Chapter Twenty-Five . . . More Than This
Kristine's POV
Life is hard. I figured that out the first time my father hit me and now as I wake up with a pounding headache I knew that it was only get harder.
My head felt like it was on fire and when I opened my eyes, well one eye since the other was swollen shut, the bright light burned into my eye with so much sunlight and with the room in being white it only made it worse.
I looked around at my surroundings and found that I was in what looked like a hospital room. There was a machine hooked to me and my stomach which kept track of mine and the babies heart rate. "Hello?" I croaked but it only sounded like a whisper. Suddenly a pain shot through my stomach, a really bad pain. My Baby!
"Help!" I yelled and tried to move my arms but they were chained to the bed. What the hell? The heart rate on my monitor began to speed up.
Suddenly the door was pushed open and a nurse walked in pushing a cart holding medicine and needles. "Please help me. I don't know what Josh told you but he's lying he wants to kill me and my baby. Help please. I-"
"Shh . . .relax." She said softy and picked up a needle and that's when I saw her face.
"Miss Barkley?" I was shocked. What the hell was she doing her and why was she dressed up like a nurse.
"Well hello sweetheart, how was your little nap?" She asked with a smile that would scare small children away.
"Miss Barkley, you have to help me please. He's going to kill me." She ignored me and injected a needle into the I.V. that I didn't even know I had.
The pain in my stomach grew stronger and I could feel the sweat began to bead on my head. "OW! OW! What's wrong with my baby?" I screamed as I felt water pour from my legs.
"Nothing Kristine, you're in labor." I looked up and saw Josh who's shoulder was wrapped up, but that didn't stop the smile that appeared on his face.
"Please Josh please, make it stop. I'm begging you. You're going to kill the baby. It's too soon.
"Your fine. My sister has you taken care of." I was confused at first. His sister? But when I saw the look on Miss Barkley's face I knew what was going on.
"Your sister! Your damn sister!" I yelled as another contraction hit.
"This is going quicker than I expected." Josh said to his sister happily. The sick bastard was enjoying this.
"Well I just checked her, she's about two and a half centimeters dilated."
"You checked me!" I yelled at her. "You a teacher not a damn doctor."
"Actually, I'm a trained nurse." She said like I was stupid.
"Oh well excuse me for my stupidity." I spat at her. "How did you get into our school anyway?" I panted.
"There really was a Miss Barkley, but I killed her and took her identity."
"So, is all of your family messed up or is it just you two?" I asked labor made me mean.
Josh, with a stone face, walked over and smacked me across the face. Then grabbed both my cheeks in one hand. "Your making this difficult on yourself Kristine, and you saw what happened last time. I would hate to hurt your baby." He quickly kissed me hard on the lips and when he pulled away I spit.
"Your not going to hurt my baby." I said in low voice.
"Why do you think that?" He asked intrigued.
"You need her." I watched as Josh and his sister's eyes bulged out of their heads. Clearly I hit the spot.
"You don't know that." Miss Barkley said annoyed and scared.
"But I do. Why?" I looked at Josh who had his head down.
"Bella, leave."
"But-" She said trying to stay but it was no use against her brother.
"GO!" She left but not without giving me the biggest glare in the world. What the hell is going on with these people? I thought but quickly discarded it as Josh came closer to me and sat on my bed he even grabbed my hand that was chained to the bed.
"I guess it's time to tell you a story."
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Tyler's POV
"This is unbelievable." I mumbled in my living room while holding my daughter's pink outfit. Everyone was sitting around the living room. Me, my mother, Jessica, and Carrie. Did I mention how much this situation felt like de ja vue? Well it did a lot but this time we are a little more prepared.
"Okay so what does Josh want with her?" Carrie asked.
"I don't know. He raped her almost two years ago. She kept quiet, and he sees that he's not going get Austen. So what the hell does he want!" I said holding the outfit tighter in my hands.
"Daddy?" Sierra yelled coming out into the living room and instantly onto my lap. "Where's sissy?" She asked and everyone in the room looked at each other in shock and confusion.
"Sierra who are you talking about?"
"My sister Kristine." She said simply.
"Sierra you call her mommy remember?"
"Yeah but the lady said that mommy was my sissy and that I should call her that." I put Sierra down and held her so she was looking at me directly.
"Sierra what lady?"
"The lady who was looking at our mail. She said the mail people put her mail in the wrong mailbox and she was just getting her own mail." I looked around and every girl in the room were looking at each other.
"Did she say her name Sierra?" I asked gently.
"Nope." She said shaking her head. "Can I go play now?" I let her go and nodded without saying a word.
Kristine was with Josh and this mysterious woman. If we could find the woman we could find Kristine, but the question was who was this mysterious woman and what does she want from Kristine?
