In Hiding (Published!)

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

I woke up in a dark area. At first, I thought I didn't even open my eyes.

  As my eyes adjusted to the lighting, I noticed we were in the barn they said they were going to store us in, and Jess was nowhere to be seen.

I tried to get up, but my legs failed me. They gave out, and I toppled back down on the hard floor. As I took a good look at myself, I noticed dry blood that was hardened on my legs, as if it was running down from my waist.

 I gulped.

  I was sitting down on the hard barn floor, with nothing on besides underwear and a bra. The blood was soaking from my underwear. I started to cry.

Where's Jess?

 The heavyset man did exactly what I feared the most to happen, he had raped me. That's why my legs gave way, and that's why I suddenly felt a searing pain in my thigh. I twisted on my side so I could get a good look at my pained leg. There were dark purple spots starting to form all across my leg and then some.

  Tears fell to my already tear streaked stomach.

  I heard a sigh to my left, and I whipped my head around only to see the young boy called Cam. He was sitting on a hard wooden chair, and his eyes were following my hands, examining my bruised legs. I slowly raised my hands away from my legs, and laid them on my stomach.

  "Where's my brother?" I spoke softly, hoping he'd tell me everything I wanted to know.

  Cam's head lifted up slowly, and our eyes met. I didn't let his light blue eyes make me look away, instead, I gazed into them, waiting for my answer. 

  "That's your brother? Oh." His voice was very small, a little high pitched, but from the sound of it, he was younger then I had thought.

  I didn't let his small voice make me go easier on him, he had kicked my brother to unconsciousness. He wasn't getting any sweet talk.

  "Yes, now where the hell is he?" My voice was rougher then I intended.

  He shrugged.

  I hissed under my breath.

 "You do know, now please tell me that he's okay."

He shrugged again, but spoke this time.

  "It's nice how you care more for your new found brother then you do yourself. You do know my father raped you, right? I couldn't watch, I almost ran into the house. It's disgusting what they do."

  I gasped.

  "So you do know who I am... You know about Avrey too, then?" I whispered Avrey's name, hoping maybe if I did, this would all be a dream... I didn't wake up.

 He nodded, and didn't say anything.

  I started to cry again, unable to stop. I wrapped my arms around my knees and held myself close together. I felt broken, like if I didn't hold myself all together, my limbs would just start falling off.

  I closed my eyes and held my head close to my knees.

 I didn't care about being half naked. I didn't care that there was an almost killer just a few feet away from me, and I didn't care about how much pain it caused me to tighten myself up like this.

  All I cared about was finding Jess, making sure he was okay. And getting home.

 I felt a small touch on my back, and immediately sat up. Cam was wide eyed, his hand still raised in the air from rubbing my back. Was he... comforting me?