Evanna: Run

13: Distracting

Anna's P.O.V.

Where do I even start? I felt her eyes examining me, waiting for me to begin.

I exhaled one more time before I started talking, "The man on Tv is not my father", she furrowed her eyebrows and I explained, "He is my stepfather"

"He and my mom got together two years ago. The first year was fine with him. We didn't really interacted that much but he was fine. Then a year later my mom had a car accident and passed away. Since that day everything changed at home. He started to be-", I stopped myself. She doesn't have to know the details.

"Go on", she demanded, "What did he do?"

I opened my mouth but nothing came out. I never admitted this out loud, so I struggled at speaking, "H-He uhm... he would... he would beat me up and... lock me up in my room for days.. This went on for a year but now I finally escaped from him"

Her face changed immediately after hearing my words but not really into pity but more into anger. Pure anger actually.

"WHAT THE FUCK", she spat.

"Eva, calm down", I said.

"NO, WHAT THE FUCK ANNA. HE SHOULD BE BEATEN UP AND LOCKED AWAY FOR THAT AND THE NERVE THAT HE HAS TO LIE ON TV", she clenched her hands into fists.

"Eva...", I trailed off.

"THIS MOTHERFUCKER. HIS PARENTS SHOULD'VE USED PROTECTION. GOSH IF I SEE HIM, HE IS GONNA BE A DEAD MAN FOR SURE", she proceeded to scream and throw up her hands in the air.

"EVA", I raised my voice, which made her stop. Her eyes met mine and she finally seemed to calm down as she exhaled.

"Why didn't you tell me?", she asked me and nudged my shoulder with her finger.

"Obviously, because I didn't know you that well. The day that I broke into your house, I had just run away from home after shoot-", I bit my lip to stop me from elaborating on it.

"Shoot what? Wait, did you shoot him?"

Damn it.

"Yes", I looked down. I know that I didn't have a choice. It was either me or him. But I still felt guilty about it and I honestly don't know why. I mean, he deserved it, right?

But guilt was the feeling that I was carrying with me for a while now and for so many reasons, too. My mom's death. Chase's death. Losing touch with my friends. Everything was my fault.
This whole time I never truly realized how much this guilt was affecting me and how it led me to hate myself.

"Okay, but I still remember how you told me that day that you didn't have any choice. So tell me, was he threatening you?", Eva gave me a concerned look.

"He was pointing a gun at me when I tried to leave, and I feared that he would shoot me, so I pulled the trigger first"

"Anna what the hell...", she trailed off and shook her head in disbelief, "Why didn't you report it to the police?"

"Because they would lock me up", I simply answered.

"The fuck how?! It was self-defense!"

I shook my head no and sighed, "They would not believe me it. Greg is a police chief himself and his colleagues would definitely take his side. I know it. It's always been like this. They always win", I saw her wanting to speak again but I cut her off,
"Also, even if they would believe me, it still wouldn't mean that I'm safe. Greg is alive and he has power, which he can easily abuse. The only way out for me would maybe be a trial with judges and jurors, who are not biased. But for that I would need a good lawyer and I can't afford one, so I guess I'm stuck in this vicious cycle for forever"

My eyes were on the ground. The whole situation seemed hopeless for me. It would take a miracle to happen to get me out of this.

"Anna", she said which made me look up to her, "My mom is lawyer"

What the-

She took my hand in hers and said, "Listen, when she comes home later, you will tell her the truth and I swear she will help you, okay?"

I was still processing what she just had said before. Her mom is a lawyer and I didn't even know. Sure, I never bothered to ask her about her mom's profession but oh my God, if I only knew earlier maybe things would've been different by now. I mean, I would have definitely never got hit by that car and Greg could've been in jail already.

"Okay", I breathed out. This was truly a miracle.

"I wish you would've told me earlier, so you wouldn't need to go through this pain all alone", she squeezed my hand.

Here it was again. The warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach that I didn't like.

I shook my head no and responded, "It's fine now. To be honest, these past days were one of the most fun days that I've had in a while. I was really distracted, so I didn't really had any time to think about it"

She gave me a smile that slowly turned into a smirk, "What can I say, I'm very entertaining"

There she was again, the Eva that I know.

I rolled my eyes, "Yeah whatever, just don't take advantage of this, I was just trying to be nice"

"I can't promise you that", she said and I rolled my eyes at her again. We fell into silence for a few seconds until she decided to speak again.

"So, distracting huh?", she teased and still had the smirk on her face, which I badly wanted to wipe off.

"Eva, shut up. I'm never going to be nice to you again, if you don't stop"

"Hey, I was just repeating what you said. I mean, you called our time together 'distracting' not me. So tell me, how was I distracting you, blondie?", she came closer to me, which made me grow nervous. What the hell Anna, get your shit together.

I lightly pushed her back to her place, "Don't flatter yourself, it wasn't you, who was distracting me but rather the movies that we watched for example or-"

"Calm your ass, I was just joking", she snorted and I scoffed.

Welp, she wasn't the only one joking.

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Sorry for not updating but school is so draining and I've also had a writer's block ugh.

Anyways, I'm continuing this story and I'm also working on a new one but I still don't know when I will published it since it's a bit stressful to work on two stories at the same time. So, I will probably focus more on this one for now.