Kick In The Teeth
A Stranger in Rescue
A sinister laugh is held above my head. I hear the words “I dare you to come closer! Prove to me that you’re brave enough to face me! I’ll rip your heart right out! Feeling the pulse in my palms!” I was beaten, bleeding, and too weak to even call for help. I never got away from it all. My own brother beating me so I could feel blood rushing in my veins. He then stands; towering over my body laying cold on the ground. Out of breath I whisper “You demon…” I reach for a black car in the street fifty meters away. I hear him say “Your attempts for relief are futile! Give in!” He kicks my diaphragm and in extreme pain I scream “Someone save me!” The same black car pulled up behind us. I hear a door close and footsteps nearing my limp body. I’m blinded; my glasses are shattered laying two meters away. A woman’s voice orchestrates the words that could set me free. “Get away from her you bastard!” I attempt to scramble to my feet but I am stopped by a pair of cold hands gripping my shoulders; squeezing tightly. My head is forced up into the sun blinding me more. I hear the ‘Shing’ of a knife; a cold metal knife keeps my head up. One step at a time I get closer to death. This could be my last day on the planet Earth and I will not die in vain! I swiftly shove the heel of my combat boots into my brother’s crotch. He immediately drops to the floor while I come crashing onto the pavement. I once again attempt to stand but my waist down gives out and I fall once more coughing up blood cup by cup. Someone lifts my limp body scurrying for help. I reach up to the sky and plead for life. My heart slows along with my breathing. Everything turns pitch black and I lay limp in a strangers arms.
“Where am I?”
My eyes snap open; lungs filling with clean air. I attempt to sit up but fall back onto a bed. Beep beep beep beep. I must be in a hospital. I feel around my bedside searching for my glasses. Inch by inch my fingers creep along to find a solid figure; a living figure. All I see are blurs and blobs of color. I think I’m looking up at the thing and ask “Where am I?” The thing moves closer as I brace myself. I see a hand come closer to my face I quickly shut my eyes in fear. It feels as if someone was cupping my cheek in his or her hand. I think ‘Well surly this is not my brother.’ I open my eyes to witness a woman’s face. She holds a heartwarming smile making me feel safe. She seems very vivacious and harmless towards me. She has short, red hair, wearing a black tee-shirt with a white image of a large house with a moon that has bats souring across it with the words My Chemical Romance written in an arch above the moon, and red jeans to match. She takes in a deep breath and says with the sweetest voice I have heard in a long time “You’re safe now… You’re in a hospital. Also you might need these.” She hands me a pair of purple metal frame glasses just like the ones I used to have just not shattered in a parking lot. I placed them on my nose; as my eyes adjust to the new prescription I see a familiar face. A tear drop streams down my face as I say softly “B-Brandy? Is t-that really you?” She wrapped her arms around me and said “I’m here for you…” I sniffled and slowly started crying while saying “I-I thought you l-left me… But you came b-back…” I embraced her for as long as I could when my spine almost stayed in place. Brandy could tell I was in pain so she placed me down back in the bed. I reached for her hand and whispered “Y-you saved me… You c-care that m-much?” She just nodded her head silently. I just couldn’t believe she was the one that saved me. Once a silence long had passed Brandy looked into my eyes almost in tears; moved my hair out of my eyes and said “Umm… I can’t believe that your parents let me do this…” I looked at her and asked “What do you mean? What happened to my parents?” She looked down and continued to say “They… They allowed me to adopt you… You’re my daughter now.” A small spec of a smile grew on my face when I heard that. She then said “They wanted you as far away from your brother as possible even though he’s locked away in an asylum somewhere.” I’m over welled with joy for many things. One being the fact that I’ finally escaped the demon that controlled my every move and another being that my best friend is now my mother. I hear different footsteps coming into my room. It’s the Doctor I think… She’s holding a clipboard with X-Rays on it. She walks to the center of the room and says with grief “I have bad news…” Brandy and I turn our heads with puzzled looks. She continues saying “Hope… Your legs are paralyzed…” I looked down at my legs and responded with one statement “That son of a gun… He took it too far… I can’t do half the things I love” I looked up at Brandy and grasped her hand. She says to the Doctor “Umm… Well… Aren’t we going to tell her family?” I quickly responded “No! Save them the pain.”She looked at me like I was crazy and said “You want to keep secrets from them?” I looked into her eyes while mine swelled with tears and claimed “I have been keeping secrets from them for a long time… I don’t want them to hurt anymore than they already do…”
