I dated twins...

The past comes back part 1

I wandered the halls of the school right down the middle of the crowd as they made their way for my girls.
I was the socially accepted outcast. They had made friends with me out of sheer kindness whereas the other kids judged me for my lack of money.
Don't get me wrong we weren't the poorest but we were certainly not as rich as the others around here.

Ryan would try to stop us everyday to try to talk with the girls. Sadly I was never the one he wanted to talk to. He was the hottest of the hot in our school. The girls hated his guts though as he was an ass hole for sure.
He never treated any girl any different he was raised with a woman in the kitchen and that's just the way he treated them.
I saw how he was with his sister though as I lived across the road from them. He was a gentlemen when it came to her.
He would never let anyone disrespect her. She was his queen and he would bend at her will. It was sweet.
I had seen the good under all the evil and it broke the illusion of him being this bug bad guy for me.
That was mistake number one. Today he approached me instead of crystal and the others.
I was stood at my locker and he looked calmer than normal.

"I need your help" he mumbled. I turned to him feeling a sudden wash of confidence. "Funny that isn't it, you ignore me for almost a whole year and now you need my help.... let me guess you need help on homework or an assignment you want me to do?" He stayed quiet "well on that note piss off" I slammed my locker shut and walked off.

He followed me and dragged me into an empty classroom.
"It's my sister" I raised an eyebrow "whatever Ryan why should I help you! You treat me like crap! You treat everyone like crap!" I struggled free of his grip.
"Sophia is missing! I need your help finding her! Your sister and mine were best friends I need you to get as much information from her as possible"
I shook my head as I pulled out my phone.

'Leah is missing!'

Turns out my sister was gone too. "Who hated you enough to take your sister along with mine!?"

"Literally anyone!"

"That's not helpful!"

"I know!"
I rolled my eyes and felt my phone vibrate again.

'I have Leah and angel Louisa come and get them and bring back up, your mum asked me to take them to school this morning and on the way we were being followed I drove home'
I blinked a couple times. "I know where they are" I pulled my keys from my pocket.

"Grab your strongest friends and meet me at my car!" I ran to my locker pulled everything into my bag which really wasn't a lot.
Panic was starting to set in. Why would someone follow my aunt? With two kids?
What the hell?
Why us we have nothing?
In this town we literally are the nobodies?!!

I was joined in my car by four big muscly guys including Ryan.
I sped off down the partially empty roads onto a motorway over a large river that separated the north side from the south and through countless more streets.
Another two towns over and we were there.

When I pulled up outside my aunts house I could feel something was wrong. Someone unwanted was inside. I bust through the door without the others and ran around looking for them until I hit the parlour. She was sat there the two girls and her crying.
My heart sank. "The police are on their way Nina you need to tell them everything" I said running to her and embracing her.

"And why would she do that?" A powerful low voice came from behind me as something hard and metal was pressed against the back of my head.

I had a normal life up until this point but I guess this is what you get when you live in this kind of area.
Life returned to normal quickly after this happened and it eventually escaped from my mind, right now though I was petrified.

"Move away from them" he said coldly. "No!" I said back praying to God Ryan or someone would come and help me. I stood u and turned around so the gun was on my forehead. I stared him dead in the eyes and watched as his finger pushed the trigger luckily I ducked just in time and punched him hard in his balls. He dropped the gun and as it hit the floor I picked it up and shot him in the leg.
Blood poured from the opened wound on his shin but I was too scared to even think straight right now. The police arrived at least 10 minutes after and we were all sat silently in the living room.
Ryan and his friends had fought the people protecting the man outside so that I could get in.
All of them looked pretty beaten.

"You shot him?" Mac asked finally breaking the silence "I had to, the wound wasn't fatal" I mumbled still shaking.
"You did the right thing Louisa" angel said wrapping her little arms around me nearly in tears.
Fear had struck the girls harder than any of us.
They never told us what happened when he first came in and knocked my aunt out. Honestly none of us really wanted to know. One thing was for sure they didn't get hurt by him.
He deserved what he got. I never felt bad for shooting him I felt bad because the girls had to watch it.

We all went home that day. My aunt came to live with my family and that was that.
I wasn't in school for a couple weeks afterwards.
I barely even spoke to my family yet the councillor they sent me too.
I barely spoke at all. I couldn't do it, all I ever managed to say was "sorry" and when they asked me what for I'd just break down and cry.
It was then I realised how horrible ptsd really was.
The nightmares I had about him coming back about us being the Ines the police found covered in each other's blood as he had shot us.

Ryan and I spoke to each other more by the conversations were about literally anything other than each other and after a while we stopped and then months later life did return to normal.
Everything went back to the way it was. Nothing changed except a tiny part of Ryan's attitude towards women.

Sometimes I think about how I should have just knocked him out instead of shooting him.
I don't feel bad for shooting him he deserved it but it just plays over and over in my head when I sit in my car.
I end up screaming it's the only way I Ben get rid of the haunted feeling.
It feels like I'm dying and the only way to stop it is to scream...