Keira's Life

Keira: Chapter 6

I woke up as normal on a Saturday morning and looked in my mirror, I had dry tear marks on my face from crying. Arghh, why am I even crying over this dickhead?! I got out of bed and went to have a shower, I got ready as usual and went downstairs to get some breakfast. My auntie was in the living room and I could hear another womans voice. I poured myself a glass of apple juice and went into the front room where she was sitting on the sofa and a police woman was in the other sofa. I looked between them and raised my eyebrow.

'Keira, she's here to speak to you about the rape.' I slowly shook my head and looked at her with my eyes wide.

'No! I don't want any trouble, it's over and done with now can we just forget about it?' I asked.

'No we can't Keira, do you understand how DISGUSTING that is for an Uncle to do that to an underaged girl, not just any girl, his own neice!'

'YES I UNDERSTAND! YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT!' I shouted, I felt disgusted being in my own skin knowing that he'd touched me like that. The woman slowly stood up looking uncomfortable.

'Erm, how about I come back in a few days? Give it all some time to calm down, Keira love, this is a very serious case and we intend to look deeper into it, I'll see you soon.' She said and gave me a small smile before leaving. I sat down and my auntie sighed.

'Now why did you do that Keira?'

'I don't want the police getting involved! Can't we just move on with our lives?'

'NO WE CAN'T! WHAT HE DID WAS DISGUSTING, AND IT'S BROUGHT SHAME ONTO THIS FAMILY! PEOPLE KNOW NOW KEIRA, WORD SPREADS FAST!' She shouted and rested her head in her hands, I could tell this situation was stressing her out. It had affected me and I'm sure Rhianne had no idea what was going on as we didn't want to put any stress on her as she was already having treatment.

'I can't deal with this.' She said and stood up walking towards the window.

'Whenever someone walks past they look at this house and shake their head! I'm married to a rapist! Keira, you're like my daughter and that's like a father raping his daughter, fucking disgusting.' She said and shook her head, I wasn't feeling any better the more she kept mentioning it the worse I felt. I lef the room and went back upstairs, I sat down on my bed and my phone started ringing but some unknown number came up.

'Private?'

'Keira, it's me.' I kissed my teeth and was about to press the red button.

'Nah wait! Don't hang up, please.' I recognised it was Ricardo and sighed.

'What?'

'I need to talk to you in person, I figured if I called you from my phone you would busy it but Keira please just hear me out.'

'...'

'Please?'

'Ite, whatever.'

'Okay, meet me at the park in like an hour.'

'Yeah fine.' I hung up and watched tv for a bit until it was time for me to leave. I grabbed my jacket and shoes and put them on as I went downstairs and my auntie walked out of the front room searching through her handbag.

'I'm going to see Rhianne, make sure you take these.' She said and handed me my bottle of pills. I actually hated taking them, I nodded and she gave me a hug before leaving. I opened the lid of the bottle and walked over to the sink, i looked at the bottle filled with tiny pills and back at the sink. I thought about it again, how exactly am I supposed to get better if I don't take my pills? I closed it after taking two and left the house closing the door behind me.