A House Divided

Sarah

"This is exactly what you get Sarah..I told you to tell him sooner." My mom says over the phone.

"Mom please not now. I just needed some one to talk to not a lecture."

"You need a lecture!!!" She yells at me. I roll my eyes and ignore her comment. Why do I bother with my family? They all treat me as an outcast.

"Mom I understand that what I've done is wrong. But why can't I just have someone who won't judge me and look at the person I am? He's cheated on me too! And with a guy!"

"I'd cheat on you with a guy too..." She says.

"Just....good bye mom. I'm done with all of you." Click.

This is just great. I've tried dialing Kris's number over and over again. But ever time he forwards it to the voicemail. I feel so disgusting. I had no idea all of this would come back and haunt me. I'm slightly showing now but it's very small. I put my head in my hands and begin to cry. This hurts so much. Why did I ever do this? Am I that stupid? I should have known that this wasn't a good idea from the start. I lay back on the bed and look at the ceiling.

God help me. Help my family. I want things to go back to the way they used to. But now I'm in this hole too deep. There's no getting out of it now.

I sit up straight and there's a knock at the front door. I really don't feel like getting up but I do anyway. I stand up and walk towards our door. As I'm walking past Marjorie's door I notice she hasn't been home in several days. Now where could she have gone? This is the first time I've actually noticed her being gone. She's usually out doing things that most teenagers do.

I walk into her room to look around. Nothings been touched or undid. I turn around to see Maraye going past the room to the front door. I forgot someone was knocking on it.

"AWEEEEEEEE!!!!" I hear her scream. I run out of the room and down the hall to see two boys putting a bag over her head and tying her up. "Let go of my daughter!!!" I yell at them. But it's no use. One of them spot me and I take off running down the hall. I behind me and he's right on my heels. Before I can grab the handle to the door he wraps his arms around me and pulls me to the floor. "Be careful kid I'm pregnant!" I scream at him. He chuckles and starts to reach down towards me. I thought he was going to pick me up but instead he rolls me over and raises up my shirt. Did he think I was lying?? He nods his head and pulls out a knife. No....please don't do what I think you're about to do..

He grips the knife and takes a hold of my belly. "No! What are you about to do??" I can see him smirking through his mask. I panic and look around for something to hit him with. But there's nothing in this hallway. He positions himself above me. In the blink of an eye he stabs me stomach repeatedly. "UGHHH STOP!! OH GOD PLEASE STOP!! MY BABY! YOU CAN DO THIS TO MY BABY!!" I choke out through the pain. "Let go of my mom !!!!" I hear Maraye scream. I look over to her and see one of the boys hit her across her head with a gun. She falls down like a rag doll. I raise up my hands to try and stop the guy from stabbing me.

Everything is blurry. I'm losing a lot of blood and the pain only gets more intense. I can feel myself losing this baby. It won't survive. My arms drop back down and my vision begins to fade. He stops stabbing me and runs into Marjorie's room. He comes back out with a bed sheet and wraps me in it. It's getting stained from all my blood. He then picks me up and walks out of the house. He then opens a door to a black van and places me next to Maraye. Once the doors close everything goes black.

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"Mom!" Whose that?

"Mom wake up! Please! Say something!" It's Maraye. I want to speak but I can't. Everything hurts and my body feels heavy. I want to open my eyes but I can't.

"Mom please....can you hear me??" I hear you baby...I'm sorry I haven't been a good mother to you. Baby please forgive me. If only you could hear me. If only I could say these words to you. There's a tunnel baby. I see the baby. He's a boy. I want to reach out to him, grab his hand. But it's too bright. There's a light at the end of the tunnel. He reaching for me baby. Do I take his hand?
He's walking away from me...why's he walking away? "No come back!" I can't hear anything. I can't even hear myself. I can feel myself falling..falling back to Earth, back to reality.

"Mom! Are you awake?" She slaps my face a couple of times and I start to groan in pain. I try to move but it all hurts. I blink my eyes several times to get used to the lights. "Raye...where are we?"

"I don't know mom...but I hear someone else whimpering in the corner over there." She says pointing. I look in the direction she's pointing in. "Excuse me?? Are you ok?" I ask the person. They stop shivering almost instantly. The girl looks up at me. "MOM!!" I sit there in utter shock. This is where she's been. This is why she was missing. "Marjorie??" I try to sit up but it's no use. Marjorie runs over me and her sister and hug us. "Mar why are we here??" I ask her. "It's Maree...He's gotten into some beef with these thugs and they've taken us to lure him here." She responds. I shake my head. So this is why we're here.

"Hola ladies. I see you've reunited." A voice says behind us. We all turn and my jaw drops at the person standing there.

"Juwell!! What are you doing here???" Maraye screams. He gets eye level with her and kisses her passionately. She kisses him back and he sticks his tongue into her mouth. They tongue for a bit but she pulls away. "Juwell what's going on?" She asks.

"I need your brother mi amor...I'm sorry." He gets up and walks back out of the door slamming it behind them. She looks back at me and her sister with tears in eyes. We grab her let her cry on our shoulder.

"It's ok baby...we're here. We'll get out of this."

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