"Hey, get the hell over here you little brat!" Daniel yelled at me. "No! Stay away from me, just leave me alone." I said, still running away from him. Right now, it's like 9:07PM. I'm running on the sidewalk in our neighborhood. But, I soon came to a stop, when I ran into something. Or someone. "And why would we want to leave you alone?" The other voice said. I looked up. It was Jack! Jack is my age, except he's nine months older than me. 

He grabbed my arm, tightly. Very tightly. "Ow! You're hurting me!" I said. Well, shouted. "Nope!" He said. 

I rolled my eyes. "Hey, you know we don't take that type of disrespect." Max said, walking towards me. Where did he come from? My mind, instantly went to hell. He came from hell, Ellie! 

"Let me go!" I said. I'm so annoyed! "Nope! We're not letting you go that easy! You ate my freaking bag of pretzels! No way am I letting you go!" Daniel shouted. So annoying! Like, it's not that big of a deal, just buy more. "Idiots." I mumbled under my breath.  "What did you just say?" Jack asked. Jackass. 

Hahaha. Okay, Ellie, focus! Oh my gosh! 

If Noah was here right now, he'd definitely hurt me. Good thing he's at his friends house. 

I didn't reply to Jack.

 "Don't make me hurt you!" He raised his voice. 

"Fine, fine, fine!" 

He smirked at me. 

"I said...idiots." 

I noticed all the boys looked at each other. 

Jack let go of my arms. I noticed that my arms had red handprints on them. 

I looked back up at my brothers and saw that they all had smirks plastered on their faces. I wish I could just wipe those smirks off of their faces. 

They started walking towards me, but no one was close enough to grab me. This was my chance! I stood up and bolted to a nearby forest. I didn't know where else to go. They were right on my tail. Dang, they're all so fast. 

I panicked. I ran into the woods. I ran as fast as I could. I accidentally ran into a thorn bush, and so now my skin was bleeding. 

I tripped and fell on the hard dirt. My brothers finally caught up to me. "Aww, look at our little sister! Trying so hard to escape us!" Max said. Ouch! 

Well, that hurt. But, not as much as the other things that they've said to me.

"Haha, little baby!" Jack said. Like, excuse me? We're the same freaking age, Jack! Oh my goodness!

"Brat!" Daniel said. 

"Pathetic little girl." Max said. 

I can feel the tears start to form in my eyes. 

"Is little El gonna cry?" Daniel said. That's my nickname that my brothers used to call me back when we were all younger. Back when everyone was happy. I don't know what changed. But, I wish it was the same. 

"N-no." I said while stuttering. I wiped the tears from my eyes. 

Daniel and Max walked over to me. I got scared. Well, even more, scared than I already was. Which I didn't think was possible.

Daniel bent down to my level and slapped my face. Then, Max walked closer to me and crouched down to my level as well. He punched me in the stomach. To be honest, I'm used to it. But, it still hurt. I cried out in pain. But, no one seemed to care.

Jack crossed his arms and leaned against a tree and just watched in amusement. 

A while later, once the torture was finally over, they walked away. Jack stayed against the tree. I slowly got up, but I was wobbly. I finally managed to stabilize myself after several moments. 

I began walking, Jack walked beside me. 

I didn't know why. I'm confused. 

I have a headache and my stomach hurts. I wrapped my arms around my stomach and clutched it. 

Jack noticed my actions and he gave me a look of...sympathy?

Weird. 

He put his hand on my arm and looked at me. 

He stopped me. I looked at him. 

"Are you okay?" He asked, in a whispering voice. "Yeah. I'm fine!" I said. I don't need him to pity me. I don't need anyone to pity me, or feel sorry for me. I just...don't! 

I walked away from Jack. But, of course he just had to follow me. "Hey, hey hey. Calm down!" He said, while grabbing my arm, and turning me around to face him. I looked down, while crying. He put his hand under my chin and lifted it, making me face him. 

"It's okay, calm down. It's going to be okay," he said. He used his thumb to wipe some of my tears away. 

I hugged him. 

I know I shouldn't, after everything. But I needed to hug someone. Anyone. I needed someone to be there for me. Even though he usually isn't, he is, right now. 

Surprisingly, he hugged me back. 

Eventually, we pulled away. 

"Lets go home, loser," he said. I nodded my head. He put his hand in mine and we walked back home together, hand in hand.