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Baby S

Chapter Eleven

Troy sat in Chad's room holding his cell phone in his hand, Chad was sitting on his computer currently talking to Gabriella the two had gotten back together again over the last few days. "Man, are you going to call her or what." Chad asked as he looked one last time at Troy who was still sitting on his bed staring at the silver cell phone. Troy looked up at his friend and sighed.

"I think I should man…I mean I feel like I need to call her and just talk to her maybe I can convince her to at least go to Gabriella's house if she doesn't want to be around me."

"I'm telling you if it wasn't for her father she would be here right now."

"I think she doesn't want to be separated from her sister; I mean she isn't going to turn eighteen for a while and that means unless she had a proper caretaker she and her sister go into the system."

"Just call her Troy…and that way she can tell you what's up and then you can relax for the night man." Troy nodded and stood up, and walked out onto Chad's balcony and dialed Taylor's cell phone number and hoped she could pick up so he could once again try to convince her that staying in that house was a bad idea for both her and her sister.

Victoria was still crying over her sister's still form, she didn't know what to do. Every once in a while she would shake her sister hoping that her sister would open her eyes and tell her everything was going to be alright. She jumped when she heard her sister's phone go off. Standing up she climbed into the chair and grabbed her sister's phone. She looked at it for a moment before pushing it open and holding it to her ear. "Hello?"

"Victoria? Hey where's-." Victoria busted into tears at the sound of Troy's voice.

"My sister is hurt, Troy…she bleeding everywhere." Troy stiffened at her words and he felt his heart jump into his throat as a small sweat broke out onto his forehead.

"Is she awake?"

"No she hasn't woken up and I've been trying to wake her up...and daddy left us here all alone and I can't open the door." She cried, Troy eyes watered at her words as he listened to the little girl explain to him what had happen.

"Okay well I'm on my way I promise okay, just stay on the line with me and I'll be there as soon as possible."

"Okay." Troy rushed into the bedroom, and grabbed his shoes and put them on.

"Chad call the cops and tell them to head over to Taylor's house you know the address right." He said hurriedly as he shoved his feet into his shoes. "Come on man, Taylor might be dying." He said as he rushed downstairs, Chad picked up his phone and called the cops as he followed Troy downstairs hoping that Taylor was alright.

"Victoria, are you alright sweetie keep talking to me." He said over the line as Chad got into the car and he pulled off.

"I scared Troy."

"There's no reason to be afraid…I'm on my way over there and so are the cops and you're going to be just fine and Taylor will be too." He said not just saying the words for Victoria but he also said those words for himself so the both of them wouldn't panic. Chad hung up his cell phone and looked at Troy who was currently talking to who he could only assume was Taylor's little sister.

"The cops said they were on their way including a ambulance."

"Alright, you hear that Victoria help is on the way." He said happily, he heard the little girl sniff and he could almost see her nodding her head.

"Okay, Troy."

"I'm almost there sweetie okay." He said softly as he turned into Taylor's neighborhood, hoping that he wasn't too late. He pulled into the driveway "Okay I'm here stay away from the door I'm going to break it down." He said as he and Chad got out of the car, they could hear the sirens in the distance. Troy was glanced at Chad and together they hit the door and feel through into the house. They stood up and heard the sound of a little girl running, "Victoria." Troy called out as he followed the sound when he entered the living room. He saw Victoria running towards him tears streaming down her face. Kneeling down he lifted up into his arms. "Where's Taylor?"

"In the kitchen." She cried as she buried her face into his neck, Chad and Troy both went into the kitchen and saw the sight before them. Troy immediately felt tears fill his eyes as he saw the sickening sight before him. Taylor's head was surrounded by a dark red pool of her own blood. He felt Victoria tighten her grip around his neck as they heard cops enter the house.

"We're back here." Chad called out when he saw that Troy was speechless, he watched as Troy knelt down beside Taylor, he reached out and brushed a strain of her hair out of her face. As he began to openly cry, Victoria was crying into his shoulder as he continued to hold her.

"Troy, man you gotta step aside and let these guys do their job." Nodding his head Troy stepped back and watched as the men went to work. He and Chad left the kitchen and went into the living room. Troy looked down at Victoria who had not even let him go yet.

"Victoria…did he hurt you." He asked softly hoping that it wasn't true, when he felt Victoria nod her head against his chest he sighed brokenly and pulled her away from him, and saw the black and blue spot on her face in the shape of a hand.

"Oh my god." Chad whispered as his legs grew weak and he saw down on the sofa behind him. Troy looked at Victoria and her injured cheek before pulling her into a tight hug.

