𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 • 𝐎𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐙

𝖛𝖎.

TRIGGER WARNING: THIS CHAPTER MENTIONS ABUSE
PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU TRIGGER EASILY

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𝖏𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖘 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖕𝖘 𝖎𝖓 𝖋𝖗𝖔𝖓𝖙 𝖔𝖋 𝖆 𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖘𝖊 he immediately turned off his car "stay in the car" he says before getting out the car, I watched as he jogged up to a porch of a house before frantically knocking when the door, it opened and I see him hug a young girl before walking inside the house with her

I waited for a couple minutes in the car but I got bored so I got out, I leaned on the car as I waited for James. The front door opened and a pre-teen girl holding a toddler's hand in her hand and a baby in her other arm walked down the porch steps and walked towards the car without giving me glance

I walked towards the house James had entered, with the door wide open I could hear the yelling and swearing coming from the house, soon a women walks out on the porch, she looked dismantled, she was brunette and had purple bags under her eyes. She could barely keep her balance as she walked down the porch steps "who are you?" She asked as sweat covers her face

I didn't answer her and I could tell her that made her angry because she repeated her question but with more demands but it didn't scare me—she didn't scare me, I looked up to see James and how his eyes widen as he saw me standing in front of this women

He rushed over to me, "I told you to stay in the car!" He says gently pushing me away from the women , "the last time I told you to stay in the car you didn't listen either— what's going on?" I asked

"nothing—alright? just get back in the car please" he begged, from the look in his eyes he was scared which made me feel bad for being a smart-ass towards him "okay" I say before walking and getting back in the front seat I closed the door before looking behind me to see the pre-teen girl sitting in the backseat, the toddler sat next to her and the baby was on her lap

From the tears that stained her face and her eyes that were red from her tears, I knew only from a guess that the man and women James was arguing with was her parents. I felt bad for her but also related her— though my experience was slightly different with a drunken angry parent, my father never had drunken arguments with mom in front of my brother and i considering my mom died before we took our first steps

their shouting became louder within the second to the point where you could actually make out to what they're saying, the baby and toddler watched through window while their older sister was squeezing her eyes shut, the shouting became physical though the baby and toddler didn't know what was happening the toddler knew it wasn't good, he started crying his sister tried her best calm him down but nothing worked eventually his shrieks startled the baby making him cry as well. Their sister begged for them to stop but her pleads were going unheard and I could not sit and watch any longer

I grabbed James's keys he had left in the car and put them in the ignition, turning the the car on and turning up the radio, I changed the channel to the first upbeat pop song I heard and turned up the volume to mute the screaming you could hear from outside of the vehicle, I completely turned my body around so that I was facing the kids "hey" I say looking at the toddler, I reached for him and he immediately reached for me despite me being a stranger

I pulled him into the front seat with me, as I sat down in the seat and cuddled the young boy causing him to quiet down, he was immediately cuddled back, he rested his head on my shoulder as he sucked on his thumb, I rubbed his back as James returned back to the car, our eyes met as both our faces softened from what we saw, he sees me cuddling this random toddler and I see him as his T-shirt is ripped and his nose was bleeding profusely that he kept wiping away with his arm

James doesn't hesitate to quickly drive away, it was quiet in the car despite the Taylor Swift song that was playing in the background

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After driving for a short while James parked in a driveway as he took his keys out the ignition he looked at me "cmon" he says as he got out the car, the pre-teen girl and I followed his actions, she had the baby in her arms and I had the toddler and we followed him to the house, as we got closer to the door it opened and it revealed a older women "don't come into my house James!— you're gonna get blood all over my tile floors!" She says as she let the pre-teen pass her, "Mom—" he started, She snatches the sleeping toddlers out of my arms before throwing a water bottle and a rag at James before shutting the door in his face

I followed him to towards the car, I watched as he opened the water bottle and poured the water on the rag making it damp, he tried to wipe the blood off his face but it wasn't exactly working. So I stepped up and took the rag from him and helped with wipe his face

"what the hell was that?" I asked, "that was my family— those kids are my niece and nephews and that man and women was my sister and her dick of a boyfriend— and that right there was my mother" he says

"I'm sorry— I didn't mean to drag you into my family drama" he apologized, "it's okay— we all got our shit" I say giving him the rag back and despite all the blood on his shirt and arms he showed me a small smile

"I should probably get you back home" he says walking back to his car, we got back in the car and he started the car before backing out of the driveway

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