Abuse // 5sos (Book 1 & 2)

Chapter 8: Too far

Luke's POV

I wanted answers. And I wasn't going to get them by beating her up.

I took out a long bottle of champagne. Emerald's hair swayed with her every stiff movement.

"Drink," I held her wrist and placed a chilled glass in her hand.

"No, do you remember what happened last time?" I did, but I was willing to take the risk.

"I'll drink just as much as you do." I said it blankly.

It was a stupid argument because clearly she would get drunk and I wouldn't.

"Ok, fine." she held back a smile. What was she planning in her mind.

She kept asking for more, I wondered why. Maybe it was to drown her sorrows and worries in wine.

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Emerald's POV

"More." He poured a glass more for both of us. 

I poured down the sink sneakily just like the other ones. He kept getting me drunk, it was my turn. 

At this point he was too drunk to care.

He got up sloppily.

"Why did you post the video?"

"I didn't" I repeated the same thing I said when he was sober, the truth. 

"So first you betray me, then you go to my best friend for support. You will pay for both of those." He slapped me across the cheek. The sound echoed. He clutched my arm in between his fingers and I started to scream in pain. What was I thinking? I wanted him to pass out so he'd stop questioning me, not so he's beat me up.

Calum appeared from behind him. I felt used. Calum couldn't hit me, not infront of Luke. The worst part was he wasn't drunk like Luke was, so he knew what he was doing. And he had a strange anger in his eyes.

But he did. He slapped me, exactly where Luke did. My face distorted in pain. The blow caused to me to fall over. I was inches from the stairs.

"I Hate you Luke." Calum wouldn't care if I hated him, but I hoped Luke would.

"Good. Then I won't have to feel sympathy when I do this." He threw me against the wall. I crashed into the picture frame, shattering it. The pieces pricked into my back. I wailed out in pain.

Calum pushed my limp body further, causing the small pieces to slide further into my back. I could feel them breaking skin and creating scars. I wondered if thats what they wanted, for me to remember this traumatic event for as long as I live, though it may not be that long.

Luke picked me up by my collar and walked forward. Then he let go. My head hit the corner of the desk and was starting to bleed. The red blood stained the light carpet.

I was losing to much blood. I was going to die. What could I have possibly done to make my boyfriend want me dead?

My eyes started to close and I wasn't even trying to stay awake. But I couldn't let them win.

I had never been overly religious, but I started to pray. Because I wanted to live, I wanted to experience all the joy life has to offer.

I let out a deep breath and picked myself up. My vision was double meaning I had a 50/50 chance of making it through the right door.

But where would I go?

Any where but here, a voice answered.

I ran straight but ended up trying to go through the door my double vision created.

Luke started to laugh and walked towards me.

"Don't touch me." I ran through the other door, the right one.

My blood felt like lead and I started to wonder how I held up this much weight my entire life.

I ran across the street, not looking.

And that's when the car came.

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Perrie's POV

"I'll take Joe, but you keep Winter." It was my ex husband's turn to take care of the children, but he never wanted Winter because she was mentally disabled.

"Fine, though it was your fault she's like this." I picked her up and went in the car. I didn't know what I was going to do. I couldn't even support myself, how am I supposed to support a child?

A girl ran across the street, leaving a trail of blood. I was thinking about talking to her when the car infront of me rammed into the poor girl. I stopped my car and ran up to her.

"Dear, are you ok?" I picked her up. She was alive, for now. I quickly scanned her injuries. Spinal. I hoped it wasn't serious.

"No,"

"What's your name?"

"Emerald." I placed her in the car. Winter looked at her, sadness filling her eyes.

"Wait, p-please don't take me to the hospital. Luke will find me." She looked to young to have an abusive boyfriend.

I didn't reply. I had to take her to the hospital, I couldn't let her die.

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"Ma'am." the nurse looked at me.

"My daughter got hit by a car." If I said daughter, they wouldn't take her to "Luke."

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Emerald's POV

"Ahhh." I let out a cry.

A nurse walked up to me. "Doctor, she's awake." She had bright blonde hair with deep blue highlights.

The last thing I remember is being hit by a car. No, someone saved me.

"Anjali (uh-n-juh-lee), dear. How are you feeling?" The woman who saved me asked.

"They showed me your birth certificate by the way. That's how I know your full name. But Emerald is just as beautiful." she came close to my ear. "I told them I'm your mother so they wont take you to Luke and that you got beat up by a gang, though we both know what really happened."

I smiled, "Thank you. I am feeling a lot better now." The painkillers were helping but I could still feel some of the pain.

"You know, my husband was abusive too. He would sit on my stomach when I was pregnant. Thats why I think Winter is like this." She pointed to Winter. I remember her telling me Winter is mentally disabled before I passed out.

"I'm so sorry." I didn't know what else to say. Winter was nothing like me. With her long blonde hair and piercing green eyes, she was beautiful at such a young age, but I felt like I could still connect to her.

"No worries. We are both safe now." I smiled, but I didn't believe that. I couldn't, not until Luke was dead.

The doctor walked in. "Anjali, there is a problem..."

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What will Luke do?

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She thought Luke was going to rape Emerald. I actually tried writing that chapter but I couldn't.

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