Chapter 4

Ji

"I don't know if you know….but Emily is with me. She is safe now. She isn't hurt." Serena said through the phone.

"What do you mean isn't hurt?" I asked. We knew she was going to her boyfriends house. Not her house. Jayden said she went to see her boyfriend because he was in trouble.

"She is….well you see, she's been hit." She says. She was close to tears.

"Who hit her?" I asked.

"Someone who shouldn't. I'll deal with it. I know the kid who is. I will be sending her home in a few days. I want you to do a full sweep of her room. Find any knife, blades, or blood. Get it out of there. She's been cutting too. Most likely from that. I hid the scars before the team could see them. I got to go. Emily just shouted at Nikki, Alexis, and Elliot." She says. I hang up with a goodbye.

I go to the common room and call a meeting.

Once everyone has arrived and sat down, I start to tell them.

"Emily, she is safe. She is with Serena and Serena is going to protect her." I say to them.

"Protect? Why does Emily need to be protected? From who? Why?" Jayden asked sounding worried.

"Serena says somebody has been hitting her. She has also been cutting herself." I say. Why didn't Emily come for help?

"Why didn't she tell us that someone was hurting her?" Jayden asked feeling upset.

"I don't know. But it's better we know now then later on when she could've killed herself or who is hitting her kills her." I said.

"Does she not trust us?" Mike asks.

"I can't answer that." I said.

"Emily has to trust us. I mean she isn't stuttering or anything around us. She isn't acting around us!" Kevin says. Emily is like a little sister to Kevin. She is like a little sister to all of us.

"I swear, if I find out it's her boyfriend, whatever his name is, I am going to kill him!" Jayden says.

"It's okay. We will help her heal. I am going to clean her room. I am checking for blood or blades and knifes." I said walking away.

I go into Emily's room. Everything seems untouched except her sheets. I look at the yellow sheets. I see some drips of blood on the top. I pull the sheets of her bed and put it in a basket. As I pass her bed I see a box sticking out from under her bed.

I pull the box out and I see words on the top. It's red. Dried blood.

The Help Box it read.

I opened it up and saw a crinkled up piece of paper with splotches of dried blood. I saw a little book. I saw a little towel. Again, the towel was covered in splotches of blood. How long did she cut for?

I saw no blade. No knife. No nothing.

I un-balled the piece of paper.

It was about how to cut yourself. I stuffed the paper into my pocket.

Eventually Emily will end up killing herself. I don't want her to kill herself. She is loved very much on this team. She is loved by many people. If she goes, I don't even want to think about it.

I started to rummage through everything. I was looking for a blade of any kind. I start to wonder if she hid the knife under her bed like she did with the box. I get on the floor with a flashlight and look under the bed. I see a journal with some red pages, some dust, so lint, typical stuff. Wait! A journal!

I fish it out and I can smell the blood as if there was a huge puddle of 5,000 people right in this room. I open it, interested to see what exactly Emily is keeping in here and why it reeks of blood.

I see one word on each page. Many words. Sometime they were repeating.

Ugly.

Fat.

Obese.

Idiot.

Klutz.

Fool.

Dummy.

Idiotic.

It just continued. Each with a new insult or an old one.

"Why is she doing this to herself?" I asked no one.

"Will Emily be okay?" She heard a voice ask. He turned and saw Mia at the door looking around the room.

"She will be fine." I say to soothe her.

"Then why doesn't she come home. I want to tell her everything will be alright." Mia begged.

I sighed. Mia turned and left. I pulled out my phone and dialed.

"Serena, I want to bring the rangers over. They want to see Emily. They want to talk to her." I say.

"Bring them over. Emily is sleeping on the couch. She keeps crying out for a few of the rangers and Alexis and Nikki are getting scared. Emily keeps calling specifically for Jayden and Mia. She is calling out for help." She says. I nod.

"We will be there soon." I said.

Authors Note: When I first got on to write I was going to do some sibling fluff but I ended up writing a chapter about how much Ji cares about Emily and how much Emily means to the rangers. So yeah….