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“You’ll let me go? Really?” Sky asked excitedly. He never thought his dad would allow him to go to Bangkok.“Yes, I’m letting you go. But promise me you won’t slack off when you’re on your own. And remember that you can always call me if there’s a problem, Sky.” His dad answered seriously.
Sky smiled happily and quickly hugged his dad. With an “of course”, he ran to his room and began to pack up his stuff. While doing so, he thought about what it’d be like in Bangkok and drifted away into daydreams.
***
It has been a year since Sky went to Bangkok and he already found a few friends with whom he hung out time and time again. Sometimes they hung around school, sometimes they were drinking in a bar and sometimes they smoked together. It hasn’t been long since one of Sky’s friends told him that smoking releases Stress and convinced him that he should try it out.
Even though Sky didn’t really want to, he also wanted to fit in, so in the end he tried it. Since then he’s had one or two cigarettes more but it luckily hasn’t become an addiction yet.
***
On one of those days, where they were drinking in their favourite bar again, a guy came in and quickly catched Sky’s attention. He sat down on a stool at the bar counter behind them and glanced over to the boy group a few times. After a while he came over.
“Do you mind if I sit with you guys?” he asked.
“Nah, go ahead.”, Sky’s friends said and they began to talk about all kinds of stuff. His name was Gun and it didn’t take long until he secretely touched Sky’s leg under the table. Sky got goosebumps from the light touch but he wasn’t against it. Instead, he even kind of liked it and it was that exact night they slept together for the first time.
“I love you, P’Gun.”, Sky said afterwards and hugged Gun from behind. He smiled brightly and closed his eyes, not seeing the disinterested expression on Gun’s face upon hearing those words.
***
But the feeling didn’t last long. The first few weeks, Sky was the happiest he’s ever been, but after a while, Gun changed his friendly way bit by bit. He started to hit Sky when he didn’t do what Gun wanted, choked and hurt him in other ways while having Sex and even went as far as to burn Sky’s arm with his cigarettes.
Sky tried to cover up the bruises and burn marks as best as possible but when he was drinking with his friends they still noticed some of them.
“What is that mark you have on your arm, Sky?” one of them, Mack, asked, a slight concern in his voice.
Sky quickly pulled up his sleeve, “Nothing, don’t worry.”
However, his friends may not be the smartest, but they were definitely not blind. Mack took Sky’s arm and pulled the sleeve upwards again. He stopped in his movement when he saw the burn marks and knew those were from cigarettes. He’d smoked enough to differenciate between cigarette burns and other burn marks, that’s for sure.
“What is this? Sky, why do you have cigarette burns on your arm? Did P’Gun do this to you?” Mack asked
“I knew that guy was bad!” another one of his friends said.
“No, it wasn’t P’Gun. I… did it to myself…” Sky said and pulled his arm away again, “don’t bother thinking about it.”
***
P’Gun didn’t stop though, even after Sky asked him if he could not burn him or leave bruises. Sky’s friends told him time and time again, that he should end it with P’Gun and leave but Sky always told them the same thing: It was his own fault and it had nothing to do with Gun. And that wasn’t even a complete lie. Sky really thought that it was his fault, that Gun did all of these things. He deserved to be treated that way. Nevertheless it still hurt.
“P’Gun, could we not to this, please? Can we have normal sex for once?” Sky pleaded but quickly regretted his request. Gun pulled him by his hair, so Sky had to look into his eyes. He was delighted by the terrified look in Sky’s eyes.
“This is normal for me.”, Gun said and threw Sky onto the bed “I thought you loved me?”, he stripped Sky naked and held him by his throat. “I thought you said ‘I love you, P’Gun’?”, Sky watched as Gun lit another cigarette and held it dangerously close to his face. He tried to turn his face away but Gun held him thightly by the throat. Terrified, he could do nothing but watch, and especially feel, as the cigarette burned another mark onto his chest.
Sky sobbed and the next thing he knew was the pain from his lower body, as Gun entered without preperation nor lube.
***
“P’Gun, what is happening?” Sky asked, confused as he watched Gun’s friends enter the room. “Why are your friends here?” He barely finished his sentence when Gun’s friends pushed him onto the bed and held his arms and feet.
“No! Let me go!” Sky screamed and struggled with all his might.
He heard Gun’s voice from the side: “This is a present for you, do you like it?”, and as he turned to look at Gun he saw a wicked smile on his face. Chills ran down Sky’s spine and he struggled even more.
“P’Gun, why are you doing this? Don’t you love me?” Sky could feel his eyes tearing up. “You love me, right?”, he was more pleading than asking, when he suddenly felt a sharp pain searing through his cheek. His sight went blank for a moment and he realised Petch had slapped him.
“We’re gonna have some fun tonight, Sky~.” He said and began to pull off Sky’s shirt.
“No, no, no! Let me go! Please! It hurts! P’Gun, please help me… please.” Sky’s voice broke and he could feel the burning sensation in his throat, while he was trying to hold back sobs. “You still love me, right? You wouldn’t want them to-“
“Boring”, Gun interrupted him. “I’m bored”, he bended forward to look straight into Sky’s eyes. “You’re boring.”, he said and Sky stopped struggling for a moment out of shock. Petch laughed and used the moment to fully undress Sky and tie him to the bed.
A tear fell silently from Sky’s eye and rolled down his cheek as his mind decided it would be for the best to just disconnect with reality. It was as if Sky was standing next to his body, watching, while Petch and his friends used his body to their own enjoyment. They left bruises, hickeys and bitemarks everywhere and Sky felt extremely dirty, worthless and broken. Petch entered carelessy and Sky could only scream and sob, pulling on the ropes that held his arms tightly in place. Slowly, his sight went blurry and he shut himself into his mind, fully hiding from the reality.
