Promise you won't leave...(Nick and Jojo)

Part 3

Jojo pov:
The next day I got up and wondered why I keep doing this to myself everyday, I mean waking up and starting this nightmare again every day. It was pretty cold outside today, just a normal April tuesday. I got myself ready for school again but right when I wanted to leave the bathroom to get Aileen, I heard my uncle entering my room, which I forgot to lock. Fuck, Aileen!! I expected the worst. I ran into my room and saw my uncle standing in front of Aileens cot, just a moment before he clenched his fist and lifted it. I ran over to him and punched him before he could hit her. 'I won't let you hurt her.', I said with a serious face. Of course he got angry at me again. He punched me until I lay on the floor again, crying,again. 'You fucking asshole ruined my life. I should fucking kill you and the little brat.', he screamed before I could grab a cup that was lying on the floor with my last strengh and hit his head. He passed out and fell onto me. I pushed him off me and got up again. I pulled him into the living room and tied him to the radiator with a cable tie. He was fucking heavy and it took me a lot of time and strengh but I just couldn't handle him punching me anymore. Plus he is too dangerous for Aileen. I put a bowl of water next to him, just as the rest of the bread I ate yesterday. He would survive it. I left the flat with a cold look on my face and Aileen in my arms. I brought her to the nursery again. I could see myself in the reflection of a store window. My right eye was swollen and blue-redish. I went to school and headed right to the bathroom. Sadness was,besides all the emptiness, all that was filling my head. I washed my face and started crying again. I didn't want to be myself anymore. I locked myself in one of the toilets and rolled up my left sleeve again. I took the blade out of my backpack and slit my wrist four times until it bled a lot. I bandaged it again. It felt good. Pain felt good. I felt like I got what I deserved. I left the bathroom. After three lessons, in the break, I was on my way to the back of the school again. Yes, my life is pretty repetitive but I've gotten used to it. As I was walking, I thought about how mad my uncle would be if he wakes up and notices that I tied him to the radiator. He'll probably kill me, maybe that's for the best anyway. A hard punch against my knee pulled me out of my thoughts. A group of people surrounded me in the middle of the schoolyard, where all the people were eating their lunch. They were watching....staring. 'Look, who didn't say hello to us today.',Ryan said with his armes opened wide, pointing at me, as if I was an object he was presenting. I don't think that there were ever watching so many people before. They usually bully me on the third floor, where all the different classes of my school level are. All the other levels are in other floors. I lay on the floor and covered my face protecting it from the punches. They hit my arms, kicked me with their feet and stepped on my knee, which hurt like hell. Tears started falling down my face. 'Oh, does it hurt so bad? I'm sorry that you're such a pussy.', Tyler said sarcastically and the people around him laughed. 'Fuck you.', I answered quietly. He seemed to have heard what I said. 'What did you say?', he said with a look on his face as if he would kill me in any moment. 'I said FUCK YOU', I shouted. Two of the guys surrounding me pulled me onto my feet and pushed me against the next wall. It was easy for them to lift me up since I barely weighed anything. Suddenly Tyler took a knife out of his pocket and came towards me. He kicked my ribs and then he held the knife against my throat. He put  just enough pressure on the knife that it slightly cut my neck, fortunately not my carotid artery. The wound started bleeding a little bit. He replaced the knife with his hand and started chocking me. 'Listen to me, asshole. I could fucking kill you and you know it. I would stop fucking playing with me or I swear you'll regret it.", he said very close to my ear.

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