Scarlet

Chapter 3: Is the Hospital REALLY my only comfort zone?

Chapter 3

"WAIT" Nurse Greer shouted after me. "We need to inform your parents before you leave!" I ignored her. I took the metro bus back to our dumb little neighborhood. I dug around my purse for my key, and tears were streaming down my face as I ran through the front door. I ran down the hall into the bathroom an threw up in the toilet. I sobbed loudly, I bet all the neighbors could hear since I left the front door open. I brushed my hair behind my ears and wiped up what was left of the blood under my nose from falling over Valerie. With my concussion and mostly likely BROKEN nose, I should be in the hospital right now. But mom could never pay for that, and going to the hospital would mean spilling what Scott did. Maybe Valerie was right. I should just kill myself and get me out of my misery. Derrick hurt me and cheated on me, and on top of that he got me pregnant on purpose. Valeria leaked an embarrassing photo of him buying a fake condom. My dad is in jail, my step dad knocked me out, and my mom doesn't see me enough to care about me. The only people who even a show a little bit of kindness is the Drug Addict Boy from the nurses office and this baby. In the middle of my breakdown, I heard footsteps come through the front door. I got my shaving  razor, broke the plastic, took the blade out and hid in the bathtub with the lights turned off. Suddenly, the lights turned on and when I peeked around the shower curtain, I saw it was Drug Addict Boy. "Oh." I said, dropping the razor blade. He walked over, took my hand and helped me out of the shower. "You left your door open and when I was walking my dog past your house I heard you crying. And your nose is pretty messed up...are you ok?" His eyes were full of tenderness and warmth. "Uh, yeah, the nose thing was an accident. I didn't know you lived around here...."Uh, yeah, I live right down the street. It was the only thing aunti-uh, nurse Greer, could afford. Where are your folks?" He was asking a lot of questions. I was suspicious that he happened to be walking by when I got home. And I didn't hear of anyone moving in down the street. No houses were for sale. "My mom is at work. My step dad should be on his way home." I said defensively. Scott was never coming back, I just didn't want Austin to think he was the only 'big man' that was gonna be in the house. "You should go. With your.....dog." his face was filled with sadness and cheeks red from embarrassment ."Right, right. See you at school." And he walked away, closing the front door behind him.

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My bed gave my all the comfort I needed. The pale blue comforter hugged me, it's warm spreading through my body. The mattress soft for me to relax on; my pillow squishy for my bruised head. Yet the tears won't stop. There not sad tears. No I'm not sad. There angry tears and tears if how stupid I am. It's already 12am and I'm still crying, every since I got home. At first I was uncontrollable sobbing, now the tears are rolling down my cheeks. I'm not shaking, not sweating. Just laying awake and staring and the while ceiling. Suddenly footsteps outside my door pull me out of my trance. My door creaks open slowly. A large shadowy figure appears in the door way. The figure walks toward me. And it isn't until I smell the stench of alcohol, that I realize it's Scott. What the hell. He was never supposed to come back! I shot up and screamed as loud as I could.

He makes his way around my bed. I gasp when I see he contents in his hands.

Beer.

Duck tape.

Rope.

He sets his beer on my nightstand and pulls me out of my warm bed. I land on the floor with a loud BANG which makes my body go numb. I stare at him with wide eyes. I thrashed around, scratching his face, trying to get away, but I cannot see anything. I feel his scratchy beard stubble against my palm and push and kick and scream. I hear the duct tape rip off the roll, and feel something sticky against my mouth.

And suddenly I can't scream anymore.

I reached my hands up but he grabs them and pins them behind my back. I was no match to an angry, drunk, 300 pound man.He ties them tightly with the rope. The rope scrapes against my skin making it turn red and raw. The tears are still streaming down my face. Heavier now, because I'm sure I'm going to die.

Scott grabs the rope in between my hands and pulls me up to the bed.He throws me onto my bed and and gets on top of me.. Then I realize...

He's going to rape me...

I attempt to roll over, but Scott held me down. My sobbing becomes harder at the thought of loosing my child... Even though it's with Derrick, it's still my child. It gets hard to breathe through my stuffy nose so I try to stop sobbing. And before I know what's coming a hand comes in contact with my stomach... Very, very, hard. I try to scream but I'm unsuccessful. Then, he pulled my pants down. This goes on for about 30 minutes until he hears my mom come through the front door and it all ends with bang in the head. I heard my mother scream until I completely lost consciousness.

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I wake up in a hospital. I look around, confused. I smelled the smell of dying people and cleaning products. My hair was matted to the side of my face and a drop of drool hanging out of my mouth from being unconscious. I looked up at the clock on the opposite wall of my uncomfortable little bed.There were 3 IV tubes hanging out of my arms and I was missing one of my green and white polka dot socks. 'These beds are worse than the ones in the nurses office' I thought. I was wearing a paper thin hospital gown and a white paper wristband with my name, the time, and date of which I got in here. I looked out the window and there were three people looking at me and whispering. One of them was a Japanese girl wearing pink HELLO KITTY nurse scrubs and her hair up in a messy bun. There was my mother, looking exhausted and like she had been crying for awhile. The third one, I guessed was the doctor, had ear-length brown and grey hair, with a little mole just under her eye and a clipboard in her hand. When they noticed me looking at them, the all rushed in. My mother ran over to the bed and wrapped her arms around me. She started sobbing loudly and the nurse and doctor were looking at us awkwardly. "MY BABY" my mom yelled. "I AM SO SORRY I WASN'T ....." the things she said after that were to muffled to hear because she turned her head into my shoulder. She was on her knees. "Hi, mom. What....what happened?" The doctor looked at me and started explaining. "Hello, Scarlet. My name is Dr. Beyson. This is your nurse, Seika." Seika gave me a quick wave and smiled at the floor. "Apparently you were beaten with something last night. Your mother said she came home to you tied to your bed post with blood coming out of your head and bruises on your stomach. When we checked your stomach, we saw the baby in there. Not what I expected to see in a 15 year old girl." Uh oh. "Is it OK?" I asked. Everyone got quiet and my mom took her arms away and looked at the floor. "Oh god", I said. "Its gone." Dr. Beyson said. "You were just hit too many times. We tried to save it." The realization hit me. Scott had killed my baby. He had murdered another human being. He had raped his own stepdaughter! I expected to cry, but I just sat there. A wave of disappointment spread over me. "I am so sorry. I will leave you and your mother alone, but in a few minutes we will need to do another scan on your head." Dr. Beyson said. My mother closed her eyes for what felt like five years and sighed. I noticed a pudding cup on the table by my bed. There was a note attached to it. It read 'Hey, I am so sorry. Me and auntie stopped by the hospital to see you and your mother told us what happened. Here is some pudding. -A' Oh. Austin. I couldn't even be happy, though.

My face flushed white. I can't believe it... My baby... my baby is dead.

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Hey! these first 3 chapters where written by both Carly and I. :) I, Rayna,  am going to be writing chapter 4. And Carly will write chapter 5... And so on.

So Rayna=even chapters

Carly=odd chapters. GET IT RIGHT

I hope you liked it! more to come in the next chapter of...

Scarlet.