A loud bang on the door made me awake out of my slumber. I couldn't sleep last night properly because the images of how Nick was brutally trying to rape me keep on haunting and torturing me. Whenever I tried to close my eyes, I would wake up and start shaking and crying. One thing was sure that my mental health was at stake.
I woke up and checked the time. It was 10am and my door was banging loudly. I was scared. What if it is Nick again and he tries to force me again?
I stood there and didn't make any move. Gradually I came out of my bed and look around my room for any sharp metal which I can use as a weapon in case if he tries to play a trick on me. I found a rod under the bed and it looked strong enough to knock out any person. Safety comes first.
I reached the door. It banged again and came the voice of my mother.
"Alice, open the door!" She shouted on the other side of the door.
My muscles relaxed knowing that it was my mother who is at door and I'm safe because I have my mother with me. I quickly went and opened the door.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw my mother standing, eyes cold and black, jaw clenched and her fists were balled in anger as if she was trying to control her anger. What's with her?
Her eyes averted from me to my hands and she saw me in a defensive mode, holding a rod ready for a attack. I quickly dropped it.
"Mom.." I went and hugged her tightly. I want her support. I've missed her a lot. I need to tell her about Nick. But it's been few moments and she hasn't hugged me back. I broke the hug and looked at her face. Her face was cold and expressionless.
"Mom, there are many things that I want to tell you." I said. She was standing there emotionlessly more like she was holding me at a place with her cold stare.
"Mom, what happened?" I asked. I was confused by her behaviour.
As I was looking at her, I saw Nick emerging from behind her, his lips were twitched up with a smirk. Seeing him brought back yesterday's night memories and it made my blood boil.
That's it. His game is over now.
"Mom, I need to tell you something. Nick tried to rape me last night. He was forcing me and when I pushed him, he followed..." I was about to complete it when I got a tight slap on me face.
Did she slap across my cheek?
My cheek started burning and due to my fair complexion I knew it must have become red too. I touched my cheek and my hand trembled. It was hurting terribly. I stood there emotionlessly. I didn't move from my pace. The force of slap was too much that I stumbled backward.
That was a shock for sure but who hit me was a bigger shock. My Mom..? But why?
I regained my posture and looked at her with my glossy eyes. My eyes brimmed with tears.
"Mom...why?" I whispered.
Instead of her answering me, Nick came forward and he kept his hands on my mother's shoulders. He was facing my mother's back. I could see him but my mother couldn't.
"I told you honey that she will accuse me that I tried to rape her." His voice was soft whereas he was smirking my way. "She wants us to get separated. This is her plan that she'd accuse me and you'd throw me out of your life." He was totally faking it. Why can't you see it mom?
"Did you see that she was holding that rod!? She was trying to harm us." He said irking fire in me.
And what was more shocking that mom was not stopping him from saying all this nonsense.
My mom moved forward and pushed me. I was more shocked. I stumbled backward but regained my posture.
"Mom, please trust me mom. He is playing tricks mom. I swear to dad that he tried to rape me yesterday night." I went ahead and held her hands in mine. I was crying by now. "Why would I want to separate you mom. I know he's your happiness. I would have never speak anything against him because I love seeing you happy. But what happened last night was beyond the limits. He forced me last night." I was trying to make her believe me.
She didn't answer me and to my utter shock, jerked my hands. I saw her and my eyes showed how much hurt I was.
"Mom!" I yelled. "You know I don't come out of my room whenever he is around. Same happened yesterday night. I came to take dinner when he came from behind and tried to— kiss me forcefully." I finished. I was hoping that she'd believe me rather than her rapist husband.
"I don't believe you Alice." My mother replied after a few seconds. In utter shock, I moved backward. Her stare was cold yet there was fire in her orbs. She wanted to slaughter me. I saw Nick at the back staring at me and smirking. He was smiling in triumph.
I started yelling. She is accusing me of lying. But I went ahead and held her hands once again. I can't let her do this to me- to her- to us. She is my mother after all. Nick is using her.
"Mom! This is true. He added sleeping pills in your juice last night so that you wouldn't hear my screams of help." I said.
She is going to believe me, isn't she?
"You are lying." She yelled. She slapped my hands away and poked my chest mockingly. She went back to held Nick hand in hers. They intertwined their hands and tears started to roll down my cheeks. My heart was ripping into pieces.
She was supposed to be my safeguard. My last hope. She should have been my support.
"I'm with Nick. He takes care of me more than anyone. He can never do this. He already told me from day 1 that you want to separate us but I was giving you chances Alice." She yelled.
"He told me that you would do anything to separate us and he was right." She looked at Nick who was nodding at her. "He told me before handed that you might accuse him of something! But rape Alice! Are you insane?" She shouted at me.
I cowered back in fear. I flinched back at her tone. She never spoke to me like that. She was with Nick and not with her own daughter!? Is there anything more left for me to see?
"You're talking about pills? You say that he had drugged me!?" She shouted more. "He would never do anything Alice."
I got quiet because I was certain at this point that she's not going to trust me. I gulped because the looks that she was giving me were stating that she's ashamed to have me as her daughter. I was feeling numb and emotionless.
"You know what? It's not your fault that you're coming up with such lies. It's because you have blood of that bastard in your body." She claimed.
I felt shock shaking through my whole body. I gasped hearing her. I took a sharp breathe. This was it. I have reached my limit. She dared to call my father, a bastard? Is she insane? Has she lost it? My body tensed up. I looked at her with accusing eyes. My eyes were not certainly red with tears. How can she stoop too much? To protect her husband, she's calling dad by names.
"Mom!" I yelled at her. I had itch to wring her neck into two. I know she's my mother but she has got no right to speak about my father like that. I won't let her.
I went ahead and raised my finger at her and asked her to be quiet before I attack her.
"Alena, let's go. Sweetie, don't give stress to yourself. I can't see you stressing like this." Nick started rubbing my mother back.
He is the rascal not my father. I looked at him with murderous eyes. The nerve of this man to stand here after the stunt that he had pulled last night.
"How dare you to call my father, a bastard!? How can you stoop so low, mom? Because of this man!?" I pointed towards him. "For this rapist?!" I yelled loudly. I was freaking out by now. My body was shaking with anger.
"I haven't called Kevin a bastard." She said. Her voice was very calm comparatively to earlier.
Is she nuts or what? Right now she said this about my father and now getting back from her words. Are they all playing with me!?
"I am talking about Joe, your father." She said after a while.
What? I am confused by now. I frowned.
"Your father is joe, Alice. You were born as result of rape. You are just a mistake that I gave to your father to live with it." Alena revealed the secret that she was keeping from Alice for past 24 years because Kevin never wanted Alice to know about this.
Hearing this, my world shattered into pieces and each shard was piercing into my heart making me bleed once more.
"What?!" I barely whispered.
So guys I know this chapter was way too emotional and depressing but I needed to unfold all these things. And about James, don't worry he'll be back soon.
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