Disclaimer: the entire story would be in Ally's POV as she is the main protagonist.
"Wait a minute Trish" I spoke stopping her from pressing dial on the police. "I think he know who just took him" I muttered gazing over at Austin who ran his hand down his face frustratingly. Trish looked at me a little unsure, but considering what had just happened she had no time to think, and considering how much Dez meant to her, it could only mean trouble. Without hesitation, she quickly marched over to Austin and grabbed hold of his shirt as she bombarded him with many different questions.
As people passing by start to watch the scene unfold, I quickly hurried over to them to pull Trish away from him. "You psycho bitch!" Austin yelled stepping back away from her to fix his shirt.
"I'm a psycho? fuck you!" she yelled going to charge at him again, but before she could I had quickly held her back. "That's rich coming from the mute who went to jail last year and missed his fucking graduation, only to come back and terrorize people. You dare call me a psycho when the only expression you have on your face is misery and more misery. You wander why people are so fucking scared of you? its because you have no emotion!, you're heartless, you're a fucking creep and a sad nobody! now you tell me where those guys took Dez or I'll make sure you go right back to jail where you belong!" she yelled. Even though her words were harsher than harsh, I guess I really couldn't blame her. We had just witnessed Dez get taken away by a couple of random people and she had no idea what to think, which allowed her to take her anger and frustration out on Austin.
As Trish had finished her explosive rant, I noticed his face instantly become red, and was slowly turning shades of crimson and even a tinge purple, whilst sort of an unearthly, demonic look overcame him. His breathing became strange, sort of ragged. I noticed as he tried in vain to control himself, but his anger still sparked through the air giving me a cold jolt in my chest- fear. At that particular moment all I saw was rage and it was the first time that I truly felt terrified of him. The expression on his face was un-explainable, it was deadly, dangerous. The air had instantly felt like a ticking time bomb, which hesitantly waited for him to explode at any moment. I noticed his eyes bulge out and a vein throbbing on his throat. He looked as if he was ready to strike and scream, but something in him wouldn't allow him to, something that I didn't quite understand just yet, but would come to very soon.
Trish, who stood next to me with her arms crossed had began to notice the look of pure rage and terror plastered all over Austin's face as he held himself back from going off, and it had caused her to slowly take a step back and lower her head. It was as if as she saw the look on his face, fear had instantly struck her, and she had instantly regretted saying all those things to spite him.
After a while, Austin raised his hand up to run down his face. I noticed how his fingers had trembled rapidly as he did so, which meant that there was still some anger left in him. I looked back at Trish who was still utterly terrified before slowly taking a step towards him. I was scared to even utter a word due to the fact that I had no idea what he might do, but at that point, I truly had no choice. I cleared my throat and joined my hands together before speaking up. "Uhm... I'm sorry about everything she said, we really care about Dez a lot and don't really know what to do right now. If you know who those guys are who took him, please help us find him and we won't ask you for anything else" I pleaded before clasping my hands together and gazing up at me.
I wasn't sure if I was imagining it, but as soon as I had finished speaking, I noticed his eyes slowly soften, which shocked me a little as I only ever saw him with cold and hard eyes. He stared down at me almost as if he were in deep thought about something before looking back at his motorcycle. To my surprise, he quickly stuffed his keys in his back pockets before looking over at Trish's car, which was parked on the other side of the car park. "I need your car keys, I know where they took him, I'll drive you there" he said with a little hesitance, whilst also avoiding looking at Trish due to how angry she had made him earlier. I could tell that he wasn't used to talking a lot on a daily like this and it somehow made him a little tense and uncomfortable.
Trish looked up at me a little unsure, almost as if she didn't trust him at all before speaking up. "Uhm are you sure of what you're saying, who were those guys anyway?" she asked crossing her arms above her chest. Austin shot her a stern and serious look ignoring her question and she wasted no time, quickly bringing out her car keys from her pocket before throwing it over at him.
He looked back at his motorcycle before walking over to Trish's car and we slowly followed from behind. I wouldn't say we fully trusted him at that moment, but we simply had no choice. As we arrived towards the car, Austin quickly opened the driver's seat and stepped inside. I watched as Trish rushed over to the backseat not wanting to sit besides him and I sighed to myself before slowly opening the passenger door and taking a seat besides him. It was kinda weird seeing him inside a car since I was used to seeing him drive around in a motorcycle. He waited till we were all strapped and buckled in with our seat belts before starting the car and driving off.
