Chapter 22 - Exhale

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Who put the baby in charge?
It's already hard to buy all the parts and learn to use them
Who put the world on my back and not in my hands
Just give me a chance

Listen to my mama, listen to my dad
Listen to my sisters, everyone relax
Everybody answers shit I didn't ask
Think I'm reaching my limit

Can I exhale for a minute?
Can I get this out in the open?
Can I sit down for a second?
Can I breathe?
Can I exhale for a minute?
Can we talk it out? I don't get it
Can I calm down for a moment?
Can I breathe for just one second?
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

My dungeon of sadness

Chantelle

It's been a week but it feels like a month, I've given up all hope that Zachary would find me, he knows I'm here but she must mean more to him than i ever did because he never came down to find me.

I cry myself to sleep every night, all I can think is why did I ever trust him. Yesterday night Brad took me down from the chains holding me to the wall.

"Can I exhale for a minute, can I calm down for a moment, can I breath for just one second" i barely whispered.

I heard a knock come from the front door up stairs. I heard Joey on the other side, did she come to look for me? I wondered.

The basement door squeaks open then footsteps follow, before a gasp.

"Omg...Chantelle, baby" Joey's sweet voice spoke.

"H-how d-did you get i-in here" I stuttered.

"There gone right now I guess, but we have to get you out of here" she said looking for the keys.

"Behind you" I whispered.

She turned around grabbed the keys quickly opening the door throughing me over her shoulder before running out of the broken house to her car.

She quickly drove to the hospital people came and put me on a bed wheeling me away on a bed as Joey called everyone.

Joey

"We found her phone..."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Zach asked.

"We can try and trace-"

"Look dude, idc I'm going to go find her" I yelled grabbing my keys and leaving the house.

I pulled up outside Kay's house and saw nobody in the driveway or cars, I walked up to the door opening it then running to the basement and what I saw made my eyes water up.

Chantelle covered in her own blood, her knees up to her chest, I dropped everything running to her side.

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