Tragic Harmony

Chapter twenty-five

At the end of the day I met Luke by his car and we headed home.

“Luke?”

“Mmhm”

“I think we should tell your mom today.”

Luke sighed and looked out the window. “…yeah.”

“I was honest with Noah so I think you should be honest with your mom.”

“Ok,” He said turning to look at me, “but, you have to stay with me while I tell her.”

“Of course! I won’t leave your side.” I leaned over and kissed his cheek.

When we got back to the house Emma was just taking Ryan out of his car seat.

“Hey Mom?”

Emma heard the tone in Lukes voice and immediately she turned.

“What’s wrong?”

“I need to tell you something.”

“Okay, let’s go inside and talk, it’s kind of chilly out.”

“Okay.”

Once inside we all sat around the bar while Ryan played with his toys behind us. I watched as Luke struggled for words. I have never seen him so vulnerable. It hurt me so much knowing he was in pain.

“Mom.. Dad uh..”

“What did your dad do?” Emma said quickly.

“he a, well when he uhm gets home from the bar and uh is drunk he uhm… well. Dad uh.” Luke sighed got up and pulled up his shirt exposing the big bruises and scars under his shirt.

I turned my head away not wanting to see the marks.

“Luke!” Emma screamed standing up and running her hand over the bruises. Luke had a sad expression on his face as Emma ran her hand over the marks.

“is this from your father..?” Emma whispered tears welling up in her eyes threatening to spill over.

Luke and I both shook our head, just as Luke was about to pull his shirt back down Robb walked in. All the muscles in my body froze.

“What’s going on here?” Robb said with a small smile across his face.

“You!” Emma yelled letting the tears finally spill over.

“You did this!” Emma screamed while stepping out from behind the bar, tears rolling down her face. She pointed at him her hand shaking.

I grabbed Luke’s hand. This wasn’t going to be good.

“Oh come on. He needed some toughening up, he is such a chick when it comes to manly things. I was just teaching him a lesson.” Robb calmly stated folding his arms across his chest.

“How long?” Emma whispered obviously giving him a chance to explain. I shook my head. He didn’t deserve it.

“His whole life. What do you expect I wanted a son not a girly boy!” he yelled stepping closer to her.

“You have been beating my son since he was born!” Emma screamed.

“Hey don’t you use that tone with me! I am the man of the house and if I want to beat the little son of a bitch then I will!”

“no! you leave now! This is done, we are done, you will never touch my son again!” Emma said her whole body shaking with anger.

During the screaming match Ryan managed to push past me and Luke and hug onto Emma’s leg because he was frightened by all the screaming. He was crying, and scared.

“I’m not leaving without him!” Robb screamed and pointing to the screaming Ryan.

“You won’t dare touch my son!” Emma screamed pushing Ryan behind her.

Robb just flashed a smug little smile before pushing Emma on the floor knocking her unconscious and snatching Ryan and pushing him back behind himself making Ryan fly back and smack his head against the counter top and falling unconscious as well. Before I knew what to do Luke flung himself past me punching Robb straight in the face. All I could do was scream tears rolling down my face, I quickly snatched my phone off the counter and called the police and ambulance while Robb pinned down Luke continually punching him. I screamed trying to get them to stop but they didn’t listen I could hear the sirens in the distance and just prayed that they would hurry the hell up. When I couldn’t get them to stop I quickly checked on Emma then scooted to Ryan seeing him lying in a puddle of blood, I automatically got queasy from all the blood and pushed through it. I knew not to touch Ryan because there might be possible brain damage that I could make worse by moving him.

I laid my head in Emma’s lap crying and shaking. I could hear the sound of punches and grunts. When will this be over? I pleaded.

The cops came running in and quickly grabbed Robb and took him away. The ambulance showed up next running to Ryan first putting him on a stretcher then Emma on another one.

Luke ran to me as we watched Ryan and Emma get lifted in the ambulance. I sucked in all my emotion and ran to the car with Luke. I had to try to pull it together. I CANT loose anyone else.

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-Ashy