Respect Is Gone
He was tired, mentally and physically, everything just ached. The truck had gotten called about about forty five minutes ago, he checked his watch again for what felt like thousandth time since they left. He had only twenty minutes left of his shift, he hopes his luck is in his favor just this once and he could leave before they got back.
He had just finished cleaning the bathrooms and decided to clean the loft floor hoping that would be enough of a distraction. Turned out luck was on his side as his watched beeped marking the end of his shift. He dumped out the water and walked down the stairs and put the mop and bucket back in the storage closet and walked to the locker room.
He had never changed so fast in his life, just as he was tying his shoes he heard the truck pull in and his former captain calling his name. He ignored it, quickly grabbing everything out of his locker including his name tag which snapped in half and threw it in his bag. He was done, he knew Bobby was going to say something but he didn’t care, all the respect he once had for the man was gone.
He took a deep breath and walked out of the locker room and onto the apparatus floor and was met with angered filled eyes. “Buckley, what are you doing?”
“Going home Captain, my shift is over, looks like you’ll have to find some one else to bully. Because I’m done.” Buck tried to walk past him but Bobby grabbed his arm and all the sudden all the courage Buck had worked up was gone and he was that scared five year old in a house full of pain and hate. Buck could see the anger in his eyes and for the first time ever he was actually scared of Bobby. Even that bastard he lived with for the first five of his life never laid a hand on him. Nobody noticed the fear in his eyes, all Bobby could do was yell, at least that’s what he thought he was doing. He couldn’t hear much and he could barely breath, he felt like he was under water again. The next thing he knew the hand squeezing him was gone and his face was in the crook of someone’s neck, it smelled like pine and smoke, he knew that smell, when he looked up he smiled which then turned into sobs as his older brother held him.
“Kelly, take him to the car, I’ll meet you out there in a minute.” Was that Maddie?
Kelly nodded his head, “come on munchkin, let’s get you out of here.”