Everything around him was dark and he lost all strength in his legs. He broke down, crying and curled up into a ball. Sky could still hear the voices outside of his mind.
“What an obedient boy”
“Gun trained him well”
“He’s still so tight, fuck”
“You’re secretly enjoying this, aren’t you Sky~?”
“He definitely is, look at him not even struggling anymore, haha”
They echoed through his mind and he wanted to see nothing anymore, feel nothing anymore and especially hear nothing anymore. Sky hid his face behind his arms and legs as he cried and sobbed loudly. That was until someone touched him carefully and lightly, as to not surprise Sky too much. Sky still jumped at the touch because he thought inside of his mind he could be alone at least.
The one who touched him was kneeling down next to Sky. It was as if he’d brought some light into Sky’s mind because the darkness slowly crept away. He had similar facial features as Sky but still looked completely different from him somehow. He looked into Sky’s red eyes. They were already puffy from all the crying and tears were all over his face. The person tried to lay his hand on Sky’s shoulder again but Sky flinched hard at the movement. He quickly took his hand back again.
“It’s okay, Sky. You’ll be safe in here.” He said and really, the voices began to become silent. “No need to be so tense anymore. I will protect you.” Somehow, Sky wanted to trust this person. His mind told him he was reliable and that he won’t hurt him. Maybe it were his kind and soft eyes, that looked at Sky as though he’d do anything to protect Sky. Or it was his smile that looked like sunrays on freshly fallen snow. Sunrays, that will break the thickest darkness just like he did with the darkness in Sky’s mind. Sky felt safe and relaxed a bit. With his body relaxing a little, he couldn’t help a sob coming deep from within him.
The eyes of the person looked sad upon hearing that sob and slowly opened his arms to signalise a hug. Sky’s eyes widened a bit but he still accepted the gesture and leaned forward into these arms, that looked so safe. The hug felt strong, strong enough to be able to keep everything bad away from Sky and he cried again, this time into the arms of that person.
“You’ll be safe. I’ll make sure of it. You won’t have to experience any kind of harm again. That’s what I’ll be here for. I will experience all the bad things for you and keep you away from them, so you can live your life happily.”, He said, firmly securing Sky in his arms. “Just like the Clouds cry for the Sky and keep it hidden from bad people’s gazes, I will protect you. You can call me Cloud.” Cloud said and Sky just nodded. His expression changed into a gaze of anger, as he said “Let me take the lead for now and I’ll get you out of there.”
Cloud released Sky from the hug and before Sky could say anything, he was alone again.
By the time Cloud took over Petch and his friends were already done and Sky’s body felt heavy on Cloud. Everything was sticky and he was hurting all over. They were as nice as to release his tied-up hands before they’ve left. Cloud took his hands down and felt the sharp pain in his shoulders from being in an overstretched position for such a long time. He felt his wrists and hissed at the pain. They were torn open from the rope, that has been rubbing over his skin for such a long time, and bleeding slightly.
After a while he was able to get up from the bed and dragged his bruised and pained body into the bathroom. Cloud looked into the mirror and his eyes widened at the sight. It was far worse than he thought. Besides from his body being a sticky mess, his hair didn’t look better at all. There was a handprint on his throat, which would surely become a bruise in no time, and his throat hurt in general.
‘Probably from his screams’ Cloud thought.
Cloud also saw the hickeys and bitemarks all over his body and wanted to beat those bastards to a pulp. He quickly washed up, wanting to leave as quickly as possibly. Cloud tried to cover up all the bruises and marks and quickly went home.
***
When he arrived home, Sky’s father was shocked to see his son like this. Even though Cloud covered up all the bruises, his eyes still looked empty and his hair was still a bit of a mess. And after all, Cloud still half-dragged Sky’s body home, rather than being able to walk normally.
“Sky, what- happened?” his father asked, clearly worried about the state his son was in.
“I’m fine”, Cloud said hoarsly and quickly made his way into Sky’s room, ignoring Sky’s father, who tried to talk to him.
He wanted to get Sky away from everyone as soon as possible before he could let him take over again. In his room, he sat onto the bed and began to try and get Sky to come back up again. When he got back into their mind, he saw Sky, still sitting there crying and curled up. He slowly took him into his arms again.
“It’s fine now. They’re gone and you’re in a safe place. I brought you home. Unfortunately your father saw you. You should get out of here now, this is not the place for you to be in permanently. Will you try?”
Sky slowly calmed down. It was nice to have someone take care of you again after being alone for a while. Even if that someone is just part of your mind, he wouldn’t have known what to do if Cloud didn’t appear.
“Are- are they really gone? I don’t want to ever see them again.” Sky sobbed one last time before letting go of the embrace.
“Yes, Sky, they’re gone. And if they ever come back, I won’t let them come near you, I promise. Don’t let one incident destroy your whole life. Try to love yourself and be able to live your life again.”
Sky slowly nodded after hearing Cloud’s words and decided that he’s right. He should try to, even if it may be hard.
When Sky came back to Reality he felt the pain all over his body. He tried to stand up, but his legs gave out and he crashed onto the floor.
“Sky? Are you really okay?” he heard his father call from outside his room.
“Yes, I just tripped over my feet. Don’t worry dad, I’m really fine.” Sky said and was a bit shocked by his hoarse voice. He stood up and slowly made his way into the bathroom to get some ointment for his bruises. He knew it would take a while to be back to his old self or be as near to it as possible. However he knew that Cloud would be by his side and he still also had his dad. And even though his dad may never find out the truth about this day, Sky knew that he will be by side too, no matter what, even if he didn’t know what happened.