Elizabeth
After finding my father dead
I knew me and my brother had to leave, he wasn't gonna stop untill he found me.
"We gotta go." I say looking down at my dead father.
My heart was broken and so was my family.
I walk over to Jay sobbing in the corner,
"Jay" I crouched down to his level" It's not your fault" I say cupping his face.
He doesn't speak just shakes his head,
"look at me" I pull his face up.
"We have to go, Harvey will not stop"
I stand up tears begin to fall but I quickly wipe them away and straighten my face.
I walk over to my dead dad and say my goodbyes one more time, what hurts the worst is that I have to leave him here.
I get up, turn around and grab my brother off the ground and out the door.
He didn't try to stop me or even say anything and for now I was okay with that.
*10 hours later
We finally made it to NewYork,
I hijacked car and put gas in it from their we took turns driving,
so the other could get some sleep,
when it was his turn, he didn't sleep.
"Jay, we are going to Leo's" I glanced at him then put my eyes back on the road,
"Iz" he paused his voice breaking
I know he wanted to fight me on this but Leo was all we had left.
Leo is our Godfather, the only person my dad trusts beside my mom but he's also Jay's father, biological father, back then Leo was incapable of being a father, so our parents took him in as one of their own, Jay found out 4 years ago and we haven't been in contact with him since.
My family hasn't, but a few years ago when I was "dead", I contacted him for favor.
Harvey is a bad person now but before I loved him, before he tried to do what he promised me he would never do, hurt children.
Jay didn't speak the rest of the ride, he didn't look at me once just stared out the window with his dowey eyes, that were all swelled up from crying.
We finally made it to Leo's house it was old and their wasn't a lot around which is surprising because this is New York.
It had a small porch with one chair out front, there isn't a drive way so I park on the side of the road, I get out the car and notice the house is falling apart by the mailbox that's on the ground and the stairs you could possibly fall threw.
Jay hasn't gotten out the car but he's staring at me as I walk up to the house.
I begin walking up the horror house stairs carefully to make sure I don't fall threw.
As I walk up the three little steps I motion him to get out but all he does is look at me, not like he's angry or upset more like he wants to get bury six feet under and not come up for air.
I look at him sympathetically not sure what to do.
I walk up to the door and knock three times
*boom *boom *boom
It echos in the house
a couple of minutes go by and I don't hear anything.
I continue to wait for few more minutes and I hear nothing.
I step backwards away from the door and turn around, but I don't see my brother, frantically I run back to the car and look in window.
The seat is laid down and my brother is passed out, not sleeping for 12 hours must have wore him out.
Before I can knock on the window
I hear a crack in the door as if the thing was about to fall off, I turn around slowly not sure what I'm about to see.
In old man stared at me, from a distance you couldn't tell he had gray shrikes in his hair, his face was down I don't mean sad just down he was wearing and big t-shirt that went down all the way to his mid-thigh, I haven't seen leo in years so I couldn't tell who's staring into my soul as he walked towards me.
In the corner of my eye I see Jay awake possibly from the oddly loud door. I step forward preparing to meet this strangely looking man.
"Iz, it is very nice to see you again"
I nod my head and smile
I wondered if he can see Jay sitting in the car
I wondered if Jay is looking out the window or maybe he's trying to hide knowing he has to get out soon enough, my thoughts overwhelm me and I forget to speak.
"my condolences, your father was a dear friend to me."
"Thank you" that's all I can some up to say.
The car door behind me opens and
Jay steps out the car and looks at the old man in the baggy t-shirt.
No word is spoken.
what I think 5 minutes go by with complete silence.
"let's go inside" the old man says
as he turns around to go back in.
I look over at Jay and his face his a blank, I'm not sure how he's feeling or thinking, at this moment I feel like the worst sister on the planet. I grab his hand but he refuses and pushes my hand away and continues to walk inside the crumbling house.
my heart is torn into pieces, my brother hates me, my mother is dead and now so is my father.
On the verge of tears, I remind myself
be strong
I wipe the one tear rolling down my cheek and start walking into a life of falling pieces.
Inside Leo's house is cold, it was like nobody lived there, the walls were peeling, the stairs were broken down and it ranked of something that was likely dead.
I have slept in worst so the fact that there is a mostly stable roof is good enough for me.
"you two can sleep in there" Leo said pointing towards the door next to the stairs, "And don't try to go upstairs, they are unsafe."
I nod so he knows I understand,
it was a quick moment of silence before I broke it.
"We should get some sleep"
"Yes" he said very anxiously
Jay started to walk to the door that looked like it should be an a horror movie and I started to follow
"there should be enough blankets" Leo exclaim
"Thank you" I turned back to look at him, he gave me a half-smile, and walked away with his head down.
The room was small and it didn't have any windows, there isn't a light bulb but its only 7pm so the suns not completely down. Two cots were laying in front of us with blankets and pillows on each one,
I look over at Jay and he's getting in his cot ready to pass out.
I get into my cot laying down, facing the opposite way.
A few minutes pass and I already
hear Jay snoring, I don't know how people fall asleep that fast.
all I can think about is what I'm gonna do to Harvey, he killed my parents, he will pay with his life.
I haven't told Jay this yet but I'm going to ask Leo if he can stay here, so I can do what I need to do.
I know him better then anybody, I'm the only one who can do it.
after about an hour of thinking of everything that might go wrong in my plan, I fall asleep.
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All Fall Down
Action"Do it " he looked over at me with absolutely no remorse. I grabbed the knife out of his hand and threw it at the guy tidied up in a chair already half dead, the knife was in his throat and in seconds he was bleeding out. "That was amazing" My dad s...
