Last chapter was rlly short sooo this will be longer!

Zak POV

Bang

"Zak open the door!"

Bang

"Open this door right now!"

Bang

It swings open.

I turn to see my dad standing before me, he looks furious. "Guess what?" He slurred. I was too scared to reply.

Thankfully he didn't wait for me to answer. "I just lost my job." He said.

My eyes widened. Not because he lost his job but because he's angry this time. When he's mad the beatings are worse.

He stomped towards me, "It's all your fault!" He yelled.

Slap

"You waste of space!"

Punch

"Piece of shit!"

Punch

This kept going for a while. Him hitting me and yelling insults at me over and over. I just sat there sobbing until I couldn't take it anymore and I blacked out.

*Woosh*

I woke up and writhed in pain. I slowly reached for my phone and checked the time.

2:00 am

I had been knocked out for a while. I took me waking up as an opportunity to clean myself up. I tumbled to the shower, hoping not to wake up my dad in the process.

I turned on the water, and stepped into the shower. The water stung as it hit all my cuts and bruises. All the dried blood washed off me turning the water red. After a while, I turned off the shower and stepped out.

I put on my blue hoodie and walked out of the bathroom. I went to check the time again.

2:17 am

I noticed that I had a bunch of notifications. I had some from Bad and some from A6d.
I clicked on Bad's first.

B: Hey Skeppy!
B: Wanna talk?
B: Are you up?
B: You don't usually sleep this early
B: Are you okay?

I sighed and clicked on A6d's messages.

A: Are you okay?
A: We haven't talked in a while

I checked the time once again and realized it was 2:20. I wasn't tired so I got on team speak. As I predicted Bad and A6d were in a room.

Darryl POV

I was singing, trying not to worry about Skeppy. I tried to convince myself that he slept early, but I knew something was wrong.

User joined your channel

I stopped singing. Who was that?

"Hello?" A6d said.

"Hiiiiii guysssss." Skeppy said into the mic. "Oh my goodness! Where have you been?" I asked him. "I was... busy." I noticed his voice sounded quieter than usual.

"You were busy at 2 in the morning?" A6d asked, I could tell he was skeptical as well. "Just don't worry about it, okay?" Skeppy said quietly.

So we went on normally, me singing, them laughing and talking.

Skeppy was talking, "So then I was like-" He stopped in the middle of his sentence. Then he went quiet.

"Skeppy?" I said.

"Skeppy are you okay?" A6d asked.

No answer.

Zak POV

I heard footsteps downstairs.

Shit.

My dad is usually asleep by now. Why was he awake?

I knew that if I made a sound he would come up here. I could hear Bad and A6d calling my name but I didn't answer.

After a while the footsteps stopped followed by a bang. After that everything was silent. I waited a minute or so before talking again, I made sure to keep my voice extremely quiet.

"I'm back." I said.

"Where were you!" Bad screamed. I flinched almost knocked over my water bottle. I quickly caught it before it could hit the floor.

"Could you be quiet, please?" I asked.

He lowered his voice, "Okay, where did you go?"

Before I could reply I heard footsteps coming up the stairs.

"Shit."