Date: Sat, 7 May 2016 21:35:01 -0500 From: L L Subject: Life of Leo Chapter 6 This Chapter has a little bit of the dark side to it. These events resurface later in the story. This is 100% fictional and any similarities to any persons alive or dead is completely coincidental. This story belongs to Leo L. Copyright 2016. All Rights Reserved. Hope you enjoy. Please leave comments and suggestion @questions.l.1976@gmail.com If you like this story and the many other great tales please donate @ donate.nifty.org/donate.html. Nifty.org is a great site and it is FREE and run by a dedicated person who gives of his time and energy. Please DONATE. - - - - - - - - - - Chapter 6 I waited for another hour and was starting to get worried. Then the doorbell rang. I ran to the door to open it. It was James. He was beat up pretty bad. Had a black eye, fat lip, and was holding his side. I helped him into my house. We went into the living room and I laid him on the couch. "What the hell happened to you?" I asked worried. "Connor. Connor and a couple other kids jumped me on my way here. They said you're next." He said with pain in his voice. I lifted his shirt and his whole left side was black and blue. "I'm going to call you an ambulance." I said. "No don't. They will ask questions and make things worse." He replied. "Well your ribs look like they might be broken. You need a hospital. If you won't let me call an ambulance at least let me find someone to take you there." I said tearing up. "Fine, but either way they are going to ask questions." He said. "I'll call Kent he can have his friend drive us to the hospital." I said. I went to the kitchen to get my cell and dialed Kent's phone. "Leo, I'm..." he started to talk and I cut him off. "Not now. I need you to bring a car, one of my friends was badly beaten he needs to go to the hospital." I said urgently. "Okay. Be there in a few minutes." He said hanging up. I tried to make James comfortable until Kent and Tim arrived. "Why did he do this to you?" I asked. "He followed me to your house earlier and I guess he thinks you're the one to separate us." He said trying to hold back tears. "Who was he with?" I asked. He was quite for a while. He looked at me and started to cry. The pain must be unbearable. "What all happened?" I asked. "I was riding my bike over here and the caught me a couple blocks away from here. Connor hit me with a bat and knocked me off my bike, after that they started to kick me and calling me faggot. I did my best to protect myself. Connor hit me a couple more times with the bat in my side. I must have passed out cause the next thing I remember was trying to get up and no one was around." He said crying. "Did you know the other two guys?" I asked. He nodded. "Jamison Andrews and Collin Clark." He said. I looked shocked. I knew those two from school. Why would they've done this? I've always thought they were nice boys. This doesn't make sense to me. Connor must have made them do this. Now I'm worried after that email popped in my head. Connor is fucking crazy. The front door opened. Kent came running in "Leo!!!" he yelled. "In the living room!" I yelled back. I have never been so happy to see Kent in a long time. We managed to get James up on his feet and walking to the car. Tim was still sitting behind the wheel. We loaded James in the back seat as carefully as we could. I got in the other side. Kent ran back and closed and secured the house. He ran back and jumped in the car and we sped off to the hospital. "Leo you aren't hurt are you?" he asked. "No I was home and James here was coming over to spend the night. He got jumped by Connor and a couple of other guys. Connor hit him with a bat." I said getting angry. We arrived at the ER five minutes later. We got James out and into a wheel chair. I pushed him in and he gave me his cell. "Call my mom. It is unlocked. Tell her where I am and to get here." He said through the pain. I got him in and the clerk called for a nurse to come get him. I answered as many questions as I could all the while trying to get ahold of his mom. She finally answered on the fifth ring. "Hi James." She said. "Sorry mam this is Leo. I need you to come to the Prairie Lakes Hospital right away. James is here being admitted. I'll explain when you get here. Just hurry." I said not waiting for a response and hung up. Kent came over and I grabbed him and hugged him tight. I can't believe Connor is capable of doing this. They were best friends. What had to happen to Connor to make him turn on James like this? I just cried into Kent's Shoulder. "I can't believe this is happening" I said through tears. "Where is Sarah?" he asked. "She is at Sally's house spending the night." I said. "Do you want me to call her and have her come here?" he asked. "No, she doesn't need to be here. But thanks." I replied still sniffling. James's mom arrived and came running in. "Where's my son!?" she kept yelling. I saw her and ran over to her. "James's mom?" I asked. "Yes, yes where is he?" she said franticly. "He is in the back. Here is his cell. He was jumped by three guys coming over to my house. He was beat up pretty bad." I said to her crying. She ran to the nurses station and said "Take me to my son, where is he?" The clerk called the nurse, who came and got James's mother to take her back there to him. A few minutes later two police officers came in and talked with the clerk. She pointed at us a couple of times and they looked at us. They came walking over to us. "Hi, I'm