During the car ride, I would take quick glances at him and quickly look away to make sure that he wouldn't notice. He was so focused, so captivating that sometimes it was hard to simply look away. Even though he was helping us to find Dez, I could tell there was still a lot of his mind. I could tell that he was thinking about his mother, and some other things that I didn't quite know about yet. I looked back at Trish to see her gazing out her window before looking up at Austin. He turned his head to glance at me and we held eye contact for a solid 2-3 seconds before he quickly turned his attention back to the road. I never noticed how gorgeous he was until then, his face was still so emotionless and so full of mystery, but he was still so beautiful. I shifted my eyes away from him and pressed my head against the glass window as we continued driving in silence, with neither Trish and I wanting or needing to utter a word as it was out first time alone with the school's most talked about notorious bad boy. Even though we were in complete silence, as he drove further and further, I was starting to see that some rumors people had made up about it were false and I knew that she could see it too, even though she would never admit it.
"Uh just to let you know, Austin..." Trish spoke up, causing me to turn back to her. "I hope that those people aren't gonna do anything to hurt him. Dez suffers from Intermittent explosive disorder, meaning that he can't control whenever he gets angry and ends up having a serious mental breakdown..." she explained gazing at him closely, almost as if she was trying to study him closely or make out who he really was.
"I know" he uttered shocking us a little.
"You do?" I asked gazing up at him a little gobsmacked. "How?" Trish asked raising an eye at him.
As the red light came up on the traffic light, Austin quickly stopped the car. He paused for a brief while as his attention focused on the road before he finally spoke up. "My little brother suffered from that same disorder and I could see the symptoms in Dez... I have three classes with him every week" he explained before starting up the car and driving of again as the light turned green, and I couldn't help but smile. Every lesson, I would think he wasn't paying attention to anyone due to the fact that he was always staring out the window. I didn't think that he even knew the names of anyone in class, but to my surprise he had been paying attention all along, even to all the people who call him names and treat him as if he were a monster. I had just seen a new side to him that I wasn't expecting in the slightest bit.
Trish stared at him for a brief while until a gusmile slowly came creeping up on her face. "Hey, can I ask you a question?" she asked leaning closer to him. "Is this the most words you've spoken in a while?" she asked before turning to glance over at me.
"This is the most words I've spoken in years" he muttered, taking one glance at me before going back to being silent throughout the car ride. He was like a whole different person that I certainly wasn't expecting, but I knew after this that things would go back to how it would used to be and he would go back to letting everybody think he was indeed a monster. Something inside told me that it was a safer way for him to live life, but that could've all been in my head.
~A while later.
We arrived outside a strange warehouse at the middle of an unknown place downtown.
"Is this where they took him?" Trish asked gazing out the window with a puzzled look. Austin ignored her before turning of the engine and throwing her car keys back to her. "You two should wait out here, its dangerous" he warned in a quiet voice before pushing the door and stepping outside.
I watched as he quickly hurried towards the warehouse and I couldn't help but smile. He didn't know us and we didn't know him, and yet he was going through lengths. I turned back to face Trish who sat there bewildered not understanding at all what was going on. "So what... is he gonna go save him? and are we just suppose to sit here till she gets back?" she questioned before letting out a deep and frustrated sigh. "Of course not" I said quickly throwing on my brown leather jacket. "We can't just sit here and wait, Dez was basically kidnapped, and Austin might need our help in case something happens" I stated before pushing the door open and stepping out the car as Trish followed in from me. We looked up at the warehouse before holding each other's hands for comfort and rushing towards the back in the direction that Austin headed in.
As we arrived at the back of the warehouse, which was surrounded by scattered leaves and dangerous weapons. We walked around for a little while till we found a window in which we quickly got on our tip toes to peak in. Inside the warehouse was Austin, who stood across the group of people who had kidnapped Austin, but there was no sign of Dez anywhere. I looked around at all the guys who stood opposite Austin with a regretful and nervous expression. Even though there were six of them and one of him, they still looked quite frightened of him, which made me think even more to just how 'dangerous' he really was. I scanned the room till I spotted a girl who looked to be in her late teens- early 20's as she leaned on the wall with her arms crossed whilst gazing over at Austin with a teary and hurt expression. She had long hair and was fairly slim not to mention also beautiful.
I continue to stare at her for a brief while, till I hear someone speak and quickly look back up to who I assumed to be the leader of the gang. He took a step closer to Austin and held a scowl and bitter look on his face before speaking up again. "Answer me? I asked why the fuck did you come here?" he questioned balling up his fists in anger. Austin placed his hands down to his side as he remained silence not saying a single word and I could tell that it began to aggravate him even more. "Say something you piece of shit!" he yelled causing an echo to erupt throughout the room.
