Mistreated | Donah Meavey

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Daniel's pov

I hurried while my tears were scrolling down on my face. I felt horrible cause I just simply left him standing there without any explanation. But I can't tell him. Not yet.

When I finally got home the house was empty. Thank god. With my brother it's really my lucky day. With Jonah...ugh...with him it's absolutely not my day. It's just...just too complicated.

I ran upstairs into my room, locked the door and threw myself on the bed, crying my eyes out.

.........

It was getting dark outside when I heard a loud noise from downstairs. It means Ben is back.

My heart started to beat faster. I couldn't do anything, just wait what is going to happen. Suddenly a loud crash came from the kitchen.

'Oh god, he's still downstairs.' I let out a sigh. I hope he doesn't have enough energy to come up the stairs and hurt me. I know my door is locked but it doesn't matter cause if he gets angry and frustrated he can easily break into my room. Once when he was chasing me I ran into the bathroom and locked myself in but he completely broke the door like it was made of paper.

So I was really scared. I was sitting on my bed for some time now and listening to every single noise. After almost 20 minutes some heavy steps started to get closer to my door.

'No no no please don't.' I panicked and I was getting really anxious.  When he reached my door he tried to open it but he couldn't so he got angry and started to punch into it.

"You locked the door?! Yeah?! You fucking asshole! You will pay for this! You hear me?!!" he was yelling at me so loudly.

I was crying in the corner of the room.
'Please door, please don't give up, please.' I begged the door. I'm absolutely going crazy I guess. But what should I do? There is no way out of this situation.

And unfortunately my door let me down and in the next moment I saw Ben standing in front of me. He ran to me, lifted me up from the ground and punched me in my face. Then again and again. I wanted to scream but no one would hear me anyway. Tears mixed with blood covered my face and my shirt. And then the worst came. He grabbed my throat and started to choke me.

'I'm gonna die now ' was my last thought before everything turned black.

Jonah's pov

I was just standing there and watching Daniel leave. I wanted to help him but he won't let me. And the other thing is that I don't even know what is going on with him.

I decided to go home. Alone for the rest of the day. I came here to L.A. with my sister Stacy but she move to her boyfriend like 3 weeks ago. So she lives in San Francisco now and I live alone here. But it's fine cause I barely have time to stay in that house either cause I work all day and every day. Ok Sunday is my off day but at the same time it's the day when me and Daniel use to go to that old abandoned house and chill together. It's my favorite day of the week.
On the other hand Daniel came here with his parents and brother Ben. Unfortunately his parents passed away like 3 months ago I guess...my poor little Daniel.
And Ben. I don't know him and Daniel won't tell me anything about him. I just know that he's 25. That's all. I don't even know where he works.

By the way me and Daniel work in a coffee shop. We came here to study but they kicked us out because of a stupid misunderstanding and they won't listen to us. Stupid assholes.
But that was almost a year ago so whatever. And I love this job so I'm definitely not complaining cause I work with my best friend in the whole world who I love more than anything, also it's a well paid job and coffee is my favorite drink ever.

.......

I was sitting by the window watching the sunset and thinking. Thinking about what happened earlier this day. I have no idea what I said or did wrong. We were just talking about random stuff like always.

Wait....right before he was about to leave...there was a moment...we were just staring at each other then I smiled at him but he suddenly turned his head away from me and got nervous. Then he told me that he's going home....oh god I'm so dumb. I shouldn't do that. Oh crap maybe he found out that I have a crush on him and that's the reason why he left.

'Don't do this to me'.....that's what he told me and I couldn't understand it. Now I know. Ugh....poor Dani...what should I do now?

'I'm gonna text him.' I grabbed my phone and started to type.

Me: hey Daniel, i just wanted to say that i'm really sorry for everything I did and

'No. This is not a good idea.' and I deleted it.

Suddenly I felt something. I can't describe it. It was a strange feeling but it was familiar to the feeling when you know that something bad is going to happen.
Immediately after this a name popped up in my head for no reason.

"Daniel...."