Officer Jones and this is Officer Smith. Can you tell me what happened?" officer Jones asked. "I really don't know as I wasn't there when it happened. James told me that three boys jumped him and one of them had a bat. He said he blacked out and when he came through he made it to my house." I replied. "Did he say who the boys were?" Officer Jones asked. "He said they were Connor O'Malley, Jamison Andrews and Collin Clark." I replied. "We are going to talk to him and need you to stay here for the time being." Officer Jones said. "Okay." We replied. The two officers left us and went in the back to talk to James. What seemed like hours, but was only like a half hour, the two officers came out. They came over to us and took our names down and told us if we can think of anything else to give them a call. I thought about telling them that Connor has threatened me with his email, but for some reason I didn't. A little while later the nurse came and said they admitted him and we can go see him in his room if we want. The said it was room 423 and gave us directions to get there. Kent and I went to his room, Tim said he'd wait in the lobby. We took the elevator up. We were the only ones in it. "Kent?" I said looking down at my feet. "Yeah, what is it?" he asked with concern in his voice. "I need you to know that Connor has threatened me and now that this has happened to James I'm scared." I said starting to cry. I took out my phone and logged into my email and found the email from Connor and showed it to him. He read it and grabbed me and held me. "I won't let anything happen to you, but we need to take this to those officers who were here. They need this information as well." he said holding me tightly. The elevator door opened and we got off. We got to James's room and I could hear him and his mom talking. "I just can't believe that Connor was a part of this. You two are best friends." She said. "Mom I told you we had a fight yesterday and we are no longer friends. He has changed in the last few months and I confronted him about it and he kicked me out of his house and said our friendship is over." He responded. I knocked on the door. "Come in." James said. His face lit up a bit when he saw me. "Mom, this is Leo and his older brother Kent." James said. She looked at us and gave a weak smile. "Are you the ones who brought him here?" she asked. "Yes we are, Mam." I replied. "James was supposed to spend the night at my house tonight. I'm so sorry for this happening to him. Is there anything I can do?" I asked trying not to cry. "Thank you. I don't think there is anything to do at this time." Mrs. Brady said. "How are you feeling James?" I asked. "Tired they are giving me strong pain meds. They say two of my ribs are broke and if I didn't get here when I did I could have died from one of the ribs puncturing my lung. Thanks for bringing me in." he said starting to cry. I moved beside his bed and took his hand. "If there is anything I can do for you let me know and I will. Just text or call me." I said to James I looked at Mrs. Brady "You too, just ask if I can I'll do it." She smiled. "Thank you, you have done enough by getting him here when you did." She said starting to tear up. "We should go and let James rest." Kent said putting his hand on my shoulder. I just nodded. "I'll come back tomorrow to see you James." I said giving his hand a slight squeeze. He smiled and nodded. We left and found Tim in the lobby. He drove us back to his house. "You are going to stay here tonight." Kent said. "Okay." I said and Tim showed me to a guest room where I can sleep. I said my good nights and fell on the bed exhausted from all the crying. I looked at the time and it was almost midnight. I texted Johnny 'Are you up?' No response. I'll wait till morning to tell him what happened. I sent another text to him 'text or call me when you get a chance' I fell fast asleep after that. I had a restless sleep with nightmares of me being the one attacked by those kids. What made it worse was Johnny was one of them. They were all calling me queer, faggot, homo and many other names. I must have been making lots of noise as Kent came in and woke me up. "Leo. Wake up you're having a bad dream." He said gently shaking me. I opened my eyes and was drenched in sweat. "What? What's wrong?" I asked. "You were having a bad dream." He said wiping the sweat from my forehead. "Are you alright? What were you dreaming?" he asked. "I'm fine now that I'm awake. I was dreaming that I was the one getting beat up. And Johnny was one of the boys. What does that mean?" I asked. "Nothing it is just your mind trying to cope with what you have been through with James. This has really had an effect on you, hasn't it?" he asked. "Well ever since that all happened now I know Connor's email wasn't just an empty threat. He really means to hurt me. I never really took it that serious. I even laughed about it to myself. But he really has a hatred for me." I replied with worry in my voice. "Well you shouldn't be alone for a while. I hope you'll stay here with me and Tim. His parents won't be back for another couple of weeks." He said smiling at me. "I'll think about it. I should get back to sleep I need to talk to Officer Jones about the email. You'll go with me right?" I asked with a worried tone. "Yes I'll be there right by your side." He said and gave me a hug and kiss on my forehead. "I love you." "Okay, don't tell Sarah about this. She doesn't need to be worried as well." I said. "You