I look fine but I'm Broken..

I looked over at my mom and she looked at me with a suspicious look when Alan picked me and carried me to the nurses office, blood running down my back along the way. My head was spinning from the lack of blood now in a puddle on the floor in the nurses office. "Aislyn unzip your dress please." Mr. Aussie commanded in a gentle tone. "I can't." I shot Alan a knowing glance so he knew why I was refusing. "Aislyn how am I supposed to look at your wound and tell if it's serious enough. Unzip your dress or I'm going to cut it off." I looked at Alan again and he slowly walked over to me and kissed my shoulder while he unzipped my dress. "Okay Aize, let's have a look." Mr. Aussie waited for Alan to move out of the way before he went to my back. "Holy Shit.. Aize whats wrong with your back? Why is it all bruised and scared?" I look at Alan with a pleading look. "She um.. she kinda fell down the stairs yesterday when I brought her back from a Track Meet." Mr. Aussie looked at Alan with a knowing look before he turned to me. "Okay Aize I'm gonna ask you a few questions while I attempt to stitch these wounds. One: Why is your back bleeding, backs don't cut this deep when you fall down stairs, even though that makes since because of all the bruises." I winced as he pressed around my back. "I fell and landed onto my Mom's glass table, but we got almost all of the glass out." Mr. Aussie shook his head. "I don't believe you, you didn't fall down stairs Aislyn, it looks like someone punched you in the shoulder a couple times, yeah that sounds about right from the look of the knuckle prints. And the cuts, the ones on your left shoulder looks self-inflicted. The others look like broken bottle cuts, been to any bars now lately, Miss Fault?" I looked down at the ground knowing I had just been caught. "I'm sorry for lying, but I know you have to report this." Mr. Aussie looked at me with sympathy. "Miss Fault, who did this to you?" He huffed after he said my name. "Mostly my brother Matt, sometimes his friend Cole, and Callie occasionally." Mr. Aussie looked appauled by my accusations. "You mean your brother did this to you?!?" I looked up but quickly saw that he was mad so I looked back down. I nodded silently not trusting the words choking up in my throat. "Aize I am so sorry, I'm almost done, but you might want to go to the E.R. during lunch or something because I don't trust my handiwork too much. I nodded and he gave me a sad smile. "Now if you two will excuse me I have to go talk to some people." Tears started pouring down my face in waves. "Shhh. Baby don't cry. What's wrong? You can tell me." I shook my head and continued wailing. "I'm so sorry." Alan pulled me into a comforting hug with my dress bunched up at my waist and my bare chest pressed closely to his. "Don't apologize for crying. An apology isn't needed." I buried my face into his neck so he wouldn't have to look at me. "I'm not gonna be here for long." Alan slightly pulled back so he could see my mascara painted face. "What do you mean? 'Your'e not gonna be here for long' Are you contemplating killing yourself because honestly dear it is not even an option for you, you want to know why? Because, I will have my head shoved so far up your ass your'e not even gonna be able to take a piss by yourself." I shook my head at him. "No, Mr. Aussie has to report that I'm being beaten at home. So I'm most likely going to be put somewhere else." A look of sadness streamed across his face. -Knock!-Knock!-Knock!- "Alan we need to talk-Oh Shit!- privately." Austin looked in and turned away after he saw me half naked. "I'll be out in a second." The ginger looked at me and I nodded signaling for him that is was okay for him to leave.
Alan's P.O.V.
"What is it Austin?" I asked sullenly. "Umm.. is she okay?" I shook my head 'no'. "Umm.. Mr. Aussie and Mr. Long want to talk to us." I walked behind Austin silently. "What's wrong with her back and shoulder?" Austin questioned. "Her brother, Cole, and Calli beat her." Austin looked down wordlessly. We arrived at the oak door and after knocking we walked in. "Mr. Carlile, Mr. Ashby." We nodded our heads his way. "You two have been with Miss Fault for around a month now and she talks to y'all more than she talks to her own friends-" the phone rang before he could utter another syllable. "Daryl Long speaking- oh okay- thank you for telling me- would you like me to break the news to them or should you- I'm so sorry for your loss- goodbye ma'am." Okay... "Deputy Smith.. call Aislyn and Brent Anderson to my office please." "Anyways Mr. Ashby she seems to be attached to you so.. we've heard that she is being abused at home, is this true?" I nodded my head and he continued. "So we have to find her a place that is suitable for her to live, any suggestions?" I looked at Austin and he looked at me with a knowing glance. "I can make a call and they will be here before tomorrow." He nodded in approval. "Mr. Long, Miss Fault and Miss Anderson." Brent looked pissed off. "What we haven't done any fucking thing to get in trouble." Mr. Long just looked at them sympathetically. "Have a seat ladies, I have some news for both of you two." They looked at each other as confused as me and Austin. "Let me just say I am so sorry for your loss." They looked at each other before Aislyn broke down. "What? I haven't lost anybody. So what the utter fuck are you saying?" Mr. Long looked down. "Just fucking say it already!" Tears brimming her eyes. "Tad Anderson passed away two hours ago from a gunshot wound to the chest." Brent bursted out in tears, Austin went to hug her, when Aislyn smacked her head against the floor when she fell out of her chair and curled into a fetal position on the tile. I ran over to her and pulled her into my lap her head curling up into my stomach. "You two are free for the rest of the week. And Brent I advise you to stay at Aislyn's." Brent and Aislyn didn't respond so I picked Aislyn up and curled her into my chest her face digging into my neck. When Austin did the same with Brent we walked to mine and Austin's cars. Putting the girls into the backseat of Austin's car, they instantly curled up into another faces digging into each other's shoulders. "I'll make the car you drive them to Aize's, I'll be right behind you." He nodded and I walked over to my car and turned the key in the ignition listening to my car purr to life. I hooked my phone up to the speaker system in my car and instantly called the man I know who would take her. "Hey man." The dark haired man chuckled lightly "Hello Mr. Ginger how are you?" I coughed slightly before I answered. "Not so good you know that girl I was talking about that me and Austin have to escort everywhere?" He chuckled a little bit before replying. "Aislyn, the really hot-tempered bitch y'all are always talking about yeah?" Perfect way to describe her. "Well umm. The nurse and principal figured out that she get's beaten at home by her brother, his girlfriend, and her ex- 'fuck buddy' and so they asked me if, since we're close, if I knew anyone who would be able to take care of her so I said I would call you, then the principal got a phone call saying her bestfriends brother killed himself so we are taking her and her bestfriend back to her house, I was wondering if you could come over and we could talk about this." He paused of a second before replying. "Sure man, we're actually in the area so we'll be there in about an hour." Thank God! "Okay bye man se you in a bit." By the time I hung up we were pulling into her driveway.

Notes

My best friend Julian Jones acutally died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his chest http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/10/julian_jones_final_days_and_th.html on October 6, 2014. R.I.P. J.J. #11