Blooming

Chapter 19:Blooming

Chapter 19

He clasped his hand around my ankle. I shrieked as I remembered the last time he had touched me, i still had a scar in my back. I remembered the hard, cold sense of his hands. I lifted my leg and climbed higher.

"Bloom come on, Ive changed." I didnt beleive him he had told me this before. He only wanted one thing, to make my mother pay. I never knew what for I just knew by the way his eyes misted over and turned hard when he looked at her.

Dad tried to climb the tree, I looked down to see him put his legs round the tree and shimmy himself up. He was getting closer, I could smell the smoke off him by now. I had nowhere else to go. I was as high as I could climb. The only way down was to jump. I took that leap of faith and threw myself onto the ground.

"No need for this." I heard my dad shout as I pulled myself up. I tried to run but an unbearable pain shot through my ankle. I toppled onto the ground. I hit my head off a tree stump and screamed in agony. I felt dizzy the world was spinning. I heard my dads voice call me faintly and I saw his dusfigurated head come close to mine it was blurred then I couldnt remember any more...

I woke up abruptly. I took in my surroundings. Where was I? I was in the back of a car, lying the whole way across the back seat. I tried to sit up, my head pounded. Had this really happened again? How much of this could my head take? The seat was cold and white leather. It was clean and new. I looked to see who was driving. It was Dad!

"Dad." I moaned.

"Wakey wakey sleepy head!" He said in a singsong voice as if kidnapping was all right.

"Why?" I asked.

"None of that just be happy to see your old man!" He said positively.

Then a scary blonde woman with plenty of botoks looked round the seat at me. Her eyes were huge and lifted at the ends. Her make up was at least an inch thick and her eyelashes were so long they obviously werent real. When she smiled she showed a long straight pair of bleached white teeth.

"Emma or Bloom should I say? I have been waiting to meet you for so long. Your father has told me so much about you." She flashed her smile that blinded me.

"Your not going to get away with this."

I huffed.

The woman laughed which scared me. Her whole face froze up and her shoulders jiggled.

"Where are we going?" I demanded.

The woman tapped her nose. She missed and flicked a piece of bleached blonde hair instea of her nose. I just sat there in the back of the car. My head and ankle hurt so bad. I folded my arms and answered these kidnappers questions with grunts.

"Im doing this because I love you ok? Your mother is not fit to look after you!"

"I was doing fine, you didnt have to kidnap me! Everyone will be worried!"

"Everyone?" The lady and Dad looked worriedly at eachother.

"Duh, I have friends, teachers, Mum someone is going to notice Im missing! Or did you not think of that in this great plan of yours."

No one answered me they just drove on. I saw my door was unlocked. Would I chance it. I reached innocently to the handle. I gripped it and started to pull it towards me. The door swung open. I froze up, I couldnt jump out of the car I would kill myself.

"What are you doing you idiot?" Dad roared he leaned back and pulled the door but meanwhile the car swerved as the lady took the wheel. He got the door and slammed it shut, then he grabbed my arm and dug his nails into it as deep as they could go, I gave a high pitched squeel and the lady started screaming at me to stop. She pulled over to the side of the road. Dad got out and opened my door, he pulled me roughly out and held me by the shoulders and shook me harshly.

"I need you to come with me ok?" He screamed at me.

"Your just making it harder for yourself by struggling. I gathered saliva in my mouth and spat in his face.

"What do you want with me?" I screamed. Dad sighed.

"I..I miss you ok?" He shouted.

"Your the only thing in my life that makes me truly happy!"

I hated him even more. I pulled my sleeve up and showed him my bleeding arm where he had gripped me earlier.

"And this is how you show me that? Huh? You talk about Mum being an unfit parent YOU are the unfit parent!" I screamed at him.

He sighed.

"And by taking me from where I belong, stalking me down you should be in jail!" I poked him harshly with my finger. He put his hand to where I had poked him.

"Please, you dont understand I NEED you to come with me!" He pleaded.

"But why? No lies this time dad Ive had enough." The lady stared at us. Dad gave her the look and she sighed and got back into the car.

"I have no money." He looked sincere enough but then I looked him up and down, he was wearing a nice knitwear jumper and G star jeans. I raised an eyebrow. He sighed again.

"Without Sabrina I would be living on the street, you have no idea how much she irratetes me I told her I was coming for you because you had stole my diamond engagement ring I was going to give to her." He explained.

I raised both my eyebrows.

"So make me sound like a theif? And your going to MARRY her?"

"She has money. With you I will be able to get a nice council house and child benefit and everything and leave Sabrina." His voice was strained and I almost had pity on him.

"I cant just leave!"

"We will go back and do it all legally if you will just do this for me, Ile never hit you in my life I swear!" His eyes were brimming. He didnt know what to do with himself he looked like a lost lonely man who just needed help. I really didnt want to leave. I had Blue and Matty and..Harry. I remembered what I had seen in the hospital.

"Ok.." I answered slowly. I grabbed me and lifted me into the air like I weighed nothing. He gave me a huge hug. We drove back and he pulled up in front of my house.

I went inside, Mum was there she stared at Dad. She looked furious.

"GET OUT!" She screamed at him.

"Mum mum stop Im going to live with him for a while." He stared at me.

"Go, get out of my sight the pair of you traitors, I dont want you'se in my life anymore just go." She screamed. Tears poured down her cheeks. Tears were soon pouring down mine too.

"You dont mean it." I looked at her for answers.

"I damn well mean it!" She shouted.

"You were just a nuisance anyway." She said carelessly. I ran upstairs. Why would she say that. My life was over here nothing had went right it was another failure in my life. No one would care that I was gone. I pulled my clothes out of te drawers and stuffed them into a suitcase. I was done in a few minutes. I looked around the room. I pulled my posters off my walls. And kicked the door in a temper. I raced down the stairs and slammed the door like my mum had slammed the door on my heart. I hopped into the car. Dad looked back at me.

"Where is Sabrina?" I asked. He beamed at me.

"Looks like she is walking home." I wiped my eyes and plastered a smile on my face. What on earth was I doing? I was going to live with a man that had only caused me pain all my life and he was using me for money. He told me he still loved me and that my life was going to be great with him. There was still something in his boice that I didnt quite trust...

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