Need You Now

Need You Now

Hiya guys, thanks to all of you who reviewed, anyway, here's chapter 3, hope you enjoy it, please review and tell me what you thought.

Chapter 3

Still staring at Rick, Gabriella felt her heart stop as millions of flashbacks suddenly entered her head, Rick punching her, Rick kicking her, Rick pulling her up by her hair, Rick putting a cigarette out on her, Rick smashing a glass on her leg, Rick raping her…

Gabriella's breathing became shallow and erratic, as she looked at the man who had caused her undeniable pain, and had made her lose trust in everyone and everything, including her best friends for a while. Chad looked at her, concerned as to what was going on with his baby sister.

Gabriella's hand shot to her head as a headache hit her hard and fast, she could sense both her Dad and Chad watching her with concern, but moreover, she could feel his eyes on her, his eyes mentally undressing her, his eyes taunting her, his face smirking at her.

"I can't do this, I've got to get out of here," Gabriella muttered, shrugging off Chad's arm and running for the stairs, hearing Chad and the rest of the gang, who had arrived at the door by now, calling her name in the distance, as the blood pounded in her ears, and she remembered the sound of his laughter as he slowly abused her.

Believing that Gabriella only needed time to try and take in all of the information of her father actually being alive, the gang decided that it was best to just leave her to go wherever she was going, although not a single one of them knew that Rick was the Rick who had been Gabriella's Mom's boyfriend, having never met him before, so invited both men into the apartment to wait for Gabriella's return.

However as Mike accepted, Gabriella was still his daughter, even if he hadn't seen her in seven years, Rick declined, saying that it was not his place to stay, as his own plans formed as he headed for the exit of the building, hoping that Gabriella would still find peace in the same things that she did the last time he saw her four years ago.

Walking through the park, Gabriella took a deep breath, glad to be away from the man that had caused her life to become torturous so quickly, and out in the open, she especially loved the section of the park that she was now stood in as there were very few people that knew about it, and currently there was no one else around.

She slowly sunk down onto the bench facing the small pond and put her head in her hands, trying desperately to figure out a way to work her way out of the terrible situation that she had been put into, she already had a family, so she didn't want her father back in her life, especially if he was going to treat her like a little child, as he had just done when he had seen her for the first time that afternoon. And Rick…Gabriella had no clue what she would do about Rick.

Sighing in frustration, Gabriella soon found herself stood back up off of the bench and pacing backwards and forwards behind it.

However, her eyes went wide with fright and shock as she felt someone grab her from behind, strategically placing one gigantic hand over her mouth to keep her from screaming and drawing attention to herself, even though there was still no one to be seen.

Gabriella felt herself be pulled into a very shady packet of trees and flung forcefully against one of them, instantly realising who it was that had grabbed her, when she felt a hand hit her face, before a fist in her gut, as she doubled over in pain, trying not to cry out, knowing that that would only make everything worse for herself.

"Four years Gabriella," Rick spat out, puncturing each word with another hit, as the blood now poured into Gabriella's mouth, and he used his other hand to hold her upright by her neck. "Four bloody years, I've looked for you and searched for you!" He laughed harshly as he saw terror etched onto every single one of her facial features, and she gasped for air, "Did you really think that you were gonna get away that easily? Did you really think that I wanted to be with that stupid Mother of yours?" Gabriella automatically tensed up and bristled slightly when he mentioned her Mother, which went completely over Rick's head, "Please, I couldn't have cared less about her, the only reason I was with her was because I had free reign over you." He laughed harshly and took his cigarette out of his mouth, lifting Gabriella's knee length skirt slightly and stubbing it out on her as she writhed in pain, causing Rick to smirk once more. "And now you little slut, I'm going to take what is rightfully mine," he laughed once more as Gabriella's terror climaxed and he unzipped his jeans, pushing her harshly against the tree once more.

Gabriella opened her mouth, in a desperate attempt to scream, but Rick saw and quickly clamped a hand back over her mouth, "I wouldn't do that if I were you Gabriella, not if you want pretty boy and those friends of yours to live," he smirked at her, before ripping off her top, causing her to shudder in dread, and rip her skirt almost in half, in an attempt to hurry along what he was planning.

After repeating what he had done to Gabriella in her teenage years four or so times over, as well as hitting and kicking her around a bit, Rick had finally had enough, and had left the sobbing Gabriella on the ground as he himself had just walked away, promising that he would be back to see her again soon.

A few hours after he had left, Gabriella had finally found it in herself to pull her ruined bloodstained clothes back on, and head out of the thicket of trees, by which time the sun had set and night time darkness was setting in all around Los Angeles. She managed to find her way out of the trees and stumbled onto the main path, which was now filled with young lovers and people returning home from work.

Gabriella sobbed, drawing the attention of many passers by, who just skirted around her, and hurried away, as the young woman walked around the park in her torn clothing. As she collapsed onto a bench, she knew that she couldn't take going through any of this with Rick again, and knew that one way or another, she had to stay away from him, because if this continues as it had done the last time, Gabriella Montez was not going to survive…

Well that was chapter 3, this story is already getting as dark as some parts of Need You More Than Ever, a lot faster than that originally did, but please review and tell me what you thought and the next chapter will be out tomorrow.