Lone Runner (On HOLD)

Chapter 7

I couldn’t stop thinking about how this plan could go terribly wrong if we made a simple mistake… I felt like I was hyperventilating. It had almost been 4 hours when I finally hear a card swipe at the door, I see Gabe walk in as Robbie holds the door and then Gabi walks in.

“Ok we’re here now, why the fuck am I an hour away from home,” Gabi was really pissed.

I looked at her and gestured her to come sit next to me, “Look you don’t need that attitude… all we’re trying to do is stop Victor from doing whatever the hell he’s been doing to you for a while, I couldn’t stop him from doing it to Lydia. The least I could do is save you… now tell us everything, we’re in the clear so no one will know what you say.” I got up and went to stand with Gabe in the corner near the window.

I noticed she wanted to act tough like she was the shit or something, but she let her guard down and now she seemed hopeless, “He raped us.”

“Son of a Bitch --” Robbie stammered.

Then Gabe interrupted, “That bastard deserves to rot in hell.”

It was like they both had started and finished each others sentences. Then they both looked at me, I didn’t even realize but I was crying, I was so angry in hearing the word rape come out of her mouth that I couldn’t bare to hear anything else she was going to say. I couldn’t let them know that so I wiped the tears and asked, “What else did he do? I need to know.”

“He dressed us up, he had guys come in and do us for money. Well it’s not like he’s stopped, he still makes me go. He keeps u for 3 hours after school… well he keeps me for 3 hours. When Lydia was still here he made us go on the weekends too, now it’s like he’s laying low. The first time he raped me I wanted to die, I blamed myself, but now I want him to die. Lydia told me that Victor was raping her 5 months before he got to me too. The main thing I remember her telling me is that he wanted me too because I was as pretty as you, Linda, he didn’t want to rape you because you actually have the balls to stand up for yourself.” She was in tears, in Robbie’s arms.

I grinded my teeth together and took a big deep breath. I had to punch something so badly, I got up and punched the glass mirror until I couldn’t feel my hand anymore, I had bloody knuckles when I was done. I was crying, I fell to the ground and just cried and cried. He wanted me, but instead he went for my sister and her friend because he couldn’t get to me. I have a temper. and a really bad one, so Robbie and Gabe did good in not coming at me when I was breaking the mirror. Once I was crying on the floor Gabe was at my side, Robbie was at Gabi’s side.

“I’m taking you to the hospital, you have little glass pieces everywhere in your arm,” Gabe was picking out the obvious ones out of my arm.

I wanted to yank my arm, but it hurt too much, “No!”

“Yes,” Robbie and Gabe said simultaneously.

“No,” I looked up and Gabi was right in front of me.

I thought Gabi would of been the first to offer to take me to the hospital, “What?”

“You guys have a plan right?” she glanced at Robbie and then at me.

We nod.

“So we can’t risk leaving this hotel for now. I’m in medical class and even though I may not be in the senior year of Medical class, I’ve read the books and I know how to take care of this. Will you trust me in taking care of you?” she was examining my arm as she asked me.

With my other hand I wiped the tears, “Yeah, you’re right… do whatever you can please.”

She smiled and that was the first time I had ever seen her smile without my sister around, “Gabe I need you to go looking for tweezers and Robbie I need fresh towels… oh wait both of you go down stairs and tell them that we had an incident with the mirror and ask them how much it’s going to cost.”

That’s when we all looked at her puzzled and I asked, “Why?”

“That way they don’t call the cops or some shit like that… duh,” she had an attitude again, but I rather her be like that than being depressed. Then she added, “Plus I can pay some it off, we can all try to chip in, right?”

I smiled, “Yeah.” 

When Robbie and Gabe both came back with what Gabi asked them to get, she got down to business. She had to take her blouse off and leave her tank-top on and damn I have to admit her curves we’re just perfect. I noticed both boys looking at her, I laughed and Gabi looked at me weird, “Crazy ass.. why you laughing?” She couldn’t help but laugh too though.

“You got my best friend and boyfriend drooling over you, it’s funny… I never seen them like that,” now we were both giggling.

Both of them looked at me and then at her curves again, then they high-fived each other. I rolled my eyes and Gabi got up and pushed them away, “Ewh… Men! I mean BOYS!”

As they both sat on one of the beds and started talking about the Wrestling team, which both are in, Gabi started to pull out the little pieces of glass with the tweezers. She put a towel around the bottom part of my arm so that if any blood gushed out, it would stain the towel rather than the hotel room floor. The other towel was on the floor next to her, that was where she was putting the glass she was pulling out.

I winced every time she pulled out long ones or deep ones. There was a real deep one that made me shriek… it was way in my arm and when she pulled it out, it seemed to be about 2 inches long. When she was done I counted about 5 long ones and 3 little ones. She cleaned my arm and then called the boys over.

“Yes my lady, “ Robbie came over instantly.

Gabe walked over looking Robbie up and down with a smirk on his face, “Wow.” Then he sat next to me, put his arm around me and gave me a big kiss on the cheek.

I snuggled my head in between his shoulder and neck and watched Gabi react to what Robbie just said.

“Uhm you’re lady? Boy, go get me some alcohol wipes from the first aid kit in the bathroom and the big band-aids,” when she said that she sounded different and then she shoved him and giggled when he was in the bathroom.

When he came back with the things I had to hold onto Gabe’s hand really hard and I bit down on his shirt. He looked down and said, “Babe I know that you’re doing this cause of the alcohol, but…” he got closer to my ear and whispered, “you know it turns me on when you’re like this.”

I couldn’t help but laugh and then I just held his hand hard and before Gabi went all in she said, “I’m sorry.”

She harshly had to rub the alcohol wipes to clean off blood around the cuts and then the cut itself, so it could not get infected. I couldn’t handle it, I literally felt like Katniss when she had been getting stung by the tracker jackers. I held in my screams so badly. By the time she was done, my eyes were swollen from crying so much and closing them really hard.

I decided to go to sleep and pretend that everything was okay, I was emotionally drained and I needed to fade out of reality for a while.