Noah Lockman

Chapter 1

An unforgettable night.

The living room was dark. The ceiling light was off and that's how it always stayed. The only thing lighting the room was the TV. It was loud. I mean really loud. The reason for this is that Lucy and Henry Lockman couldn't hear Eastenders over the crying of two of their children. "Go and sort Jessy and Mike out." Lucy said.

"No! You're their mother. You go and sort them out."

"Are you actually taking the piss? You need to take some responsibility around here. Get of your lazy arse off this sofa and sort them out. NOW!" Lucy yelled. Henry hit her face leaving an immediate red mark. "You bastard!" She started crying and ran upstairs.

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Noah could hear the thumping of heavy and fast footsteps on the stairs. He was surprised Jannette hadn't woken up. The noise of the footsteps and the crying of Mike and Jessy was giving him a headache. His parents yelling at each other didn't help either. The eleven year old shouldn't have to hear his parents argue. It's not the first time it's happened though. Last time blood was almost shed. Noah had a feeling it was going to be worse this time though. He tried to push that thought out of his head and started stroking Jannette's face with his index finger. She's so beautiful he thought. Noah loved her more than his other siblings. There was just something about the 4 month year old that made her better. He could hear the muffled shouting from his parents again.

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"Don't ever run from me." Henry said through gritted teeth. Lucy was scared. The last time this happened he threatened her with a piece of sharp wood that had come off their bed. She heard a smash and pieces of mirror slid across the wooden floor. Lucy came out from under the bed and saw Henry holding Michael with a mirror shard held up to his chubby neck. "I didn't want this thing. I didn't want Jessica either. I didn't want any of these children but hey! Here they are. I would let you say goodbye to them but, seeing you in pain is like music to me."

"No. Don't do it!" Lucy squealed. Streams of tears were flowing from Lucy's eyes now. Mike and Jessy were still crying.

Henry penetrated Mike's throat and move the mirror shard from one side of the baby's neck to the other. Blood was gushing out. "NO!" The shrill scream seemed to go on forever. Mike's crying stopped but he started to choke. Henry threw him on the floor making a thumping noise. He proceeded to pick up Jessica and slit her throat to. She stopped crying and started chocking too. "You're pathetic! You murder your children because you don't have the responsibility to look after them. You are just messed up!"

"SHUT UP!" He penetrated her stomach and pushed the shard through her body. The shard was forefully pulled out. "Pathetic." Lucy said before falling back laying dead in between both Michael and Jessica. Their blood mixed together and ran under the bedroom door.

Henry started to walk out of the bedroom calling Noah's name.

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Noah was sat on his bed cradling his baby sister whilst he listened to his father call his name with an eerie tone. He had locked the door when he heard his mother screaming. Something's happened. He thought. Again he was surprised that Jannette was still asleep after hearing the blood curdling screams that had emitted out of his parents room. "Noah." Henry's voice was getting closer and closer. Noah gently put Jannette onto his bed and ran over to his bedroom door. He checked the lock on the door and ran back to his bed. He saw the shadow of his father creep under the door. The handle was swiftly moving up and down.

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Henry was trying to open the door. He pushed down on the handle at least one hundred times before realising it was locked. "You can't stay in their forever Noah." he called through the bottom of the door. "And you can't stay out there forever you murderous bastard!" Noah's muffled voice yelled back. Henry quickly stood back up still holding the bloody shard of mirror. "Don't you dare ever call me that again you little shit!" he yelled. He dropped the mirror shard onto his foot and started screaming, He held his foot and started hopping backwards. He was edging closely to the banister where you could see the downstairs floor. He bounced on his left foot three more times before falling backwards onto the downstairs floor. He laid there unconscious. His foot leaking blood. Noah carefully opened his door and walked out of his room. He looked at his mother's, sister's and brother's blood as he walked past it. He looked over the banister and saw his fathers unconscious face seeming like it was still screaming. With his heart rapidly beating he ran down stairs and picked up the phone. "999, what emergency service do you require?" The phone said.

"Police please and hurry. I don't know when he'll wake up!"

"When who will wake up?"

"My father."

"Okay. The police are on their way."

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Noah rushed back up stairs to check on Jannette. She was awake on Noah's bed grabbing the tiny stairs on his duvet cover as if they were real. Noah picked her up, kissed her on the forehead and sat her in her cot. Noah waited five minutes before hearing a siren followed by a knock on the door. He ran down stairs and just before he opened the door, Henry stood up and looked at the small boy with his fingers on the door handle. Noah turned around and looked at his father. "Don't open the door." Noah ignored his father and pulled open the door. Henry started running at Noah. "You motherf-!" His path was blocked by three police. One a male and two female. Henry had completely forgotten about the searing pain in his foot up until this moment.More blood was gushing out of his foot. "Call an ambulance" one of the female officers said to the male. He pulled out his phone and held it up to his ear. "Who here called us?"

"I did" Noah said with multiple tears leaking from his eyes.

"Okay. Why?"

"He killed my mum and brother and sister." Noah said now weeping and pointing at his father.

"Do you have any proof of this?" the female officer said looking shocked. Noah nodded and beckoned her upstairs. He lead her to the bedroom door. They had to step over the pool of blood to get to the door. They both looked inside and saw the two bloody babies and bloody woman. "Do you have any family you can call? Anyone you know could look after you?"

"Yeah"