Dawn in Vancouver

Chapter 55: "It Hurts Me To Love You" (Part 2)

"Nunca me sentí tan solo como cuando ayer, de pronto lo entendí mientras callaba...La vida me dijo a gritos que nunca te tuve y nunca te perdí"

"Que Lloro" Sin Bandera

Something wasn't right.

That was what Normani kept repeating to herself as she stood up after a man she had never seen in her life ran out and knocked her down.

Something was really wrong.

That was what Normani said to herself as she saw a woman running up the stairs with a bunch of keys in her right hand as she desperately searched for one. Normani started up the stairs quickly and as she heard a scream of horror coming from the area where Camila's room was her heart clenched.

Normani ran into the room and her eyes filled with horror as she saw the woman she had seen earlier coming up the stairs in front of an unconscious Camila lying on the floor next to a mangled teddy bear.

"Mila! What happened to her? Who hit her like that," Normani asked in horror.

"Please hand me the phone," Dianna said quickly pointing to a table as Normani got up to pick up the phone. "We need to call an ambulance. She's unresponsive and bleeding badly."

"Who did it?" Normani said with tears in her eyes as she saw the bruises on Camila's face. A split lip that wouldn't stop bleeding as Dianna pressed it with her shirt and a wound on her left eyebrow.

Memories began to come to her mind when she had seen her mother in the same state from her father's beatings. Tears ran down her cheeks.

"I think it was her husband," Dianna said softly as she waited for someone to answer the other end of the phone.

Normani listened to the woman she didn't know speak assuming it was the chef Ryan had told her about minutes before as she got up to go to the bathroom to get a first aid kit which she quickly found to return to Camila.

"She's in bad shape," Normani whispered, cleaning up the bruises as Dianna hung up the phone.

"The ambulance is on its way," Dianna said and at that moment they heard the screams in the distance.

"Lauren, please wait," Ryan said, following her, "I'm sure they're just talking, you need to calm down. Jason just wants to clear the air."

"He hits her," Dinah said as Lauren didn't stop, finally looking at the house. "He hits her Ryan."

"But..." Ryan watched as Lauren walked up the stairs of the house and lost her way inside. His wife's desperation left him shocked.

Lauren ran into the house and started up the stairs with the sole purpose of getting a good look at Camila. It couldn't be wrong because Lauren had promised her that she would protect her and that Jason would never hurt her again. Such was her desperation that she forgot everything around her, and when she finally reached the room and saw Normani and Dianna on top of Camila her heart stopped.

The bruises, the wounds were terrible and even off to the side she could see Padd, shattered. Lauren ran to Camila's side as Normani tried to restrain her.

"We already called the ambulance Lauren..." Normani said and saw Lauren's face totally pale.

"Camz..." Lauren said painfully, stroking her cheek softly. "Camz, my love, answer me."

"She's unconscious," Dianna whispered, "She hasn't woken up since we've been here."

"Camila..." Lauren said, kissing her cheek lovingly. "My love, please...talk to me."