know, I'll have to let dad know. The cops might want to talk to him about this incident." He said looking depressed. I thought about it. "Yeah I guess. You might want to fill him in on the whole story and have him meet us at the station." I said reluctantly. "I'm sure the cops will want to talk to him." "Ok I will. Now get back to sleep it's only going to four." He said with a slight smile and kissed my forehead again. I laid there for a bit trying to determine why I saw Johnny beating me up. Was this guilt for what I and James did? I don't ever think Johnny could treat me like that. But, James never thought Connor would have done that to him either, now did he. No, Johnny is a better man than Connor. I slowly drifted off to sleep. Kent woke me up about eight o'clock. "Better get in the shower and get something to eat. I called dad and he said to meet him at the police station at nine." He said. "Okay, but I'll skip breakfast for now. Not hungry." I replied. I went and jumped in the shower. I let the hot water run over me for a while. There was a knock on the door. "Hurry up we have to get going. Tim is going to drive us." Kent yelled through the door. "Okay, okay." I replied back. I got out and dried off. I had to put the same clothes on as I didn't have any here. I'll change after. I'll have them take me home to get my clothes. I came out of the bathroom and Kent was standing there. "What?" I asked a little snarky. "Are you all right? I hate that this has happened to you. If I could I would take this pain away I would, but I can't." he said getting choked up. "I'm fine. Let's get to the police station to get this over with. I need to know what's going on." I said. We walked down stairs and out of Tim's house and got into his car. On the way I texted Johnny about what happened yesterday. I left out the any part that James and I have been messing around. 'I'm really worried to leave my house now.' I texted him. 'Well I'll have mom come to your house to get you when we get home. I'll tell her what all is happening.' He texted back. 'Okay let me know when you are on your way to my house, so I'll be ready. :)" I texted back. Maybe I shouldn't have told him like this. Why did I? Now he is going to worry till he gets back. I'm selfish for putting this on him knowing he can't do anything other than worry. I texted him back 'Please don't worry Kent and Tim are taking care of me. :)' We arrived at the police station twenty minutes later. We got out of the car and walked up to the main doors. Dad was standing there waiting for us. I didn't even look at him. Didn't need my emotions to take over and cause more troubles at this time. Just needed to get in there make my report about Connor and leave. "Hi dad." Kent said. "Hi Leo and Kent. Shall we?" he replied and pointed the way. I stopped my dad by grabbing his arm. "Thank you for coming. Just know this doesn't mean I have forgiven you. I don't know as I can." I said to him with hatred in the tone. "I won't ask you for that, but you're still my son." He said and started into the police station. We went to the inside door and I pressed the talk button on the intercom device. "We need to talk to Officer Jones or Smith." I said. "What is this pertaining?" asked the clerk. "I have more information about the assault on James Bradley." I responded. "Okay, wait here I'll let them know you're here. You can have a seat and someone will be with you shortly." Said the clerk. "Thank you." I said. We sat in the waiting area for someone to come get us. I wouldn't look at my dad or say anything to him. We sat there for about fifteen minutes or so. The door opened and Officer Jones came out. "So you need to talk to me?" he asked. "I do sir." I replied. "Is this your father?" he asked pointing at dad. "Yes sir." I said trying to hide my emotions. "Good you two can come with me." He said. We both got up and followed him to an interview room to give my statement. "Sir, I came here to report that I've received this threatening email from one of the boys that beat up James Bradley. I received the email before he got jumped. I didn't think nothing of it, until this happened to James." I said with a scared tone. I showed him the email and answered all his questions. He took my statement and was getting ready to say good bye. "Sir?" I asked as he stood up. "Yes?" he asked back. "Sir, what will happen now?" I asked. "Well we have arrested the three boys and have charges brought up on them. The lawyers will be contacting you I'm sure. Don't delete, change or reply to Connor's email. I haven't received a date yet for the hearing. But the lawyers will let you know." He replied. "Okay, will the boys be getting out of jail before the trial? I only ask cause I don't want to get jumped as well." I said with a worried tone. "Well if their families can get the bail the will be released. I have your numbers so I'll let you know if they get out." He replied. "Thank you." My dad said shaking his hand. He escorted us back out. I walked outside till Kent and Tim came out. Dad and Kent said their goodbyes. We got into Tim's car and drove off. "Please take me back to our house. I'll stay there till Johnny gets back in town." I told Tim. "To your house it is." He replied looking at Kent for him to object. He didn't. We arrived at our home twenty minutes later. I went in and threw out the pizza and wings I left out last night. I went to my room and laid on my bed. "Leo, we are heading back to Tim's. Please stay inside