"That guy you took earlier... I need him back" he muttered shocking everyone in the room as they probably weren't used to him talking either.
"So you can speak huh?" the leader of the gang mocked, but Austin's expression refused to change. "Listen Austin, when you got out of jail last year you left us, your left your family and you don't know how much that pissed me off. When you joined us you took an oath that you will never leave, you swore on your motherfucking life that you would be with us till you die. Are you forgetting everything I did for you and your dead brother? and this is how you wanna repay me? by walking out on us and going back to High School?, you don't need school man c'mon" he scoffed as everyone began to laugh. "You walked out on us and that's something that you can't do. Here's the deal, you come back to us and we'll give you back your weird looking friend".
Austin lowered his head slightly for a little while almost as if he was planning on what to do before speaking up. "He's not my friend" he uttered briefly.
"What?... we saw you talking to him and those other two girls at the parking lot, are you trying to fuck with my head by playing your usual mind games dude?" he asked raising his voice at him.
"If you wanted to kidnap someone and use them in getting me to come back then maybe you should've checked if they're my friends or not, he and those girls just happen to go to my School, Jason... I thought you were an expert in these kinda things" now it was his turn to mock him. As Austin finished his sentence, Jason had got ready to charge at him but was quickly held back by the rest of them. "I made you, you piece of shit. You can't just walk out on me however you like, you seem to be forgetting who the fuck I am, Austin" he yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Jason stop it, stop yelling at him" the girl cried going over to hold him back by the arm. After he had supposedly calm down, she breathed out a deep sigh and ran her fingers through her long blonde hair before turning around to face Austin who looked back at her. She wiped away the tear that didn't know had fell down her eyes, before slowly walking up to him. I watched almost at the edge of my seat, as she lightly and gently placed one hand on his chest before placing the other behind his neck. She gazed up at him with sincerity in her eyes which left me with a million questions flying through my head. For some reason, I felt my stomach churn as I watched her press her body against his, leaving no space between them. Before I knew it, she had quickly got on her tip toes to place a light kiss on his lips. He didn't respond to the kiss neither did he push her away either, which left me puzzled on the status of their relationship.
After a while, she slowly pulled away from the kiss to sulk up at him at the cold treatment he was giving her. She was probably 2-4 years older than me, but the way she seeked for his attention was almost like a toddler seeking for its parent's attention. "I think that's his girlfriend" said Trish whispering quietly as I stood in silence, my eyes not being able to leave the both of them.
"What's wrong? Is there someone else you like? why won't you just come back?" she asked bombarding him with many different questions. "Today is the first time I've heard you say anything to me in months, you can't ignore me now, baby" she squirmed cupping his cheeks to get him to look down at her.
Austin slowly removed her hands away from his face before taking a step back away from her, which had left her utterly broken. "Piper... I told you its over, please let me go" he said bluntly ignoring her broken and devastated expression before turning his attention back to Jason. "I'll come back... just let him go" he said almost in a pleading tone.
Before Jason could speak up, I heard someone quickly cut him off and I quickly turn my head to look across the room at Trent, who walked out from a corner with a terrified looking Dez following from behind him. "Wait... isn't that the guy we saw at the book store earlier?" she asked puzzled at the sight of Trent as I wandered how he could've found us. I looked down at her anxiously before looking back inside the room to see all of the guys except Jason hold a gun over at Trent. Instead of looking absoulutely terrified which any normal person would be, he laughed to himself at all the sight of guns being pointed at him. "You really have lost your fucking mind Jason. You kidnap an innocent kid who had nothing to do with this and tie him up just to get Austin back?... I'm not gonna let you fucking ruin his life any longer with your bullshit, if I see your near him or near those girls you saw him with today, I'll kill you, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart" he spoke threateningly as Jason's fear began to overtake his anger, causing him to take a step back from Trent.
Trent held a stern look on his face before turning around to face Austin who raised an eye at him, signalling as to how he had known he was here. "I have my sources man, I know whenever you in trouble. Lets just get out here" Trent replied briefly.
As the three of them stepped outside, Trish and I quickly rushed over towards the front to give Dez a big hug. "I'm so glad you're okay, oh I was so worried" Trish exclaimed whilst squeezing him tightly. Austin and Trent watched as the three of us hugged for what seemed like forever.
"Listen y'all are probably confused as to what's going happen, and I promise you'll understand later on since you've pretty much everything. Trish right? I think you should take him home to rest and don't tell anyone about what you just saw, especially your parents" Trent spoke looking down at her. She looked back up at him wanting to bombard him with many different questions right then, but instead she kept her mouth shut before wrapping her arm around Dez and leading him towards her car. "Ally, you coming?" she asked turning to look back at me.
