Chapter 1:
Walking back from the hospital to my place at midnight was risky, but between the expenses of my father's 4th stage lung cancer treatment and food, every cent was important. It's not the walk that bothered me but passing through the 16th street where Liam and his cronies, Ray and Yuri stayed was scary. This was the bad part of the town and these were evil people. Starting summer break of my sophomore year, Liam and Yuri sexually abused me repeatedly, making me touch them and once Liam forced me to give him head in his van. This was after I came out to my childhood friend Casey, who in turn told her boyfriend, Liam. When I tried to complain I was beaten up by Liam and his cronies. My dad had been battling cancer while I was going through this and hence I took the abuse and kept quiet to avoid adding stress to his life.
My name is Sky Perez and I am small at 5" 6' and painfully thin, 19 years old high school graduate with brown eyes and brown curly hair. I had plans and grades for university but my dad had been sick since 4 years and at the hospital, so my priority was clear. I applied in the community college to continue my general education for 2 years and get a degree because with the way our current finances, university was not be possible. I may go for an associate degree in designing program and pursue a career in something to do with art. That way I can start saving if university is still in my future. With these things constantly stressing me and my dad, abuse took a backstage and I endured it for 3 years before graduating high school and a year after that. I have been avoiding Liam, his boys and this street for almost the same time hence they cornered me at school but there is only so much they could do to me there. I didn't tell Casey as well even after her apologizing, her reason being she was asking him to not bully me because of my dad and the fact that I was struggling as a gay person. Only if she knew what or who Liam was, she would know who was really struggling with his identity, but I didn't want any extra drama in my already complicated life.
These thoughts overtook my better judgement to avoid the street and I found myself walking through it. I started to pace myself faster as soon as I saw some people smoking in the dark corner, the 2 orange pinpoints like a monster lurking in the night.
"Hey, Sky... Why are you running?... Come to Daddy". It was Liam and I started to sprint.
I heard footsteps behind me and I ran for my life but they were bigger, faster and more athletic than me, they caught up and tackled me to the ground, I fell hard hitting my palms and chin on the asphalt.
I was turned around and it was Roy and Yuri, Roy held my hands in front of me sitting on my chest and Yuri sat on my stomach crossing and holding my legs together, both ensuring that it's painful.
I heard a vehicle rounding up to us and for a moment thought someone had come to help or it was a patrol car but when I looked sideways it was Liam's father's pickup van, I knew it too well having been shoved into it a couple of times. He got down and opened the sliding door. I was physically raised and thrown mercilessly into the van by his boys.
"Ya Daddy's gonna show you a good time today girl." Liam leered.
Yuri and Roy got in behind me and Yuri removed my sneakers and one of the sock and shoved it in my mouth. He turned me around, removed my jacket half way to my arms and tied my hands with its sleeves. He turned me around again and shoved my pants to my ankles and tied my legs, showing clearly he has done this before.
