Day One. (Chapter 2.)

Hey Jamie! Yo, wait up!" Seventeen year old Oliver Smith called out to his friend, Jamie Luthor.

She was walking up the few steps to the school doors, but turned when she heard her name. When seeing him, she smiled right at him and waited for him to come.

"Well, well, well if it isn't my dearest Oli!" She exclaimed as he went to her and picked her up in a bone crushing hug.

Oli was a sweet kinda guy, one who was always the gentlmen. He was simple too, always dressing in a pair of blue jeans and a band t-shirt, slicking his blonde, spikey hair to the side as he always did.

"And if it isn't my lovely James'!" they laughed when he bent down and kissed her hand he was holding.

Just then, their two other friends Lauren and Kragen came up to them.

"Guys! Ugh, I've missed you both so much!" Lauren said as she hugged both Jamie and Oli.

Today was the first day of school for their junior year. Lauren had spent the summer in Paris with her mom and aunt, Kragen spent his drumming in his garage, Oli worked at the super market, and Jamie spent her days at the pool. This was the first time in a few months they were all together.

Lauren is sixteen, just like Jamie and Kragen is seventeen same as Oli. The four of them had met when they were only the age of seven when they were playing on the swings at some park, and ever since, they've stayed friends.

"We've missed you too! How was Paris?" Jamie asked, giving her friend another kiss on the cheek.

"It was magical-"

"Meaning she met some guy," Oli put in as he and Kragen chuckled, earning a glare from Lauren as she went on.

"Really, one of these days we all need to get a vacation and go. It'd be so fun! I know you guys would enjoy is so much!"

With Lauren going on about how much she loved her summer, they all turned to walk inside, but as Jamie was turning someone caught her eye.

She paused for a moment, seeing a boy she didn't recognize. But it wasn't the fact that she didn't know him that caught her attention... it was the huge bruise that was covering his eye.....................

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He felt so many stares as he walked by everyone in the halls, even the teachers were staring he noted.

Just get to your locker! He thought to himself as he made his way down the hall and past the gym.

Just as Seth found his locker though, the well-known jock, Lucas Kayler walked by with his 'gang'. They went straight to Seth, pushing any freshman out of the way, and shoved Seth into the locker door, pinning him against it.

"'Sup Gorrin?" Lucas said with a sleezy grin. Looking past Seth's head, he stared at the well-painted blue locker. "Ooo this yours,bud? Ha, it isn't anymore!" Lucas laughed in Seth's face, who held a bored expression.

Now having gotten to the breaking point, Seth broke free from Lucas' grasp and pushed him in to the wall. Lucas didn't seem to like that much, so he rammed himself into Seth's stomach and pushed him against the wall.

Now having caused a scene, the two fighting boys were now gathered by a huge crowd who were hooting, clapping, and yelling.

"Come on Kayler!" A boy called out from somewhere in the crowd.

In the midst of it all, Seth somehow managed to get in a good punch to Lucas' stomach, making him huff and stumble back a bit.

But then, two of Lucas' friends came and yet again pinned Seth to the locker. Regaining his strength, Lucas walked over to him and raised his fist high, prepared to give a blow to Seth's face.

"Why don't we add some color to your face, huh?" Lucas grinned.

"Or why don't you move your fat ass away from my locker, douche." A females voice called out from behind Lucas. Seth's eyes immeadiatley went to the girl as the crowd became quiet and Lucas' slowly turned around to look at her, his fist still raised above in the air.

None other than the famous Jamie Luthor stood there, with Kragen, Lauren and Oli standing behind her.

Like I Don't Know What Hurt Is. (Chapter 1.)

"Seth? Where are you boy!" Forty-three year old Mark Gorrin yelled for his sixteen year old son, Seth.

Mark barged through the swinging front door of their home and immediately walked up stairs to his son's room, skipping two or three steps at a time to get ahead faster.

The only thought that was going through his head while he all but flew to Seth's room was this : 'This boy is gonna get it..."


Upstairs, Seth was scrambling around, unsure of what to do. He knew that his dad was coming, he knew he was drunk again, and he knew that his father was coming up here for one thing, that one thing that he comes for everyday.

He was coming to beat him.

Quickly running to his door, Seth locked the handle and grabbed his book bag as he slipped his shoes on. He ran to the window and began to fumble with the lock, trying to open it as he heard his dad coming near to his room.

"Come on, hurry up!" he yelled at himself as he began a sweat.

"Seth!" Mark yelled as he approached the door and started to try to open it.

Seth began trying to open the window faster, knowing that at any minute now his dad could be in there with him.

For two years this has been going on, nearly every single night ever since Mark's wife committed suicide. She had only been thirty seven at the time, and she was recovering from the death of her brother, who had been in a car accident three weeks before. She grew depressed then and when she had learned that her two nephews didn't make it either, she hung herself in the bathroom on the day of her son's birthday.

She was found by Mark that day, and that very day, he changed.

He grew aggressive and began leaning towards alcohol, going to a bar every night and returning home to Seth, who then learned he had to take care of his own father afterwords.

The first time Mark had laid a hand on him was four months after his wifes death. Seth had been out with his cousins that day and when he had gotten home later, his father was upset that he couldn't find his wallet. Thinking that Seth took it, Mark punched him, kicked him, and nearly killed him. Little did Mark know that he had left his wallet in his truck earlier that day.

Ever since, Mark uses Seth as a human punching bag.

"Oh come on!" Seth yelled loudly as he jiggled the lock free, and he felt a slight weight picked off his shoulders.

'I'm free,' he thought as he placed one foot on the edge of the window, preparing to climb out, but just then his dad came in.

Trying to jump, Seth was only brought back by Mark who was pulling him by the shirt.

Bracing himself, Seth prepared for the first hit , which came straight down to his face........

Opening. - Introduction to When A Smile Hurts.

A story of hurt.
A story of pain.
A feeling of loss, betrayal, and most of all, love.

Seth Gorrin is alone. He's lost, in a world of faded memories and torn flesh, he must be found.
Jamie Luthor is a girl who stumbles upon him, and saves him from the dark, dangerous world he's fallen in to.

With many troubles following them, and Seth's dangerous life lurking in the shadows, what can become of these two lost and hurt teenagers trying to survive in their own painful worlds?

What will happen When A Smile Hurts?