Didnt see it coming || Liam O'donovan

Chapter eleven

•Riley's POV
I'm in the garden chilling playing my guitar when I suddenly hear a noise. I turn around but there's no one there so I go back to doing what I was doing when I hear the noise again only this time it's louder and it's followed by a scream. Ninas scream. I run as fast as I can to where the voice came from and I see my parents holding Nina tight and they're not letting go of her. I see they've each got a knife in their hand and my heart drops. I rush forward but my mum says "move one step closer then she will have it"
"What do you want" I snarl at them.
"For you to be gone" my dad sneers. Then suddenly all around me waves come from no where and I find myself lost in them sinking deeper,deeper,deeper and then everything's black.
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My eyes open and I immediately shoot up. Just a dream. I check the clock and see it's only 5:30. I breathe shakily and try to go back to sleep but it's impossible so I decide to go splash my face with water and have a warm drink to steady myself. It wasn't even the fact that I drowned in a random magical ocean that came from no where that's got me so shaken up. It was seeing Nina stuck,helpless,with her life in their hands and me not being able to do anything about it that's got me so panicked. Once I splash my face I head down to the kitchen and make a warm drink before heading into the living room expecting it to be empty. But it wasn't.
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•Liam's POV
I had an odd dream where (I was with frank doing the usual when suddenly a woman came up to me claiming she was my mother. I straight up told her I wanted nothing to do with her but she started getting closer telling me I have no choice. I tell her to piss off but then suddenly everything goes pitch black and I see her standing holding a baby boy. She puts it down and says "goodbye Liam" before walking off. My stomach sinks as I realize the baby is me. Then out of no where the baby,or should I say I got raised up by nothing in particular and started to grow and grow until I became the 14 year old me I am now. I walk towards myself yet I see all around the clone me are words like "abandoned,stuck,hiding". Then the clone me vanishes and is replaced by Mike telling me off.) I woke up straight away and saw it was only 5:30. I tried to get back to sleep but I can't. I've never seen my "mum" the lady abandoned me outside of the hospital as soon as I was born. I've had dreams about her before as a kid but I've never gave them any thought cause I simply hated her. I still hate her more than ever now but I don't know what it was about that dream that got me so bothered. I think it was the fact that I saw myself turning from a baby to who I am now while constantly having those three words flying in circles around me. Whatever I'm not gonna ponder on about it I've never let stupid dreams get to me and I never will. Seeing as I can't fall asleep I decide to go head downstairs and have some quiet time in the living room while everyone's still asleep before it's invaded. But to my surprise Riley walks in.
"What are you doing up" we both say in surprise
"I asked first" we both say again. She snorts as she comes and sits down next to me.
"Promise I'm not a wuss but I had this awful dream and I literally couldn't go back to sleep after it."she says. "What about you"
"The same thing with me" I say slowly.
"Wow we must share a demon or something" she laughs
"Bet it spends more time haunting me than it does haunting you"  I snickered
"Pft you wish" she rolls her eyes as she takes a sip of her drink.
"So what was your dream about?" I asked. She was silent for a while and when I was sure she'd brush it off and change the subject she slowly began;
"Basically I was in the garden alone just playing my guitar when I heard a noise and then a scream followed by it and I straight away recognized the scream as Nina's. I ran to where I heard her scream come from and I saw my parents holding her tightly and each of them had a knife in their hands. I rushed forward but my mum said (one more step then she'll get it) and I snarled at them what do they want. Then my dad sneered (for you to be gone) and suddenly out of no where some random waves came up and I just sank and sank but not before I saw them hurting Nina and her screaming in pain. I kept on sinking and hearing her screams until everything was black." She finished. Silence. I've always known she was protective of Nina but i really never knew just how much until now. And I can tell she's really been having some trouble with her thoughts.
"Did your parents ever you know,physically hurt you two?" I ask afraid that I might have made her uncomfortable. But for the first time since she got here,she answers.
"I was 11 and a half when Nina was born. And pretty much ever since the day she was born I've had to give everything up for myself and been raising her. If she woke up in the middle of the night who had to feed her? Her mother? No no no of course it was Riley's job. I had to clean up her poop and sick keep her clean keep her entertained practically was her mum while I was an 11 year old kid. Meanwhile what were my parents doing? Keeping themselves relaxed and entertained and gambling for money and getting drunk and being immature arseholes. And you'd think that they'd be grateful that I've given up everything for myself just so they can go out and do whatever they want. But no they criticize the way I'm taking care of Nina, Like excuse me it's not even my job in the first place. Then they start jeering at who I am personally. Talking about how I'm such a burden and just a mistake that's ruined their lives and they regret me more than anything and would sometimes beat me up when they got drunk. Other than all of that I had to act like everything's okay in front of my friends but I slowly lost them all when I kept telling them I can't hang out cause I have to look after Nina I also had to deal with schoolwork but I couldn't even concentrate on any of it. This went on for two and a half years when one night they came home and told me that my dads boss had offered them £5000 for me to become their personal slave and to wear slutty outfits for their sons pleasure. And that was when I completely lost it. I'd given up my childhood raising a baby,got emotionally and physically abused,was constantly feeling alone,had to deal with getting diagnosed with depression,and now they were telling me that they're gonna ruin everything even more for some cash. I couldn't take it anymore so I-I tried to kill my self." She finishes off with a voice crack and I'm left in shock. Then she slowly rolls up her sleeves and I see both arms completely covered in scars.
"You've already seen the evidence twice" she chuckles.
"R-Riley I'm so sorry that couldn't have been easy to open up about at all" I apologize.
"Don't be. I've been keeping it in all this time and it felt kind of relieving sharing it with someone. And judging by the fact you'd already got a glimpse of my arms twice I had a feeling you'd find out sooner or later." She gives a small smile.
"Now your turn what was your dream about"
I recounted the whole dream to her and how it was the fact that that woman had actually left me outside of the hospital when I was only born and those words were surrounding me that made it so uncomfortable. She looked at me for a while before saying
"it's really only her loss you know." I frown in confusion and ask "what do you mean".
"I mean she lost a brilliant son who could have been everything to her and she probably had no other pride or joy. You on the other hand you're probably scammer of the city and actually have some pride and live in a place with some people that are really like your family no matter how annoying and loud it is. She lost someone like that,you lost nothing." She stated. I'm left completely silent. I've never opened up to anyone like that before and certainly never received words like that and when someone goes slightly nice and soft I tell them to stop being such a soft girl. Almost as if she knows what I'm thinking she says "Now I know you're Liam O'Donovan and you don't do sap so we can move on from that" she laughs and I join her.
"Yeah It's definetly not my thing and let's just pretend this never happened but to be honest it felt good to let that stuff off my chest"
"Same here" she smiles and suddenly the room is lit with sunlight as the sun comes up and we both groan at the sudden amount of unwelcomed light to our eyes.
"How about we go to the arcade today Frank's going fishing with his granddad and I'm sick of constantly beating Johnny in pool" I suggested
"Yeah thank god now I don't have to keep running away from Carmen trying to slap makeup on me" she replies at which I snort. Just then the others come into the living room and the final quiet hour of the day is over.
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•Riley's POV
I can't believe that just happened. It's like I had lost complete control of myself and everything came out naturally to him. But it also felt so relieving at the same time. We all head into the kitchen for breakfast and I go sit down in between Nina and tee and tuck in on my pancakes. Mike walks in and asks
"So how come you two were up so early this morning normally you both have to get dragged out of bed"
Everyone goes silent waiting for an answer and we both just shrug with a small smirk.