"He's never gonna hurt you guys again I promise." He whispered as he grabbed one of the cops walking by.

"Excuse me but she has a swollen cheek and I don't know what else can you get someone to check her out." He asked. The cop looked at the little girl crying in his arms and nodded. Troy and Chad watched as they people who had checked on Taylor were rushing her out of the house. Troy grabbed one of the doctors at the end. "Is she okay?"

"There's some swelling on the brain but hopefully we will be able to bring the swelling down and get her better." Victoria looked at the man and then up at Troy.

"I wanna go with Taylor." She whispered. Troy nodded and reached into his pocket and handed his keys to Chad.

"Follow us man." He said as he took off after the doctors hoping that they could get on the ambulance. The only thing he hoped for was that the cops found Taylor's dad immediately and made him pay for doing this to both of his daughters. Troy went outside and called out to the doctor's. "Can we get into the ambulance?"

"I don't know?"

"Yes, come on." Said one of the attending when he saw how sad both Troy and the little girl were. Troy climbed into the back and sat down. Victoria however had next let him go and she also seemed to cringe when some of the doctors moved around her as if she thought they were going to hit her too. Every time Troy felt Victoria stiffen in his arms he got madder at Daniel McKessie. How could a grown man even think about laying a hand on his children in such a manner? As he sat there and watched the doctors work overtime on Taylor he couldn't help but feel the sickening feeling of guilt wash over him. If only he had pushed the issue, if only he had made her come home with him. If only.

The waiting room had filled up in less than an hour once Chad had called Gabriella to tell her what had happened. Troy had gotten Victoria checked out and was pretty happy to find out that nothing was really wrong with her cheek except for the swelling but she had been some ice and the swelling was gradually going down. When Gabriella and her mother showed up Maria Montez was the only person besides Troy that could hold Victoria, because with everyone else she would just freak out. Troy was basically pacing back and forth in the waiting room, anxiously awaiting news from the doctors that Taylor was going to be just fine. Chad watched his friend for a few moments before getting up and going over to his side

"Hey man how about you just chill out for a moment and let the doctors do there thing while you take a break." Troy looked at him and shook his head.

"I can't take a break not when all of his is my fault." He whispered as he looked at Chad brokenly. "If I had fought her harder over going back to that damn house with that man none of this would have happened." he said as he started to openly cry again. "This is all my fault." He said as Chad looked at him for a moment before pulling him into his arms and holding him tightly as Troy finally cried. "I can't get the way we found her out of my head." He whispered as Chad continued to hold him patting his back. "All that blood and to think I knew but I couldn't do anything about it." He cried as he stepped back from his friend. "I should have been able to do something about it."

"Well getting there when you did helped Troy." Chad whispered to his friend, as he looked at him for a moment. "You really helped out there. Victoria didn't know what to do and you got them both the help they needed." Troy nodded as more tears started to fall down his face as he looked at ground. "You hear me Troy…if it wasn't for you calling over there tonight this could have turned out a hell of a lot worst."

"I know man…I know." Troy cried again as he walked over to one of the window's and leaned against with his back towards the waiting room. Chad watched him for a few moments, as Gabriella came up to his side. She looked at Troy and then grabbed a hold of Chad's hand.

"Let him have some time alone right now, Chad." He nodded his head and allowed Gabriella to lead him back over towards the chairs. He sat down and she rested her head against his shoulder as they began to wait for the news on Taylor. Chad looked at Gabriella and then back at Troy.

"Did you call his father?"

"Yeah, he said he was on his way." She whispered back. "He should be here soon." Chad nodded his head and looked down at his hands.

"What do you think is going to happen to Taylor and Victoria?"

"I don't know baby. Maybe me and my mom can take them in after all they are like family to us even if me and Taylor haven't been speaking lately I know we are still friends." She wiped a tear from her eye and shook her head.

"I just can't believe Mr. McKessie would do anything like this." She whispered "Every time I met him he seemed like such a nice guy and he acted like he cared about Taylor and Victoria so much."

"Well all I have to say is that I hope the cops catch his ass and throw away the key." He replied as one of the doctors came into the waiting room. Troy was the first person to greet him, while everyone else walked over wearily hoping the news wasn't too bad.

"Alright Dr. Roberts please tell me what's going on with Taylor?" Troy asked as he wiped his eyes of the last few tears that had escaped. Dr. Roberts looked around at all the weary faces and took a deep breath and started to speak.

I hope you guys aren't to mad at me for leaving a cliff hanger. Anyway I have just posted the first chapter of my new story Stardom and I hope you guys go and read that one as well and tell me what you think about it.

Baby S