Overthrown

Ringing

Previously: I see Byron come back around the corner without the bat. But there's a catch. This time, he has a knife.

Aria's pov

I stumble backwards but am stopped by the desk at the back of the room.

"Don't do this!" I say putting my hands out for protection as he came closer.

"I'll do what I want." He fought.

He got to my feet when he lowered his back to get closer to me when he raised the knife like he did before with the bat.

I don't want this to be how I die, but I guess this is how it is. I'll die with my body throbbing and a loud ringing in my head that just gets louder by the minuet.

He slowly rose from his hunched place in front of me.

"Do you hear that ringing?" He asks.

"You hit me in the head a lot... Of corse I do." I said regretting it. He kicked me all over my thighs. He stopped when the ringing was at its loudest.

He looked at the door that was pounded on by three large knocks.

"Rosewood police! Open up!" They shouted.

"You did this!" He yelled as he gripped the knife harder with both hands and raised it above his head.

The door was kicked in and two policemen entered the house. Everything was blurry in my vision but they were both tall and wearing uniforms. They pretty much looked like the same blur except one had blond hair and the other has brown. They ran over to where we were and grabbed there guns.

"Police! Put down your weapon!" The yelled.

"Alright." Dad said in the same position above me. "Just let me do one thing first." He smiled as he quickly lowered the knife into my stomach.

I scream out in pain as the police run over to him and push him off of me. One calls for an ambulance while the other is tackling dad. Soon enough both are trampling each other trying to get him in handcuffs.

The two men push him onto the ground with there foot and used there hands to handcuff him. Once they do so, I'm guessing the brown hair one puts dad in the cop car while the blond one comes over to me. 

"Oh my god! Aria! Are you okay? Can you hear me? Can you see me? It's me, Toby." He kept rambling. He ran to the couch and grabbed a blanket, came back to me, and put pressure where dad stabbed me to get the bleeding to stop.

The pain was so unbearable from the pressure. The room started to get darker and the pain started to go away.

"Aria stay with me!" Toby said putting his free hand on my shoulder and shaking it. It only made it worse. My whole body was covered in bruises.

"Aria! If you leave, who will take care of your brother? Who will Spencer, Emily, and Hanna go to when they need someone compassionate? And we both know Ezra won't live with himself if you die. Stay awake Aria. Please?"

Before I knew it, everything went black.

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Toby's pov

"Aria? Aria!" Her eyes are closed and she's barely breathing. There's blood everywhere. I don't know if she can make it with this much blood gone.

"Toby?" I turn to see a perimedic who I know from being on the force.

"Hey! She's been stabbed and has bruises everywhere. She's not concise and barley has a heart beat." I inform him. More people some in with a stretcher and lift her onto it. They give her oxygen and start checking her pulse as they wheel her the the ambulance. They get her inside safely and begin there way to the hospital.

"Toby? What the hell?" I turn around. Oh no.

"Ezra. What are you doing here?" I ask.

"I came to bring Aria's car back. Why are there police cars everywhere and and ambulance just leave? Where's Aria?" He starts freaking out. I look down, not wanting to break the news to him. I think he got the message.

Ezra's pov

Toby looks down at the ground. He knows what happened. I look at where he was looking at the ground. My eyes were met with a horrific sight.

Blood.

I walk over and grab the blanket from the floor and start crying. She's dead isn't she? There's blood everywhere, how wouldn't she be dead! This is all my fault. If I just made her tell me who hurt her I could've protected her. At least I would be hurt. Not her. If I would've came inside with her. Why didn't I? I'm suppose to be the one who protects her from bad things. Bad people. I wasn't there when she needed me most. I will never forgive myself for this.

"Ezra, it's okay." Toby cooed, placing his hand on my back. I quickly shifted it off.

"No! It's not okay! She's dead and it's all because I didn't protect her! This is my fault!" I screamed in anger. I sat in a ball in defeat on the floor in defeat, crying.

"She's not dead!" Toby said.

"Then what happened?" I asked as I stood up.

"We got a call down at the police station from her phone. It was her screaming and you could hear he was hitting her with something hard. Maybe wood or metal?" He started. I flinched at the thought of Aria being attacked like that.

"When we got here he was holding a knife." I gasped.

"Is that why there is blood everywhere?" A tear fell from my eye. He nodded in response.

"I have to get to her!" I pushed Toby away and ran past the broken door and outside.

"You don't have your car. Just come ride with me. I'll take you." Toby offered. I obliged and got in.

I'm coming Aria. I'm coming.

A/N
Whew! That was some drama!😂
Did you survive? Are you still breathing? I'm not...
-RKM