Hypnotised by drums (TW fanfic - Book 2/4)

Part Nine

Max’s POV

I walk up to the school, holding Lucy’s hand. “Go play” I say, with a smile, as I let go of her hand.

“Bye Max” Lucy says, as she runs off to play with some of the other children.

“Hey, Max” I hear someone say, as they wrap their arms around my waist.

“Who is that?” I ask, as I turn around to see Becky stood in front of me. She leans in and kisses me gently on the lips. We stay kissing for about a minute before the kiss finishes and we pull away, I open my eyes, to see Rach standing in front of me, replacing Becky.

“What the fuck?” I ask as I sit up sharply in my bed. I can feel my body sweating and the I realise that I was dreaming. Why would I dream about Becky?

Rheanna’s POV

As I sit down on the sofa with Leo on my knee and Jay next to me, I can’t but notice that Jay is trying his hardest not to look at me. “Look Jay, I know I have messed up past, but I’ve changed” I sigh.

“People like you never change” he says, as he stares at the TV. He’s only doing it because he doesn’t want to look at me. Why else would a fully grown man be watching ‘In the night garden’?

“Being beaten within an inch of your life every night, changes you. Trust me” I tell him, as I hug Leo tightly at the thought of it.

*Flash back*

“What are you doing, Lewis?” I asked him nervously, as he snatched my phone off of me and started to flick through it.

“What do you think I’m doing?” he asked me and I knew exactly what he was doing. It could have been worse though, he could have been beating me like before.

“You won’t find anything” I said, confidently. I would never cheat on him again, not after what happened the first time.

“Are you talking back to me?” he asked, as he threw the phone on the floor.

“No” I said, as I moved back. I didn’t want him to hit me again. At that moment my back hit the wall and I knew that this was it. Everything would return to how it was before, but this time there was no escape. No one to protect me and worry about me! I didn’t know anyone around here and we’d only been moved in for a couple of months. I was just thankful that Leo was at the nursery at this time.

“There you go again. I thought you would have learned your lesson from last time” he said, as he raised his hand and slapped me as hard as he could. I screamed in pain, as I held my face with my hand. I was stupid to think he’d changed. Once a woman beater always a woman beater!

Months passed and I was on edge the whole time, in case Lewis thought I was being rude or something. He would hit me all the time, for silly things like looking at another man.

One day we were walking down the street, with Leo and a man smiled at me.

“Who’s he then?” Lewis asked me, sounding pretty angry.

“I don’t know” I told him, but obviously he didn’t believe me. He pushed the push chair to one side and then kicked me in the stomach. I fell to the floor, with my hand holding my stomach in pain. I knew not to talk back or complain about it, so I just stood up and carried on walking home. Thankfully it wasn’t too far away either. When we got there, Lewis put Leo to bed and then he grabbed hold of my hair and dragged me down the basement, where he threw me to the floor and left me there. He locked the door and I was left in the dark. I screamed for hours to try and get him to open the door, but it didn’t work, he just ignored me. That became my punishment. If I spoke back to him or did something wrong, he would leave me in the basement.

Then one day when I was in Lewis’s good books, I was cleaning the house when all of a sudden, Leo knocked one of Lewis’s model planes off of the shelf.

“What the fuck have you done?” he screamed. I tried not to watch, because I knew he would punish me. At that moment Leo laughed. “That’s it!” Lewis screamed, as he raised his foot to kick Leo. There was a glass rack behind him and I knew that if he fell into it, the glass would break and Leo would have been dead or very badly hurt. I picked up the closest thing to me, which just so happened to be a knife, as I was washing up.

“Oi” I screamed and at that moment Lewis put his foot down and turned to look at me. He noticed the knife and he laughed.

“Don’t laugh at me, you monster” I screamed, with tears streaming down my face. I ran towards him with the knife out in front of me, so he wouldn’t be able to hurt me, without risking his own life. I stepped in front of Leo and placed one of my hands behind me, so it would keep him back and I would know where he was at all times.

“You wouldn’t!” Lewis said bitterly and for once I was the one who was laughing.

“Give me one reason why I wouldn’t want to kill you?” I asked him, with an evil smirk emerging on my face. Lewis looked genuinely shocked at this, but I didn’t care. I backed out of the door with Leo still behind me and the knife still in front of me. When I got out of the house, I managed to find a police station, where they photographed my bruises and scares, before they went to arrest him. As soon as Lewis arrived at the station, he spat at me and Leo. They did an emergency trial and he got sent down for life. I was so relieved and the only person I could think to call was Nathan. Not because I still loved him, but because he was the only person I could rely on.

*Present day*

I shake my head at the thought of what happened. “Are you ok?” Jay asks me, sounding sympathetic.

“Yeah” I tell him, as I look down in pain.

“Are you sure?” he asks me and I nod.