Rescue Me

Chapter 7: Juliet

Walking up to my front door I see it is partially open. my heart immediately beings pounding in my chest and my breathing gets tighter. I set the triplets down in the empty kiddie pool in our front yard and grab the knife out of my purse. After mom died and my father started hanging out with the wrong kinds of people I taught myself to throw knives.

I slowly enter the house, pushing the door open quietly the rest of the way. when I enter I see a man in all black standing in the living room looking at family photos that are on the wall. As I go to back out of the door to get my phone out of my purse to call 911, he turns around and I freeze.

"Well hello there princess" bile rises in my throat at the nickname. This man definitely knows my father. "Where is he?"

"Where is who?" I know he means my dad but I still ask in hopes he meant someone else. God knows what he plans on doing to me if he can't find my dad.

"Alan Hayes." he says in a voice so low it sends a shiver down my spine.

"I don't know" I'm so screwed, but as long as he doesn't touch the triplets we will be fine.

"Now princess, you don't need to lie" he says walking closer to me. I walk backwards until my back hits the wall. He stops when he is less than a foot away.

I swallow roughly. "I really don't know where he is. He hasn't been here in more than a week"

"Well you see, he owes me a bit of money and I'm here to collect. If you don't tell me where he is, I'll have to find another from of payment" he lifts his hand and caresses my face.

I turn my face away from him saying "if I did know where he was I would tell you"

"Princess I want to believe, I do, but the thing is I can't leave here until I get some sort of payment" he pushes his body until it is flush against mine. A shiver runs through my body at the thought of what he is implying

"Juliet!?" I hear Amos' voice. I pray silently that he doesn't come in here.

"I'll be back" the man whispers in my ear before pushing off of me.

"Oh sorry. I just saw the triplets out there alone a few minutes ago and waited until I saw you before I headed instead but you never came out so I thought I would come check on you. I should've knocked, sorry" Amos doesn't look at me the whole time and turns to walk out the door. The man follows him out getting into his car and speeds off.

Silent tears stream down my face as a run outside to the triplets. I sit on the ground holding all of them in my arms as tight as I can, without hurting them.

"Amos!" I yell hoping he will hear my before he walks in his front door. He stops and looks my way

"Thank you for checking on them" he nods and walks in his house shutting the door behind him.

After taking a few breathes to calm down I get the triplets inside and run them a bath. I let them play in the water, while I make them their bottles. After I drain the water I get the dried off, changed and put to bed. It's only five, so it's early for them to be going to bed but I really need to shower and a release.

I turn the hot water on and let it run over my body before grabbing my blade that I keep hidden under my bar of soap. I watch as a lower the blade onto the thin skin of my inner thigh and press down, dragging it, before repeating the process a few more times. Blood drips down my legs mixing with the water at the bottom of them tub creating a beautiful pink color.

I run water over my fresh cuts letting them sting. I relish in the pain for a moment longer, fully feeling it and focusing only on that, before I put the blade away and wash my hair and body, making sure I clean my wounds.