When I Met Him

Waking Up

I woke up... mouth taped and eyes blindfolded. The ropes on my hands and legs were so tight and tangled in a bunch of knots. I heard two people talking to each other behind me. The person behind me said, "You'll never get away with this!" He also was yelling threats at the person. The person then said, "I already have." I stayed quiet while they were talking so they wouldn't know I was up. The man put the tape back on the person's mouth and walked out of the room slamming the door shut.

I then bit the tape on my mouth off and said, "Hey, I'm awake. Where are we?" Before he could muffle anything, the door opened and someone walked in. The person went around the guy behind me to get to me. The person took off the blindfold off of me and the person I saw in front of me was no one other than the devilish, Jake. He was my ex that got mixed up with the wrong types of people, that he so called friends. The reason we broke up was because he beat me for a month and tortured me almost everyday. When I saw him I froze and just sat there, anxiety building up inside of me. "Hello, Avania." Next thing I knew, I was out like a light.

I woke up to a sharp pain in my thigh. I woke up screaming from the pain. I shot my eyes open and saw Jake holding a knife in my thigh. Then he twisted it around causing me to cry and scream so loudly it echoed throughout the whole building. I could hear a guy saying, "Leave her alone! Leave her alone!" Jake then said, "Hey Avania."

He then pulled the knife out of my thigh very hard to see me in more pain. I looked at him annoyed and scared. "How ya feeling?" I said nothing trying to not make eye contact. He then put the knife in my other thigh, grabbed my chin, and forced me to look at him. I cried at the pain I was in. "You will not ignore me!", he said angrily, "Now... answer my question." "How are you feeling?" I moved his hand off my chin and cleared my throat. "I've had better days then this", I said with a cracked and raspy voice.

He got up and gave me a bowl of soup. I looked at how the letters spelled "Goodnight". Then he walked out of the door and it automatically locked when he closed it. When he left the only thing I could do was cry. I put the soup on the nightstand next to me and held the knife in my thigh. I pulled out the knife carefully and quickly. I held my thigh when I threw the knife  on the floor and sobbed. I tore a piece of the ragged dress I was in and wrapped it around my thigh. Then I did the same to the other.

    I tried to stand up but fell right back on the ground. Then I picked up the knife and hid it in a drawer in the nightstand. I dragged myself to the bed and went to sleep. I woke up to the sound of footsteps heading to my room. I got up, grabbed the knife from the drawer, and hid it in my hand under my pillow.

    Jake came in and said, "Good morning, Avania. I have something for you." Acting sleep I gripped on the knife hard ready for action. He came and sat down on my bed with his hand on my shoulder. "Avania, wake up. I have something for you." I quickly swung around and jabbed the knife in the side of stomach. He groaned and jumped up stumbling, then fell on the wall holding his stomach. I got up and quickly limped out of the room, closing the door so he couldn't follow me. Jake got up and ran to the door. " Avania, please, let me out of here. We could live together and be a happy family together." I looked at him, giving him the death stare. "I will have a happy family... but I will never be with you ever again. That was my one mistake."

I quickly limped away from the room and tried to look for whoever was telling Jake to leave me alone when he was hurting me. I remembered his voice, "Leave her alone! Leave her alone!", replayed in my head as I searched. Then I limped pass one room with a boy in it. "Hey... need some help." He looked up from where he was and saw me. The boy ran to the door and said, "Yes, please get me out of here." I opened the door and the guy ran out and hugged me tightly. "Ow", I said forgetting about my thighs. The boy backed up and looked down at my thighs. "What happened?" "I'm fine... can we just get going?" He nodded and we both quickly moved down the hallway. "Ow, ow!", I said feeling my thighs bleeding through the pieces of rags. The guy stopped and saw me bleeding intensely. He then rushed to me, picked me up bridal style, and carried me all the way out the building. I could still hear Jake calling my name angrily. "Avania!"
-To Be Continued-