My Story | Lauren Cimorelli |

chapter 2 |I'm coming to you|

Pov. Christina                         years 2008

I turn off the car, because I arrived at home, I go down and take the bag with the shopping inside.
While walking in the driveway, I hear screams coming from the house ... they will certainly be Dani and Amy who fight for some stupidity, as usual.
Time to take another step that, this time another scream, much louder, it makes me snap to attention.
I approach home and bias from the window, but I do not see anyone and remembering that the girls came out I think they will have left the TV on.
I put the shopping on the ground, to get the keys, when, another scream, followed by a series of shots make me jump from fright, this is not TV.
I go around the house to try to understand what was happening and when I walk in front of the kitchen window, I see the most gruesome scene in my life.
Immediately I go away and call 911.
- 911, do you need help?
-Please come in now, it's and emergency.
- Madame, calm down, tell us her name, where does she live and what's going on?
-Okay, I'm Christina Cimorelli and I live in .... please send someone is an emergency.
-Okay okay there is a patrol which is 3 minutes from her.
As soon as he has finished the sentence, another scream wakes me up from the trans in which I was, the phone falls to me on the ground and slings me into the house.
I enter the kitchen, I take a chair and toss it with all my strength on my father's back making him unconscious, immediately I go to my sister Lauren agonizing on the ground and I pick her up, she had a black eye and a red face like his eyes full of tears. She was naked then I covered her with my red checked shirt that I kept on life.
Chri-chri-sti-sti-stina Lauren kept calling me and I held her even closer to me.
I tried to calm her by telling her that I was there and that I would not allow anyone else to hurt her, but she kept sobbing and crying.
at that moment the policemen came along with other people who I suppose were lawyers or special agents. The policemen took my father who was recovering and handcuffed him while a lady who introduced me as Sandra asked me what had happened. After telling him everything, Sandra told me that Daddy will be taken to the police station and will stay there until there is no trial and therefore the sentence and that for the moment it was better if Lauren went with them, and with those words she tried to take Lauren from my arms. She kept saying it was the practice to follow and that Lauren needed medical and psychological care, but perhaps she did not understand that she was just an 8-year-old girl, just raped by her father who just wanted this day never to have existed.
Another officer arrived who managed to take Lauren from my arms, I immediately ran after my little sister who was crying and screaming at her by that agent who loaded her with the ambulance where they sat her down, and they did not even let me go up with her.
Without thinking twice I get on my red pick-up and go behind the ambulance, but on the highway there was terrible traffic and although I drove fast I arrived at the hospital after 3 hours.
Immediately I find parking and enter the hospital lobby. I go to the receptionist and ask about Lauren, she checks on the computer and tells me that Lauren has been transferred to a family home. WHAT? Lauren in a family house? No it's impossible. In less than 20 minutes I arrive at the family home and ask for Lauren, here the receptionist gives me a card with some questions to fill out. After 10 minutes I have finished, the return to the lady and ask if I can take Lauren, the lady looks at the card and says no because even Lisa is Lauren's legal guardian and without the consent of all guardians children can not leave the institution.
Why did I also write Lisa's name? Damn to me that I'm so sincere, I curse myself mentally, I try to explain to the lady that Lisa can not be here within the next 4 weeks because she's in college, but nothing, there's no way to convince her. I'm going home and I'm calling Lisa.
-Hey christina, how are you? are the girls ok? and Lauren?
He spoke so quickly that I hardly understood it, I take a deep breath and tell her everything.

Pov. Lisa

I was quietly playing on the phone, on the bed having finally a moment of pause after 8 hours of lessons, when Christina calls me, I immediately answer and ask her many questions but, for her part I feel only a sigh and this worries me.
-Chrissy...so I worry...what happened?
-Lisa...I do not know how to tell you this.
I hear another deep breath and then she tells me everything.
I do not know how that monster of our father could do something like that, I have no words and then it's bullshit that they do not take Lauren.
With all these thoughts in the head are arrivats in the office of the headmaster, I explain the situation and fortunately gives me only one opportunity that is to take an exam that if I pass the college if I do not overcome it bounced. After 2 hours I finished the test and wow I passed the most difficult exam of my life, and even with the highest marks and think that they were missing 6 months at the diploma. Throughout this interior monologue I am looking for a flight to Nashville while packing, but the nearest flight is 8 days, I can not leave Lauren there for another 8 days.
Then I take the car and start this long journey, I drove like a mad surpassing the limit, I will have drunk 8 liters of coffee to drive all night, but I finally arrived and it is almost at lunchtime.
As soon as I open the door, Christina leans on me crying, but immediately she recovers because all my sisters come to me saying hello and hugging me and from their faces I understand that they did not know about the situation, when Dani started calling to Lauren telling him to get off I had arrived Christina says Lauren is not home and now she and I are going to get her.
We get in the car and in a short time we are at the family home, we spend a lot of time for the recognition and to sign all the documents to recover Lauren. We were waiting in that stupid office when, the door opens slowly and we can see a Lauren so scandalized, so terrified if so small. Christina slings over her picks her up and comes up to me, I take a hand of Lauren but she immediately goes away, only now I notice that she was crying, I try to take her hand back but still goes away with a scream, then I try to reassure her by saying that it was me and that I would never leave her again. She opens her eyes, looks at me and for a moment she stops crying, maybe she was happy that I was there, but a moment later she cries again, but she took my hand at least she was not afraid of me.
Lauren had her legs around Christina's waist, her head in the crook of her neck, a hand gripping the collar of her shirt and the other in mine. Le'let's g-g-go aw-away she whispered in Christina's ear and immediately we head for home. In the car Lauren started to go apnea and could no longer breathe, we tried to calm her but the situation degenerated more and more, Christina gets out of the car, makes Lauren sit on the hood of the car and kept telling Lauren to follow her breath, after endless minutes Lauren had calmed down even though every now and then she was shaken by some sobs, she was still sitting on the hood while she hugged Christina when she called me, I approached her and held out my arms, I pick her up and hold her tightly to my chest, we get back in the car and along the way Lauren falls asleep on me, I was in a somewhat uncomfortable position but I did not care, I was about to fall asleep even when we arrived home. I come down with Lauren as a bride in my arms, Christina opens the door and all the girls ask her questions but she immediately shuts them up showing her Lauren sleeping in my arms.
They have a questioning face but Christina says that she will explain it all later. I enter and sit down on the sofa with Lauren and while I see the girls starting to prepare lunch and Christina starts telling them what happened but I hear them more and more muffled and distant, the last things I understand before falling asleep are: someone putting a blanket on me and Lauren and a phone ringing.