Saved by Two

Chapter 11

Saved by Two Chapter Eleven:

"Do you feel safe around Walter?" I ask Avlon after we finish dinner and retire to the sofa.

She looks at me and cocks her head but nods. "Not safe like i feel with you but i know he wont hurt me. I picture him how i wanted my father to be."

I smile an nod my head. Thats awesome that she feels the same way he does on the situation. "Can you tell me how you knew your age?" i ask softly because i dont know how she would react to the question.

Avlon's quiet for a few moments before her green eyes pierce into mine. "Momma didnt get sent to the basement untill she became pregnant with me. I remember her always telling me that i was born August fifteenth." she says with a smile and looks into space like shes remembering something. "On my fourth birthday i remember momma yelling and shouting at someone and when i opened my eyes he was there............" she trails off and gets a look of pain on her face. "Every year he would come and get me on my birth week and wouldn't bring me back untill the day after my birthday. It happened 15 times after my fourth birthday so i figured i was nineteen."

"What would he do to you?" i ask pained and she just stairs into space. From the tone of her voice and her facial expressions i know it was nothing good and that pains me all the more it feels like someone just stabbed me in the gut.

"I'm tired can i go to bed?" she asks not looking at me.

I sigh and nod my head. "Good night angle see you in the morning." she starts to walk away but i call out to her.

"Yes?" she asks softly turning to look at me.

"Can i have a hug goodnight?"

Smiling she shakes her head and quickly gives me a hug. We have been working on giving hugs for a few days since she held my hand the other day at lunch. The first night her body barley touched mine but last night she stayed in my arms for three seconds. Yes i counted because i was excited. Tonight though it was like the first night. I know i shouldnt ask questions but i want to know where she came from nd from what i got tonight the man that did this to her was her father.

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At twelve i get up from the kitchen table and knock at Avlon's door. She didnt come out for breakfast this morning and i'm starting to get worried. "Do you wanna come down and eat?"

She doesnt answer so i slowly open the door to her room and look inside but shes not there. Frantically i run down the hall to the bathroom but shes not there either. The shower curtain is opened so she must have taken a shower this morning.

I search all around the house before i run outside and to the barn. She's not in there and Sunny's not in his stall so i assume that they are in the pin.

When i get out there i sigh in relief when i see Avlon in the middle of the pin with a pen and paper in her hand. I cant help to be a little angry thought because i had so many things going through my head that could have happened.

"I wish you would have left me a note Avlon." i state resting my arms across the fence.

Avlons head snaps up and she looks me over. When her eyes come back to mine she looks a bit frightened. "Are you angry?" she asks lightly. She gets up and puts her paper on the ground walking over to me. She steps out of the pin shaking slightly from fear.

"A little but i was more afraid because i thought something had happened to you. Avlon next time tell me or leave me a note so im not so worried."

Her lip wobbles and tears start coming out. She looks down and says "You are angry because you didnt call me Angle." she sniffles and i react.

I pull her little body into mine and hug her. I didnt mean to make her cry and i didnt know that i would. "I'm so sorry Angle i was just scared. I thought something had hapened to you." i run my fingers through her hair and rub her back with my other hand. "Why does it make you sad when i call you Avlon?"

She buries her head in my chest and wraps her arms as best she can around my waist. Sniffling she says "When you call me Avlon i feel like im not your Angle anymore. I like being your Angle."

I kiss the top of her head and say "You will always be my Angle. Just because i call you Avlon doesnt change anything. I love you Angle and i just want to kep you safe, i was scared. So dont get sad when i call you Avlon you will always be my Angle. Alright?"

Avlon rests her chin on my chest and looks up at me. "What is love?"

I think about it for a second because there is really no way to explain love. "Theirs a few types. Theirs motherly and fatherly love. They love you because you are a part of them you are their baby. Then theirs love of a spouse. I have only felt it with you so i can only tell you how i feel okay?" she nods so i look into her green eyes and say "I get a tingly feeling in my stomach when i think or see you. I think about you all of the time no matter what im doing. I always wonder if your okay or if your hungry or need something. I wonder what i would feel like to kiss you and just hold yu when you sleep. To me you are the most beautiful person in the world and i would never see a girl the same as i see you."

Avlon nods and then looks back at me. "Momma said she loved me but not like you love me." she smiles and gives me a tight hug before running back to the pin. She gets in her same position and starts messing with the paper again getting Sunny's attention.

"I was gonnah skin you alive when i seen her crying." Walter says in a threatening tone as he comes out of no where.

"I didnt know she had come out here so i came looking for her. I made the mistake and called her Avlon." i look over at him and he still has the serious expression on his face but its also confused.

"That's her name."

Nodding in agreement i explain that "I call her Angle and she thought i didnt want her to be my Angle anymore when i called her Avlon."

"Ahhhhh" he says looking up at the sky. "She's becoming even more attached what happened?"

"We talked last night. She likes you." i say looking over at him and he does the same. "Said you were what she wanted her father to be like." Walter beams proudly and i shake my head chuckling at him. "I also asked her how she knew she was nineteen."

"Go on." he says when i stop talking.

"Her father was the one that did this to her. Every year on her birthday since she was four he would take her away from her mother for a week. But when i asked what he would do she shut down and said she was tired."

Between clinched teeth Walter grounds oout. "What do you think he would do?"

Looking at my Angle i see her smiling and hear her musical laughter as Sunny prods her. "All i saw was fear and from the bruises its clear what happened." i look at him sadly and say "May said she had multiple signs of forced entry." Walter clinches his teeth and balls his fists tightly. If Avlon didnt think him as a father i wouldnt have told him this because it wouldnt have been his business. But she thinks of him as a father so he should know.

"Her own father raped her?"

"Thats what it seems like. Before she came her she had never known what a dandelion or the sun was. I reckin shes been locked in that basement her whole life."