She Saved Me Version 2

Part 61

Laura P.O.V. 

I awaken to the sound of Charlie crying. This brings the memories from the night before come flooding back to me. I can feel my anger rising again just at the thought. I walk into the nursery and lift her up out of her crib. I then walk into the kids' rooms and get them up so they can start to get ready for school. I walk to mum's room and notice she is passed out cold asleep. I bring Charlie downstairs and put her in her swing as I start to get breakfast done for the kids while Tom who I notice is up and dressed makes Charlie a bottle. The kids come walking sluggishly into the kitchen and sit at the table as I quickly try to get them all fed to get them all to school and daycare on time. Once the kids have eaten, they run upstairs to brush their teeth and finish getting ready before we leave. As we are about to leave my phone rings and I see it is David from work. "Hi David, what's up?" I ask him. "Hi Laura, Sam called out sick can you cover her shift today from 10am to 10pm?" he asks. I look at Tom quickly and let him know what is going on. "We can pick up the kids and stay at my mum's tonight." he says, reaching for his phone to call his mum while retreating back upstairs to grab the bags to pack them to go. "Sure, David no problem." I tell him. "Thank you, Laura, I'll see you in a bit." he says, hanging up. Tom walks back down the stairs a few minutes later and says, "I just got off the phone with my mum she said if it's easier with the kids we can just stay for the week." he tells me smiling. I know Tom doesn't have a lot of time to see his mum so when he does it's a real treat for him. "Okay, let's do it." I tell him smiling at him. I go to help him put the bags in the car after packing them in a hurry and then getting the kids in the car. We get them to school and daycare. Once this is done, I drop Tom off at work and then drive to the club. I run in and change into my assigned outfit for the day and start to dance. The only thing I remembered that I forgot to do was tell mum what was going on. I then decide at the time it's not important and I can call her later. Once my shift is over it's after 10pm and I notice Tom parked in the car park waiting for me. I walk out to the car, and he drives us to his mum's house. We walk into the house with only the outside light on and the living room lamp on. We walk into the dimly lit house, and I immediately crash on the couch with Tom next to me. I wake up the next morning to the kids eating breakfast with Tom and Sharon. "Good morning love." Tom says to me, walking over and kissing me. "Good morning I respond kissing him back. The kids look at us and I watch Billy and Nell laughing at us. "How did everyone sleep?" I ask. "Good." everyone replies while turning back to their food. I get up off the couch and retreat upstairs to grab a change of clothes and take a shower. When I come back down, I notice that Tom has gotten the youngest two ready to go. I hustle the older ones into the loo to finish getting ready for school so they can get there on time. When they are all ready to go, we load them all into the car and drive to drop them all off. Once this is done, I remember that because I worked for Sam last night David gave me today off, so I decide to go back to the house and get some sleep. As I walk back into the house, I notice I have a missed call. I check my phone log and see I have a missed voicemail from mum. I listen to the voicemail quickly but pay it no mind. I walk into the house and sit at the kitchen table thinking when Sharon walks into the room. "Are you alright Laura?" she asks, looking worried. "I guess so." I tell her. "What's wrong?" Sharon asks. I relay the situation to her and what is going on. "Well sweetheart, it seems to me all your mum wants at this point is your love and support. It doesn't matter how you feel about Tim, what matters is how you deal with the situation and your mum needs your help." Sharon says looking at me. I then look down at my phone. "You really should call your mum sweetheart." Sharon says to me. I begrudgingly get my phone and dial her number. "Hello mum." I say, my tone somewhat cold. "I just wanted to call and check in on you guys. I woke up this morning and no one was in the house." mum tells me. "I know, I brought everyone to school and daycare and then Tom and I had to go to work. Once we picked everyone up, we decided to stay at his mum's house for a few days." I tell her. I swear I can hear her sigh. "When are you guys coming home?" mum asks me, her voice sounding hopeful "We won't be home until the weekend. Tom's mum was nice enough to let us stay for the week so you have the house to yourself or if you want you can have him in the house all you want, I really don't care." I say. "I care I want to be able to talk to you about this." mum tells me sounding like she is getting ready to cry "There really is nothing to talk about in my opinion but if you really want to talk about it, we can talk about it when we come home." I say. I hear mum breathe a sigh of relief. "Thank you all I want to do is talk about this." she tells me. "That's fine you want to waste your breath when there is nothing to talk about then that is your prerogative." I say. "I'll see you when you get back." mum responds. "Okay." I say starting to feel slightly annoyed. "I love you." mum tells me. "I love you too." I respond. I hang up with mum as Sharon walks back into the room. "Howd, it go sweetheart?" she asks. "Okay I guess." I answer, still not sure how I feel about the whole situation. "You know that sooner or later you need to face your mum." Sharon says. I sigh and rise from my seat and give her a hug. "Thank you for everything." I tell her. "You're welcome sweetheart that's what mothers are for." she says, smiling at me. I then decide to go pick Tom up from work after looking at the time. I rush out to the car and drive to the set to pick Tom up, but notice he isn't done yet. I sit in the car watching him through the car window when I notice my ex is working with Tom. I sigh in aggravation as I see the two of them standing off to the side talking while they aren't filming. Once Tom is done, I wait for him to get back in the car, but I see Jason following him. "Hi love." Tom says kissing me. "Hi." I say to him as he gets in the car. "Can we give Jason a ride home?" Tom asks. I plaster on a smile and nod my head as Jason gets into back seat of the car. I wait for them to buckle up and wait for Jason to give me directions to his house although I still remember the way. Jason tells me where to go. Once we arrive at the house I pull into the driveway and stop the car. I wait for Jason to exit the car and leave but he doesn't. Instead, I watch out of the rearview mirror as he pulls something out of his back pocket. I suddenly feel metal going against my head. Jason now has a loaded gun pressed against my temple. "Jason what the hell are you doing?" Tom asks, getting angry. "Shut up." Jason says to Tom. "Get out." he yells at me. I unbuckle my seat belt, open the car door and walk out of the car as Jason does the same. I see Tom going to follow but Jason points the gun at him. "Make one wrong move and she dies." he says. I watch Tom freeze. I feel Jason grab me and lead me to the house. We walk in and I take in the dilapidated run-down place with thick black curtains covering the windows and I can now see that the windows have bars on them as well. As we walk through the stale smelling house, Jason leads me down to the basement. I can feel my eyes adjusting to the darkness with each step I take as we go further and further down the stairs. Once we reach the bottom Jason leads me to a small room which contains nothing more than a bed and handcuffs. I feel Jason throw me forcefully on the bed. He then grabs the handcuffs and handcuffs my hands behind my back. I fight him off, but he manages to handcuff me to the bed not before I manage to hit the dial button on my phone for mum which is hiding in my back pocket. I expect to hear her pick up but surprisingly she doesn't. "Go figure the one time I really need her she doesn't pick up the phone because she's probably with him." I think to myself. I continue to struggle as Jason proceeds to try to kiss me, but I keep fighting him off that is until he starts to punch me in the head repeatedly. I find myself going numb with pain as the beatings continue until I slip into unconsciousness.