The Dancer

~Chapter 4~

~Betty POV~
I  locked myself in my room and cried silently for at least an hour before I got up went into my bathroom and looked for something sharp anything that had a blade.

⚠️⚠️⚠️Self harm⚠️⚠️⚠️
I found a razor blade in my cupboard and took one last sad look at myself in the mirror before I cut. Three swift movements across my already scarred left wrist I groaned at the pain and let my tears take over my body. I felt alone, lost but most of all I felt hollow. I was empty.

I slid down my wall finding the noise in my head overwhelming like my head could explode at any second. I called the one person I had left. Toni.

~Toni POV~
I picked up my ringing phone and looked to see my called ID it was Betty and I could feel my stomachs clench something had happened and I knew it was bad.

When I put the phone to my ear I could already tell she was crying and I felt awful I knew I shouldn't have left her to go into her house with those monsters.

B-"C-can you c-come over?" She managed to get out between sobs.

T-"Of course. Are you ok? What happened? I swear to fuck I will mess those bastards up!" I tried to say softly which was hard feeling my anger starting to boil up inside of me.

B-"T-they h-hit me a-and m-my dad he..." was all she managed to get out between hiccups I knew how much pain she was in I could hear it in the voice.

T-"Fuck this is all my fault I'm so sorry" I said feeling the tears starting to prick my eyes. "I never should have left you" I spoke feeling a single treat escape from my left eye.

B-"N-no it's n-not I-I deserve it" she almost whispered.

T-"No you don't, you don't deserve any of this shit I'm so fucking mad I'm gonna punch someone" I almost yelled getting attention from everyone else in the bar excluding my friends who had already been trying to listen in on my conversation even though I had walked away.

B-"P-please don't" she chuckled at least I brightened up her mood.

T-"Ok I'm gonna go are you gonna be ok till I get there" I said very softly.

B-"I t-think so" she whimpered and I knew I needed to get there ASAP.

T-"Ok on my way love you" I spoke into the phone.

B-"Love you too" she said before hanging up.

I walked back over to the bar and grabbed my jacket off of my stool while I blinked away my remaining tears.

T-"I have to go bye" was all I said I knew they were all trying to talk to me but all I could think about was that I had let her go into that house knowing what they do to her it was all my fault. So without looking back or listening to the people asking me why? Or, what happened? I walked out the door got on my motorcycle and drove to Betty's very own house of horrors that she unhappily calls home.

~Betty POV~
I was still sitting in the bathroom crying with two small pools of blood on either side of me escaping from my wrists I didn't have the energy or the enthusiasm to get up and clean my cuts. Then I heard a knock and suddenly got scared it was my dad again I started to panic and my breathing got heavier and heavier by the second but then I heard the window open and I knew it was Toni.

I was still panicking though I didn't want her to know I had cut myself again I started to try and clean it up but I turned around to a worried sigh followed by.
T-"Oh Betty..." and before I could even think I was sobbing into her embrace making her tank top soaked with salty tears.

After about 10 minutes I had calmed down and we were both sitting in the bathroom in silence until she broke it.

T-"What happened? With the uh razor I mean." She said carefully already knowing what my parents had done to me.

B-" I-I don't know I just I needed to feel pain" I said trying not to go into depth even though I knew she only ever asked the hard questions.

T-"What do you mean you needed to feel pain"
She asked.

B-"I just- well it's like whenever they hurt me it feel like they take away a piece of me, a piece of my body, my mind, my life, they've taken so much and I feel numb I feel empty" I said as a tear rolled down my puffy red cheeks.

" It's like there's nothing left inside of me except darkness so when I do this I can feel something I can feel the pain it I don't know it just it helps" I spoke softly I looked up to see her crying as well and she just brought me into a hug yet again. With Toni she didn't tell me it was gonna be ok because she knew it wasn't and she knew I was sick of hearing that it was.

T-"Ok why don't you go pack a bag while I clean this up then we can go to my trailer your gonna stay with me for a while I can't continue to let this happen sound good?" She asked I just smiled and nodded through my tears at least I had someone on my side.

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