So Close To Freedom (Open)

Nikostratos or Nik as most would call him, looked at the grounds of Hogwarts as everything in him screamed to run, run now and get away from all the things that had hurt him. Run away from the pain, the suffering, the shell that he had to live in when he was around people that he did not know. He knew that he could get into trouble with the headmaster, but he did not want to go home. He knew at the end of this year, when he graduated, he was going to stay here in the UK and do something anything that would keep him away from his father. He winced in pain, the last beating before he had left was still painful on his back a he wanted to cry but he could not as he was around where other people could see him. 

He had to hold all that until he was someplace that no one coudl see him. He rubbed his nose with the back of his hand, one of the few places that he did not hurt. "Maybe i should leave today, just go and no one would miss me." He said to himself as he held his chest a moment. Why was it so bad to be gay? Why did his father have to beat him for beng who he was, and had for so long that when he would come home for the summer the first thing he would do was take his shirt off to be beaten. He wanted to tell someone, but no one could do anything, his father had money and power and no one cared. He looked at Hogwarts, his hands on the side of the ship as he held on so that he did not fall as he just wanted to run so badly right now.