Shattered

Chapter 3: Flashbacks

"I wish that I could wake up with amnesia." Still in Luke's arms I finally start to
calm down enough to be able to talk. "I-i'm sorry." I said "There is nothing to be sorry about
Kat. It's perfectly fine to cry, but do you mind telling me what exactly it is that you are
crying about?" I took a deep breath and explain my situation. ~Flashback~ "Katherine tell
your father about your award sweetie." My mother was so proud of me that night. I was 12.
I had won the creative writing award for the state, so she decided to celebrate by going to
Mussolini's for dinner. "Mommmmm it's not that big of a deal!" I whined "Kat honey listen
to your mother I wanted to know any ways." I sigh and start to open my mouth when I hear
a loud SCREECH! Next thing I know we're flying through the air with glass everywhere I
look at my dad in a panic, and grab him and my mom's hands. We land in the water off the
bridge back into our small town in maine. I blackout and wake up on shore my parents
nowhere in sight. I scream and scream but they never answered. I finally see my father
floating in the water. I pull him to the shore crying. I try to give him cpr but it doesn't work
and all I can do is sit and cry with my father lying dead in my lap. ~Forward 2 years~ I'm in
the foster care system and i'm with this family who HATES kids. I was asleep one night and
I hear someone in my room. I open my eyes to my foster dad as he covers my mouth and begins
undressing me I was moving too much so he knocked me out. I could tell he had raped me
from how sore I was. Every night since then he came in my room, sometimes bringing his 18
year old son with him, and if I moved he hit me. ~Forward to present day~ I feel my tears
well up again as I finish telling him my gruesome story. "And the woman you met out there
adopted me almost a year ago. That's how I got here. Not to sound creepy or anything but
that's where your music came into play. It helped me. It was my escape." I told him almost
everything, but I refuse to tell him about my self harm. That's just too much for me to tell
someone. I look into Luke's bright blue eyes as he takes all of this in. He finally looks at me
and pulls me closer. "Its ok were here now, and I will never let anything happen to you again
Kat. Do you understand?" I nod and just lay in his arms until the rest of the boys come in. I
start to cry again as Luke fills them in on all the recent information. Michael is the first to
move. He hugged me and I could hear him sniffle. "You didn't have to tell us that you know."
he said. "I know I just felt like I could. I trust you guys already and I barely know you." I
said kind of relieved someone other than me and my adopted mom knew about my history.