"You know I did warn you, didn't i?" Charlie's voice echoes through the night, bouncing off the walls as it fills the space between them. Six shadows wobble unsteadily as they portray the shape of the figures standing in the darkness.
"I told not mess with me or you'll lose your legs, you didn't listen so don't blame me for this, blame yourself"
None of what he said registers in your senses, your bloodied lips keep giving sound to muffled moans and you keep trying to steady your rough breathing.
All you see is the white sneakers with splotches of crimson red you already know as your blood. It draws closer and closer to your opened out knee, everything slows for a moment, your breathing turns heavy again, your mouth forms incoherent words from your shout for help and you try
to twist out of the way but it doesn't help.
*Crack*
A loud crack rings out in the empty space of the dark locker room and echoes through the stadium followed closely by a loud cry filled to the brim with despair.
Ethan's face falls on the cold floor wet with tears and blood, eyes bloodshot and stinging pain coming from all over his body.
His ringing ears fail to hear the residing footsteps of Charlie and his goons and they head out of the locker room. Some of them look at him with pity, others with smug faces but no matter, none of them gives a sh*t about the little immigrant boy who pissed off the mayor's kid the first day he arrived.
As the goons clear out of the locker room Ethan gaze remains at the sky, his vision blurry and voice croaked, he stares at the Moon and a thought bubbles up within several others taking a place in his mind.
'Guess I won't be coming home for dinner'