Dirty Little Secret

Chapter ten - Nothing

AUTHOR NOTE               **TW**

THIS CHAPTER DOES HAVE STRONG ABUSE FROM A PARENT; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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COLTON LANCASTER

I walk into my front door with a big smile on my face, but that smile is almost immediately wiped from my face when I take in the state of him family.

"You fucking ungrateful bitch!" My mother screams and I hear a shatter and another scream.

Caty.

I run into the kitchen to see my sister sobbing on the ground and my mother standing over her.

I glance around and see a broken vase shattered on the floor.

"You think you can fucking tarnish my fucking name!? You think you can fucking be a selfish ungrateful little bitch, huh!?" My mom screams at my sister. 

Then my mother slaps her across the face. Hard. 

She's never laid a finger on any of us.

I pull my mother away from Caty and stand in front of her. 

"Now you want to start too!? Stand in my fucking way again and see what happens!" She screams in my face, and I flinch. 

She uses that as an advantage and shoves me out of the way. Not hard enough that I fall.

I glance at my sister to see her looking up at me, pleading.

My mother picks my sister up by her hair and slaps her across the other side of her face. Then shoves her so hard she slams into another stand that holds another vase. It falls to the floor, shattering. 

"Look what you did you fucking whore!" My mother screams at my sister.

God I'm so helpless.

So pathetic. 

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

Suddenly I can't breathe. My chest heaves but no air escapes my lungs. 

No air goes in, and no air comes out.

I fall to my knees and grab my chest. 

I'm going to fucking die and leave my sister in this house all alone.

That's the last thought that goes through my brane when everything goes black.

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*beep* *beep* *beep*

My eyes start to flutter but the blinding light above my head makes me slam them shut again. 

After a few moments I reluctantly open my eyes, slowly.

I take in my surroundings. I'm at the hospital. I'm in a hospital gown in a hospital bed.

What the fuck happened?

I glance to the chair beside me and see that it's my mother. She sees that I'm awake and jumps up. Grabbing my face gently.

"Oh, my baby! You're okay! I was so worried about you." she kisses my cheek and I try my very hardest not to recoil. 

Everything suddenly comes back to me. my mother screaming at my sister. My mom beating her. Not being able to breath and thinking I was dying.

That's when I notice the doctor standing on the other side of me checking one of the machines hooked up to me.

My mother doesn't care about me. Only the witnesses around to see her.

"Where's Caty?" I ask. I see my mom's left eye twitch, but she fakes a smile.

It doesn't reach her eyes.

"She's at school, sweetheart." she answers.

"Why is she at school? It just ended earlier?" I ask, my statement more of a question.

"Oh baby, you've been asleep for two days. You had a panic attack. I told the doctors you've been stressed about your math grade. It was probably the girl you had tutoring you. I knew she would be too hard on you." She strokes my hair and this time I don't bother hiding my recoil.

I hate this woman. 

I hate this fake excuse of a mother. She's not the women I used to love. She's not the women who used to love me.  

I hold eye contact with this woman and take in her dead eyes. 

They have absolutely no feeling. No emotion. 

Nothing.

This is a person I don't recognize that's taken the shell of my mom.

This woman is not my mother.

My mother died that day in the car crash beside my brother.

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AUTHOR NOTE

Chapter Ten!! How do you like it?

I have a question.

Do you like Colton or Ardens POV's better???

See you in chapter Eleven!! Bye!!