Part 3

                                    

                                          
* Zane's POV *




                          
~~one month time skip~~
                          
I was walking through the hallways of this prison we call 'school' when I heard some footsteps. I didn't think anything of it, maybe it was someone from my class. We had geography and as always we were waiting on our teacher who was always late. We waited for about five minutes when we realised that maybe he wasn't showing up, he was never THIS late.
                          
Our school has a rule that if teachers don't show up in the first ten minutes of the lessen we are free to leave. (This is seriously a rule at my school) so after another five boring minutes we were free to leave. 
                          
I had gone to my locker to put my books away since that was my last lesson of today, but when I closed my locker there was a well known male with dark brown hair and blue eyes standing in front of me
                          
"What do you want Gene?" I asked the male as I close my locker and picked up by book bag. I had always looked up to him, but I was more scared of him then anything. "Well I was walking here when I saw you and I thought 'why not look what Zane is up to'" he said with a grin 
                          
"Well I was leaving so bye Gene" I said cold, trying to walk away from the encounter with him.
                          
That's when I got pinned against the locker, arms above my head and Gene's face quite close to mine. "I don't want you taking that tone with me Ro'meave" he said with anger in his voice as his grip on my wrist tightened. I hissed a bit at the pain of him squeezing my wrist which was full of cuts...
                          
Gene most certainly noticed as he said "you've been cutting again, haven't you?" I turned my head away as I slowly started crying.
                          
"Z-Zane?!"

                          
* Travis's POV *




                          
"Z-Zane?!" I exclaimed as I saw the situation happening from a small distance
                          
I just had PE class so I had just finished showering and changing, when I saw what was happening. I thought they were chatting at first but they clearly  aren't 
                          
"Back away from him!" I shouted at the senior who had Zane pinned to his locker. Zane slightly looked up at me with fear in his eyes. "Make me" the senior smirked 
                          
"Gene? Where are you?" A familiar voice asked. It was his younger brother Dante. "Crap.." Gene mumbled under his breath. "you got lucky this time" he said as he let go of Zane and ran away
                          
Zane dropped to the ground as soon as Gene let go of him and I rushed over to him as fast as I could. "Zane! Are you okay!?" I asked concerned 
                          
"W-why? Why would you care for a worthless person like?" He asked, looking down at the ground. My heart broke at his words and without thinking I gave him a well needed hug
                          
He hugged back as he sobbed silently into my uniform. "I-I'm Sorry..." He said silently into my ear
                          
"Zane, there is nothing you should be sorry for" I comforted him while rubbing his back. "Do you have anymore classes?" I asked him 
                          
He shook his head 'no' and I smiled warmly at him. "There are some things I wanna ask you, but how about this. We go to my place together and then we'll talk things over?"
                          
He was silent for a moment, then nodded at me "I'd like that" he smiled softly. I helped him stand up as we walked out of the school to my house

                          
~~~

                          
"I'm home!" I happily shouted as I walked into my house with Zane by my side. I put our coats away as my dad walked into the big hallway where we were standing in
                          
"Hey Travy, you brought yourself a friend?" My dad asked happily as always. My face turned slightly red out of embarrassment. "D-dad, y-you're embarrassing m-me" I smiled while nervously scratching the back of my head
                          
"Hey I'm Terry, nice to meet you!" My dad warmly smiled as he lifted his hand to Zane. "I-I'm Zane, nice to meet you too" Zane politely introduced himself as he shook my dads hand
                          
"We'll be going now dad" I said as Zane and I walked towards the stairs. "Travy, can I talk to you for a minute?" He asked a bit more serious. I looked at Zane as he gave me a nod. "Sure dad"
                          
My dad took me to the kitchen as he closed the door behind him. I sat down on the kitchen counter as my dad sighed deeply. "Travis, have you ever noticed something.........off.. about Zane?" He asked
                          
I thought for a moment, he did always wear long sleeves no matter the weather and refused to wear a t-shirt at PE. And what he said back at school..... tho be honest that we're all the reasons why I took here him in the first place
                          
I told my dad all the thing I could think about as he looked a bit concerned. "Travis, please look after that boy, he might be in more trouble than it looks like. And if there is something going on, please tell me" he said very serious, he is never so serious. This must be important
                          
"O-okay" I slightly nodded. My dad nodded back at me. "Now go have fun with your friend" he smiled. I smiled back at him and returned to Zane