Born Broken by Anna Huscha (good summer reads .txt) 📖

so Jimmy kept it at that pace. They were laughing and telling jokes, it was two seconds but enough. Jimmy shifted his gaze from the street to Xavier, that was his mistake.

He hadn't noticed it, hadn't noticed the deer, he could have hit it and risked it hitting the windshield, small damage to the car but sadly he shifted the wheel and slammed on the break. The car was incapable of coming to such a sudden stop and thus went rolling, two rolls, three, even four and finally stopped once on it's top.

He grunted and coughed up blood, fumbling with the seat belt that held him in place, once undone he freed himself and fell harshly to the ground. He panted before shifting and looking at his friends faces in the back seat, cringing once he noticed one of the two dead, their necks proved that.

The others eyes suddenly flashed open and screamed before Xavier flinched, he seemed to notice this and hushed up.

"Xav?" The boy asked, Xavier made a sound in agreement, it was hard to see through to him.

Xavier suddenly panicked and climbed out of the car with a small struggle, he ran over to the other side and pulled the rest of the boys out of the car. Jimmy was alive but barely, his breathing was ragged and blood was already fiercely pooling underneath him.

He wanted to break out and scream if it wasn't who he had trained to be against, Jimmy had to be okay, it was the only thing Xavier could think about.

Xavier reached into Jimmy's pocket and fished out his phone, he quickly flipped it open and dialed '911', telling them every detail he could manage to get out. After he hung up he dialed Danny.

"Danny, please, hurry to old forge bridge just before it!" Xavier rushed out, Danny didn't have to get a word in, with the tone and edge to Xavier's voice he knew something had to be wrong.

Danny quickly ran out of his job, not stopping to speak with anyone, he jumped into his car and sped away. He made it to the bridge in time to notice a white sheet being pulled up over Jimmy; Xavier sat ghostly to the side.

Danny approached him slowly, unable to process anything that was going on, he went to speak but couldn't get anything out once he noticed tears slowly sliding down Xavier's cheeks.

"Xav... what happened?" Danny asked, he knelt down in front of Xavier, he hadn't ever seen him like this, it killed him just as much as the words that came next.

"Jimmy... is dead" Xavier whispered, at that moment, Danny blacked out.

"You're not to blame" Danny said softly, it hadn't happened too long ago.

"I feel like it is, he was looking at me, Danny" Xavier stated, he rubbed his face and gained his composure back. Danny looked at him as he sat beside him.

"Shit happens, I miss the little guy like crazy and I know you do too. None of us blame you and we know you didn't put a gun to his head and tell him to crash the car then kill himself in the happening. You aren't to blame, bud" Danny explained, Xavier knew he was right but for some reason he couldn't ever get rid of the nagging feeling inside of his gut that if Jimmy hadn't been watching him, he wouldn't have crashed the car.

"Yeah, I know" Xavier said half truthfully, Danny stretched out.

"So how've things been for ya?" Danny asked, Xavier raised his eyes and stared at him for a moment before dropping them again.

"They're pretty good, a family finally are letting me stay for a little while now, so things are going" Xavier lied, he didn't feel like getting into why he was leaving yet another home yet another time.

"Ah, well am happy for you, glad to hear that" Danny said before sitting up, Xavier nodded a thanks.

"What've you been doing?" Xavier asked, stretching hard.

"Well you know, jobs and family" Danny stated, Xavier nodded before standing up and brushing himself off.

"Where're you going?" Danny asked as he stood and did the same, Xavier shrugged, his bag hidden in the darkness.

Damien

A lot had been thrown at him in just a few minutes, he was a twin, his twin brother was in deep with problems, had been suffering, and they were asked to take him in. Damien didn't know what to say, he knew he had to take in Xavier and help him, for crying out loud he was his twin. They shared everything down to their blood.

Damien played with string that hung down from his sweatshirt as he thought about how Xavier was and how hard he had it while he himself had been adopted when he had gone halfway through high school; had been living in nice homes since he had been in foster care.

Damien often found himself wondering what Xavier was like as a person, whether they'd get alone or if Xavier was some kind of half-insane individual who couldn't control himself at all. It made him wonder but left him wanting to know even more

He hadn't noticed the person walk plainly up behind him, his name being called caused him to jump.

"Huh?" Damien asked, Chase laughed almost uncontrollably.

"Yo, party, you comin'?" Chase asked, crossing his arms.

"Oh, yeah!" Damien said as he jumped up and ran off towards Chase's car, Chase followed.

They got there within ten minutes, they pulled up to Jake's house, music blaring and cars parked all out front.

