Awkward

Chapter 11 - For herself

Dana couldn't take any more of the looks and was being watched by Marcel so she got up and left the house early. She didn't head to her own place instead she headed straight to Zoe's apartment. She knocked at the door and waited for an answer.

Zoe had scrubbed her place so clean it gleamed in the light. This was another nervous coping mechanism of OCD. She heard the doorbell and put down her gloves. She headed to the door and opened it. "Dana?."

Dana pushed past her and walked in. "Everything that I have ever done is for you, yet you bad mouthed me to Marcel?" she snapped.

"You were going to try and do what you always do and take away Austin" Zoe replied.

"So what, it isn't like you can keep a man anyway!!" she yelled. "Do you know how draining you can be? Even Jeremy said you were... Can you honestly see yourself keeping a man like Austin happy? Really?"

Zoe looked at her. "You would fight and put me down over a man, when you are already married.. TO A MAN THAT WAS DATING ME.. you are the most spiteful sister that anyone could ask for." Zoe snapped her hands shaking.

Dana shook her head. " Zoe all that I do is try to look out for you. We need to keep going to the doctors and that costs money, so I have to sleep with Dr Fields to pay for your private care.. Jeremy came to me and hounded me to be with him, none of them can handle you.. Relationships are not for you and I am just trying to save you from that pain.!"

They both went quiet. "Where are your meds, I bet you haven't taken them..

"I feel better without them!" Zoe said.

"Here you go see, always thinking you know what's best. This is why I can't ever leave you alone. How will you ever conquer this OCD if you never take the meds." Dana yelled.

Zoe went to the cupboard and pulled out the pills, she emptied the pot down the garbage disposal "I don't need them!"

Dana slapped her sister's face. "Go and sit down" she shook her head at her and watched as Zoe walked out of the kitchen and into the lounge. As the coast was clear she pulled out a pot of strong painkillers that Dr Fields had let her have access to, she made them both a juice from the refrigerator and she crushed 3 of the tablets up and stirred the odourless and tasteless substance into her sisters drink, with half an hallucinogenic. Before she left the kitchen she picked up the sharp letter opener in a tissue, it had been given to Zoe as a present from a friend in her counselling sessions. She slipped into her jeans and then carried both of the drinks into the lounge. She looked at her sister. "Zoe, I'm sorry. I guess you just don't see how passionate I am about you. I love you sis and I know that a man like Austin would hurt you and I couldn't bear that" she put the glass down in front of her and sipped her own. Zoe picked up the glass and drank from it and Dana still sipping from hers watched her. "You need to drink that all up, I know you're not taking care of yourself over here, you look dehydrated and scrawny"

As soon as the drink was gone Dana got up. "Please listen to me, leave that man alone, in fact leave them both alone, his brother also. They are bad news, I mean we found them when they were in the middle of killing someone.. What would mom and dad say?" She looked at her sister for a minute and then walked out, getting in her car and taking off.

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Austin pulled in at Zoe's apartment as he had told her he would. It was 8pm, he got out and walked up to the door. He knocked and it took a while before Zoe opened the door. Her eyes were wild when he saw her. She looked at him as though she was worried he would hurt her. "What do you want?" she said, sounding desperate.

"Zoe? Don't fuck me around girl. We ain't on this shit again"

She pulled him by his arm inside and slammed the door, she started rubbing her arms furiously and she was shaking from head to toe. "Help me," she said to him.

He grabbed her and held her to him, she was as paranoid as hell and she was scared. "It's okay, I'm not gonna hurt you" he told her. He soon realised that he was not going to stop her or calm her down so he did what he knew would stop her for a while until he had had the chance to sort himself out. He put her in a sleeper hold and knocked her out. He carried her out and put her in the car heading off to his place before anyone saw him.

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Dana waited at the house for Jeremy. He walked in and saw her there. "I'm sorry" she said to him.

"I don't need you're sorry Dana, I need you to get out.. You just won't stop" He told her.

"Please Jeremy, can't we just forget this happened, I promise I won't do this again" she moved closer to him and she wrapped her arms around her neck. She slowly took one arm down and took the letter opener from the back of her jeans, the handle still wrapped in tissue paper and she plunged it into the side of Jeremy's neck. As he struggled for his life she left the opener in there. She watched him take his last breaths and she got out of the house without being seen. The same way as she had arrived. She got into her car which she had parked further down the road and she took off at speed away from the scene.

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"What in the hell Marcel said as he saw his brother carry Zoe in, unconscious.

"She was just going crazy man, she was as scared as hell like something had gone wrong. She was paranoid too. I had to knock her ass out to get her back here." He told him. "When she wakes up hopefully she will be calmer and we can find out what's up." He said.