Angels calling

part 6

NOTE : TRIGGER WARNING   
this chapter contains some graphic descriptions of abuse.

After a few hours of traveling, Elena arrives home. To her surprise, she sees Tim's car at the door. So he is not at work. Before she walks in, she puts the number she got from Hannes in her phone and texts him that she is home. Then she walks into the house, soon Tim comes to her. He is angry and starts screaming. "where were you ? do you think you could be gone all night without me!? " he screams angrily while waving his arms fussed. Elena also feels anger rising, she's tired of saying yes and amen all the time. "If you hadn't been so fucked to give my ticket away, I would have been home tonight !!" she calls back angrily and wants to walk past him. As Elena walks past Tim, he pushes her against the wall. "Don't you talk to me like that ," he says and slaps Elena hard in the face. Tim just gets angrier. "You must have been fucking those men! You are a filthy slut! " and closes his hand on her throat. Elena tries to say that nothing has happened but Tim doesn't want to hear it. He grabs her by the hair and throws her into the living room. "It's time you got to know your place whore" he shouts before starting to hit her. Tim doesn't stop and all Elena can do is protect her head. Tim hits her all over and then Elena loses her balance and falls to the ground. Tim takes advantage of this by starting to kick. Against her legs, her ribs and he tries to hit her back. Elena rolls herself up like a ball to seek some protection. It doesn't help, the pain is severe and Tim doesn't stop. The last thing Elena feels is a kick to her head and then everything is black.

The boys decide to visit and view some things in Amsterdam like a real tourist. Hannes is now visiting his in-laws with Floor and Freya.

"How quiet you are Chris" says Joakim. "Do you miss her already?" he asks teasingly. Chris gives him an irritated look. To stay ahead of the rest he says "nothing happened last night and besides that she has a boyfriend" and turns his head away from the others again. "Come on you're not going to tell me you slept on the couch last night, are you?" Tommy says incredulously. Chris shakes his head, "no when I laid down there she asked if I just come and lay down next to her, she didn't mind and she didn't think it was fair that I gave up my bed for her". Tommy smiles triumphantly "aha so!" but before he can say anything else, Chris cuts him off "yes we slept in the same bed, no nothing happened and that's it". Chris walks a bit ahead of the group but turns around for a while. "And then again, I don't have her number or something so I'll probably never see her again".

Later that afternoon they are all back on the bus on their way to the next city for the next show. Chris decides to lie down in his bed and listen to some music. He tries not to think about Elena, but the last thing he thinks before falling asleep that night is how nice it felt to have Elena lying close to him. How her body seemed to fit perfectly against his like a puzzle piece. Chris falls asleep with a smile on his lips.

Meanwhile, Elena wakes up in the dark on the floor. Tim is nowhere to be seen in the house. She decides to take a shower to flush out blood and relax her muscles. When she then looks in the mirror, she is shocked by herself. Her ribs and part of her side are blue and on her leg is a food print to be seen, even if Elena looks closely at her face she sees that it is turning blue around her nose and under her eye. Elena shakes her head and takes an aspirin from the medicine cabinet, then she goes to bed. She rolls up into a ball and starts to cry. Why should this always be the case? Why can't she just get lucky and her parents chose a nice boy for her. It is not the first time that Tim reacts in this way when he is angry, she has been introduced to his aggressive nature on a regular basis and the attacks are getting worse and she is no longer able to hide the injuries

She knows this is not healthy and she has to go, but where can she go? her parents don't want to know about it, real friends she doesn't have because of Tim, and she doesn't have the money to arrange a house herself. Tim does not allow her to work, Elena does some volunteer work for which she receives a reasonable payment without Tim knowing about this. With this she tries to save so that she can eventually leave and build a new life. Then she thinks about yesterday evening. How nice it was with the boys from Sabaton how sweet and protective they had been. But especially to Chris who had helped her with a difficult boy and had snuggled up against her in the evening. It had felt so good in his arms, so safe. It will never happen again, she thinks. It must have meant nothing to him, and how would she ever contact him again? after all, she doesn't have his number and through insta he will receive hundreds of messages, he won't pick one of her will he. Not much later, Elena falls into a deep sleep with these dark thoughts.