Silenced

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven: Can Never Get Enough

Brianna laid awake that night. She tried her hardest to fall asleep, but the constant pain in her stomach wouldn't let her. She had looked earlier, and dark purple and blue bruises were already forming, but she didn't think the bruises were causing all the pain. She can handle bruises.

She had already tried taking a pain killer, but it didn't help.

Her head from that afternoon also made her head throb, but she had dressed it, and took a pain killer earlier, and it seemed to take the edge off the pain.

Brianna had considered going to the hospital, but what would she tell the doctor when he asked what happened? She fell down the steps? That was one of the oldest tricks in the book.

She had a feeling what was going on in her stomach was internal. But, she didn't have the courage to face up to the fact that she might have to have some sort of serious surgery.

It was now 1 o' clock in the morning, and she still showed no sign of falling asleep. She would take some sort of sleeping pill, but her mom hogs them all in her room.

All of a sudden, alarming heavy footsteps could be herd outside of her door. Next, came a heavy banging on her locked door. "Brianna! Open the damn door!"

It was her dad.

She quickly scrambled from her bed, well as fast as she could with her stomach hurting and all. She grabbed her phone, and went into her bathroom, locking that door.

"I'm not going to tell you again! Open the fucking door you bitch!"

She curled up into a ball on the bathroom door, and wrapped her arms around herself. She waited for the next sound to come.

"Fine!" He shouted.

Silence.

Suddenly, a really loud bang came from the other side of her door. Then another and another.

He was trying to knock her door down.

She wanted to just disappear, or shrink into nothing, but this is reality. She can't.

Finally, the sound of her door braking echoed throughout her ears. Then the sound of him trudging through her room.

"Dammit you baby! Come out of there!" He shouted, now banging on the bathroom door.

Brianna was starting to panic. There were no windows in her bathroom to escape through. She couldn't go anywhere.

She didn't know what else to do, so she unlocked her phone and texted Jeremy.

To: Jeremy
Jeremy! I'm locked in my bathroom, and my dads beating on it trying to get to me! Please help!

As she got ready to press send, the door came flying open. Her fuming dad stood on the other side, fist clenched and jaw hard.

Brianna quickly stood up, and backed away from her dad. "Come here, Brianna." He smiled, sinisterly.

She didn't dare move a muscle. He slowly walked towards her. Once he reached her, he grabbed her by her hair, and yanked her towards him. "Listen to me when I speak to you!" He shouted, elbowing her in the jaw.

She cried out in pain, holding her jaw. He pushed her to the floor, and she landed on her stomach, her phone falling out of her hand, and gliding across the floor.

He repeatedly stomped on her back, surely leaving bruises. "This will teach you to listen!" He yelled. She pulled her off the floor, and shoved her into the sink countertop, making it collide with her stomach.

Tears poured from her eyes.

He gripped the back of her shirt, pulling her away from the sink. He then walked her to the bathtub, and abruptly shoved her into it.

Her head collided with the side of it, and she immediately became light headed, and started seeing spots.

The last thing she herd was her father laughing darkly before she blacked out.