*Patrick's POV*
*about 1 month later*
"Hey Abby, could you come downstairs?" I yell to her. I hear her run down the stairs and stop. She gives us a weird look, but that's probably because we're all sitting at the table staring at her.
"What's up?"
"We need to talk about something important."
"Ok?" I take a deep breath and start slowly.
"We need to talk about your education." Her eyes go wide with fear.
"Y-y-you mean l-l-like s-sc-school?" Her legs start to wobble and she sits down on the ground. Then suddenly she starts hyperventilating.
"Shoot! She's having a panic attack!" I get eye level with her and put my hands on her shoulders. "Abby, listen, you need to breath. In and out. In and out." After several minutes, her breathing finally slows down. "I'm sorry sweetie." Without saying anything, she falls into my arms for a hug and stays there. I feel silent tears slip out and onto my shirt.
"Sorry."
"For what?"
"For always crying! I'm such a baby!"
"You're ok! Everyone needs to cry. If you keep all your emotions bottled up inside, it just makes everything worse." She mumbles an 'ok' then lets go of me and goes to her room.
"Wow Pat, I knew she has bad memories of school, but I didn't know it was this bad." Pete says.
"I know, I just wish I knew how to help her forget these memories."
"I wish we knew what happened there to cause a panic attack."
"Well, we were told she has bad memories from there at the orphanage. Then last month when she had the really bad nightmare, she told me that the dream was about being bullied really bad, beat up, then being taken to the bathroom by an older kid. Then him doing 'things' to her. I hope that doesn't mean rape. But who knows. She also told me the nightmares started occurring after they happened. My guess is that this was happening when she was 6 or 7, since she was taken out of school when she was 8."
"Man, I really want to ask her about it, but I don't want to trigger anything."
"Yeah. But how are we supposed to get her to go to school? Just the topic of it is a trigger! She also hasn't been there in like 4 years. Maybe, we could homeschool her!"
"Maybe...But we're busy all the time."
"Not all the time. And beside, that could be best for her. Ya know, easing her way back into learning without triggering something."
"Yeah. Try talking about it again tomorrow?"
"Maybe."
*Abby's POV*
After dinner, I went straight back to my room and on my phone. I'm afraid I'll have a bad nightmare tonight, so I'm gonna stay up as long as I can.
At 3:30 I finally fall asleep, just to submerged into a nightmare.
*Dream*
"Abigail! Get down here right now!" My mom yelled.
"Yes miss?"
"Why did we get a call from the school, that you were crying?"
"I don't know miss." She slaps me across the face.
"Tell me!" She screams.
"Kids at school beat me and hurt me!"
"So?! That's no reason to cry!" She slaps me again. My lip starts to tremble and I try to control it. "Are you going to cry?"
"N-n-no miss." I whimper.
"God you're such a fucking baby! Dave! Get down here!"
My father Dave comes downstairs with a sly grin plastered on his face.
"What do you want Kristen?"
"Abigail here, thinks it's ok to cry at school!"
"Tsk tsk tsk. Well that just won't do, will it?" He undoes his belt. "I guess we'll have to teach her not to cry."
He turns me around so my back is facing him. He starts whipping my back repeatedly. I hold in my screams and whimpers, I've learned if I don't show any emotion, he'll get bored. Finally, he stops.
"Did you learn you're lesson?" He asks.
"Yes sir."
"Good. But I don't think we can take any chances with something like this happening again."
"You're right. Abigail, you're not going to school anymore." My mother says.
"Yes ma'am."
*end of dream*
I wake up covered in sweat and try to forget the memory. Most of my nightmares as about my childhood. At the time, I thought not going to school would be great. No more bullying, no more beatings, no more rape. Little did I know at the time that what happened at home would get worse.
I look at the clock. 4:37. I decide not to go back to sleep and go downstairs. I nearly trip but regain balance on the stairs. I make coffee to help keep me awake then s pend the next 8 hours scrolling through tumblr until the guys wake up
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