for the time being. You have my cell if you need to get ahold of me. Love you." Kent yelled before leaving the house. "I know, I'm not a complete moron." I said out loud. Well I hope they keep Connor till his court date. It was only ten o'clock. I don't think Johnny will be back in town till later this afternoon. I grabbed a duffle bag and threw some clothes in there. I wanted to be ready when Johnny and his mom come get me. I just laid there thinking about James's situation. Connor is his best friend, or was his best friend. What would make him turn on James like this? There has to be a reason that Connor did this to James. And then there is Collin and Jamison. I've known these two all through grade school. Never got into trouble. What did Connor have on them to make them help him? Must have been something good that's for sure. As my mind was swirling with all the possibilities. My phone rang. I looked and it was James's number. "Hello." I answered it. "Hi, is this Leo?" the woman asked. "Yes, is this James's mom?" I asked back. "Yes, can you come and sit with James until I can get back? I need to go home and shower and run a few errands." She asked. "I'd love to. Be about a half hour or so, okay?" I asked. "That's fine." She replied. I quickly dialed up Kent and asked them to give me a ride to the hospital so I can sit with James. They of course agreed. I changed clothes and waited for them on the front porch. About ten minutes later they pulled up. I jumped into Tim's car and we were off. Twenty five minutes later they dropped me off at the front door of the hospital. "Call when you are ready to leave." Kent said. "I will and thanks for the lift." I said looking at Tim. I went inside and went to James's room. When I got there James was a sleep. "Hi Mrs. Bradley. How has he been doing?" I asked walking up to his bedside and taking his hand. "Hi Leo. They have him on some pretty strong pain meds so he has been sleeping most of the time. The doctors all are saying he'll be in here for at least a week possibly longer depending on how fast he heals." She said. "Okay. Well since its summer I can sit with him so you can do what you need to do. I feel like this is partly my fault anyways." I said. "What do you mean?" she asked. "Well, I was the one to ask him to spend the night. If it wasn't for me he wouldn't have been out, so Connor and the others wouldn't have got him. Besides I'm the one who told James to talk to Connor because of the way Connor has been treating him lately. Best friends don't treat each other like that." I said tearing up. "It wasn't your fault, that Connor did this. That is all on him. Now I don't know why he did it, but that was never a reason to. I don't blame you, in fact I thank you, if you hadn't brought him in he might have died." She said holding my hand trying not to cry. I went over to her and gave her a hug. "I'm here for James. He is safe now and I'll stay by his side till you return." I said trying to comfort her. She nodded. Stood up and looked at me teary eyed. "Thank goodness he has a friend like you to help him through this." She said giving me a weak smile. The hugged me and then left the room. I moved a chair over to James's bed and sat their looking at the damaged that those boys did to him. It made me mad and sad to see him like this. I know we haven't been close friends that long, but I hurt for him the same. I took out my book that I brought and read to him. I don't know if he could hear me or not, but I needed to do something. I stayed with him for about five hours. The hospital staff ordered me some food and showed me where I could get ice, water and other snacks they keep on the floor. 'We are almost back to town. :)' said the text from Johnny. 'I'm at the hospital with James. I'm here till his mom gets back. You want me to text you when I'm ready to leave or you want to come here?' I texted back. Silence for a bit. He must be deciding on what he wants to do. After about ten minutes of waiting 'Mom says she'll drop me off there and then pick us up when we are ready to leave.' He replied. 'Okay, let me know when you are here I'll meet you on the 4th floor." I replied. 'Okay, should be back in town in thirty min or so. :)' he replied. I went back to reading to him. I was about five paragraphs in when James woke up. He was smacking his lips and asked for something to drink. I put the book away and grabbed his water glass. "How you feelin?" I asked with concern. "Tired and hungry." He responded in a raspy dry voice. "You want me to call the nurse?" I asked. He nodded. "Where's my mom?" he asked. "She went home to clean up and run a few errands. She asked me to stay with you till she got back." I said with a smile. "Okay. Thanks for being here. Have you heard what is going to happen?" he asked. "Well Office Jones said they took all three into custody yesterday and they'll stay in there unless their families post bail. They'll have a hearing at some point and we'll have to wait for the lawyers to get back to us. I went to the police station this morning and showed them the email Connor sent me before he did this to you. I'm really scared now that he did this. I just thought he was blowing off steam." I said and read him the email he sent me. "I still can't figure out what went so wrong in Connor's life that he would do this to me. And Why did Jamison and Collin joined in. I never said or did anything to them. I didn't even know they knew who I was. We never interacted." He said