Chapter: Trial period‘Oh my God!!’, I shout, staring at the counter, at his back,‘Why didn’t you tell me’, I was staring at blood soaked tissues, a large piece of glass lying among them, blood streaming down a gash in his shoulder.I felt stupid, I had hugged him, yet I knew nothing of the large gash streaming blood.‘You carried me, helped me with my toes and all this while you had glass lodged in your shoulder’.‘I didn’t want you to worry’, he had a sheepish look on his face as he grabbed more tissues, stemming the flow of blood,‘What kind of excuse is that, do you want to die of blood loss’,‘It’s not that bad’, he replies me and I turn a glare towards him,‘I’ll be fine, I heal fast’, he smiles sheepishly,‘Don’t you dare use my word against me, this is more than just blisters’ I press against the wound with him’‘We’re going to the hospital’, I try to pull him with me.‘What of Ajax?’,‘You’re my priority right now’, I use his words too and a laugh drops from his lips,‘I just want to sleep now, w
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Chapter: ConfessionAlright’, his hands stayed still on my waist, eyes on my face, watching patiently as I took a deep breath.‘Looking at those pictures on Adam’s bedroom wall was both terrifying and freeing’, I start with the feeling I first happened upon.Simon stares, listening,‘I mean I'm part grateful that he stalked me over those years and summarized six years of my life onto a 7ft wall.‘Hmm!!!’, a sound of shock comes from Simon throat, a frown on his face,‘Don’t me wrong, it was horrifying’, I cling onto his large palms, trying to assure him that I was going somewhere with my statement‘I mean how else was I supposed to see how truly pathetic running and hiding is, how was I to discover that that kind of life is not one I’m planning on living for the rest of my life.I bring Simon’s hands to my laps, holding on.‘Throughout those years I endured such strain om my mental health, all because of cowardice’, he didn’t interrupt me, just stared and listened.‘As I looked up at those pictures, it f
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Chapter: Part thankfulThe moment we got home, the first thing I did was head to Ajax’s room,It was hard, limping down the hall with Simon ‘s support, but I needed to see him, to make sure nothing went wrong while Simon came for me,‘Where are we going’, we get to Simon’s room, but I don’t stop indicating my need to walk further down the hallway so he asks,‘I need to see him’, he took one look at me and nodded, taking his hands off his door knob as we went on,‘Careful, don’t wake him up’, Simon whispers the moment my hand hits the knob on Ajax’s door,Nodding, I smile at him, turning gently, peeking into his room before walking in,Truly he was asleep, snuggled in the midst of pillows, a plush bunny in his hand.A wide smile graced my lips as I limped forward, moving to his bed,I stretch my hand out, wanting to smoothen out the hair on his head but Simon stops me,‘Don’t wake him’, he whispers,‘We can’t have him seeing us like this’, I glance down at myself, looking to Simon’s battered face and decide
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Chapter: PrioritiesI burst out of my bedroom, heart in my mouth, searching for the source of the noise of fighting,Ignoring the shitstorm my bedroom had been turned into, my eyes fixates on Simon and Adam in the center of the room.In the place where my glass table stood was Simon, flat in his back, lying among glass shards, Adam was on top of him, a particularly large shard in his hand, aiming for Simon’s heart.My heart stopped in my chest when I saw that, despite Simon blocking, with both hands raised in front of him, the shard descended dangerously closer.Not even stopping to think for a second, I grab the leg of a dismantled stool beside my bedroom door, and rushed at them, war cry in my mouth‘Get! The! Hell! Away! From! Him!’ raising it high above my head, I aim for Adam.Two things stopped me,The first was Simon yelling my name in alarm‘Tina! No!!’, his voice was filled with distress, fear filled eyes turned to me,Adam makes use of the momentary distraction, drawing his hand back and cracki
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Chapter: WreckageMy mind flashes back to the red asterics on Simon and Ajax’s head and anger flares, it’s fire burns out the chills and suddenly I’m a the door yelling.‘Don’t you dare’‘Don’t you speak about my son you psychopathic monster’, my breathing picks up again, but not from fear this time,It was from the burn in my veins, the fire in my mouth.‘You’ve changed’, it was like he didn’t even hear me,‘You’ve become to dependent and it wouldn’t end well’‘I like this change’, I fired at him,‘I like the person I’ve grown into, and I’ll be damned to listen to a coward on how to live my life’, I bite out my blood at boiling point.‘Life was beautiful with you and I’, the monster had the guts to sound tortured, to sound like a victim,‘Even you darkest moments were made beautiful because I was there’.‘Christ!!!’, I was stunned, speechless for a while,‘How delusional can one get’, I ran a hand over my forehead, anger raising my temperature degrees higher.‘There was no you and I’, I spelt it out f
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Chapter: Monster at my doorMy hands felt weak on my phone screen, each bang echoing with my name called out through the door,How did I spend months without any idea?How could I not have known?‘Tina, can you open up please’, at first it was begging, pleas meant to placate me,‘Tina, open up before I break down the door ‘, then threats, meant to scare me into submission,But I was way past that stage, I slid down the door, my legs going weak, as Simon picked up the phone,‘Heeeyyy’, Simon’s excited voice brought tears to my eyes,‘Heyy’, my voice shook in whispered greeting,‘What’s wrong’, he asked immediately, noticing my distress,‘I..I’m’Tears flowed fast halting my words, stopping me from stringing a sentence together,‘Tina, what is happening’, alarm rang in his voice so I swallowed my tears down opened my mouth to the only sentence capable of leaving my mouth,‘Can…can you come…’‘I’m on my way’, the sentence was not fully out of my mouth when I hear his footsteps slapping down the marble tiles in his
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