A Kiss & A Shared Wound

Chapter Five

   Aria Pov

I am in deep sh*t when I get home thanks to my rescuer whom I still don't have his name. I am really grateful that he stopped the bi*ch twins from beating me to death but because he interfered my mom and Amber are going to be harmed. My stomach is still paining and I can't eat anything that is hard to swallow or chew. The twins are waiting for Jonas to come home so that I can receive my punishment and at that moment I just want Amber to fall asleep so that she doesn't see her monster of a father beating me and her mom to a pulp.

"Father Aria has a boyfriend" Those words left Ryker as soon as Jonas entered and by the way who still calls their dad 'father" at his age? Jonas was tipsy which means he is in the mood to beat the crap out of someone. "I swear pops I don't have a boyfriend!" I exclaimed in fear of my mother who already has enough broken bones in her body and yes I call Jonas pops because when I started hating him he refused that I call him by his name or dad so I just used pops and it seemed to work for both of us. He whipped his head at my direction and asked "Aria what happened to face you look beaten" I looked away and he screamed "Who did this to you!?" as if he actually care so I pointed at Ryker and Jace and he looked at them.

"What did I say about touching Aria?" they both looked down "I said you should never touch her because she doesn't belong to us she belongs to the crime lord" he has been saying that ever since he fell into debt, he has been saying that I am payment to him and that as soon as I turn twenty one he will take me to him which will never happen. "Aria call your boss and tell them you will be late tomorrow because you are going to see a doctor first thing in the morning" he walked over to me and said "as for your punishment for being a slut I will be visiting your mother about that" and he went to the bathroom. Every time he said that It meant that my mom will be beaten because of me, My mother didn't mind as long Jonas, Ryker or Jace just don't lay their hands on me or Amber my mom was content.

A lot of people would ask why we have never tried to report him or run away, well that is because in order to run away we need a lot but we don't have it yet and Ryker and Jace might be idiots but they are the best trackers I have ever met and they would track us down within a matter of hours. Mom came home late today thank god because Jonas was already asleep and even when his idiotic sons tried to wake him he refused so that means mom is safe. We woke up the following morning and Jonas took me to the doctor who proceeded to ell me that I should take it easy and rest a lot, he gave me medicine for the pain and that day Joe gave me a day off.

For the whole two weeks at work I didn't see my rescuer and I have been waiting for him to show up so I can thank him and apologize but he was no show. The three idiots that he rescued me from are banned from the bar which is really surprising but I am happy none the less. I have been healing well thanks to Jonas actually caring or should I say thank you to the fact that I am payment to a crime lord. It was in the middle of the month which means the bar isn't really that filled, it's a slow day today except for a few regulars and Cindy being all moody than she usually is. I don't really understand why she doesn't like me considering we have never spoken or she hasn't tried to even hold a conversation with me.

Joe said we could go home early today due to slow business and I am going straight home because the twins are away on 'some shady business trip' which means Jonas is on good behavior for the time being. I really think that those boys are the reason he loses his mind sometimes because his abusive side started showing when they came to live with us and that was the worst year of my life but I hate him now and I don't even wish we could go back to the time when he seriously considered me as a daughter because that tie he was just hiding behind the good man act. I bought some ice cream on the way home because although my whole salary check goes to Jonas and his bi*ch twins I still make tips which I use to spoil my self and buy some sweet treats.

I got home and as I was taking the stairs I finished the entire ice cream cone because even though I deserve these treats Jonas is going to scream at me for spending my own money on my self, that would be the greatest sin I would have committed. As soon as I entered my house my heart dropped to the floor and time stood still at what I am seeing, I wanted to close the door and check the number plastered on the outside of the door but even if I entered the wrong apartment there was no denying that the two bodies lying on the floor next to each other, looking beaten and covered in blood belonged to my beloved mother Miranda and sweet innocent baby sister Amber. I can't breath, somebody help please somebody help me, I walked slowly towards their resting bodies as tears were waterfalling slowly down my face and I knelt right above both their heads and touched them. They were cold, so cold it felt that they had been to the morgue already, I lifted my dear mom's head and then I saw that her throat was slit open, as for little Amber she was stabbed in the stomach.

