Chapter two

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Later on at the mall, as I looked around the craft store, I looked at the exquisitely detailed canvas frames.

"Hey Andrea?"

I turned around as I heard someone mention my name.

"Oh erm good afternoon Brendon" I looked around to make sure Toni wasn't around. I carried on talking "uhm about the deal you proposed to me on Friday I'm sorry I can't send my art, I don't really want my art pieces to be sent across the country..."

"Come on Andrea, you can trust me with your art work, beside you've known me since college an-"

"It's not that I don't trust you, I just can't.. I mean I just don't want to." I interrupted

"I understand, but you do realise this is an amazing opportunity, you could become famous. And this time I'm not speaking as an old friend of yours but as a professional art dealer, and for the first time ever NYC gallery has agreed on taking in some work from a undiscovered artist from San Fransisco and I chose you for it, you have a great amount of hidden talent in you."

As I was about to speak, someone grabbed on to my wrist. "Ouch" I hissed. I looked up. It was Toni.

"Get off me vocês filho da*puta! What are you doing?" As I spoke Toni clenched on to my wrist with even more strength.

"Excuse me, what do you think you're doing?!" Brendon questioned.

"This is my girlfriend and I can do whatever the hell I want and you have no right to interfere!" Toni yelled.

"Get off me please, you're hurting me." I sobbed.

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I felt dizzy, the last thing I remember is being dragged to the car by Toni and being shouted at.

Later on in the evening, I woke up with a headache. "Toni what did you do to me?  I want to know the truth! I know you injected something into me." I wailed.  Toni just stood there and blankly stared straight at me.

"Well Andrea, I already warned you, I specifically warned you about talking to strange men! And don't worry; it was only a injection to put you too sleep." Toni declared.

"How dare you?!" I shrieked. "I trusted you to never behave like that ever again. It's my decision who I talk to and who I don't talk to you! You have no right in forcing me to live the way you want! It's my life and I choose what I do. Do you understand?"

Toni grabbed me from my waist, he began stroking my long dark hair which then turned into pulling. He wrapped my hair around his giant manly hands and tugged on hurting the roots of my head, causing me to feel the pain travel around the very top of my body.

He finally let go of me when he noticed tears covering my rosy pink cheeks. As he removed his hand from my painful head, he took along a ball of my hair and seeing it made me cry even more like a baby.

"Why? Why? Why?" I wailed.

"Im sorry babe. I didn't mean to hurt you, I just got angry. Please forgive me." Toni spoke with tears in his eyes.

I ran out of the room and entered the spare bedroom, as I entered I heard Toni calling out to me but I locked the door and tried to cover my ears with my useless hands. "Eu te odeio" I shouted.

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I woke up to the sound of my phones ringtone, I looked around my surroundings. I was still sat on the ground with my back against the door. My head still hurt from last night and most of my arm was covered with a dark painful bruise. My phone began to ring again I searched the ground for my phone once I found it I saw who was ringing. It was Brendon. I couldn't talk to him now after what Toni did to me in front
of him, how could I possibly talk to him without crying. But I answered the phone anyway.

"Hey Andrea, how are you? I hope you're okay, your boyfriend seemed really angry with you, I mean with both of us yesterday and I'm sorry I shouldn't have stopped to talk to you as I had noticed you already looked frightened." Brendon sounded very concerned.

"Erm hi, I'm fine thanks for asking and don't worry about yesterday, Toni was just a little annoyed with me from earlier."

"Oh, well I hope you sort things out with him. Also I was wondering whether he has said anything about the art deal?"

"Erm no sorry I can't and please don't tell anyone about yesterday, I don't want Toni or I to be humiliated by anyone." I pleaded.

"Don't worry I won't tell anyone, also If you ever need anything or anyone to talk to, I'm always here for you."

"Thanks, it means a lot to know that someone cares, anyway I've got to go, goodbye."

After Brendon said bye to me I ended the call and decided to go down, I was hungry. I grabbed an apple and as I bit into it, I realised that it was Monday and I had to go to the gallery today so I made my way back up and changed into a black blouse and some black skinnies whilst munching on my apple.

I grabbed my coat, purse and keys and then I was out. I didn't even get to drink coffee so I stopped by at Starbucks and ordered the usuals a espresso macchiato. I drank it on the way to work.

After my day of work was over, it was time to go home but I didn't want to face Toni. I didn't have the courage to do so. I decided to go out for a drink or two instead of going home.

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After drinking a few too many drinks I realised that it was 11:40 pm and I should really go home, I checked my purse to make sure that I had all my belongings but I noticed my phone, the screen showed 27 missed calls and 52 text messages, all from Toni. The text messages were either Toni being nice to me or nasty. I read them. One read Hey Andrea please come home now, I'm really sorry. Another read Where the f***k are you? Get home now or else.

I got into my car and began to drive but soon after I stopped the car as my vision began to blur my sight with tears dripping down my face, I felt uneasy and felt the vomit coming up. I got out and bent over near a tree as I threw up. I felt a warm hand touch my shoulder but I was unable to see who it was with my consciousness fading.

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Cliffhanger:)
I hope you enjoyed the second chapter... And please comment. I'm sorry if there were any mistakes.
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