All Thanks to Him

Chapter 4

Tess' POV 

Ryan, Angelia, and myself all cleaned the dining room and everything else that was messed up during the fight for Patricia. She followed the ambulance and police car when they left. She is a great mother to her kids, unlike my shitty father, so she is staying at the police station with Jake until they post bail. So Jake should be out first thing tomorrow morning. Now the question is if Patricia is going to stay with my father after this. It will break his heart if she does leave, not because of love and all of that mushy stuff, but because Patricia has lots of money and he doesn't have to work while he is with her. No doubt that if she does leave, my father will be with another woman by next week. 

"That was something straight out of a action movie, don't you think? It was all wild, I'm pretty sure your father hit me in the process of me getting Jake off of him," Ryan said. 

"Correction, you mean in the process of you trying to get Jake off of him. You didn't even budge him, at all. I can see that staying in your room all day helps with those big ol' muscles," I said while laughing. I was sort of joking with him, but it was all the truth. Ryan was maybe 5'9 and weighed around 135 pounds so he was very small compared to his older brother who was probably 6'2 and weighs 250 pounds. Jake plays way too many sports to keep up with so you can imagine that it is mainly muscle. There was a two year difference between the two brothers so maybe Ryan would progress into something like his older brother.

Ryan let out a little laugh, which was defiantly forced, but his smile looked genuine.

Angelia and I spoke to our mom after everything happened, but due to the distance, she can't be here until tomorrow evening. Which is okay because all of the evilness inside of this house is gone and won't be back tonight or tomorrow and who knows, after tonight, he may never be back in this house and neither will me or Angie. 

Two hours later

Patricia returns home and to our surprise, so did Jake. I really wasn't expecting to see him tonight, but he did save me from what would have probably been one of the worst beatings I had ever experienced. i think he is absolutely dumb for doing so, but I'm still grateful for it. I smiled when we locked eyes, he even smiled back to me and playfully nudged me as he walked by. I was afraid he would hate me after tonight, if he didn't already, but it seems like we are okay. 

We all gather up in the living room to talk over everything that happened tonight. Ryan sat in the big recliner, which is usually my fathers spot and he forbids anyone to sit there, so Ryan seems to be taken complete advantage at his chance to sit there. Beside of that, Angie and Patricia sit together on the love seat, which is a two seated couch. Then on the last couch, Jake is laid down flat on it with his eyes closed, after a fight like that, I say he is extremely tired. Also added on that it was around 2:30 am, so we are all pretty tired. I decide to sit on the floor, in between the love seat and the regular sized couch. Which I don't mind to sit on the floor because the carpet is pretty fuzzy and feels great. 

"I am so sorry that you guys had to see everything unfold like it did, and I'm also extremely sorry to both Jake and Tess for being accused of something so ridiculous then having to fight him off like that. If I would have just gotten up and got his beer, we wouldn't be in this mess," she chocked at the end and began to cry.

"There is nothing that you could have done to prevent it from happening. There was always going to be a fight for him to start, I promise you that none of this is your fault. If anything, it's all mine, I shouldn't have spoken up, I should've just let him go on," I said, truly meaning all of it.

Completely to my surprise, she got up and hugged me. We never really talked before tonight. She is an ok person, I guess I just hate her for hurting my mom when my father cheated on her for Patricia then for the times she didn't help me when my father would hit me, but truthfully, there wasn't much she could do because he could possibly turn and hit her too. So I hugged her back and smiled. I felt a big, warm hand on top of my head and I turned to see Jake gesturing me to sit by him while he started to sit up and moved to the farthest end of the couch. I smiled and thanked him as I sat down at the other end. I enjoyed this, there has never been a good family time in this house. Now I see that it was all because of my father, not Patricia or her children. There is nobody to blame other than him. So I smiled at it all because my father could possibly go to jail and that would free all of us and we could all live a good life without worrying about the next time my father would go off on one of us. 

Maybe my life was going to get better now, I'm filled with complete happiness. 

btw Angelia is 16, I forgot to put that in