Worse from here

chapter 2- sick feeling

After about 2 hours, Kourtney starts to wake up from her nap to the sound of yelling. Kourtney knew her dad must be home. She begins to feel sick to her stomach. Not because her parents are arguing once again, but because something feels off. Kourtney feels like something is different this time, but she cant quite figure it out. She sits up and begins to listen to the arguing. This is new for Kourtney, instead of covering her ears or being frozen in fear like she normally does when her parents argue. She's trying to listen to what they're arguing about. Or rather she's trying to figure out why she feels different this time.

Kourtney hears her dad throwing random objects, once again this isn't new. She hears her mom yelling and begging him to stop. She can hear them start to shove each other. This scares Kourtney because just the thought of her dad putting his hands on her mom made her feel even more sick. She hears them quiet down a little. "Maybe I just feel sick because of what happened earlier today." Thought Kourtney. After about 20 minutes of silence Kourtney began to assume the argument for today has stopped. She began to feel a slight sense of relief. But yet the feeling in her stomach hasn't gone away.

She looks over to the edge of her bed and sees her phone. She picks up her phone and starts to use it for about 10 minutes. Just scrolling through her feed and checking every minute or so if her parents will start a round 2. Kourtney begins to go through her photos, looking at baby pictures of when things were much simpler. A tear begins to fall down Kourtney's face and she quickly wipes it away.

The photos were Kourtney and her family at an amusement park. Kourtney seemed to be around the age of 9. She thought to herself "If only things can be as simple as that time." Kourtney began to go through the main events in her life in her mind. Trying to figure out what has gone wrong and how her life has gone to where it is. "Could it be the drugs dad takes?" Kourtney began to almost laugh at herself. Of course it was that. Her dad became an addict 5 years ago and that's when everything began to go downhill in her life.

She starts to hear her parents talking again downstairs and starts to become worried. "when if they start arguing again?" she thought. And just as she thought, She began to hear yelling again. She never understood why they argued so much. She also never fully understood what they argued so much about either. "I mean sure dad doesn't get along with moms family, but how do you argue about the same thing all the time?" She thought to herself.

Kourtney and her mom were close, But Kourtney never asked why Lisaville and her dad argue or what they argue about. Kourtney always thought that she would be too young to understand, And her mom also never made the first move to explain either. The two rather act like nothing happens.

Before Kourtney could have another thought, She heard glass shattering and a big bang. Kourtney's blood pressure went through the roof. She began to realize why she had that sick feeling. She hears someone fall to the ground and instantly thinks of her mom. "What did dad do to mom!" She thought to herself. Kourtney looks at her phone, still in her hands and begins to dial 911.

"911 what's your emergency?" Said the operator. Kourtney started to hear her dad yelling downstairs. The operator also hearing everything. Kourtney becomes scared of her dads yelling and hangs up the phone. She hears her dad curse under his breath and begin to shuffle some objects. She hears this continue for about 5-7 minutes when she begins to hear a siren sound. She hears her dad yell "KOURTNEY!" But its too late. The police are already at the devlin house and are ready to break the door down if someone doesn't open it in around 30 seconds. After a couple seconds, Kourtney hears the police break the door down and enter the home. Kourtney decides to go downstairs to see what's happened. She is mortified upon entering the scene.

When Kourtney got downstairs, she saw glass all over the floor. She also saw lots of blood and took a step back. She felt sick to her stomach and thought to herself "I must be dreaming." But it wasn't a dream. She was standing there, with the police behind her looking at her moms dead body with pieces of glass in her lifeless body. The paramedics arrive quickly after and Kourtney watched her mom being carried into an ambulance. What also made her feel even more sick to her stomach was seeing the police put her dad in handcuffs. While Charleston is being taken into the police car, Kourtney and her dad take a quick glance at each other. Kourtney's eyes were filled with fear and shock, while her dad Charleston almost gave a somewhat glare to his own daughter.

"We're gonna take you home tonight." Kourtney hears a voice say. Turning her head around, she sees two police officers. Kourtney gave a confused look to which one of the officers noticed. "Look, you clearly cant stay here tonight. do you have any other guardian that we can call? maybe you can stay at their place until we get things sorted out here." Says the officer. Kourtney began to think of anyone, at least someone who would take her in for a couple days. But the only person she could think of was her aunts, Lisaville's sisters. But that was out of the picture. She wouldn't stay at their house if her life depended on it. Kourtney's aunts hated her just as much as they hated Charleston. And Kourtney was half Charleston.