5 More Days

chapter 4

*ding* Dukes phone signals he has a text. His face breaks into a smile when he reads it.

"Romeo just landed at the airport. He's on his way now" he tells me.

I stretch out on the couch and sigh loudly.

"I will go tell them to stay in the room" I tell him and he nods.
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"You idiot! Do you know how dangerous that is?" I shout at my brother. He looks at me sadly and opens his mouth to speak, but Hunter interrupts.

"Dude, calm down, its just a little heroin, its no big deal" His stupid voice calmly speaks, making me even angrier.

"No big deal? You could die" I yell, slamming my fist into his chest.

This has been going on for an hour, me yelling at them for being this stupid and Hunter telling me to calm down. Samuel has hardly spoken a word the whole time and Izaac, of course, just looks at me blankly.

I turn back to my brother and place my hands on my hips.

"Why would you do this type of thing?" I ask him.

"You need to get out" he says quietly, pointing at the door. I shake my head no.

"Get out Samara" he says a bit louder and I stay where I am. Hunter walks towards me and grabs ahold of my wrist, yanking me towards the door.

He pushes me out of Samuels room and into the hallway. I struggle to get out of his grip but he's too strong.

He shoves me into my room and locks the door behind him. I kick him in the shin and he let's go of my wrist, but immediately grabs my waist. He pulls me close to him and attaches his lips to mine.
I try to scream but nothing comes out.

"Don't make a sound" he growls in my ear. He pushes me roughly onto my bed and crawls on top of me.

My heart slams against my chest and my eyes fill with tears.

"Get off" I whisper,to exhausted to fight anymore.

He shakes his head no and I sob. Hunter smirks at me and lifts his shirt over his head.

All of a sudden, some kind of strength fills me and I muster up the courage to let out one, long scream.

Hunter clamps his hand over my mouth and I bite down as hard as I can. He shrieks and pulls his hand away, I take this opportunity to push him off me and run for the door.

Just as I reach out for the door knob it flies open. I'm surprised to see Izaac standing at the door, but I fling myself into his arms anyway. Ide do anything to get away from the monster named Hunter.

Izaac's arms wrap around me and I sob into his huge chest.

"He... And then.... I didnt...." I frantically mutter and he soothingly rubs my back.

I hear Hunter grumbling in the room behind me. Izaac let's go of me and pushes me lightly towards the living room.

"I will deal with him" he tells me.

I nod and take a seat on the couch, looking around for Duke, but he's nowhere to be found, so I just think.

Why would Hunter do something so cruel? So..... Disgusting. And why would Izaac help me? Not to be rude, but I thought he'd be the type of guy to get in on it.

And Samuel.... I don't even know what to think. 

My phone buzzes in my pocket and I grab it, clicking answer.

"Hey Duke" I say.

"Hey"

"Um, where are you?" I ask him.

"Oh, Romeo called and asked if I could pick him up, he doesn't like taxis" He answers. "I was going to ask if you wanted to come, but you where yelling at Samuel and i didn't want to interrupt"

"Oh OK..... Well I'll see you when you get home?"

I contemplated telling him about Hunter, but it would ruin his time with Romeo, so I left it out.

"Yep, bye Samara"

Before I have a chance to reply back he hangs up, leaving me to think some more.

After what seems like hours, but in reality was probably only 5 minutes, Izaac and Hunter finally emerge.

Hunter hurries out the door without looking at me and Izaac strides over to the couch and sits next to me.

"You alright?" He asks, resting his giant hand on my shoulder.

No

"Yeah" I lie, smiling weakly at him.

"Your lying" he says squeezing my shoulder lightly. I blink back the tears threatening to spill.

"Hey, don't cry" he speaks softly.

"Why would Hunter try to do that? Its horrible" I sob, letting tears flow down my face.

"He won't do it again, I dealt with it" he assures me, wiping my tears away with his thumb.

"OK" I say. I want to ask how he dealt with it, but its not important.

We sit in silence for a while, until the door opens and Duke walks through, followed by a guy, who must be Romeo.

Izaac pats my shoulder and gets up, walking past them and out the door.

Duke gives me a confused look but I wave it off and stand up from the couch.

"Hi! You must be Romeo, I'm Samara" I greet happily, holding my hand out for him to shake.

He takes my hand and kisses the back of it.

"Bonjorno Samara, its a pleasure to meet you" His pleasant accent fills my ears.

I give Duke an approving nod and he smiles, taking Romeos hand.

"I'll show you my room,yeah?" Duke asks Romeo who nods and smiles warmly.

"Oh, is Samuel home?" Duke asks me and my smile fades.

Is he? If he was home he would have saved me from Hunter, right? He wouldn't just let him disappear with me without caring.....  He must have gone out just after Hunter and I left the room. But then why would Izaac stay if my brother was gone?....

"Uh, I think he went out" I answer unsurely.

Dukes eyes scan the key rack and he raises his eyebrows in confusion.

"Aren't those his keys?" He asks. I turn around, and right there, hanging up are his car keys, in the same place as they were this morning. Telling me that he never left the apartment.

He let Hunter take me, and he probably heard my scream.

And he didn't care.

"Oh, I guess he is here" I answer through gritted teeth. Duke doesn't notice my anger and shrugs, leading Romeo to his room.