Stay for an unwelcome rendezvous.

Random watched the goliath enter the classroom, he definitely would not have pegged Max as the most driven student so the boy questioned his real agenda. Like clockwork he saw the girl that the brute was interested in, she was a tiny thing Random wouldn’t have expected she’d be Max’s type but here he was, lumbering towards the girl’s desk.

She sat alone, indeed no one to make suggestive comments or stop Max taking the sweet girl’s gentle face into his disgusting hand. A better moment couldn’t have presented itself to the boy. He pulled out his phone, always handy to have some evidence before he’d present his findings to Tyler but as he tapped his foot, impatiently waiting for his phone to turn on, he noticed something wrong.

Under her desk, the girl grasped a hold of her skirt and her hands shook. As the boy lined up his phone, he watched the girl snap her face from the brute’s touch and stare blankly at her desk. Random first observations were mistaken the girl wasn’t just another one of Max’s ‘fixes’. She was terrified. On closer inspection, the boy saw the bruises that line the innocent girl’s skin. Just enough to be hidden by sleeve or collar but the evidence was still there, to say the boy was **** from taking photos of the pair now.

“Don’t ignore me, bitch!” Max roared. The girl jolted in her seat as he raised his voice. Random breathed uneasy, the grasp on his phone tightened like a vice, his nails unconsciously scratching the back of the phone case. The young man was beyond furious at the scene he just witnessed. The second he made his move the cheery voice of Mr Leon cooled his boiling blood.

“Is there a problem Max?” The confident man walked up to the brute a hand in his pocket and the other carrying textbooks.

“No problem Teach! Checking if Erica’s ready to go home.” Max’s eyes were angry as a bull while Mr Leon’s were sly as a fox.

“Apologises for wasting your time but Erica agreed to help me lock up. Isn't that right Erica?”

The girl jumped at her name and looked to the teacher. “Y-yeah that’s right…” She muttered weakly.

“That will be all Max.” Before the brute could open their mouth Mr Leon repeated slowly so even he could understand. Max gained nothing from arguing with a member of staff and stormed of striking the door on his way out the door that Random was hidden behind.

It was almost sunset on the bus ride home. Random deep in thought for the length of the journey. His thoughts of the girl Erica and the treatment inflicted upon her by Max, he then imagined the same treatment being inflicted on poor sweet Tyler. “I have to end that bastard!”

Crimson poked the boy’s cheek, the creature’s touch bringing him out of his dark thoughts. “You all right, little mouse? You look pissed.” Her nickname, her voice, hell even her smell they all seemed to calm the boy down. The effect she had on him felt odd however not wanting to repeat the obvious but she was an unholy demon.

“Yeah, I’m fine just seen something shitty.”

The creature’s tail wagged furiously. “Really? Was it something I did?” She smiled for the first time that day.

“Nah.” He returned to the smile. “Crimson I need your opinion on something. How do you go about fighting someone physically stronger than you?”

“Someone stronger than me?”

“Just humour me.” He wouldn’t beg for an answer.

“Fine, if I couldn’t beat someone with my raw strength I’d try to outsmart them over a longer period time. Years, decades, centuries? It doesn’t matter because when all said and done, nothing on this Earth is more satisfying than looking someone’s eyes one day and seeing the hope drain from their face as in one fell swoop you destroy them and all they hold dear.” All that was missing was an evil laugh.

“I think you've read too many books?” Nevertheless, her words had weight as the boy was drawn back to the moment he held his phone up to the girl. Even if it was wrong, it still would have been evidence to give to Tyler and protect her. The boy’s mind went back to another recent memory, that being the excitement he felt after surviving attack at ‘Morningstar’ the same excitement that **** himself upon Crimson. So Random asked himself. “How can I do the right thing and keep my humanity?”

The two were the last aboard the bus as it stopped to pick up further passengers. “Dude I can’t believe that Teach!” The voice filled Random with dread. “Don’t think about it Max you can get that disobedient bitch tomorrow!” The brute and his gang entered the metal cage on wheels blocking the only entrance.

Max’s blood boiling, begun laughing the second he laid eyes on the boy. “Wow! You don’t know how happy I am to see you freak and with your sister by your side, just perfect.” The girl was only the drop of blood needed for the shark to become a frenzy. “Pin him down.” He ordered and his slaves obeyed.

Struggling, the young man cried out. “What are you doing?!”

“Ha, what does it look like? I’m having my ‘twenty minutes’” The brute cupped the boy’s demon’s delicate face the same way he did with Erica.

“Get the fuck off her!” Despite his newfound healing abilities, he was no stronger than before he made the deal with the demon. He watched in dismay as the brute bent the girl over the seat, pushing her face against the window.

“Shut the fuck up, freak and watch!” Spilt flung from his mouth and landed on the boy’s face. The brute struggled with Crimson before he turned to one of his ‘friends’ “Undo my belt!” He barked.

“Max I don’t think this a good idea…”

“Do you want this cock instead?!” He waited for a reply from the other boy but got none. “I thought not! Belt now!” The **** removed Max’s belt and reluctantly pulled down his trousers. “Much better.”

Like a caged animal the boy fought to get free and got a punch to the face for his troubles. In his dazed state, his fingers seemed to find his phone out of all things and his mind quickly went back to the moment he held it to the girl Erica then it faded to the image of Tyler.