𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 • 𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐊𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐳

Chapter 12

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•Tia's Pov•

I woke up to loud yelling.

"What the fuck now" I groaned rolling out of bed.

"Ich sollte laut sein, um zu lieben, wen ich will!" ("I should be able to love who I want!") Bill yelled in German.

He didn't seem to be as scared of Tom this time. Like he was standing up for himself.

"Und was passiert, wenn sie stirbt? Komm nicht weinend zu mir!" ("And what happens if she dies? Don't come crying to me!") Tom yelled at the top of his lungs.

"wie du es mit mir gemacht hast?" ("Like you did to me?")

Tom yelled in anger and stormed into the bathroom. He had loud footsteps. He was a loud person.

Everything went silent and bill was in the kitchen pacing holding his face in his hands. I could hear small cries coming from Kirra's room.

I slowly walked in cracking open the door "Kirra?" I asked.

She came into view. She was sitting on the floor with her knees up to her face and a cut on her lip.

"Who did that to you? Not Bill I hope!" I said running over to her.

"No Bill would never" she said in cries "it was Tom"

"Tom hit you? Why?" I said trying to pry her hands away from her wet face to look at the cut.

"I don't know they were speaking in German" she cried out loudly.

I let her go and started in the direction of the bathroom.

As I got to the door a loud smash was heard from inside. He had punched the mirror in amber I assume. I pulled up my hand and knocked on the door aggressively.

It created open to a psychotic looking Tom.

"What?!" He yelled looking down at me.

I pushed him into the bathroom and slammed the door shut locking it.

"What the fuck did I tell you about touching my girls!" I said raising my voice pointing my finger in his face.

"I'll touch whoever I want, don't be mad because I'm not touching you" he said looking me up and down annoyed.

"Excuse me? I don't want you anywhere fucking near me!"

He turned and pinned me up against the wall by my neck "oh really?" He said getting close to my face looking at my lips.

He slipped his hand down my pants and touched me through my underwear "tell me you don't want me too, go on?"

I held in a moan by biting my lip hard. I could feel the skin in between my lips rip and I could taste the blood.

"Get off me!" I yelled at him trying to push him away.

He was way stronger than me. There was no way I could fight him off. He slapped me across the face shutting me up.

"Why can't you admit it! Admit that you want me, why do you make it so hard for yourself!" He yelled pulling his hand out of my pants.

"I don't like you! I hate you!" I yelled back "I could never love a man like you!"

"All the whore's in town will tell you I'm good in bed, what don't you want?" His mouth was open from breathing so hard.

"I don't want to fuck you Tom, I don't want you in my house, I don't want you anywhere near me!"

"Then I'm not leaving until I get what I want! I will not leave this house until I've fucked the pretty brains out of you"

"What the fuck is wrong with you!" I yelled in shock.

I felt my emotions do a weird twist and then my head got fuzzy and warm. I held my head and scrunched my face up in confusion and pain.

I felt Tom's hand hit my hands out of the way "what are you doing?" He said confused but still angry from the fight we had.

I looked down at the ground and only just noticed the smashed mirror littering the floor with tiny pieces of glass. A few blood drops where sitting on the ground coming from Tom's hand.

I grabbed his wrist examining the damage. A few pieces of glass were lodged in his knuckles.

"Wha? Did you just flip in front of me?" He asked finally understanding what was going on.

"What the hell were you thinking?" I mumbled to myself taking a towel off the rack and placing his hand in it before grabbing a hold of the pieces of glass, pulling them out one by one. Each time getting a grunt out of Tom. He didn't move the whole time confused on how to react to me at that moment.

After I was finished and had wrapped his knuckles up I looked at the expression on his face. It was confused and shocked. Just like I was last night when he had switched. He didn't know what to do either.

"What?" I asked frustrated with him "you can pay for that by the way" I said dusting off my hands and leaving the bathroom.

Tom watching me leave the room with no words. He wanted to hit me for acting the way I did, for what he didn't know.

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Tom walked out of the bathroom after considering everything that went down. He thought about how I switched and how he was the same, he thought about the fight with Bill. He thought about hitting Kirra. Not because he felt bad for her but because he felt bad for Tia.

He entered the living room slowly, almost nervously. Freya had come over and stuck a joint in Kirra's mouth at some point to make her feel better. Her split lip was untouched and Bill was sitting angrily at the dining room table with his head in his hands thinking.

Tia looked stressed about something. He couldn't figure it out. He could never figure her out. She was sitting on the porch overlooking the beach with a cigarette in her hand.

It was awkwardly silent, and there was a sad tension in the house. The only two that seemed fine were Georg and Gustav. They were playing pool in the other room.

"Suck shit, you missed!" Gustav yelled, alcohol on his breath.

"Shut the fuck up Gustav or this stick is going up your ass, and this time I won't miss" he said sizing up the pool stick.

Tom walked over to the porch but got stopped at the table by Bill in the way "You like her, you just don't know how to show it" Bill said trying to show understanding with his brother.

"I don't like anyone" Tom replied with a dead tone.

"You did...find it in your heart to do it again" Bill said getting up and leaving the apartment.

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