I realised something as I was reading the last few chapters of this story. In the summary, I referred to Ricky's boyfriend as Richard, but halfway through the chapters I've been calling him Andrew, even I've been getting confused, haha, so his name will now be Andrew, sorry if that has caused any confusion.

FrankElza: Thank you for the review. I really enjoyed writing that chapter. He's horrible to her. She certainly needs Brax to help her, but I think the fear of what Andrew will do to her, if he finds out is stopping her from telling him.

Guest: Thank you for the review, I messaged you on Instagram.

Fanfiction. 79: Thank you for the review. Andrew is a bastard to her, she needs to break away to be with Brax, but I don't think he'll let her go all that easily..

Any spelling and grammar mistakes are mine, I don't own Brax and Ricky, which I'm sure you all know but I think it's safe that I put a disclaimer on here.

Abuse.

Chapter 6.

Brax was pacing his bedroom floor, his hands clasped firmly behind his back. He wasn't going to deny it, he was attracted to her, but she was clearly going through some issues.

"Mate, are you coming down to the beach?" Heath asked, appearing at his door in his shorts.

"Not today, Heath" Brax said.

"Why?" Casey moaned.

"Because I have to see Ricky "

"Whose Ricky?" Heath frowned, he hadn't heard Brax mention her before.

"She's a... mate " Brax eventually told him.

Heath nodded and clapped Brax on the back, winking at him. "Course she is, mate "

Ricky winced in pain, her eyes brimming with tears as she showered, the hot water hitting the deep cuts on her body and she suddenly slid down the wall, the water still running. Pulling herself up from her crouched position she hissed as pain ran through her and she pulled the glass doors open.

Wrapping the towel around her she walked out of the bathroom, to the bedroom and opened a draw, searching for a bikni.

She pulled out a full length costume, a black one, with pink straps and put it one. She never wore a full length costume while out surfing but she didn't want to draw attention to her injuries. She scooped her hair up and twisted it in to a bun.

Reaching in to her make up bag she dabbed concealer on her skin as well as some lip balm. Taking a deep breath she muttered to herself.

"I can do this. "

Leaving her bedroom, she walked down the stairs, carrying her beach bag and she put her house keys in it, before placing it on her shoulder and walking through the hallway to get her board out of the shed.

Slipping her flipflops on her feet, she unlocked the back door and walked out in to the garden, heading towards the shed. She jiggled with the stiff lock and caught the back of her hand, she saw blood and hissed in pain, pulling the door open and retrieving her surf board. She locked the door and headed back in to the house to find a bandage, she pulled it around her hand. She picked up the board and walked out of the kitchen, shouldering her beach bag at the same time.

Carrying the board she walked towards the door, unlocked it and carefully edged it open, listening out for any sounds of Andrew upstairs. Shutting the door quietly behind her and headed to the beach.

She secured the strap to her ankle once she was in the water and waited for a wave. Seeing one, she surfed it and then took a deep breath, before waiting for another one.

Surfing it again, she then decided it was time for her to get out. Standing up, she took the strap off her foot and headed towards the spot where her towel was, she sat down on one of them and wrapped the other one around herself, bending over her bag.

"Ricky?"

"Oh, hey, Brax." She replied, keeping her head down, while she ran a brush through her hair.

"You heading for a surf?" He asked.

She simply nodded. "Can't keep away " She said, as Brax chuckled.

"Are you alright?" He asked quietly, remembering the last time that they had see each other.

She nodded, she couldn't let him find out. "I'm fine, Brax " She replied, trying to pick her board up.

"Here let me " Brax offered, effortlessly picking up her board and jogging up off the beach with it.

"Thanks " Ricky called once she'd reached him.

"No problem. See you soon, Ricky "

"Bye Brax " Ricky picked up her board and began the short walk home.

"Where have you been?" He demanded as soon as she stepped in to the house.

Getting away from you. Was what she really wanted to say, but instead she settled on:

"At the beach " She replied, dumping her bag down and getting her phone out of the zip part.

"Let me see that" He snatched the phone out of her grasp.

"Give that back" She hissed in a low tone, but he pushed her to the floor. She stared and got back up, she pushed him back, but he just laughed in her face.

"Brax. Brax. Brax" He muttered, reading through her recent texts."What have you said to him?"

"Nothing." She whispered, secretly wondering how he'd managed to read them when she'd deleted them. "Nothing"

"I don't believe you " He edged closer to her and she took a step back.

Andrew laughed harshly at her. Before grabbing her.

"Let me go!" She hissed.

"You can't leave me in here " She cried, when they were in the garden, it was clear, she realised, that he was going to lock her in the shed, it wasn't that she was afraid, but it was dark, small and was used as an area to store all of Andrew's extra things.

Andrew smirked at her. "Oh, don't be such a wimp, I'll let you out in the morning "

"Andrew..." She whimpered, tears building up in her eyes.

"No, you were bad, and bad girls need to be punished."

She shut her eyes as he shut the door, feeling a darkness creep over her as he locked her in.

Closing her eyes, she tried to get comfortable on the cold, rock, hard floor, but she knew it was going to be a long night and she didn't know how much more of this she could take before she cracked and admitted everything but she was fully aware of the consequences and that scared her.

I think I'm going to take a break from this story for a while, I'm not abandoning it, I've just got too many on the go at the moment and I really need to finish some off, before I concentrate on others as I think they are becoming similar in the writing. I also think I will be deleating "True Love" and "The Risk" thank you for all your support with them stories, I really appreciate it, but with Ricky soon leaving I don't think I could continue as the story lines they were based on, have now finished.

Next chapter: Ricky does a photography assignment in school and is paired with one of the Braxton brothers, but when she invites him back to her house to work on the assignment, will he pick up on Andrew's strange behaviour?