Lauren And I.

Chapter nine...

From the minute we woke up the next morning there was an automatic tension between Lauren and I. I probably shouldn't have said that but I was just too concerned about her. I'm still concerned about her. How do I get her to tell me without it ending in us hating each other. Although, I could never even dream about anything that could make me hate her, she has a lot more on me than I do on her. She wasn't talking to me. She's probably pretending to be asleep. We were both awake which made the awkward silence in which tensions were born. "Lauren?" She gasped sharply giving away her deceiving facade. "G-get away please."
"What's wrong?" I asked, she seemed more scared of me than then angry at me. Why was that? "Y-you're mad at me aren't you?" She said hanging her head. "Why would I be mad?"
"I-I denied you. I'm supposed to be p-punished for these things." She sobs out. Why can't she see that I'm not like her father? I would never become what became of her 'dad'. I will never be a monster. "Lauren?" I said. My voice cracking at the end with tears brimming my eyes. I should be embarrassed but I'm not. I'm not ashamed of my princess. "What happened?" I said it sternly but softly. Telling her that I wasn't taking 'no' for an answer. I brushed my thumbs over the pink and scarred skin of her wrists. "T-the first time I did it was when he was punishing me for s-something I had done wrong. He j-just kept kicking. When he was done, I ran to the bathroom. There was a sharp metal thing on the counter top. Of c-course I was curious. I wondered what it was so I put it on my skin. It hurt but then it felt like I was floating on clouds you know? But when I started I couldn't stop myself." Tears were streaming down her face endlessly it seemed. I held her in my arms and rocked her back to sleep. Isaac's voice tore me away from my thoughts. "You really do love her, don't ya Ollie?"
"I really do." I said, starting to play with her strawberry strands of hair. "You nasty butt." He said, slipping his cap back over his eyes as if to shield his eyes. As soon as I determined he was asleep I snuggled into Lauren. Poor Lauren. She doesn't deserve any of this. All the pain, all the abandonment, and all the suffering she went through and it made her nothing but kind. We  lied there. Just me and Lauren. Lauren and I.