Fixing Her ✅

4

I went down to the parking lot surprised to see that Alex was already there

"Miss me" I hugged him

"I talked to you three days ago"

"Yeah but that was so long ago"

"Come on we can take my car"

I have really missed my brother he is the only family I have left besides Andrea, since some drunken man was murdered by my father and my so called father is in prison which I am very happy for

"Stop right here" I glanced over to a small cafe

"Wait a minute. This is the cafe you used to talk me to after school when I had a bad day" he smiled

"I just wanted to come back to the very few places we had good memories in" we got out of my car and headed into the cafe. We sat at the very last booth in the end of the cafe. Nostalgia emitted from this place, I ran my finger under the table and felt A&B I had scraped under the table with the same blade I had cut myself with in the bathroom

My brother and I ordered the same food we did when we came here, I got a chicken wrap with a cappuccino and he got a BLT and a Sprite.

"So how' s work" Alex began the conversation

" Difficult at times but I try my best"

"I never understood why you became a lawyer?" I bit my lip

"Because I had this friend of mine when I was younger who got abused and I hated it so I wanted to go into law. Since I was great in subjects like literature, English, science and sociology I decided law might be the best way for me to go" he raised a brow

"You had friends besides Andrea?" I playfully hit his arm

The truth is I never had enough courage to tell my brother about the abuse. I didn't want him to leave his studies in Oxford just to come check on me but I do know I have to tell him whether like it or not. These were the exact same words Andrea told me when she met Alex for the first time

"So now more about you. Who's your new twink?" He groaned

"Just a twink that is not worth my time" I pout

"And he was so cute" he shook his head

"Sorry sister but that one is 100% gay, maybe a little too gay if there is such a thing" I gasped

"There is no such thing as too much gay, you should be ashamed of yourself" he chuckled

"I freaking missed you" he kissed my forehead

"Why don't you come stay with me for a while in England, I mean it is where you were born" I signed.

I really do want to go back to England to just leave everything behind and forget about America but I can't do that to Andrea, she needs me and I need her, and I think I have a thing for Chris even though he's a bit rough around the edges

I sipped the last bit of coffee I had and looked out the window to the city. There was a playground next door.

"Can we go to the playground" Alex nodded before he slapped down a $30 down onto the table

I grabbed a hold of Alex's hand and dragged him to the playground. I sat down on a swing and Alex sat down on the one next to it

"Why did you want to come here?" I took a deep breath

"Because I wanted to calm down a bit before I told you the truth" A puzzled look appeared on Alex's face

"You're right I never had any other her friend besides Andrea" Alex furrowed his brows, I kept repeating in my mind that I had to tell him, I kept on pushing

"Ok so why lie to me?"

"Because that friend I was talking about is actually me" Alex looked taken back

"While you were away Taylor became violent especially since mom was planning to leave him before she got sick. It started the day after school just began and I started junior year"

I had just gotten home from school to heard screaming, it was my parents arguing with each other about something in their room. I ran upstairs to their room and closely listened to their conversation

"I told you Taylor you need to stop drinking!" My mother shouted hoarsely

"Oh why don't you ever shut the hell up whore, after you slept with that Doctor of yours you've been on my back"

"I never slept with Dr.Sterling he's just my gynecologist Taylor, he's supposed to poke around in my vagina" I heard something break it was followed quickly by a scream from my mom

"Are you insane, God sometimes I wish I had stayed with Francis instead of your sorry ass" suddenly everything went quiet for a minute then the silence was broken, a bloody curdling scream came from the room. I ran up to my room and hid under my covers wishing for my big brother to come and make it all go away

I knew he had hit my mom and that was the first time and not the last a few weeks after the abuse got works then she got sick, years past until she lost the fight

On Saturday night a month after my mom's death Taylor stumbled into my room drunk as ever. I stayed still on my bed hoping he would just go away but he didn't. He slapped me with all his might sending me crashing to the floor, he then landed on top of me. I tried to get out of his grip but failed miserably.

"You know, you look just like your mother" he slurred his breath reached of alcohol

"She was always the best I had in bed especially when I forced her to have sex with me, I wonder if you're the same" he began kissing on my neck

I stopped telling the story, I couldn't continue it was too much to handle all at once. Alex had gotten up and he now stood I front of me, he got on his knees and looked me in my eyes

" I am so so sorry I wasn't there, I wanted to take you back to England with me but I didn't have the resources at the time to take care of a teenager" I had began to uncontrollably sob and Alex just held onto me as tight as he could

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Ello beautiful readers

I know it was yesterday but happy Divide day

So Brie's story is not a pretty one and it won't get better just yet

XO

K.A