"I have to take care of something, but I'll see you guys later" I smiled, waving goodbye to them. They waved goodbye before getting into the car and driving off.
I watched as the car drove further down the street, before turning to look back at them. "Thank you guys doing what you did for Trent, Trish and I really appreciate it. He means a lot to us, especially her" I said joining my hands together as I smiled up at the both of them
Trent wrapped his arm around Austin's shoulder, who quickly pushed him away before running his fingers through his hair. "We're sorry for dragging you and your friend into this, Ally" Trent apologized. "Well since I just saw what I saw, you think you can tell me what's going on?" I asked eagered to know what was happening behind all this and to also hopefully learn more about Austin. I wasn't sure why, but ever since I saw him talk to his mom in the prison waiting room, I somehow wanted to know everything about him. Trent scratched the back of his head before looking at Austin who shot him a glare signalling for him not to say anything. I watched as he quickly shifted his eyes away and rubbed through his tired eyes before turning to walk over to Trent's car.
I balled up my fists obviously annoyed at his sudden change in attitude. "Don't you think I have the right to know what's going on here?" I questioned with a little irritation in my voice.
"Earlier, you said if I helped you with this you wouldn't ask me for anything else. This isn't your fucking business, I don't give a shit about your life so why should you give a shit about mine! just because I helped you out doesn't make us friends!" he snapped furiously, the rage in his eyes slowly coming back from earlier. He opened the passengers seat to Trent's car and stepped inside before slamming the door shut. I watched as he pulled out a cigarette and lighter from his pocket and slowly lit it, before covering his face with his hand.
"Wow he must really like you, that's the most words I've heard him say in a while" Trent chuckled leaving me confused. "The first time I met him he basically said the exact same thing to me... he wouldn't waste his breath on you if he wasn't starting to warm up to you. I know its a lot to handle but he could use a friend like you. I know it'll be tough but please just try, he's suffered more than anyone I've ever known, I've only seen him laugh once and that was when I tripped ans injured myself for three months" he stated before pausing to look down at the ground for a brief while. "Get inside I'll give you a ride home" he said pointing his head over to the backseat before walking over to the driver seat. I stared down at Austin who whiffed onto his cigarette, creating a cloud of smoke in the air as he purposefully avoided my gaze.
I pressed my lips tightly together before getting into the backseat of Trent's car and shutting the door behind me.
The car ride to my house was very silent, so silent it had started to become awkward. I looked over at Austin who leaned his head on the window, in deep thought about something. I wanted to ask him if he was alright but I figured that it was probably not a good idea, so instead I sighed quietly to myself before continuing to stare out the window. I knew he had been through a whole lot, I didn't know his whole story yet, but I still wanted to be there for him in a way.
As Trent stopped the car due to traffic, I looked across the street at a man dressed in a black suit as he walked with his arm around a young girl who wasn't too far of my age. I rolled down the window and looked closely and my heart froze as I realized that the man was indeed my Father. I watched in disgust as he hugged and kissed the girl as they walked over to his car. I knew this was happening ever since, I knew that he was having an affair but still seeing it for real made it so surreal. I couldn't believe there was a time where I looked at that man and happily called him Father. At that moment, I felt nothing but hatred and disgust towards him and I wanted him to know it to, I wanted him to feel the pain he had caused the both of us by doing what he did, I wanted him to truly suffer.
~A while later.
As Trent pulled up a couple blocks away from my house, I quickly got out the car before turning around to face them. "Thanks for dropping me home Trent" I said smiling a small smile before glancing over at Austin who looked straight ahead avoiding my gaze. I turned around to walk towards my house before turning to look back at Austin. "Oh and Austin... you better be in school by next week, you've missed three days this week, you do wanna graduate don't you?" I smirked at him before quickly turning back around as I was too nervous to see how he would react.
As I watched Trent's car drive of down the street, my smile began to quickly fade as I remember what I saw earlier on.
With anger slowly building up inside me, I quickly stormed over to my house. As I opened the door, I quickly looked around for my mother and when she wasn't downstairs, I quickly rushed upstairs, whilst calling her name along the way. "Ally you're home, what is it?" she asked walking out of the bathroom and shutting the door behind her.