The party hadn't started yet, they had been waiting for Damien. Once Damien walked in the door Jake shouted.

"Heeey! There he is! Finally, alright everyone, put your keys in this bowl better remember what ones are yours. Don't complain either, I'm not gonna have any of your little bastards driving while intoxicated!" Jake exclaimed as he went around, making sure everyone put their keys in the bowl.

Damien chuckled and dropped his own into the container, even the goody little boy was going to have a good drink tonight.

After the keys were collected the beers and harder alcohol was then served, everyone taking their fair shares as small groups formed to challenge each other to shots, one group hosted beer pong while another in the back just sat and listened to music while enjoying their booze.

Damien leaned back in a lazy boy and yawned, holding a beer in his left hand, taking gulps every now and then. He took a deep breath, held it for a few seconds then exhaled slowly. It would be a long night and he still had to think about whether or not to bring Xavier to them.

"Hey" A feminine voice came to his right, Damien looked up at her as he shifted in his seat.

"Hi" Damien said lightly, drinking more from his beer.

"I noticed you alone, was wondering what a good looking boy as yourself was doing all alone" The girl flirted, he watched her and grinned softly.

"Eh, haven't seen anyone as pretty as you yet so didn't wanna talk" Damien said with a small wink, drinking the rest of his beer, placing the bottle down next to him.

"Oh, well maybe I can change that" She said before sitting down on the arm of the chair, Damien moved over for her and she slid into place.

"My names Traci" Traci said, she had long blonde hair with blue eyes, a small body yet very well endowed for being seventeen.

Damien eyed her then smiled.

"Damien" He said softly, being handed another beer from a random person at the party who happened to be next to the cooler, Damien popped the top off then chugged half of it, if he wanted to do anything fun, he'd have to be drunk.

After five full bottles of beer and ten random hard liquored drinks, Damien was wasted to the point he couldn't see straight. He closed his eyes as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

This was one of the worst times he had ever gotten wasted but he couldn't complain, he was drunk with a more than beautiful woman next to him and she was flirtatious.

Soft kisses were trailed along his neck, making him shiver before sliding his hands along her body...

Damien awoke in the morning, stretching out before glancing around the room, trying to figure out what had happened. His head was pounding and the smell of booze lingered thickly through the room.

Once the memory from the previous night came flooding back into his mind he couldn't help but grin, knowing he had finally lost his virginity to someone he wasn't the least bit shamed about having done it with. He tried to stand up but was stopped by drunk bodies strewn across the floor in random places.

Some people were propped up against the wall, some laid in random spots on the floor while some were laying against each other by the pool table. Damien chuckled as he glanced around the room at the large amount of bodies that had been passed out and showed no signs of waking up any time soon.

Jake groaned then stretched, Damien thought he'd wake up but was sadly mistaken once Jake just hugged a bottle of tequila closer to him and stayed against the wall.

As he found and pulled on his clothes that had been tossed to the side from the night before, he checked his phone, four messages and two calls.

His shoulders sagged as he checked his messages, one was from hours before asking him where he had been for the party and the other was from his mother, just saying that she hoped he was having fun but hoped he had thought about Xavier.

Xavier

He stretched to crack everything in his back, he turned out of the cemetery and headed towards town.

A wider man stood across the street near the doorway to a rundown building, he looked familiar but from how far away Xavier was he couldn't quite tell. Once walking closer confirmed that it indeed was Mr. Bakster, Xavier sighed heavily.

"What do you want?" Xavier asked as he crossed the street, his usually bitter tone returning to him. Mr. Bakster didn't seem to notice.

"We have a woman looking for you, an adoptive mother" Mr. Bakster stated, Xavier eyed him then shook his head, shrugging.

"Fine, where is she?" Xavier asked, swinging his bag over his shoulder before following Mr. Bakster towards his car, as they got in Xavier listened to him babble on and on.

Once there Xavier couldn't get out of the car fast enough, he nearly tripped over himself as he walked towards the building, grumbling.

Mr. Bakster chuckled and followed him into the building, they headed back towards his office; Xavier knew that place front and back.

As they entered Lexi sat in the seat next to the window, Xavier hesitated once he saw her.

"Xavier? What's wrong?" Mr. Bakster asked as he watched him, Xavier eyed her, his light blue eyes pierced her. Lexi blinked while watching him.

"Nothing" Xavier said calmly before sitting down, staring at a paper on the desk in front of him, not making eye contact with either one of them.

"I know this is stupid to say but he looks just like him" Lexi said as she covered her mouth, Mr.