Seeing Eye

Chapter 16

Chapter 16 (Emily; Two months later)

It was month ten now. Almost a year since I had been here, and thankfully I was still alive. Zoey today started to help me a bit more with everything about Alex. We did some research on him, but sadly did not find out much about his past.

No real help there.

Alex finally even got me back to working, and each day was like hell. I had to work all the time and again I could not talk to many of my friends. Zoey though was one to help me, she was there to help when I had work to do around the house, Bri, Derrick, and the others could not help.

If Alex seen them even once near me he would flip and begin to yell thinking I told them something. I would sometimes though leave messages for them at night telling them things Alex had done to me. Derrick and Bri both would message me back. They did not care if they got yelled at, I did though.

Zoey and I were pretty much the outsiders of everyone. No one talked to us but Amy, no one seen us but one another. It was depressing but again it was normal to us. This was what we lived with.

At times I wondered why Zoey was even helping me in the first place when she could be talking with everyone else.

Zoey said she picked to help me because she felt goodness within me. She said that she helped me and would rather spend time with me because she knew that I was here for a reason, and she would do anything to actually find out that reason.

It was about Mid-day when I finally seen the scares on Zoey's arms and I just stared at her in wonder.

"What?" She asked me and I just kept staring at her scares.

That was when she noticed and moved to cover up her arm, "What is that?" I asked.

"It is nothing." She said.

"No," I said and grabbed her arm pulling up her sleeve, "Where did that come from?"

"No where," Zoey said pulling her arm away.

"Did Alex do this to you?" I asked her finally looking up at her face.

"No," Zoey said, and I felt the lie in her voice.

"Zoey tell me," I begged, "If Alex is doing this to you then tell me."

Zoey just stared at me for a while then not really knowing if she should tell or not, in the end she just gave in and told me, "Yes Alex did this to me." She said.

"Why?"

"Because I talk to you." She said softly, "He does not like that you know."

"Why didn't you tell me?" I asked.

"Because I did not care, I wanted to help you, I wanted to be there with you."

"Zoey, if he is doing this to you then you should stop helping me," I said, "I do not want you hurt because of me and Alex will do everything to make sure you are hurt."

"I said I did not care." Zoey said.

"But I do." I said a bit fustrated.

I hated my friends being hurt because of me. I refused to let anyone help me until Zoey came because I thought she would be the right person. Alex did not seem to hurt her at first but now maybe he had been hurting her all alone and she was just hiding it on me. Making it seem like nothing was going on, like everything was okay, when really it was not.

"Do not."

"To late for that," I said, "You do not understand, Alex can kill you, and he probably will if you keep this up. You need to stop this. These," I said pulling up her sleeve again, "will get worse and he will do worse. You will not live with what he does."

"And you can," Zoey said.

It was not a question but I still answered it like one, "Yes I can," I said, "Alex can not kill me."

"Why not?"

"Because of Angel," I said, "I have her blood in me, she is my grandmother, and Alex nor Evil can kill anyone from the blood line of Angel."

"But how?" She asked.

"I do not know, but I know that Alex can not kill me." I said.

"How would you know he can kill me?" Zoey asked in wonder.

"Because your not in the line of blood with Angel," I said, "Look all I am saying is that you need to stop Zoey. I do not want you to get hurt because of me, I do not want you to die because of me I can not allow that."

"It will not happen," Zoey said.

"Zoey, please."

Sighing Zoey began to speak, "What do you expect me to say?"

"Do not say anything, just go and talk to everyone tomorrow or even later and I will clean. That is what Alex wants anyways. He wants me to talk to no one. He wants me alone."

"Do you want to be alone?" She asked.

"It is not what I want but rather what is needed. You need to not be near me because I do not want you hurt anymore because of me. You need to be as far from me as possible."

Sighing Zoey said, "Okay," Then she gave me a hug and whispered good lucks in my ears and told me that I would always have her if I ever needed anything before she left the room to go find everyone else.

"Good-bye for now Zoey."

"Bye Emily." Zoey said from down the hallway.