wheres my happy ever after?

chapter 13

I haven't moved. I've been lying in the exact same spot for the last 2 days, 7 hours, 17 minutes and 45 seconds. A numbing feeling washed over my left side about 12 hours, 5 minutes and 27 seconds ago. The minute I walked through that door my heart broke, my lungs burst and my head told me to run. I knew who it was and why they did it. They made my nightmares come true and they knew it.

The doctors have been trying to get me to talk and eat since then. But I couldn't. I was terrified. Aria had come to see me a few times, keeping me updated on current events, trying to get me to talk. She had told me that Nathan doesn't want to see me.

After seeing Carols body lying on that bed I blacked out and woke up in the hospital with a concussion. All I had wanted was Nathan, his soothing voice and his strong arms protecting me. But he didn't want to see me.

"Katie, Honey, I need you to get up. You have a guest; he says he knows you. Do you think he can come in?" my nurse, Nina, asks me standing next to my bed.

I continue to stare at the wall, not responding, I had received some flowers earlier today, the nurse had read the note out loud for me to hear.

"get well soon Katie pie, can't wait to see you

-Brink"

I could hear someone come into the room and stand at the end of my hospital bed. Taking a deep breath, I shut my eyes wanting to disappear, wanting everyone to leave me alone.

"Katie?" I heard a voice say. I squeezed my eyes shut tighter, not believing that I was hearing that voice.

"Katie I know you don't want to see me but the doctors and nurses told me you haven't eaten anything since you got here. I'm so sorry about Carol babe. Please just say something, say anything and then I will go like you had ask and you won't ever see me again."

I knew that voice. I knew the scent that had spread out around the room. Slowly opening my eyes, I look down to see Nathan standing there. Looking the same as always, lose jeans, casual flannel shirt with a wife beater underneath, and his leather jacket slung over his shoulder.

Licking my dry, cracked lips, I slowly sit up, feeling all my joints ache from not moving them in days.

"you weren't there"

That's all I could get out before feeling the first tear fall. He stepped closer to me, slowly as he sees me flinch away from him before pulling my knees up to my chest hugging them. I watch as he sits on the edge of my bed, not having the strength to look him in the eyes.

"I was alone and you weren't here"

"I would have come sooner, I only found out you were in the hospital an hour ago, when I was told about Carol. I know I would never have left you alone so long if I had known Katie, she wouldn't tell me where you were, she said you never wanted to see me again" by now I could see the tears running down his checks.

"W-what? What are you talking about? Who wouldn't tell you?"

"Aria. She said you never wanted to see me again, that we were over" he says, not bothering to hide the hurt and pain in his eyes.

"you're lying" I say

"I'm not lying Katie. Why would you think that?"

"because the first day I was I asked her to go and get you. She came back and said you threw her out of the apartment and that you didn't love me anymore" I say resting my forehead on my knees sobbing quietly.

Before I could register what was happening I felt Nathans arms wrapped tightly around me, holding me close.

"Katie. I love you. Nothing and no one is going to change that" he says, squeezing my tightly.

"but she said..."

"I don't care what she said, she's wrong. I'm going to find out what the hell happened. Why would she do this?"

"I don't know. She was..." I stop mid-sentence

"she what?"

Oh, shit! How could I be so stupid!

"Katie? What are you thinking? Please, help me understand what the hell is happening?!"

"Aria, what colour are her eyes??" I ask. I could tell my heart was racing by the rapid beeping coming from the monitor next to my bed.

"uh green eyes I think. But what's the got to do with anything?" he asks clearly confused. I couldn't think. There was only one thing racing through my mind right now. Those eyes. How could I not have had recognised those eyes?!

"oh my god of course. Nathan who else do you know with eyes like that?" I ask hoping I was wrong. That I haven't seen those eyes before moving here

"no one" he says. Of course, he doesn't know

"Nathan I know her. Aria and I have meet before I moved here I just didn't realize until now"

"what! Where?" he yells getting upset.

"when I was being held. Those eyes are the same eyes as my captor. I used to stare into those eyes, well, eyes almost identical to those, when I was screaming for them to stop," I say feeling my chest tightening.

"Katie I don't understand" Nathans says watching me.

"those are brinks eyes too" I cry out

"what?"

"Nathan. Brink had a sister. I heard them talking outside the room I was being held in. I heard them laughing, saying something about like sister like brother. I never saw her face, she always wore a mask, all I could see was her eyes."

"uh who" ugh! Of course, he doesn't understand.

"his sister, the same person who held me down and let him rape me. The same person who kicked me, who punched, cut and burnt me. Who sat and laughed as I begged for mercy."?

"Wait. You're not saying what I think your saying, are you?

"Nathan. Aria is brinks sister......"