Caroline

Chapter 6

Maria's POV:

It was the middle of the night and I heard a loud crash! Like the sound of grass breaking. I woke up and checked on the kids, makeing sure the sound didn't wake them up. It was probably a burglary. Luckily, I knew boxing,karate, and wrestling.

I creeped down the stairs, getting ready to fight. When I heard a fimliar moan. "Awwwww shit! That hurt!" Somebody called.

I slowly creeped into the living room. Tip toeing ever step. When I finally see the person. And instantly, I know who it is.

"Jason?" I asked more of like a whisper.

"Where is the children?" He asked sounding drunk.

"Jason? Are you drunk?"

"What makes you think that! Maybe I isn't!" He said as he tripped over Leo's playpen. I couldn't help but laugh.

"What's so funny you stupid bitch!"

"Jason, don't call me that!

"Why can't I?"

"Jason, your obviously waisted. So you should go to where ever your at-"

* SLAP*

"Jason!!!!" I Screamed holding my cheek while kicking him in the balls.

Once he got up, he grabbed my arm and tried to flip me over, but I ended up cartwheeling and flipping him over on to the glass coffee table.

I tried to drag him out of the house while he was laying on the ground moaning. As I was dragging him, I heard a smile voice call my name.

" Mommy?"

Caroline's POV:

* CRASH *

Is all it took to wake me up. At first I thought it was a hallucination. But then I hear it again.

* CRASH *

I quickly woke up and sprinted into Layla's room to see if she's ok. She's just sleeping. I went into mom's room to see if she heard that nosy. She wasn't in there. I started to panic.

I wasn't going to go down stairs cause I'm scared. But I realized that that's what I had to do. I came out mom's room and tried taking a step towards the stairs.

But my feet wouldn't move. Ever time I tried to move, I just stood there. Petrified.

* SLAP *

I heard. That's when my feet finally decided to move.

I took my first step. Slowly tip toeing. I took my second, then my third. All slow and steady.

Then I came to the last step. By the stairs. Then I saw something crazy. Somebody was dragging a body out the door. "No, this can't be happening!" That's what I thought, that was my mom. I was so upset I was about to cry. Then I spoke before I shouldn't have. "Mommy?"

Maira's POV:

As soon as Caroline called my name, I dropped her father and ran up the stairs. I carried her up to her bed and tuck her in. "Caroline, listen to mommy. I'm going to be ok, just stay up here. Whatever you do, do NOT go back down stairs."

I looked her in the eye and told her. She nodded. "And remember, I love you." I said as I went down stairs to deal with Jason again.

Caroline's POV:

"And just remember, I love you." My mom said and kissed my forhead and left. I realized this might be the last time I get to see her. "I l-love you t-to." I tried to say but it was to late. She was gone.

Maria's POV:

When I came back downstairs, I didn't see Jason. I thought he left. I sighed and walked over to the shattered coffee table. "Awww man! Tommy brought me that." I sighed and sat in the couch. Only to be pulled by my hair back to my feet.

"Jas-" was all I could say when he rapped his hands around my throat and slamming me against the wall repeatedly. I tried to kick him in the balls again but he held me up so high I couldn't reach him. I couldn't believe it! The shy, nerd I married and had 3 kids with would later become an alcoholic and would attempt to try and suffocate me.

"P-ple- " I couldn't take it any more. I kicked and kicked until he punched me in the stomach let me go.

I fell to the floor, backing up to the wall begging him to stop.

" I will, if you tell me where he kids are?"

I was coughing, but managed to chock out a "never"

I now know that was the biggest mistake that I ever made. I tried to get up and run, but I couldn't push my self off the ground.

"Bad chose." He said mockingly and grabbed me by my hair again.

He wrapped his hands around my neck again and slammed me against the wall as I feel to the ground. Then he repeatedly kicked my stomach. For some reason he just stopped after that.
Or that's what I thought.
I finally got the strength to push my self of the ground. I tried to run to the stairs but I couldn't run. I got to the first step and I got dragged back down. He grabbed my hair and slammed my head to the ground.
When I noticed, he had a knife in his hand. That's when I knew, I was done.
"NOOOOO!"
Caroline's POV:
Even though I was told not too, I still went to the top of the stair way to see what was going on since there was a hole lot of banging. I sneaked around the corner of the stair way and say that my mom was being slammed repeatedly against the wall. I whimpered at the horrible sight. Then I noticed he the man was. It was my dad.
"Why?!"
Is all I kept whimpering to my self as I ran back to my moms room. I took the biggest suitcase that I could find and stuffed it with a bunch of my clothes, Leo's, and Layla's. I grabbed Leo's diaper bag and filled it up with diapers, bottles, wipes, baby food, and his feeding spoon.
After I prepared the bags, I went to Layla's room to wake her up, knowing that this, was the last time we where going to live here.