24 Hours

Chapter 6

Edited Feb. 24, 2015

Song is Breathe In Breathe Out by Mat Kearney!!

Happy Reading!!

~MJ~

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Mona-

"Okay, I still don't get why I'm telling you this, I mean, it was your fault stupid. But I guess you deserve an explanation for my panic attack." I pant glaring at the figure sitting on the bed in front of me.

I slowly sit up, take a deep breath, and begin....

Flashback 10 years ago-

"Dad! Dad! Look! I made you, me, and mom today in art class!" I yell rushing to my dad's side as he slowly gets up and stalks towards me. I smile up at my Dad and wave the picture in front of my face so he could see.

"Great girl, now go, daddy's working." He says sternly, but I'm unfazed. He turns away and rubs his balding head. I turn away and run to my sister's room, Claire who was 17 at the time.

"Claire! Look! I made me, mom, and dad in art today!" I yell running in her room furrowing my eye brows at what I saw.

"Mom? Why are you doing that to Claire?" I question stepping back as I watch my mom straddle Claire and continue throwing punches. I run back to dads office and tell him what was happening.

He looked at me calmly and says grabbing my shoulders, "Claire didn't do what mommy said so she's getting punished. Now, go before I do the same to you Mona."

I gasp at his words and run to my room, which I shared with Claire, but then I hear mom yelling, calling Claire all the profane names I have ever heard. I turn away and run into something big, I look up and see my dad. He looks extremely angry in his green eyes and wears a frown on his face.

"Daddy, I can't go to my room. Mommy's in there hurting Claire." I say stepping back slowly,

"Honey," he says slowly stepping towards me. "What do I always say when you call me Daddy and your mother Mommy? You're too old for that, you're acting like a small child." He gruffly finishes as his frown turns into an evil grin.

"That calls for punishment."

I got what Claire got, but more was taken from me, he called me names worse than mother did Claire.

After Claire's 18th birthday, I was currently 15 she moved out, never to be heard again, until the police called my parents and said that Claire O.D'ed (Over Dosed) on many drugs and that we should go claim her body so we can have a funeral.

My parents refused to go get her body, we didn't have a funeral. Nothing. I went back to our room and cried on Claires bed, when I noticed something under her pillow. It was a small teddy bear that I gave her. I had gotten the teddy bear from the nurse at school when I hit my head on the ground in recess.

I put the bear under my pillow and went to sleep. Only to be awoken by my parents packing all of Claire's things and taking them to the backyard.

I followed them asking what they were doing, when I got no reply, I silently followed as they put all the boxes next to eachother and pour gasoline on them. I gasped realizing that they were going to burn them. I ran to my father holding a lighter and begged him not to do it because there were all her baby pictures in it, I was afraid I would forget her face.

I did.

Because when I tried to get the lighter my dad shoved me back and I hit my head on our back porch step.

I woke up in my bed and my mother pacing in front of my bed. I groaned and my mother snapped her head at me, she quickly started calling me names and saying how worthless I was. The usual.

Now, because of them, I am scared to get contacts because my eyes are 'too big' or 'like a bug' I'm too tall, I'm too skinny, my face is hideous and I was never worth anything, they didn't even know why they kept me until I left at 16 and lived with Gabbi and her family, they were so welcoming.

I found out a year ago that my parents died in a car accident. Leaving me nothing and everything they had to their friends and other family members.

The reason I was so scared without my glasses was because, when they would hit me or call me names or anything they would take my glasses and would throw random things at me and I wouldn't realize that it was coming at me until it was too late.

I even have to sleep in my glasses because of that.

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I took a deep breath and finished watching his figure, he pushed his hand through his hair and sighed loudly, I then felt eyes on me and started to squirm under the gaze.

"I am, so, so sorry Mona. I had no idea. If I did-" I stopped his apology,

"it's fine Bart, it's fine, I just need to make sure I see your figure at all times please? I can't-" He stopped me this time,

"Okay, I'm right here okay?"

I nod watching his figure come closer, I felt arms around my neck and strands of his hair in my face. I froze, "wh-wha-what a-are yy-you -doing?" I stutter as he squeezes me,

"I'm hugging you, it would be nice if you hugged me back Mona." His voice is muffled,

"oh" I say slowly wrapping my arms around his waist and returning the hug, we stay like this for a few minutes I'm guessing.

I felt my eyes grow heavy as I take in his scent, a little smokey, but not too much, and a heavy scent of the woods. I grin and let my eyes close, and fall asleep in a near strangers arms.

"I'll tell you mine when you wake up." I hear a muffled voice say as I fall into darkness.

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~MJ~