Love Runner // Jonah Marais fanfiction

Chapter 26

Chapter 26

I woke up. But I was on the ground. I was In a house that seemed unfamiliar but its like I knew it.

"HEY! WHY ISN'T THIS PLACE CLEANED UP YET?" Yelled a man behind me

"I- ill get right on it, I'm sorry dad" my voice says. I had no control on what To do what is happening..

The man threw a beer bottle at the wall closest to me making glass shards cut me.
I wince in pain as the man left the house.

he seems familiar; too familiar.

Then I remember; he's my father, I remember from the photo in my wallet.

I walked over to the mirror and examined myself. Seemed about 9-ish. With bruises all over me and a bloody cut on my left arm.

I stare at myself for what seemed like hours then I randomly fall onto the floor.
I black out but I still imagining events.

My father yelling at me, blaming me for my mothers death

Beating me until I couldn't breathe.
Jonah witnessing it'

my father making us move.

an image of my mother; she's waving at me

Lastly, I walked out of the why don't we boys' house, I was walking to the park to freshen my head a bit and just have alone time.

A car circled the corner in front of me.

Heading straight towards me.

I panic and tried to move out the way.

I turned around to see the car was following me.

I looked at the driver

Its uncle Cole..

Head lights blind me and my body went numb.

(A/N if you guys didn't understand => the whole text above was a dream^ but the text below is real life now)

I gasped out of breath, felt like I was holding that breath in for decades. I jolted up in fear from the dream.

Its just a dream. Just a dream... right?

I woke Jonah up - I feel terrible now.

"Hey- its fine. Its just a bad dream. You're fine, you're safe, and I'm here" he held me tightly in his embrace comforting me and rubbing my back while tears fell down my face repetitively.

"Jonah, I remember, I remember when my dad abused me, how my mother looked, when you witnessed everything at 10, but I imagined something that you didn't tell me what happened" I couldn't look at him.. I'm scared what his reaction will be

"Jonah I imagined that I got hit by a car, my uncle cole was driving. And it seemed like it was on purpose"

By now I was shaking.. I didn't know if this is true or not. If this was going to happen in the future or not.

"Steffanie.. I won't ever let anything happen to you. As long as you're with me you're safe." He kisses the top of my head and we just stayed like that.

"Promise me"

"Promise you what?" He softly asks

"Promise me you'll never leave"

"I promise I'll never leave you. But do you want to know why?"

"Why?"

"Because I love you"

With that sentence I didn't know how to feel. I had an uneasy feeling. Like I'm not meant to love someone back, like I'm afraid. But I know I love him too. But which way of love?