will do it for him" max burst into laughter
" not if you don't tell her" I snear light heartedly
" don't worry I'm not going to tell her, but she will fined out" Max smiled at me
" hey it's not like I am smoking weed or some shit" I laughed causing an elderly lady sitting near us to send me a death glare
"Grandma please you'll be dead before I finish school" I whispered in maxis ear.
"Your going to hell you know" max joked.
" The sad thing is I know you're not joking and even if you were it's not far from the truth" I shook my head letting a small laugh Escape my lips.
"Don't be so hard on yourself" Max said tapping me on the shoulder
" you literally just said I was" I embarrassingly cackled.
The rest of the bus Journey home was filled with small jokes and laughter between me and my younger sister the reason we were so close was are mutual love for the same sex. Me being gayer then Freddie Mercury and max being as pansexual as Brendan Urie . Thought are father may not agree are mother adores the fact encouraging us both to go out and find , as she puts it ' cute gay husbands and wives'.
She's crazy, guess I know where I got it from then.
                                     *******

"Mum we have returned" Topaz yelled happily walking into the kitchen.
" goddamn you boy keep your voice down your mother is at work" Topaz and maxes father slured from the kitchen he was clearly drunk.
Topaz took his sisters hand and pulled her up steers as their father tended to be violent when he was drunk.
"You know he won't hit you" max whispered as the two siblings sat in topazs room both with one headphone in.
"You know he will, and it's not me I'm worried about" topaz said in a very serious tone.
"He never has before"
"Yeah maxe that's what mum said then it was he only hits me when he's drunk" topaz snapped
"I know" max mumbled
There was a loude crash down stairs followed by what sounded like the cry of an animal and heavy footsteps.
"Stay here" topaz said holding the sides of Max's face
topaz immediately bolted down the stairs making his way to the kitchen the scene in front of him boiled his blood his mother lying on the floor with a disappointed look on her face and his so-called father pacing around the kitchen.
"Mum" topaz snail walking past his father and pulling his mother up.
"T-topaz I-it's f- it's fine he dropped a bottle and it spooked me" his mother stuttered and played with her hands
Topaz looked around and saw the pile of broken glass at the bottom of the floor and the dripping bear coming off the wall
"Now I'm no expert but I'm almost one hundred percent sure that you can't drop a full bottle up a wall" topaz spat looking at his father
"How dear you say I'd hit my wife, look at you did your friends do that to you" topazs fathers said grabbing his sons face laughing .
By now there mum had left the room taking the house phone with her in case her colleagues needed to be called.
"Learn to block a punch." Now if that was all topaz heard he wold have let it go but. It wasn't. " at least your sister..."
That was all topaz here'd before he turned around and punched his father straight in the jaw.
Before turning around and going to his room.
The hazed voice of his drunken father bounced from the walls...
"Like father like son".

*********

"Topaz is mum ok" max asked closing the door behind him, the two children where not afraid that there mothers would be hurt she was a cop she knew what he was doing was wrong, she had arrested bad husbands but she refused to think she was one of those wives who had a bad husband. They knew if he ever actually hurt there mother she could hurt him back, and then arest him.
"She's fine, I'm going down lake smith for a bit"topaz said grabbing a jacket and his cigarettes
"You hit him didn't you" max whisper yelled
"He chucked a fucking bottle at mum was I supposed to smack him on the wrist" topaz said, max could see the sadness in his eyes.
"I know" max hugged her brother her head only coming up to his shoulder.
Topaz said good bye and slid out the window.