"I saw him mom! I saw that pathetic bastard you call your husband!" I snapped finally letting out all my anger and frustrations I had been keeping bottled in ever since the car ride. I barged into my room and got out a small suitcase to start packing my clothes as my mom stared at me from my door in confusion. I didn't want to tell her the truth as I knew just how much she loved that man and how much she's been trying to make their marriage work ever since but I simply had no choice. "I saw him hugging and kissing a girl way too young his age, and what's worse is that it was in public! He clearly has no respect for you so we're leaving this place" I hissed throwing my clothes in my bag and other things in my room as quickly as I possibly could.
"Ally... a-are you sure? m-maybe it was someone who looked like him" she stammered, causing me to instantly stop what I was doing.
I turned my head to look at her in disbelief, almost as if she had just lost her mind. "Am I sure? what kind of fucking question is that mom?" I snapped raising my voice at her a little. "I'm saying that I saw you're husband cheating on you and you're asking if I'm fucking sure. Yes I get it he's your husband, but I'm your daughter. When are you gonna be on my side for once instead of his? when are you gonna listen to your own daughter huh, or better yet when are you gonna stand up for yourself and stop being pushed around by that bastard-
"Alison Marie Dawson, he is your Father and you will not speak of him in that manner do you understand me?!" she scolded quickly breathing in and out.
I gazed at her with a blank and tired expression. Surely a mother who loved her daughter would believe them, right? wrong. I had lived my life being seen as second best and I was fed up. It truly wasn't fair that I had to fight to protect myself and my mother from that monster when it was her job in the first place to protect me. I was fed up, fed up of what this family had turned me into. Fed up of the worthless human being I called my mother and most of all fed up of the woman I called my mother, but even though I was fed up, I still knew that I had to protect her, because without him she was nobody and she needed to find her way into this world and walk her path, just like she should've before she had me. It was an unfortunate life that she lived, she had been trapped in an 18 year marriage and mistaked it for love without realizing that it was torture all along.
"What's all that noise?" I hear my Father's voice which was followed by the door slamming.
I looked back at my mom as she stood not knowing what to do or say as he slowly made his way up the stairs. As he saw us standing in silence, he furrowed his eyebrow before looking down at my mom to explain what was going on. The sight of him truly made me sick. "What's going on Penny?" he questioned forcefully.
"What's going on is she's leaving you, we're leaving you!" I spoke bluntly, before going back to throw some more things into my bag.
"You're what?" he asked raising his voice. As he pushed my mom out the way and made his way into my room, the anger inside me began to take over and without thinking, I quickly picked up the vase next to my night stand and threw it at the wall causing him to stop dead in his tracks. "I saw you okay, I saw you walk around with that girl and kiss her. You make me sick! why are you trying to ruin this family even more huh?! isn't it broken enough, haven't you already destroyed everything, haven't you already destroyed her!" I yelled pointing over to my mom who stood there motionless, refusing to say anything. "She's leaving you Lester and there's nothing you can do to stop her" I shouted as hot tears started to slowly fill my eyes, which was something that never happened.
"You are not going anywhere, go back inside the bedroom now!" he yelled turning to face my mom before turning his attention back to me.
"I can see now that you've lost your fucking mind and gone crazy... get out of my house!" he yelled. I looked over at my mom who quickly lowered her head morosely and at that moment I had felt my heart sink and shatter into small tiny pieces. I balled up my fists and quickly shifted my eyes away from her before turning around to throw the last of the things into my bag and zip it up.
I couldn't remember exactly what was said between my Father and I next but the arguing that came right after was loud and thunderous and the words that were exchanged to each other was brutal. I remember things being knocked over as we headed into the hallway and into the living room. It didn't feel like a Father and daughter fight, but two enemies releasing all their long awaited anger and frustration out on each other. It left me scarred even till this day. Even as we headed out the door the fighting still continued as neighbors began to come out of their houses to witness the unfortunate scene. I was angry and hurt , but nothing hurt me more than seeing my mother turn me away to side with my Father yet again. I guess there was really no hope for her as I that, I guess she would always be his little puppet that he can push around and use whenever it felt like it and it pained me to say that that night they had left me completely broken, shattered and with no hope what so ever.
Seeing as I had know where to go, I had no choice but to turn to Trish. Knocking on her door was completely nerve wracking and it took all the strength in me to do. Seconds later, she had slowly opened the door with her smile slowly fading at the distress and distraught look on my face, and at that moment, I couldn't help but burst into tears. I was normally a strong person who held in all of her tears due to the fear of being seen as weak in front of others, but at that moment, I just couldn't stop myself, and I knew that I could no longer stop myself any longer.
This was a pretty intense chapter that I used from some past experience especially towards the end, so I hope it touched you a little or a lot. I've never uploaded two chapters in one day but I decided to because why not. If you also enjoyed this chapter don't forget to review and let me know what you thought of it.