Breaking The Game [Book #1]

Chapter 55

Narrator

A few days have passed. Allie hasn't seen or heard from Alix, even Tiffany. It's been awkward around the apartment between her and North, but what North doesn't know is that Allie has turned back to frequent alcohol consumption.

She's been going to work with major hang overs and going to bed tipsy or drunk. North has been closed off in her office trying to minimize her own heartbreak.

Allie is a nude colored bra and green underwear. Her hair is in a ponytail and she has a glass bottle of liquor in her right hand. She's touching the stuff in North's office, humming loudly and stumbling over her feet.

Flashback of her parents start to deteriorate her character faster. She drops the glass bottle on the ground. It shatters instantly and some small shards dig into Allie's feet. Whatever liquor was in the bottle is now on the floor, spreading out. Allie groans loudly in pain and begins to cry.

She pushes herself against North's file cabinets and pulls her knees to her chest. Small amounts of blood stains Allie's feet. The glass caused minor damage. The small cuts will heal quickly.

Allie continues to deteriorate causing more hurtful memories about her parents and past home life to surface. Her hysterical crying is slowly turning into a panic attack.

North walks in from work. She's in her work clothes and she's carrying her black blazer in one arm and her purse is hanging from her opposite shoulder. She hears Allie's crying and screaming through the office door and is immediately alarmed.

She drops her things and rushes to the terrible sounds. North pushes the door open quickly and stops in her tracks when she see's the broken glass of liquor on the ground and Allie half naked crying and bleeding from her feet.

North walks over to Allie carefully and bends down. North holds Allie's face in shock. Allie stares at North, still crying. Allie doesn't really know that's North is in front of her. She's completely warped in her own disturbing world.

"It's okay, it's okay! I'm here!" North said.

Allie leans into North and cautiously puts her hands on her waist. North can smell the alcohol from Allie and from the alcohol on the floor. North rubs Allie's back and coddles her as much as she can.

"What happened?" North asked.

Allie doesn't answer. She's shaking and stuck in shock from her memories and the alcohol in her system isn't helping. North holds her closely and sighs heavily. Coming home to more work and a mess is never fun.

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North drops a white bucket of warm water on Allie. She traces over the long red lines she left on Allie's tattoo less back. Allie's in the tub being given a bath by North. North spent at least twenty minutes picking the glass out of Allie's feet.

"They abused me." Allie said softly.

"What?" North said.

"My parents. They abused me," Allie repeated. "I always knew they did, but it was never vivid enough. I always doubted it."

North sits downs giving her knees a break. She's fully aware of what Allie went through as a teenager, but she never thought she should tell Allie about it. No one wants to remember being abused. She thought it would be best to never mention how horrible her parents actually were to her.