Divided We Stand, United We Fall

Chapter 28

He had a bruise on his cheek. A suction mark on his neck. His lips swollen and cracked. Noah stumbled down the stairs. He reached the bottom and put his knees to his chest and started rocking back and forth. His eyes were wide that Lauren could see the whites of them. He then closed them tightly and put his head on his knees.

"Noah!" Lauren called. "What's wrong, please tell me, who did this to you?" He didn't respond as she rushed to his side.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and held him closely. She could feel her top becoming moist and realized that Noah was crying.

"No more, no more, no more!"he cried, his voice muffled through her shirt. He looked up at her, his eyes full of tears. "We have to leave. I can't stand it here anymore."

"Okay, should we go now?"she asked. Noah nodded. "We'll go straight after breakfast."

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"Why are you leaving so soon? I thought we had a bond going on."

"It's not me, it's Noah. He wants to leave desperately. Don't make this harder than it already is." Lauren said. She and Nathan were eating their breakfast when Lauren ventured into the subject of leaving. She could tell that he was getting angry. He pounded his fists into the table with so much energy that the wood broke.

"Please Lauren, you are the only person that can help me get over my anger issues."he pleaded. He put both of his hands in his hair and began tugging on it violently. The curly locks straightened before he let go and they pinged back into place. She eyed two small swallows on each of his wrists etched into his flesh. She had never seen a bird before, or even heard of tattoos.

"Nathan, we've only known each other for a day."

"It only takes a day for me to realize that I need you."

"I'm sorry Nathan."she apologized, walking away from him.

"No! Don't leave me! I can't control myself without you."

The door slammed shut. Nathan let the darkness within his soul take over.

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Lauren and Noah made their way out of the home of the dysfunctional couple. Noah was crying again. She wondered why Katherine did this to him. Yes, she knew it was Katherine as she was the only one who was with Noah.

"Noah, do you want to talk about it?" Lauren asked.

"No...just keep on walking."he insisted, furiously wiping the tears from his eyes. He was humiliated, had his dignity taken from him...by a girl. She touched and mutilated his skin where no one had ever touched other than himself when he was cleaning himself. Noah felt weak , mostly dejected and worthless. Pathetic tears kept falling from his eyes. He remembered that night clearly even though be didn't want to.

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Noah whimpered as Katherine's booted foot came in contact to his hip. She had hit him countless times now but he had a consciousness that told him to never hit a woman.

"You're pathetic and weak!"she laughed, demonically, whilst pulling him up by his hair. There was a stinging pressure on his scalp.

"S-Stop." Noah gasped, tears rolling like waves. He just wanted this all to stop. She threw him on her bed and crawled on top of him. Katherine chuckled, sadistically.

"No, I can't stop now. I'm having too much fun. I love seeing you in pain, it gives me such pleasure." Katherine grinned. Noah sighed as she removed herself from his trembling body.

But dread welled up inside him when she came back holding: a knife, whip and a bottle of aquarius pills.

Then came the absolute inhuman torture.

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Noah wished that he would've listened to Lauren's advice. He was a blundering fool. He should have known that she was trouble. He would never be the same again. His body was littered with cuts that would soon turn to keloid scaring and that wasn't all. He felt dirty, covered in Katherine's stench, her sweat and saliva. Although he had showers that day, five times to be precise, he still felt unclean.

More and more tears began rolling down his devastated face. He could no longer bother to wipe them away. Lauren grasped his hand and Noah finally saw a light at the end of the tunnel. She was with him. Dear, sweet Lauren. She was the only thing in his life that he hadn't totally messed up. He squeezed her hand gently and little by little, stopped crying altogether.

To Lauren, Noah looked empty inside. A lonely child in shock of being in something that Lauren had never experienced. She wondered what it was. She stared at his arm, it was covered in red sore marks from trying to scrub himself clean, when all it did was rip layer after layer of skin off of his body. Even though she could see these self-inflicted patches, she also saw bruises. They were everywhere. His face, his neck, his limbs, everywhere was just covered. Cuts scattered his body. Many of them were fingernail scratches but others could only be made with a knife. She could tell he was still in pain. The way he bit his lip in agony and his eyes were certainly not as glowing as they once were.

She gently placed him on a felled trunk of a tree and looked into his soulless eyes. She hugged him and pecked his lips.

"Tell me what she did, Noah."

"O-Okay."he sniffed.

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End of chapter.

This chapter was weird. Katherine is horrible. What she basically did was beat him up to such an extent that he was on the verge of death because she is crazy.

The more you know.

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