Unwanted. Broken. Abused

Chapter 44

<Hope's p.o.v>

After the silhouette left, I was mentally debating whether or not to tell anyone about it.

I decided not to, it would only worry people.

Besides, it was probably only a dream.

Who am I kidding?! Of course it wasn't.

I knew precisely who it was, and it scared me so much.

He was clrearly here for me.

But I knew his ways.

He was going to take the people I love, and torture them in front of me.

He would kill them all, one by one, then he would kill me.

I shuddered.

I knew I was over thinking things, but I couldn't help it.

He was coming for me.

He was coming, and I had no control.

I had to come up with a way that would mean that I was the only one to hurt, and nobody else was.

I wracked my brains, but not one solution came to mind.

Any way, Harvey was going to get to my loved ones.

And I couldn't do anything about it.

* * *

I still didn't sleep.

I couldn't.

Not after what I saw.

I paced my room several times, making sure, though, that I didn't wake Hana and Rebecca up.

My mind was blank.

At about 8:00am, Hana started to wake up.

I quickly laid back down in my bed, and pretended to sleep.

She rubbed her eyes.

"Hope... You up?" I made my best waking-up noise and hummed, yes.

"I had the woerdest dream last night." She stated.

"Let's hear it." I said. I wasn't planning on listening.

"Well, I was in my bed, and I woke up. I sat up and watched the sunset for a while. Then, suddenly, this creepy man appeared at the window." My breath hitched in my throat.

"What did this man look like?" I asked slowly, trying to sound curious.

"Um... Well, he had these dirty blue eyes, and greasy brown hair. He had a load of ugly stubble on his jaw, and he was watching you, Hope." I bit my lip.

That description sounded exactly like Harvey.

I betrayed my original plan, to not tell them about Harvey, Hana half-saw anyway.

"Wake Rebecca up." I told Hana. She frowned.

"Why?" I glanced away.

"Because I think its time I told you both my back story." Hana tried tobhide her surprise, and immediately went to wake Rebecca up.

I heard a loud groan, and a few protests, but after a few harshly whispered words from Hana, Rebecca sat up, ams gestured for me to start.

"So, um... I've never known my real family. All I can remember is that I've lived with this man, Harvey, all my life. It... It started off as just a few slaps here and there, but then he started full-on abusing me." Hana and Rebecca gapsed.

"You don't have to carry on." Rebecca told me softly. I shook my head.

"No, I trust you guys." They nodded. I took a deep breath, and carried on;

"At first, it was, like, once every week, but then h started doing it every single day, when I got home from school." My voice cracked, and I had to take a slight pause.

Repeating all of this, it was like cutting open healing wounds.

I carried on.

"I isolated myself from everyone else at school, to save them from finding out, and I made myself mute. It worked, for all my school life. Until earlier this year, where I accidentally bumped into Xavier. I didn't think it would matter that much, but them Harvey had slipped a threatening note into my bag, and I just lost it. I had a panic attack, and Xavier helped me recover from it.

"From then on, Xavier started talking to me, determined to find out what was wrong with me. Despite my many attempts to push him away, he kept trying. Until, he found out." I couldn't help the tears that came flowing out.

"The night he found out, Harvey was particularly angry. He-he tried to.... Rape me. But Xavier saved me from him. He then tied Xavier up and and him watch while he killed me." I couldn't carry on. I was sobbing so hard.

Hana was red-eyed, as of she, too, were about to start crying, and a few tears were falling down Rebecca's face.

"Hope... Honestly, you dont have to carry on." Rebecca whispered softly.

"No, I'm not going to let him defeat me." I sucked in a breath. "What I didn't know was that Xavier had given his best mate, Blake a call just before he got caught. Blake called the police, and they rescued us from there." I paused for a moment, and Hana and Rebecca seemed to think I was finished.

"Wait, I'm not finished. I was in hospital for a few days, but then gje doctors discovered that I had a problem with my lungs that was near-fatal. They did an emergency operation on me, and then I was carted off here." I finish.

Hana had given up on holding back the tears now.

I cried with them.

"I-Im okay, now. I ha-ve bot-th of y-you." I told them.

Hana sighed and embraced me in a tight hug.