Abused(On Hold)

Chapter 23

I woke up early that next morning to complete silence. I looked over at the bed that Jamie and Isabella had been sleeping in and noticed that it was empty. I looked in the bathroom they weren’t there either. I started to freak out, they wouldn’t of escaped without me, I thought to myself. When I tried the door it was locked. Theres no way that they could have gotten out of the room.

I sat there for hours wondering where they were. I kept thinking the worst that maybe Dave had come and killed them, or he had forgotten to lock the door and they were caught by him and brutally murdered. I heard the jingle of keys and knew that Dave was behind my door, but there weren’t any other noises. When he had the door unlocked I was relieved to see Jamie and Isabella standing there with him. Isabella ran into the room before Jamie did. Isabella looked terrified while Jamie had a blank look on her face. Dave shut the door and locked it once again when the girls were in the room.

When I was sure that he was gone I asked where they had went. “He took us to a room, in the house. I don’t know where, because he had us blindfolded. It was horrifying Lily”, Jamie said whispering. “What did you see”, I asked? “Dead bodies”, she said. I froze and felt the blood drain from my face, all of the sudden the air seemed to get cold almost as if those spirits were in the room with us. Isabella was crying silently into her moms shoulder. “Isabella”, I said, “It’s going to be ok”. She looked at me and nodded.

Later that night we were sitting on the bed talking about funny movies, when Dave came bursting through the door. He came over to me and I could smell the alcohol on his breath. He picked me up by the arm and drug me out of of the room. Isabella tried to come and help me, but her mom held her back. When we were outside of the room he dropped me on the ground and locked the door once again. I pushed me down the stairs and drug me to the kitchen where he once again let go of me. He grabbed the biggest knife that was in the drawer and looked at me a sinister smile on his face. He walked over to me and bent down next to me and started cutting my legs. The pain was unbearable at first but subsided as he kept cutting me.

By the time he was finished I was laying in a puddle of blood. He threw the knife down and started dragging me across the floor and up the stairs. I screamed in pain, the cuts hurt so bad. It felt like he had been going up the stairs for about an hour before we reached the top. He let me go and unlocked the bedroom door. Jamie gasped when she saw that I was covered in blood. Dave kicked me into the room like I was a piece of trash and shut the door locking it again.

Jamie told Isabella to start the bath while she helped me out of the clothes I was wearing. “Oh my god”, she whispered looking at the cuts that now covered me. She picked me up making me wince in pain and carried me to the bathroom. She asked if it was ok to put me in the bathtub and I just nodded, I was in too much pain to say anything. She put me in the bath gently. The water stung my cuts making me hiss in pain. I sat in the water until, my limbs felt like rubber. I got out of the bathtub and put some clothes on before going into the room again. Isabella was sleeping on a pallet on the floor and Jamie was sitting next to her watching her sleep. When I walked in she asked me if I was ok and told me that she was just going to sleep on the floor with Isabella, so that I could have something soft to sleep on. I thanked her and lay down. I fell asleep shortly after.

I’m in the forest, running from something. I hear the crunch of leaves as I run, it’s fall. The thing I was running from was catching up to me, so I pushed myself to run faster.  I was running out of breath and fast. I listened and didn’t hear anymore noises, so I stopped. When I turned around I screamed, there were lots of people chasing me. Tyler, My mom, my dad, Tyler’s mom, and many more dead people that I didn’t know.

Suddenly I was being shaken awake. “Lily, wake up it’s just a dream”, I hear a voice say. When I opened my eyes I saw Isabella standing there. “You’re ok”, she said climbing into bed next to me and wrapping her small arms around me. I hugged her back and fell back asleep. When I woke up the next morning she was still laying there. I smiled and wiggled out of her arms after giving her a kiss on the forehead. Jamie was on the floor sleeping still, she looked so peaceful and I couldn’t help, but wonder what I looked like when I slept. I remember Tyler telling me that I looked beautiful, and peaceful when I slept. Thinking of Tyler brought tears to my eyes. “Are you ok”, Jamie asked. “Yea”, I said, “just thinking about Tyler again”. She smiled sadly and nodded knowing the feeling. She missed her other kids like crazy.

I was sitting in the window sill, when Isabella woke up. “What are you looking at”, she asked as she sat up and rubbed her eyes. “Nothing really”, I said with a smile, “just the sky and the trees”. She smiled liking my response and came over to look out the window too. She smiled and said pretty. That one word made me smile, if Isabella that something could be pretty after what she went through then so could I. Dave came in a little bit later and and once again I could smell the alcohol on his breath. He pushed Isabella onto the bed and started taking her clothes of. Then he took off his belt and pants and raped her. Her screams filled my ears and I wanted so badly to help, but it wouldn’t stop him. He would just hurt me and then continue with what he came for. Isabella looked me in

the eyes the whole time. I mouthed, “think of a happy place”, and prayed that she did. When he was finished, I watched as he took out a knife. I struggled to get over and stop him, because I knew what he was going to do. I screamed and tried to push him, he only laughed and elbowed me.  I fell to the ground my hands over my nose. I knew that he had broken it when I heard it crack. He lifted the knife up and plunged it into Isabellas arm, she screamed as he kept stabbing her. By the time he was done I could tell that she had lost a lot of blood. I ran over to her ignoring my pain, and looked at her. I ran to the bathroom and grabbed a washcloth. I put some warm water on it and some peroxide knowing that I had to clean the cuts out. Isabella winced from the pain at first, but then she passed out.

I felt for a pulse, it wasn’t strong, but there was one. I worked to clean the rest of the blood off of her body. I couldn’t find Jamie anywhere. I called her name, but she didn’t answer. I kept working on Isabella trying to stop the bleeding, I kept cleaning her cuts for hours, I made makeshift bandages out of shirts that I had, I changed them every five minutes. She was bleeding so bad and I was scared that she was going to die. Hours went by and I was still changing the bandages.

When I changed them for what felt like the millionth time, I got up to go find Jamie. She had to be here somewhere. I hadn’t seen Dave take her. A few minutes later she came out of the closet. I was so startled to see her, I hadn’t even seen her go into the closet. “Lily”, she said smiling, “there is another door in the closet and it leads to a hiding spot”. I tried to smile, but she saw that it didn’t reach my eyes. “What happened”, she asked looking at the bed? When she saw Isabella laying there she collapsed. “I’ve covered her with makeshift bandages, and stopped the bleeding”, I said. She lay there on the ground crying, I felt so bad for her. I went over to Isabella and felt for a pulse once again.  Fear coursed through me as I realized that she didn’t have one. Tears sprang to my eyes and I started giving CPR.

After about 20 minutes of not giving up I had to face the fact that she had passed away. When Dave came in a little bit later he took one look at her and left the room. He came back in a few minutes later with a trash bag. When Jamie saw it she screamed, and wrapped her arms tighter around her daughter’s body. Dave smiled his sinister smile and grabbed Isabella’s arm. Jamie tried to hold on, but she was too weak and ended up falling off the bed. Dave left the room quickly leaving me and Jamie. The tears hadn’t stopped falling from my eyes since I found out she was dead. I lay down and fell into a deep sleep, dreaming the Isabella ended up somewhere; where she would be way better off than here.