The Ultimate Ride

Chapter 3

"What? Since when? Who's the dad?" Asked Saskia in fear
"Joe...." Murmured Anna. As the figure came closer she screamed a high pitched scream that echoed into every room and broke every piece of glass around. With one hand around the dolls neck the girl stretched her other hand out and headed towards Annabel.

Closing her eyes she grabs Saskia's hand and says
"I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you"
"Hey don't be sorry. It's not your fault" says Saskia. Opening their eyes the girl is gone but stood in her place instead was Joe with his arms out ready to hug Annabel. Pushing him down the stairs Joe starts falling backwards and lands in a pile at the bottom of the stair. With Joe unable to move, Anna carefully starts walking down stairs towards him, as she gets closer she finds herself looking in the broken mirror, the one Joe broke falling down the stairs, and cried.

Falling to her knees she looked back up towards Saskia and just stared. The mirror Joe had broken was the first present he ever got her. But it was the words he said the got her upset. Having a short flash back she remembers what Joe had said.
"Here. It's for you. To say sorry."
"What is it? Thank you." Asked Annabel as she hugged him.
"Open it" said Joe with a smile on his face. As Annabel opened the present Joe told her "It's so you can see how beautiful you are to me but in your own eyes. I know it's not much but I just want to let you know how much I love you."

But Annabel thought back to now and he didn't mean it. Or there would be no beatings. No knifes and no near deaths. That's what upset her so much. Telling Saskia the story she said to Annabel
"It's better that it's broken because you don't need any more reminders of him or what he's done to you."

"But you don't know what it made me feel like did you? I actually felt like I was actually loved... But I thought wrong. If I hadn't of used that mirror when I did he would have used it on me" said Annabel on her knees crying.
Looking into a peice of broken glass a tear landed on it as she looked at Saskia and lifted her shirt sleeve.
"This is what he made me feel like." With fresh cuts in her wrist she crys and she uses the glass to cut deeper. With Annabel cutting Saskia didn't know what to do until she saw someone at the door. But no one was there. The doorbell rang. The door being pushed off its hinges but yet no one was there. Annabel jumped out the way of the door and ran to Saskia.
"Is it Joe?" Asked Annabel
"I don't know..." Said Saskia holding Annabel "I don't know."