Its been 2 weeks.
2 weeks since Sharpay died. In Vance Evans hands. Which killed Vance himself. And Ryan couldn't do anything about it.
Ever since he can remember, his family was never a happy family. He used to have parents. But after Derby died when they were 4 years old, his father turned into a monster, and it was his job to take care of her slightly older twin sister. He did his job perfectly.
He's been taking all Vance's wrath. He promised to himself to never let the oldest Evans touch her sister. And he never did.
For 13 years, Sharpay was abused mentally, and Ryan was abused both mentally and physically. She was having nightmare almost everyday, knowing her brother's heart will stop beating anytime from all life-threatening situation Vance had put him in. And Ryan tried his best to never make any sound whenever he's in pain, which made their father gone mad even more.
But the twins never told anyone. It will make the situation became worse. Vance was pretty good in acting, he's an Evans. Come on. He came to the parents-teacher meeting. He gave them luxurious. He attend every single musical they were in. Everyone told them how lucky they are to have a father like him. Lucky their ass.
But really, its just his way of hiding the abusive part of him.Its like buying yourself a box of present, nicely wrap them and post it. The present then was adressed to yourself, you unwrap them in the harsh-es way ever. And repeat the same step, over and over again. Crazy.
Ryan got new scars, cuts and bruises everyday. Concussion on bad days and lost his blood everyweek. His body has weakened. But he forced himself to be strong for her beloved sister, to protect her.
But one day, he failed.
Thursday night on the first week of school after summer, they were doing their homework silently in their room when Vance came home. Drunk, moody and tired. He climbed up the stairs, and looked for his victim, Ryan.
He burst into Ryan's room, grab him by his hair and pulled him downstairs. Groaning in terrible pain, Ryan begged for mercy, tho he doubt he'll fall for it.
Vance smash him into the chair, kick him hard over and over again on his torso and stepped on his chest. Ryan's breath labored every seconds and Sharpay couldnt bear to watch his brother being tormented like that. Vance has gone too far that night. So she took an action, a suicide mission.
She run into the room, jumped forward and stabbed him from the back with a knife, straight to his neck.
Vance yelled in pain, taking the knife out and stabbed the girl back on her throat before he took his last breath on this world.
Sharpay collapsed on the floor, immediately die. Ryan crawl to his sister, sobbing uncontrollably but no sound came out as he was still in pain, gasping for air. The image of Sharpay's still figure on the floor was the last thing on his brain before everything went black.
And when he woke up, he's in a place he never went before. Did he died too? Will he meet Sharpay in heaven and laugh together when they see Vance being punished in the hell? Ah, that'll be great.
But no, he's not. The first thing he realized was the smell of latex and sound of beepings. He look around and he was on a hospital bed, in a hospital dress. With and IV drip on his arm, heart monitor attached to him, a cannula on both his nostrils and he felt painful all over his body.
He started to panic when he remembered about everything. Vance is dead. Sharpay is dead. He's all alone in this world. What will happen next?
The beeping sound from the heart monitor increased a little bit and not a moment, a nurse came in, slightly smiling when she saw him already awake.
"Mr Evans. Seems like you're awake" she said softly.
"What happened?" he asked, curiously want to know what happened after he black out.
It turns out that their neighbour heard noises from his house before everything goes silent and she went to check. Heh, too late. She's 13 years late. She should've check on the house from the very first time she heard noises.
But she didn't.
And that's when Ryan realized, besides his ignorant neighbour, there is something more important than that to keep in mind,
He didn't keep his promise.
His twin sister was hurt, and die because of Vance. He couldn't protect her. And it was all his fault.