Fear

Part 2

Voices shouting woke me about half an hour later, I look over seeing Layla and Delilah still sleeping and sit up turning on my lamp that is beside my bed, Layla stirred from the light but stayed sleeping. After debating for a while if I should investigate the noise or go back to sleep when I heard a door being slammed against my better judgement, I shove Layla being careful not to hit or touch Delilah.

"Baby wake up I'm going to check something downstairs." I say as she wakes up

"Hold on, what's going on downstairs?" she says sleep still having a hold on her, sitting up when Delilah starts to stir, patting the tiny infant back to sleep.

"I don't know baby, I heard yelling and a door being slammed I will be back." I say getting out of bed, pulling on a pair of shorts and slipping my pocketknife into my pocket taking one look at my girls and walk out the door, closing it behind me.

Walking down the first flight of stairs and making sure that no one had seen me but before I go down a slither of light out of the corner of my eye. Turning I see my little sister, Zaria's door open a little bit, I walk over peaking in I see her laying on her bed crying. When I walk in, she looks up at me shaking her head.

"Levi you need to leave he is going to be back soon." She says her voice just above a whisper. At first, I thought she meant dad but then I spot her boyfriends things beside her bed. Zaria and her boyfriend where once the perfect couple then he started drinking and that's when they started fighting almost every night they were together but this time he had taken it to far, this time he had hurt her I could see the marks on her skin, bruises forming on her arms and legs.

"He hit you didn't he." I state not bothering asking. She nods her head slowly looking down, it scares me seeing my fifteen-year-old sister like this, she is normal so strong and brave, fighting about anything she believes in, I hug her. "I'm going to kill him," I growl "I need you to go up stairs to my bedroom, Layla and Delilah are up there go lay with them."

She nods again and goes to get up, but the slamming of a door stops her, that one defiantly was the front door the laughs of several teenage boys could be heard.

"The bitch is final going to get what she deserves." One voice says

More laughter followed and the thumping of several feet running up the stairs. "You have to go now, or they are going to get you." I tell Zaria and she slips out. Her footsteps could only just be heard once I was satisfied that they weren't going to get her I sat down on the bed pulling out my pocketknife, nothing special just a black 3.5-inch blade and unfold it. I was going to hurt them really bad; I'd be gone by the morning anyway.

The door burst open and five or so boys' barge in the eldest looking about eighteen and youngest looking like he was thirteen, "well boys what do we have here?" Zaria's boyfriend asks his mates.

"Big brother trying to be a hero, is he?" one of them says laughing

"Jake it would be rude of you if you didn't introduce me to you friends" I tell Zaria's boyfriend

"Right," Jake says and points to the boys that have now lined up "this is Tom, Luke, Ash, Felix and Kyle."

"I am Levi. The fifteen-year-old girl you're after is my sister and this punk here decided to hit her." I say pointing to Jake, "now what do we all think about this boys?" I ask them

"If he hit her, she probably deserved it." Ash says smirking, and high-fiving Luke.

I look at him, "well your father did a really bad job at teaching you manners, just like the rest of you boys." I tell them. "now if you don't wish to end up in hospital tonight I sagest you leave."

The boys laugh at me walking closer, "five verses one not a very fair fight, now you just run along Levi let me deal with my girl." Jake says

"Don't think I will," I say before I close the distance between us and punching him right in the jaw, a loud crack rings through the room and Jake falls to the ground.

Tom, Luke and Felix run at me, the other boys to stunned to move, I swipe at Tom with my knife but he ducks it and punches me in the stomach, he goes for another hit but I jump back, throwing a punch of my own he falls back from the sudden loss of balance. Luke and Felix see what happened to Tom and they back off.

I glare at the boys, "leave now and I never want to see you in my house again." My voice laced with venom they scrambled out the door, running down the stairs and out the front door, I close my knife and walk back to my room.