Path-to-Freedom (version 1)

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"Wake up."

"I no wake up yet. Later."

"I don't care, wake up before I make you."

I reluctantly got up, wincing when my stomach area started throbbing in pain and looked at Tony. I rubbed my face before instantly retracting my hand, my face hurt a lot more than it did yesterday.

He had a suitcase in one hand and a bag that looked like mommas in the other. It's the bag where she carried my potty cleaners in and my food.

"We're leaving. There's already people looking for you."

"Ok dad." I whispered trying not to show him the tears that were threatening to fall. I didn't want to leave. If people were looking for me that means that they're not dead right?

"Get up."

I did as told and got out of bed, walking up to him.

"Since you changed your diaper yesterday, go do it again. When you're finished, come outside, sit on the bed and quietly wait for me to come back." The crazed look from yesterday wasn't as prominent as it was yesterday but you could see some barely controlled crazy reckless uncontrolled anger.

I nodded and did as told, not wanting to get hit by Tony again.

I don't know why he hits me, momma and dadda never used to hit me. If I ever made a mistake, they would just explain the wrong to me and tell me to try not to make the mistake again, but never once did they hit me.

Why's Tony so different from momma and dadda?

Maybe I just made him mad and he's angry. I probably made a big mistake and it can't be explained? I hope he stops being so mad.

I'm only a kid right? I can make some mistakes right?

Yeah, that's it.

I sat on my bed and as he said.

He came in a while later and picked up everything before ordering me to follow him.

"How you know momma and dadda dead?" I was curious. Probably not a good thing to be around Tony. But I had to know. They were fine before so how did they die so quickly? They said they wouldn't leave me so soon.

"Because I saw them die." He deadpanned, not bothering to even look at me.

"But how?" I pushed further.

He turned around suddenly, making me come to an abrupt stop with eyes fixed up at him.

"I killed them." He said looking into my eyes with a cold dead expression.

"Wha- Why you do that?! Momma and dadda were good people! Why you kill them?!" I started crying suddenly. I couldn't control the onslaught of tears from his words. They were so sudden. No warning.

He backhanded me and I fell to the ground from the whiplash. The pain adding onto my cries. I tasted the copper again.

"Raise your voice at me again and it'll hurt more."

I whimpered and tried holding back my tears. It wasn't working. I was sobbing. It was uncontrollable. Momma and dadda can't leave me. They can't leave my siblings. No. My momma and dadda are not dead. They can't be.

"But why you kill them?" I whispered defeatedly, my sobs quieting down.

"Because I can. Now get up and let's go."

"If you kill momma and dadda, then kill me too. I wanna go to momma and dadda."

He looked at me with disgust, his hand raising making me instantly recoil out of fear.

"Not yet." He harshly grabbed my arm and picked me up from the ground.

"Now walk."

I followed behind quietly and kept thinking about my momma and dadda. They were really nice to me. They treated me like a princess. Like a knight. Like anything I wanted to be.

Tony's evil. Dadda would never have been his friend. Dadda only knew nice people like himself.

So how come he knows me and took me from them?

I don't know him and I've never seen him before. Maybe he's lying to me.

We reached the front door and walked outside. Tony put me in his car before driving off.

Momma always used to tell dadda to slow down his driving whenever I was in the car but Tony's driving way faster than dadda ever went before.

I don't know for how long we drove but the car came to an abrupt stop in front of a plane. I almost fell out of my seat. Momma and dadda had car seats for me but he didn't.

Momma used to say that she would take me on a plane one day with everyone else and we'd see the whole world.

"Awe we going on plane?" I asked Tony once he came to take me out of the car before roughly placing me on my feet.

"You're lucky we're in public right now."

"Sorwy dad, I try hawder."

"Clearly not hard enough bitch." He said in a low cold voice.

He walked up to the plane with the suitcase in one hand, the bag on one arm and me on the other.

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I don't know how write abusive scenes or fight scenes in general. It's just not something I'm good at. I have no idea how people write things like this so amazingly, as bad as that sounds, I mean it in a good way.

I don't know how people write so well in general, there are so many talented people on here and I really hope they get a lot more recognition for there work. They deserve so much.

Thank you for reading!

-M.