Barely Above A Whisper

Chapter 5

Surprise surprise, this chapter is going to be in Adrian's POV. I figured y'all would like to know what's going through his head so..... Enjoy🤗

     Adrian's POV:

     I couldn't take my eyes off her, I knew that this, whatever this was, couldn't happen, I knew that I'd only end up ruining her, and she had already gone through too much for me to add another burden on her shoulders.

     I looked away when my brain kept betraying me by reminding me how beautiful she actually was, especially at this moment when she was the most vulnerable, her face looked so peaceful, so..... different from when she was awake.

     I sat down then, my heart beating rapidly against my ribs, and I clutched my chest, hoping that it would still the rapid pace of my heart, but I knew that I would have no such luck, my organs seemed to betray me nowadays.

     I heard a soft whimper, and my head immediately whipped up that for a second, I was scared that I would have whiplash. I stood up and ran to the bed where Vera was laying on, she seemed to be having a nightmare, seeing her whimpering, her face scrunched up, her obvious discomfort, and the tears running down her eyes, my heart clenched. I f could feel her pain, I wanted to take it away, to make sure that whoever hurt her never has the chance to hurt her again......but I couldn't, I had to stay away from her.

     I shook her awake, she immediately sat her up, her eyes wide with terror as she cowered away and used her arms to try to cover herself up from whatever she thought I'd do to her. The clenching of my heart got worse and I internally cried for this beautiful broken girl.

     "Oh Vera, please don't hide away from me, you'll never need to hide again, ever, I promise ". I almost couldn't recognise my voice as I spoke, it was like a stranger was talking in my stead, she slowly looked up from behind her eyes, her eyes still filled with unshed tears.

     I tried to inch closer to her, but she moved further away, I moved back when I saw that I was making her uncomfortable and I sighed, I should've known that this was going to be harder than originally thought, the doctors had said that she was going to have major PTSD, but hopefully, we'd be able to get through this.

     Atonement

     The excuse I gave her for being nice to her and helping her played in my mind, it was half true, the other half of my reason being this nagging feeling I have to protect her and keep her safe and happy.

     I shoved that thought to the back of my mind and tried to think of anything else, I was successful, but the memory that played in my head after my success was far worse than what I initially wanted to avoid and I was transported back to that moment, five years ago when my entire world fell apart.

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     "Adryyy", she shrieked as I lifted her up and spun her around, her laugh filling up the void in my heart. Her laughter and smiles always made my day.

     "Do you want me to put you down my little sunshine?" We both knew that wasn't a question coz she never wanted me to put her down, "Nooooo" her giggles filled the room and bathed me with so much warmth.

     "Do you wanna go get ice cream?" I asked her, already knowing her reply, "yessssss", she giggled as her arms wrapped around my neck "ice cweeeeaaaaammmm", I smiled at her cuteness, she was the most adorable three year old that ever existed, "I want, vaniwa, and chocowate, and mint, and strawbewwy, and...." I just laughed as she rambled on, listing all the ice cream flavours she wanted.

     "Don't you dare go out that door you little rat". The voice I heard made my blood run cold and I felt her stiffen in my arms, her laugh immediately dying down. "I'll do whatever the I want to do old man" I said, as I turned around and raised my voice at him, he looked shocked, probably because I had never talked back at him, but I had finally snapped and I decided that this all had to stop.

     As quickly as the look came onto his face, it disappeared as he sneered at me, showing off his rotting teeth, I could feel her squirm and cower into my side. I put her to the ground and looked at her scared face, "Go wait for me upstairs sunshine, I promise I'll come get you soon, yeah??" "Pinky pwomise?" She said and held out her pinky, my eyes softening as I smiled at her, "Yes baby, I promise". I wrapped my  pinky around hers and she finally looked convinced and ran as fast as her little legs could carry her upstairs.

     After making sure that I heard the sound of the door of the room closing, i turned to him with a cold glare, he immediately lunged at me, his hands tightening around my neck, as he tried to choke me, my hand reached out behind me trying to look for something to protect myself with, I could feel the oxygen slowly leave my lungs and I was sure that I was a goner.

     My hand suddenly felt something and I picked it up and swung it at his head, it hit him successfully and he landed on the floor in a heap, I greedily breathed in air, trying to steady myself. I looked down at him, and I froze in fear, he didn't look like he was breathing. I rushed over to him and checked his pulse, only to realise that he was out cold.

     Time stopped at that moment, and it was only when I heard the gasp behind me that time seemed to start again. Oh no. I looked back and I saw my sunshine run out of the house, I froze in horror, my brain trying to come to terms with what just happened, it took a while for me to get back to normal, but when I did, I immediately stood up to run after her, I wasn't fast enough though, the sound of sirens coming closer were already filling the air, and I saw her look at me with a look that I thought I'd never see when she looked at me, she looked at me with absolute fear and my heart broke then, into a million unfixable pieces, knowing that I was the one who made this look appear in her eyes.

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Hey my lovvvvvvveeeeeesssss😚😚

Sorry for just updating, I'm just too lazy

So.....now y'all know Adrian's back story now and you can now be able to understand some of his actions.

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