My face instantly paled as I received the call from Noah.
"I need your help," he said
"With what? What's wrong?" I ask worriedly trying to put my clothes back on as I gesture to my mom to the same
"My dad is back," he said through the phone
"I'm on my way babe," I said
"Thanks," he replies
"What's wrong sweetie?" my mom asks confused
Noah's dad is back and I'm going to pick him up before anything happens," I say and we head out to my car. I make it to Noah's house within 10 minutes and I can hear screaming.
"Well you're a worthless piece of trash. Get the hell outta my house!" Noah's dad yells and I can see Noah who is much smaller than his dad trying to fight against him, but clearly losing.
"No I'm not leaving without my sister," he says
"Yes you are, you're not welcome back here!" he yells
"This is my house, I pay the bills around here, not you!" Noah yelled and that earned him a punch in his stomach and face
Shelby POV
After seeing the altercation with his dad, I felt I had not choice but to intervene
"Hey what are you doing?" I yell
"This is none of your business. Did you call them?" he asks Noah venomously
"No dad I swear," Noah pleads
"Well I don't believe you," he says before he takes of his belt in front of all of us and began to repeatedly beat Noah and I felt my heart drop
"Daddy stop!" I can hear Emily yell
"Get away!" his father yells at the smaller girl
"No I want you to leave Noah alone. We we're better off without you!" she yells and he back smacks her and with that we saw Noah get up and launch himself at his father causing both of them to topple over. Noah began to punch his father in the face and soon enough his face was bloodied and bruised
"Noah stop!" I hear Rachel yell but Noah refuses to listen. She walks toward him and catches his fist and he tried to lunge at Rachel but stopped in mid air realizing he was about to hurt my baby.
Noah POV
Why had I just tried to attach my girlfriend? I was trying to punch my father for what he did to my mom and sister and then there's Rachel trying to protect him. It infuriated me to the bone.
"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me," I plead
"It's okay," she says and tries to console me
"No it's not! I don't want to become my father. Look at him," I say and we all look down towards his lifeless body.
"Oh my God Noah, is he breathing?" Rachel asks as she leans forward to check for a pulse
"Does he have one?" I ask nervously
"Yeah, but he can still press charges and you're on probation," she says and I move my hand through my Mohawk trying to find something to make this situation better. I want to cry when I see my baby sister curled in a ball on the ground.
"Em…Emily are you okay?" I ask cautiously
"My face hurts," she says and she turns to look at me and I can see a bruise of my dad's ring forming on her face and I can feel my blood begin to boil all over again. I wanted to attack him all over again. "Noah I'm scared." She cried and I picked her up and moved her over to Shelby
"Can you watch her, I have to go check on my mom?" I ask
"No problem," she responds and I rush into the house/
"Mom where are you?" No reply. "Mom!" I yell and when it goes silent again I am able to hear a moan coming from the bedroom. I open the door and I can see my mom bloodied and bruised and in and out of consciousness. "MOM! Someone help me!"
Rachel POV
"MOM! Someone help me!" I heard Noah yell from the inside of the house and I rushed but stopped at the door when I saw Noah coming outside with his mom in his arms. She looked badly beaten and unconscious.
"Noah is she alright?" I ask afraid of his answer
"She has a heartbeat, but she needs to go to the hospital," he says his voice cracking a little
"Mom we need to take them to the hospital, I'll call it in so they know we're coming," I said
"What about him?" she asked
"That bastard can call his own ambulance, but my mom we have to hurry," he began to cry as he put her in the backseat and put Emily on his right side. My mom and I climbed in and I drove us to the hospital. Once we arrived they immediately took his mom and treated her while we waited in the waiting room. Noah looked like he was in a trance the whole time until a doctor walked towards us.
"How is she?" Noah asked as he jumped to his feet
"Who are you to the patient?" the doctor asked
"I'm her son, now tell me what's wrong?" he replied
"I'm sorry, but I can't tell you, you're under the legal age, I need you father or…" the doctor was cut off by Noah
"Don't dare say you need my father, he's the one who did this so can you please tell me what's up with my mom," he declared
"Your mom is in critical condition. We thought she only had a broken arm and rib, but we discovered that she had a major concussion. We rushed her to emergency surgery where we had to drill holes into her skull to release the pressure and we found a little bleeding. We're monitoring her for the next 48 hours since it says in her medical records that this isn't the first time. Also, we found some injuries that didn't heal properly so we had to re-break the bones in her hand for them to start healing properly and that's it," the doctor said
"It's all my fault…" Noah started but was interrupted by an EMT
"Incoming we have a male mid 30s with major contusions due to blunt force trauma to the face. He also had a mild heart attack. His name is Nickolas Puckerman. I don't think he's going to make it," he finishes and we're all dumbstruck and Noah falls to his knees and wraps his arms around Emily and cries.
"I did this to our family… I'm so sorry Emily, it's all my fault that I let you and mom down. I was suppose to protect both of you from him," he said and Emily turned to face him with a smile on her face
"Don't cry Noah, you did it, you got rid of him, he's gone, and you protected mom and I the best you could," she said and pulled Noah closer while my heart sank again for the millionth time tonight.
Shelby POV
My head was spinning from the recent events. Puck was beaten by his dad. Puck's mom was beaten by Puck's dad and rushed to the hospital and in critical condition right now. Puck's dad has a greater chance of dying from Puck's beating and Emily is happy about it. I needed time to collect my thoughts and my heart constricted at the sight of Noah on his knees crying in Emily's arms.
"I have to turn myself in," Noah said but was interrupted by two police officers
"Son, can you tell me what happened to your mom," the police officer asked
"My dad came home and he beat my mom, me and my sister. I fought back and now my mom is in critical condition and my dad just arrived to the hospital by ambulance," he said as he stood from the ground and put his hands around Emily's shoulders
"Will you be pressing charges against your father?" they asked the two men
"Yes," Noah said
"What's his name?" they ask
"Nickolas Puckerman," he says as they begin to write then drop their pens
"Wait you're Noah?" one asks
"Yeah," Noah replies
"When did you dad get back?" he asks
"Tonight," Noah replies
"You don't remember me do you?" the police officer asks
"No, why should I?" Noah asks
"When you were about 5, I was a rookie cop and I was called to your house on domestic disturbance, a little boy called and said his dad was fighting with his mom," the police officer responds
"I don't remember," Noah said
" Its okay, I'm sorry we were never able to prove anything since your mom didn't want to testify," he said
"Well I hope he doesn't come back if he even survives," Noah says with a sigh
"What do you mean if he survives?" the police officer asks
"I beat him up and then the EMT said he probably won't make it when we were in the emergency room," Noah says. "What's going to happen to me?"
"You probably will be arrested, but the charges will be dismissed as they will see it was in self defense. Speaking, you should probably get checked out," he said
"No, I'm fine," Noah says and tries to sit back down but finds himself gasping in pain and falling to the ground and shaking violently…