As I was holding them dead in my arms and sitting on their pool of blood wondering who could have been so cruel to murder a child and her mom, as if right on cue Jonas emerged from the bedroom holding three clean white sheets and he looked at me and I caught a hint of surprise and anger as they flashed through his face. Immediately he threw the sheets on the floor "ohh I thought I was going to have to pick you up but since you are here it is much easier" I felt my anger sky rocket the bi*ch out of me, how could he casually talk to me like that after he has completely murdered my family. I stood up and backed away as he was slowly approaching me "we can do this the easy way or the hard way" he said as he took out an injection from his back pocket and slowly walked toward me.

I was backing away and I had run out of room as I hit the fridge behind me and I was stuck "huh you have no room left to run away?" he was smug about it and my rage was itching to be unleashed at him, he jumped over the corpses of my beloveds and he was enjoying the victory he was yet to gain as he slowly took his time to get close to me. I was a sobbing mess and even though I was angry and full of rage I felt helpless in this situation so I asked the one question before he kills me too "Why Jonas" I was sobbing even when asking and he laughed hysterically which by this time he was already near me and he said "because I found out about you and your moms stupid escape idea!" he hit the fridge behind me with his palm "you have been lying about your salary huh?" he looked me dead in the eye " you and mommy were going to leave next year when you turned twenty huh?" he laughed again in the most psychopathic way ever "answer me you slut!" he slapped me and held out the needle "see this will make you a little dizzy and then it will be lights out after fifteen to twenty minutes, you know since I can't kill you"

I was mad, I was a mess and I needed to run so when he stuck the needle on my neck and pressed I kneed him in the nuts because he was distracted and now I have the next ten minutes to get out of here otherwise I am dead meat. As he was screaming in pain I looked around and saw the drawer for sharp objects has been blocked by the table he moved to lay the bodies and I had no time to think, He approached me again and I hit him with my purse across the face and I just started hitting him with it repeatedly but then it opened and spilled its contents on the floor which is when I noticed The fork. I know you wondering why I had a fork in my purse and really it is because it was one of those random things you have inside your purse-girls will totally understand. Plus I got it when I ate a cake for the first time after a long time, It was Joe's birthday and he bought a cake that year, after I ate the cake I kinda washed the fork and kept it as a souvenir ever since.

when Jonas noticed that I was no longer hitting him and I was out of options again he whipped his head in my direction and smugly smiled and I succumbed to my anger. I grabbed the fork and he came quick at me that is when I stabbed him on the neck with the fork, I stabbed him several times as my rage was the one in control and it blinded me, there was blood every where and i opened my eyes thats when I let go of the fork stuck at his eye and he fell to the ground. I panicked and knew that I am going to pass out soon which means Ryker and Jace will find me here and all this hard work would have been for nothing, so I went to the bathroom and washed Jonas's blood off my hands and face, I stripped naked and took my moms clothes as I was in her bedroom and I wore her pair of jeans and her sleeping oversized t-shirt which reached my lower thighs. I took the clothes I was wearing, the fork and my purse with all its spilled contents and I wrapped them in of the sheets That Jonas was going to use and I put them in the worn out straw tote bag that we had when Jonas was still human and I ran outside of my apartment. I took a piece of paper and wrote *Please don't call the authorities or take me to the hospital I will be fine* and held it in my hand the whole time.

I locked the door using my key and I ran down the stairs, as I was running I suddenly felt dizzy and I knew that I was going to pass out soon, I ran and ran and on the way I had to stop to catch my breath as to prevent my self from passing out too quick. I actually didn't have a destination as to where I am going but somehow I found myself approaching Joe's bar and as I was nearing it I stopped and puked my guts out. I was puking and puking and my vision was going all blurry, my throat was dry and I was starting to experience shortness of breath. I fast walked because I am fading fast and somehow the straw tote bag has began feeling heavier than I last remember. I got to the door and opened it as soon as I was inside I got on my knees and just screamed "JOE!" somehow that came out lower than I thought and I crawled my way to his office. My vision was all blurr right now and all I could hear was a loud ringing in both my ears, I was sweating and soon I will be fading into darkness. I didn't have the energy to knock so I just lightly banged my head on his door but to me it felt like the door was a hammer and it was repeatedly just banging and colliding with my head, It was causing me a headache I have never experienced before, as I was banging the head I saw the darkness approaching and I knew I was a goner. That when Joe opened the door and I fell to the ground, and let go of the piece of paper that was in my hand. The darkness was here and all I hoped for was that Joe would help me, so I blacked out.