Joey walked across the courtyard on his way to his government class, it was just like any other day. It’d grown routine where he didn’t feel the need to look over his shoulder or anything. He’d go to class and go back to his dorm to grab Tyler for dinner, dragging him away from the studying he always did around this time. It was a coincidence that he happened to glance around though. When he did he stopped dead in his track though. He saw Pilotti as he called him and instantly began backtracking around the corner. He peek out again to do a double take and saw him walking along. He hadn’t seen him but he could tell he was surveying the grounds, and as his eyes wandered he spotted a few more of his fathers helpers.
A knot the size of Jupiter seemed to be forming in his chest and he knew he didn’t have much time to try and prevent being found. That was all he could think of. He could run and he was just about to. Leave everything and everyone behind like he had before. But things were different now. There was Tyler, a part of him tried to tell him to leave still but he stopped again and instead of booking it out of the school he ran back into it.
He sped down the halls quickly running back into his dorm panting. He saw Tyler sitting at the desk studying but disregarded him quickly and ran to he bathroom. “Merda, merda, merda,” he kept swearing. He was shaking and his hands quickly found the scissors in the cabinet and without thinking he began cutting at his hair not caring too much on how it looked as much as he was trying to get rid of it knowing the long curls would give him away. “Questo non può accadere. Non posso passare attraverso questo nuovo. Caro Signore fammi uscire di qui, e non con lui,” he kept muttering frantically.