Beauty Inside

Chapter 10 (The end)

   After convincing Axel that I was fine to go home I went to my room and packed all my stuff and my brothers, I got Axel to get me a rental car with some of the money in my bank account for me to use on his insurance. I don't care about how the monster reacts because I need to do what's best for my brother. The monster and think about the consequences later.

  I pack all of the things needed for us and go to leave when I discover the door is jammed which is really weird.

  "Where in the hell do you think your going?!" I turn around and look at the monster himself. He laughs like the evil villain in almost every scary movie. I swallow the lump in my throat and chant myself up.

  "I'm leaving! What doesn't look like?!" I growled. He looks taken back and then quickly recovers and smiles at me. This b*tch is crazy.

  "Your leaving? With what money?! You dumb a*s didn't think this plan through did you?" He chuckles and circles around me. My heart beat increases.

  "Actually I did, I'm not a dumb a*s who spends his money on nothing but booze like common drunk." I say teasingly, trying to get under his skin.

  "You really are a stupid little girl." He hummed. He then pushed me onto the floor making me hiss in pain. The then got on top of me and started to punch me in the face a couple of times making me react fast, I grabbed a empty whiskey bottle on the floor and smashed it on his head making him roll of me, grabbing his head.

  I kicked him the stomach and started running towards the door. I felt his fingers grab my leg so I tried pulling out of his grip and fail when my body falls back on the floor.

  "You can't get away from me Natalie. You will never get rid of me, EVER!" He began to pull my body closer to his and I wasn't going down like this. I take my right leg and kick his face twice allowing me to get free. I run like my life depended on it but stop when a familiar voice pulls me back. I turn around to see my brother being held by the monster with a knife to his neck. Tears pool my eyes.

  "Stop! Stop! I won't leave, please let him go. I'm sorry!" I beg, letting all my tears fall. I can't lose my brother.

  "See little Nate, I always win and forever will win until someone has the d*mn balls to stop me. And clearly that person isn't you." He pushes my brother to the floor and walks to me as I close my eyes. I failed.

  "I'm sorry. I wasn't really gonna leave." I promise. He grabs me by the collar of my shirt and stand me on my feet.

  "I want you and your brother to go empty the f*cking car now!" I nod frantically and wait for my brother to reach my side. We both walk to the car and grab a suitcase each and walk to the door. I walk to the door as he watches us and has a sick smile on his face that I can't help the cringe at on the inside.

  We walk to the door to get more clothes and suitcases out of the car. The monster goes in front of us and I stop letting my brother go in front of me. I grab a baseball bat that he keeps by the door and put it behind my back. My brother sees what going on and nods at me. He doesn't talk as much as he did as a kid after my mother died and my dad began the monster that kids fear is under there bed keeping them up at night.

  Once my brother moves I swing at the first chance I get, letting all the adrenaline flow through my body. I hit him once in the head and then I moved to his torso. Then suddenly something comes over me and I don't stop.

  "Stop! Natalie, if you don't stop you will become him! The monster you and I have feared for so long Nate. You don't want this. Let him rot in jail like the piece of sh*t he is! Don't be the monster." I look to see my brother , who hasn't really spoken a sentence since our mothers passing. Tears running down his face and his eyes pleading me to stop. I drop the bat and run over to hug him.

  I hear the sirens of police cars and ambulances already knowing where they're going and just bask in the moment knowing it's all over. I'm free. Finally.

  A couple of minutes later they arrive and looking at the scenes of what happen, looking at my face, the unconscious man on the ground and my brother. We answer all there questions making me remember everything. I see a truck pull up making a stop at my house. The drivers side door opens and I immediately start running to him and hug him like my life depends on it.

  That night the monster was taken away from the police and my brother and I having to go to the station to make a police statement about the unusual events that happened that day  while Axle was by my side not even leaving for a second. Even though what he did wasn't right or what he did made my life a living hell, I forgive him because the saying 'I will forgive you but I will never forget' brought a new light to me that holding a grudge doesn't give me the happiness I deserve. It just simply proves I can't let go and live....Free. So I forgive him.

  I will live free and fear nothing after all I been through. I survived.

💜🦄.