The Bet

Where did I go wrong?

After she mouthed thoughs words a chill wenr up and down my spine. He had a gun? What had done to her. Did he attack her more than once and how did he know her work hours if she changed then to day time. My fostermother looked like she just wanted to leave me and him and just be free. Then she dozed off and I suddenly noticed a huge deep cut on her head. I wanted to kill him but that would be letting him off easily he should suffer. Then I heard tge monster speak.

"Hi son." He said in a sinister voice.

"Hi da-dd" I shuddered.

"Aw.. your scared now who is the man in this house."

"Not you" I said getting my confidence back.

"You know what I got here for you?"

"No"

He took out the silver gun and pointed at my chest. All I could think about was Jamie how if he pulls the trigger the one person who truly loves her would be gone.

"Hey son ylu want to take a long nap?" He sais laughing clearly drunk.

"Please don't!" I tried not to cry but a tear escaped my eyes.

"Look at this here he wants MERCY well you'll have to go somewhere else for that son!" He yelled as he moved his pointer finger that was on the trigger but did not shot and looked me in the eyes. As though he knew it was wrong and regretted his dissicion.

"Please dont do this I will obey you and meet your every need." I begged then realized why would he shkw mercy on me if he caused his wife ro now be in the state of a coma on the other side of the table head faced down losing allt of blood.

"You think I care about how you feel and what you want. Well I don't."

"Ok" Isaw that he was about to pull the trigger and he did but in an instiant I moved down and the bullet flu straight through my shoulder.

"Hey don't you move again!" I tried to run away but POW! He shot me in the leg and again in the other shoulder. Then the world started to fall upon me and I fell into a deep sleep.

Flash back

"Your just a piece of trash and I jate you!" He yelled at her every night.

"Baby please don't leave him alone he is just a little boy!"she cried but he grabbed me and through me to the ground. He did this every nigjt my sister and younger brother hid in the attic and I was the punching bag the oldest son.

"Daddy please stop!" I cried and begged on the floor.

"Be a man! Men don't beg the act upon how they feel!" He said and then kicked me in the gut. My mother passed out from all the drugs and left me alone so that he could do what ever he eants to me. I was thrown at the wall tossed on the floor. Lastly thrown out side in nothing but my underwear. It was cold outside and my bruises were freezing as I laid upon the snow. I was just hoping that someone would come save me wake me up from this nightmare. Bit no one came I just laid in the snow. The next morning my sister came out side with a blanket she coverd me and brought me inside. He was passed out on the floor with a needle in his arm and so was my mom. She got me dressed and cleaned my wounds she grabbed my younger brother and put him in the bed with me. We all stayed in my sister's room afraid. My sister went in and out of the room getting crackers and a bottle of water till they ran out. My mother bad been passed out foe three days and my father was too but I never wanted him to get back up. A week later my mother gets us all dressed and says we are going to the store but in reality she was abandoning us at a fire station. The only words I remember from my mother is "stay here the fireman are gonna save you" with that she walked away.

Present Day
I woke up in what seemed to be a hospital room there was a get well soon balloon and a huge window. I noticed I was high up maybe on the seventh floor. When I went to move my hand it was stuck I looked down to see that I am hand cuffed to the bed. This can't be good. Just two minutes later a women in her late twenties came in she was beautiful long blond hair and deep blue eyes with rosie red full lips. She noticed me checking her out and blushed.

"Look who finally woke up." She stated walking towards me. I gave her a weak smile and tried to move my hand forgetting about the hand cuff.

"Hi I am nurse lily" she sat in my bed and smiled.

"Where am I?" I asked her acting as though I did not know.

" You are in the hospital hon."

"Is my step mom ok?"

"I am so sorry but she is in a coma, she has been for the past week." She looked at my with dough eyes.

"Um.. have I been asleep for that long?"

"Yes you have"

"Can I have something to eat?"
Just then the door opened and a man walked in side he was tall and had bronze skin and dark brown hair.
"I will take it from here nurse Lily."
She imedatly got up and walked towards the door. She stoped for a moment and looked back at me. When she left the man walked towards me bringing a chair with him. As he sat down I noticed his badge and gun he was a cop.

"Hello Nathan I am officer Stone, I am here to ask you questions about the incident." He stated firmly.

"Um.. ok but can I ask you why do I hsve hand cuffs on?"

"You have a violent passed and I did not want to harm the staff here at the hospital."

"What I would never hurt someone on purpose"

"Anyways Nathan what happend?"

"Ok well I came into the house and heard a fimilar voice. I walked deeper into the bouse and noticed him sitting at the table. My foster mom mouthed the words he has a gun so I sat calmy at the table. I noticed her clothes torn and she looked like he beat her up and did things he shluld not do with out permission to her. So he starts talking to me saying all sorts of things and right when he was about to shot me I moved and it it me in the shoulder then again in the leg and my other shoulder. And that is all I remember."

"Are you sure you did not provoke him in any way?"

"How do you provoke some one with a gun?" I asked sarcastically.

Jamie's Pov

About a week ago I got a call from the hospital saying that Nathan got shot three times my heart sunk. When I reached the hospital I asked if I could see him and they said family only so I lied and said he is my brother. When I got inside of the room he was unconscious and steadily breathing. I whispered in his ear and told him that I was here. After an hour and a half I left. The nurse told me to be storng and that she will call me if anything happens. I hope he is ok and who would want to shot Nathan?