face="verdana"size="2">"Why
the fuck are you fucking crying?!" Steven
shouts, and that's the last of it. With what
strength you have, you push past Steven and
bolt for the front door, keeping your
gut-wrenching sobs to yourself.You fling
open both doors and run outside to your car.
You run for your life. You can hear Steven
yelling after you, and suddenly a more feminine
voice joins the fray. But you don't care. You
tear open the driver's side door to your car
and spit out the blood in your mouth before
throwing yourself in the front seat, your body
starting to tremble.
Now crying almost
hysterically, you start your car and reverse
dangerously out of your driveway, almost taking
your mailbox with you. With screeching tires
you drive away from your house, your cheek
pulsating with pain.
Oh God...where do I
go? You think frantically, realizing you
don't have a plan. I'm not going to
Mikey's...his family has enough problems as it
is...
You run straight through the
stop-sign at the end of your street, causing a
car to honk loudly at you. But you don't even
hear it. Your mind is set. You know where
you're headed.
Hope's.
You pound
loudly on Hope's front door, tears still
branded onto your face. You can feel your cheek
and area under your eye starting to swell from
the blow from Steven, blood still pouring from
the cuts from your teeth inside your mouth. You
regret coming to anyone for help, and even
considered parking your car at the park for the
night and sleeping there, for you know there
will be questions, but you don't know who to
turn to.
"I'll get it!" you hear
Hope shout from inside.
The first door opens
and there stands your friend, a pleasant smile
on her face. She's dressed in her pajamas, her
hair in a ponytail, and when she sees you, she
says, "Hey Alex..."
Hope's smiles
drops like a dead fly when she sees the tears
rolling out of your eyes and the large red mark
on your face.
"Alex!" She opens the
other door and drags you inside as you start to
cry more, not being able to control it.
"What the hell happened to
you?!"
And then you collapse. Heaving a
giant sob you fall to your knees, bringing a
hand to your face to hide your shame. Hope
falls with you, her hands on your shoulders as
her mother appears from the
kitchen.
"Hope who is
it..."
"Alex! Alex what's
wrong?!" Hope begs, grasping your
shoulders as she kneels beside you, trying to
look into your face which you keep
covered.
"I never wanna go back..."
you weep, your tears falling all around
you.
"What happened?"
You
hesitate. "St...Steven hit me."
You
hear a gasp, and that only makes you cry
harder. Hope looks at her mother with wide eyes
and Mrs. Carpenter says, "I'll go get an
ice pack."
Hope pulls you into her arms,
rocking you back an forth, cooing to you
gently. "Alex..."
"I never
want to go back Hope." you cry. "I
never want to go back."
Part Fourteen [The Innocent Can Never Last] Mikey Way
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