I'm Okay

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(TW: Things get graphic pretty fast. be cautious.)

*Parker's POV*

I took the beer bottle out of the fridge jumping as his loud yells echoed through the empty house over his sports game. 

Rubi and I both knew not to screw anything up when Mr. Thompson was watching the game. It made everything worse. 

He yelled again as I spaced out making me jump again, and hit the counter smashing it to thousands of small shards of glass..

I flinched as I heard the glass hit the floor. His loud footsteps rang throughout the house.. I knew I was in for it. 

"What the fuck have I told you about dropping my beer bottles bitch?!" He yelled in my face as he got closer and closer trapping me between himself and the granite counter. 

"I-I'm sorry it won't happen again!" I said as he started getting angrier. After that it was a bit of a blur he was beating me with the glass still on the floor this time. 

It burned as the small shards of glass buried into my skin with every strike he landed on me. I tried my best to keep a steady hand when carrying the glass bottles but then again I'm a clumsy ten year old.

"YOU. CAN. NEVER. DO. ANYTHING. RIGHT." He yelled between strikes. It hurt so bad I let out a few sobs. We both knew never to cry it makes the punishment come back 10 fold. 

"Oh so this isn't bad enough already?! What have I told you about that whiny crying Parker?! Huh?! What have I told you?!"

I knew it was a rhetorical question that I was not to answer. My sister had come home from school seeing the punishment taking place on the kitchen floor. 

She started yelling at him to stop, breaking things, doing anything she could to get his attention off of me. Nothing was working. I was getting lightheaded all I could hear at that point was ringing in my ears. 

His strikes to my small already malnourished body never let up. I barely slipped from consciousness before Rubi took one of his golf clubs and went outside. She started smashing up his prized possession. 

His cobalt blue really expensive jacked up sports car. As soon as he heard that golf club hitting the metal he dropped everything. 

He ran outside saw what she was doing then called the police. I got up as quickly as I could, I needed to run with her before the police got there. 

"Rubi why would you do that?! They're going to take you away! I'll never see you again!" I asked as we ran to the neighbors yard and I squeezed her tight feeling the anxiety still sitting in my chest at the thought of loosing my big sister. 

"Parks what has he done to you?" She asked in horror looking at the abrasions all over me as tears welled up in her eyes. "I dropped another bottle.." I explained quietly as tears were now streaming down both of our faces. 

The sirens weren't far now and I knew they were coming. "Rubi please please don't go we can run away they'll never f-find us we'll be safe!!" I pleaded begging her to run.

 "Parker running will only make it worse." She said as she held my face in her hands and lifted it slightly so that my gaze met her eyes. 

"I'm going to be okay. When the police come you'll tell them what happened and you'll be safe right? Then when I get out of juvey we're going to be safe, we're going to be together and everything is going to be okay right?" She asked. 

I shook my head. Any other time that this has happened the grown ups never ever took our side in things.

 It was always the adults they believed. There was no one to fight for us and what we wanted. I just wanted to be with my sister. 

I wanted to be with a family that didn't throw us away every chance they got.. 

I sobbed in her arms as she squeezed me tight and the police got closer and closer. 

*Skylar's POV*

It was 3 am, I woke up to feeling the bed shake. At first I was confused then I looked over to see Parker mumbling things about some car, the police, wanting to run away.. she was sobbing she looked so scared..

I carefully got up and walked around to the other side of the bed. "Parker.." I whispered trying to get her to wake up. "Parker wake up.." I said shaking her a little bit. She soon opened her eyes.. terror filled them as she looked up at me. 

She didn't say anything as tears streamed down her face and she pulled her knees to her chest. "Are you okay? Do you want to talk about it?" I asked quietly. She shook her head slightly. I nodded before getting back into the bed. 

"Do you feel comfortable with me hugging you right now? Is there anything that you need?" I asked before she hugged me tight with her head in the crook of my neck. She mumbled something that I couldn't quite make out.

"Hm?" I asked as I softly rubbed my hand up and down her back. "I'm sorry." She said with a horse voice from crying. "I woke you up." She continued. "You probably think I'm crazy now I'm sorry." She said as she apologized again.

"P you don't need to apologize, I don't think you're crazy. We all get nightmares." I explained. "Do you want to go to the kitchen maybe get some water?" I asked she nodded and we both pulled apart making our way to the kitchen. 

We got some water then went back to our room. "I don't want to be weird but I think I would sleep better if you hugged me is that okay?" Parker asked nervously. 

"Of course I don't mind. Come here." I said gesturing for her to lay her head on my chest. A while after she had done that she fell right back to sleep. It felt like she was meant to be here..