Vanished

thirty

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I hear screaming around me. My eyes go in and out of focus as I wake up.

I turn my head to see Alessio, Vanessa, and Emiliano all screaming at each other.

"Why the fuck would you take her?!" Emiliano yells at Alessio and Vanessa.

"She is not your property!" Vanessa yells back, "She can do what she wants! You don't have the right to tell her where she can and can't be!"

"She doesn't need to be at a party where there are people from other mobs there!" Emiliano says.

Alessio rolls his eyes, "It was like two families and we are cool with them."

I can see Emiliano gets more mad, "Cool with them? They just fucking drugged my girlfriend!"

"It was Thiago." Alessio says, "He always does shady shit."

Emiliano scoffs, "You think that makes it any better?"

Vanessa looks at me and sees I am awake, "Shut up."

She walks over to me, "Hey, are you okay?"

I nod.

Emiliano's gaze immediately softens when he sees me.

"You two get out." He says to Vanessa and Alessio.

They walk out of the room, shutting the door behind them.

Emiliano sits on the bed next to me, pulling me on his lap, "Hi."

"Hi." My voice comes out softer than I expected.

He hugs me tightly, "I missed you so much."

I cling on to him, "I missed you."

He grabs my face and kisses me. "I'm so sorry I wasn't here to protect you."

I shake my head, "It's okay. It's not your fault he tried to-,"

I stop as memories of last night flood my brain.

He tried to rape me. Alessio stopped him. I remembered Isaac. Then I shot Thiago.

I killed him.

Tears spill out of my eyes, "I killed him."

Emiliano pulls me closer and holds me tighter, "It's okay,"

"No it's not." I cry. "I killed him. I'm a murderer."

Emiliano runs his hand over my back, "Shh. No you aren't. I promise you aren't."

"But I killed him." I say.

"He was going to hurt you," He says, "He did hurt you. And he hurt Alessio. You did the right thing."

"You've killed people?" I ask him.