PRETTY HURTS: The Other Side Of Pretty

6. DID YOU KNOW

TRIGGER WARNING
VIOLENCE

AMELIA

It is absolutely terrifying
The kind of deep suffering the happiest of looking people are able to hide inside themselves

Nikita Gill

I bang on the door begging him to let me out for anyone to let me out
I don't think his even there anymore
And no one will hear me through the loud music

I start searching the walls for a light but nothing I stumble back and my foot twist making me fall to the ground
I try to stand up but my ankle hurt

I put pressure on one leg and try to look for a light switch again
My breath shortens and my hands become sweaty

I start to cry my body trembling
I hear my mom cry out in the background and I start to look around following the voices

"Come here"
I hear him to my right
Bang a sound to my left of a broken bottle
"Amelia where the fuck are you" I hear his voice yell behind me and I turn forgetting about my ankle

I stumble down and push myself to a corner
I can't see anything due to the darkness and my eyes being blury

This isn't happening
"Kara if you don't tell me where she is I swear I'll kill" his voice comes from the front
I hear a slap and my mum cries falling to the ground

The foot steps start to get closer
I pull my body together and put my hands on my ears closing my eyes tight
I'm trembling with fear my chest hurts with every breath I try to inhale
I swallow hard but my throat is so dry it taste like blood

I try to calm myself but someone bangs on the door
I go even further into the corner trying to be one with the wall

"Open it or I'll break it"
"No get away from her" I hear a thud and my mums body drops to the floor

"Open the door" I hear someone shout while the try and open it shaking it roughly

I start to say Please don't hurt me again and again and again my voice barely audible coming out as a mare whisper

"Zion open it"
"Relax it just a harmless prank what's the big deal"
"Give me the keys" Sophie yells

I hear someone playing with the door
I know it's soph but I can't process anything I'm to deep in the darkness
The only thing that's on my mind is that my dad is the one frantically trying to open the door

It goes flying and I push myself further into the wall
"Please don't hurt me"
"Please don't hurt me"
"Please don't hurt me" I cry out

I feel hands on me but I jerk away from them
"Amelia it's me Soph" she says slowly coming towards me

"All of you get out" she yells
"Fuck off you've done enough"
I look up and my teary eyes scan the people she's chasing away

I meet his eyes and there's a flicker of guilt before it disappears
I put my head in between my legs

Soph hugs me and rubs smoothing circles on my back
"It's okay everything is okay"
I cry silently the tears only dropping but the don't see that

"It's okay" she sobs silently but I know she's crying
"Go!" She yells
I hear footsteps but the sound fades away together with the music I can only hear Sophies voice trying to calm me down

It works and we head out of the small room to the bathroom
I clean myself up putting on a mask of happiness like nothing happened
It's something I learnt to do from my mom