confused. "Yes, oh you're awake. Are you hungry, we can get you some food." The nurse said when he came in. "Yes I would like to eat. Also, I need to go to the restroom. Number two." He said a little embarrassed. "Ok, can you wait out in the hall?" the nurse asked me. "I'll be right outside if you need me." I said to James. I squeezed his hand and smiled at him as I went to wait in the hall. James nodded and smiled back. I went into the hall and waited. I kept hearing James moan in agonizing pain as he was trying to poop. I couldn't stand it and went to the waiting room. While I was waiting, I got a text from Johnny. He said he was on his way up. I went to the elevator to meet him. I waited by the elevator, to me it seemed to take forever. As soon as the doors opened and I saw him, I practically jumped into his arms. I hugged him and began to cry. I was scared, but I feel safe in his arms. We stood there for a bit. I'm sure people were staring at us, but I didn't care and neither did Johnny. After a bit, I showed Johnny to James's room. He must have finished cause the door was open again. "Hey James, look who I found wandering the halls." I said smiling at James as me and Johnny came into his room holding hands. He looked at us and gave us a weird look when he saw us holding hands. "What we are the best of friends and nothing can shake that." I said as we came in. Johnny got a little embarrassed. "That's cool. I used to have that. Look what that got me." He said with sarcasm and tried to laugh. "Well I know and I'm deeply sorry for that, but Johnny is the best. We have been besties since, well as long as I can remember." I said with a smile. Once again Johnny got embarrassed. I kinda like making him embarrassed. He really turns red. It's kind of a real turn on for me. I'll have to file that away for later. "So how you doin?" Johnny asked him. "Well since I have two broken ribs. My best friend was the one to do this to me. I have to be on these high pain meds that got me all stopped up. Good I guess." He said trying not to laugh. "Sorry he did this to you. Do you know why he attacked you like that?" Johnny asked him. He laid there trying to think why. "I haven't the slightest clue why. The same with Jamison and Collin. I never hung out with them or even really talked with them. All I know is that they said Leo was next." He replied. "I just can't believe he would have done this, but then there you are beat to hell." Johnny said. "I just want to know why he did this. I mean we talked and I tried to get him to open up to me, but he just clamed up even more and ended our friendship." He said. The nurse came in with James's food. We moved out of the way to let him set him up to eat. "Well here you go. If you need any help just press the nurse button and I'll come back." He said with a smile. "Okay, thank you." James replied. We stay there and watched him eat, well actually I ended up feeding him. But that was alright with me. Johnny talked about moving his aunt and the trip. He mentioned that his mom was really concerned for me. He also told James to call or text him if he ever needed anything he was here for him. He smiled and thanked him. We stayed for another hour and James's mom came back. "Hi Mrs. Bradley. This is my best friend Johnny Jenkins. He came here after I told him about James." I said as James's mom came in the room. "Well James, I and Johnny need to get going. If you need me for anything please contact me." I said I leaned in and whispered in his ear. "Your nurse is hot." I smiled at him. James just laughed, well tried to but it hurt too much. "Please don't make me laugh." He said "I'll call you tomorrow." He said. We said goodbye and left. On the way down we called Johnny's mom to come and get us. We went to the lobby and waited. We just had general conversation. We waited about twenty minutes and she showed up. She took us through McDonalds drive through then we went to my house to get my clothes. After that we went to Johnny's house. We sat at the table to eat. I told everything I knew about what happened to James. Both of Johnny's parents and brother were shocked. I answered all questions I could. Sam said he knows Connor's Brother Kyle. After we ate we went to Johnny's room. "I need to take a shower." I said. "Mind if I join you?" he asked. "You know you don't have to ask, just get in." I said with smile. We undressed and went to get in the shower. "I need to talk to you and I need you to listen." I said as we stood under the water. "Okay." He said. "First off I need to know how you feel that I'm gay?" I said waiting for him to flip out. "Well I guess this is awkward. I'm gay and didn't know how to tell you." He said with a sexy grin. I kissed him passionately. We started to make out in the shower rubbing and touching everywhere. I had to pull away as I needed to come clean with him on everything. "James was coming over to my house to spend the night. Earlier that day we messed around and he told me he was gay. He said him and Connor had messed around." I told him. "So what all did you two do?" Johnny asked. "We measured our cocks. We blew each other. I need you to know this cause I want to be honest with you and want to ask you something." I said. "What? What do you want to ask me?" I asked. - - - - - - - That was chapter 6. I hope you enjoyed it. I know there wasn't any sex in this one, but will make it up in the rest of the story. Please leave questions, comments and suggestions @ questions.L.1976@gmail.com