Toxic

Part 1

15 years ago...

"I don't want you to come out of here ok Alaina?" Ameka asked her sister stuffing ten year old Alaina into a clothes hamper. "What ever you hear do not come out!"

Alaina nodded her head while tears flowed from her brown eyes. She wanted her sister to hide with her. Alaina closed the closet door quietly, when the bedroom door flew open and in walked Joe, her father.

He looked at her with wanting eyes. "Where is that sister of yours?" Joe licked hip lips walking closer to Ameka, she could see the bulging in his pants and knew what he came for. She didn't care as long as she protected her younger sister.

Ameka said nothing which caused him to smack her across her face. She fell back on the bed with tears in her eyes. This played out almost every night since her mother died. Joe undid his belt while taking a swig of his liquor.

"Please!" Ameka begged.

Joe smirked, "girl get on your knees." He smelled of hard liquor and marijuana. Ameka did as she was told and opened her mouth wide for her father to penetrate her throat. She gagged which caused him to smacked the back of her head as she gagged. "Bitch!"

He pulled her hair dragging her to her twin bed. Ameka slipped out of her night gown while her own father penetrated her fourteen years old body.

Ameka lay there with her eyes shut tight wishing for better days from her father. After Joe left, Alaina slipped out of the clothes hamper with tears in her eyes. She hugged her older sister.

"Alaina I will always protect you."

"I know."

"Stop crying for me ok?" Ameka shook her sister holding her by the wrist.

"We'll get away."

Alaina nodded laying on her sisters lap.

"I'll never let him touch you." Ameka said rubbing her fingers through Alaina curls.

The rain was pouring and Ameka set in the window watching the ocean. The island had always been her home, but that night she decided it was time to go. She waited until her father was fast asleep on the sofa in the parlor, before going to his bedroom with a pillow case. Ameka had memorized his safe that was hidden behind a frame of her mother. She remembered laying on his king sized bed watching him place some money into the safe. The combination she had remembered being that it was Alaina's own birthday. He was sick for his own daughter, and yet Ameka paid for it. She emptied the safe, and headed to her bedroom.

"Alaina" she called out.

Sleeping Alaina placed a pillow on her face. "Mmhmm."

"Alaina, it's time to go."

"Go where, Meka, I'm sleeping." She whined.

"We're going to the States."

Alaina took the pillow from her head, and set up. "How?"

"Don't worry about it. Get dressed and leave everything."

Alaina quickly got up and slipped out of her night gown grabbing only her mother's picture and slipping it into her back pocket of her jeans. Ameka grabbed her hand and told her to climb Down the ladder of the window.

"When you get down run, and don't stop running until I tell you to!" Ameka demanded.

"But Ameka!"

Ameka placed her finger to her lips and looked at her with her stern look. Alaina nodded her head, and did as she was told.

Alaina ran, she ran and she never looked back....