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Train Wreck - James Arthur

"Jesus Christ, turn it off

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"Jesus Christ, turn it off. Wouldn't want Cillian knowing what your extracurricular activities were huh?" Marcus yells at whoever's in charge of this before turning to me, I was a child, I was forced, I was assaulted, I was fucking raped!

I want to scream this all at him, but the words won't come. It feels like the oxygen is being ripped out of my lungs as tears fill my eyes, I don't even get the chance to stand up before Marco storms out on stage pulling me out of my seat and walking me off to the backstage area.

"Willow, we need to leave. The media's going fucking psychotic outside" I hear someone say, I think it's milo, "He- he, he just.." I try to speak but I'm numb, my body, my mind, everything is just numb.

This isn't happening to me, no, this can't be real this has to be some kind of fucked up nightmare I'm in.

"Willow come on!" Marco sighs dragging me along like a ragdoll, how did Reggie even get those videos? How the fuck did he know?

My phone begins to blow up and I can't stop myself from looking, news and media outlets posting about it all over the world, god it wasn't just Marcus that had them, it was everyone... They had posted the fucking videos attached to their stupid blogs and articles.

My phone starts to ring with Papa's name popping up, I can't bring myself to answer, he'd be so disappointed in me, disgusted even, so I look away from the screen as I'm pulled out the backdoor of the building, thousands of cameras flash in my face as my world crumbles down around me "Willow! Willow! Does Cillian know about your past?".

"Willow! How long were you a prostitute for?" Other questions are being screamed in my face, I can't even breathe let alone fucking talk.

Milo opens a car door and gently shoves me in, before either of them gets in, the car speeds off, the door that was open now slamming shut as I'm flung into the back seat due to the speed. I hear the car doors lock and try to take a deep breath through my nose, that's when I realise we're not in any of Papa's cars, his cars always smell like lilacs, but this one doesn't.

"My dear Willow" An older man smiles at me from the review mirror, horror creeps in as I realise I'm not safe, at all.

I try opening the back doors "They're locked darling, I've waited so long for you" I can hear the pleasure in his voice, I feel nauseous, I need to throw up. I need to do something before I fucking blackout due to panic.

I slam my fists into the windows, praying that they will break or someone will see me, my hands ache after a few hits so I try my high heels, I kick the window as hard as I can but the fucking heel of my shoe snaps instead, the man swerves the car harshly causing me to roll around in the back seat hitting my head on the opposite door

"Stop being stupid Willow, I'll take good care of you, I won't leave you alone like that asshole did" He grits through his teeth, I can feel my tears freely falling, the interview, the videos and now this, this is my breaking point and I don't know if there's any coming back from it.

"Let me out of here you fucking psycho" I scream attempting to punch him from the back seat, he slams on the breaks as I fly forward, my face smashing into the radio of the car before he takes off fast again, my body falls back into the back seat as a warm stream of blood begins to drip down my face.

"Look what you did! You made me hurt you!" He yells looking back at me, there is nothing rational in the way he's looking at me, he's going to kill me.

No, I'm not dying like this, I'll die on my own fucking terms.

I look for something, for anything to help me out of this. There's nothing in the back, I'm not strong enough to fight him off without any assistance, so I jump to my last resort. I take my bra off as he turns onto a quite long stretch of road that's heading out of the city, it's now or never.

I put my seat belt on loosely before sitting on the edge of the seat, once he's fully focused on driving I lunge forward and pull my bra against his neck, choking him.

Memories of me choking Danny and Marion run through my head, I close my eyes as I hear him trying to speak, his voice wheezing, I pull harder, harder than I did with the other two, I feel the car begin to swerve and accelerate as he goes in and out of consciousness, his fingers trying so desperately to get out of my grip to breath, I don't care if I go to jail for killing him, he's not taking me without a fucking fight.

The car swerves again as I open my eyes, I realise we're heading straight into a tree, I close my eyes again and wait for the impact, and fuck me, was the impact hard. The car drives full force into the trunk of the tree and my head slams into the headrest of the driver's seat knocking me out.

When I come too I see the car filling with thick black smoke, small flicks of orange caught my attention immediately, the car is beginning to catch fire, fuck, oh fuck.

I use the rest of my strength to get myself out of the wreck, thankfully the back window had smashed due to the impact, so that's the way I'm taking out.

I scramble out of the car not caring about the glass that's sticking into my hands and knees as I escape, once I'm out I turn to look in the driver's seat, he's still there unconscious and bleeding heavily from a cut on his forehead. He can burn for all I care.

The flames start to engulf the car quickly, so I move back, I move back until I'm at a safe enough distance to collapse, I hit the ground with a groan, my head feels like it's been smashed in with a brick which it somewhat has, my body aches and stings, I know I'm bleeding, I just don't know how badly.

The road is silent other than the sounds of the flames getting bigger and bigger, I force myself to sit up against a tree and watch, I can barely keep my eyes open as I watch the car explode sending debris into the air and around me, it's only now I realise that instead of burning to death in the wreck I'll bleed out on the side of the road, all alone.

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