Day 149 - 458 words - Prompt: a backyard

[mekachu04]

alistar was very careful never to let anyone know he'd fallen of the swings that day. Terrified of how his family would react, he'd snuck back ino his own home and pacthed himself up as best as he ws able. He was already a clild with a parcular dres tase - so long sleeves and layers where nothing out of the ordinary. he' probably overwrapped his skin knees and elbos but if he moved stiffy fo rhte next few days, no one commented.

the only real worry was the dark ugly bruise on his hip where he must of hit at somepoint - thought he whole thing was a mostly forgotten blurr by that point. it hurt a great deal still days later and was the last thing to heal and fade away.

he holed up in his room for the days it to heal, only coming out for his studies and lunhc. he even skipped dinner, owrried someone would see him wobbling about on the stairs; the pain enough to make him cry those first days. lucking, dinners where no really a big affair for the Phaelle household. they might have been - once, but it was long before nay time alsistar could remebr. and now adays, his siblings had such strang diets that he'd come to more or less fend for himself at dinner - leftovers to their meals at his disbosal. his mother more of less refused to cook a different meal for each of her child and if they wanted something, they learned to make it themselves. though she often still made several portions of whatver it as she wuld be eating, when she remmebered to eat at all, and usually alistar would potions himself a meal from those.

it wnet on until grazes and bruises faded. and then little longer after that. it might have celt going on - by then there was a routine in it that had started to be come comfortable, until there was a light scattered tapping at his window one afternoon.

adam was hiding in th shrubbery along the eat wall, chucking pepples up at his window. oh, if alistars sibling saw him there would be hell to pay! alistar didn't even bother with the windowd, scrring down staris to sneak out as quick as he could, a bit of a wild frantic gasping to his breathin when he reached adam's hiding place - the other boy beaming at him like he'd jsut won some grand prize.

"you mussen't be seen here!' alister scoled quitely, adam pulling him into the safety of his hidiing place. the two boys hugged briefty - partially in pulling alistar inside ad partially becuase there where young and such gestures where still aloowed at that age.