Chapter 29: 50 Everything Special
Back in Corona...
The day Before Winter Break.
Vanessa walked silently from school. Pitch wasn't here to take her home, apparently he'd been sick. Even though he was very convincing, she didn't believe it. He was probably out with another girl. She knew that he'd cheated on her millions of times and that he sneaked out of his house in the middle of the night for parties where she had no control over what he did. Even though he was a dirty, stealing, lying, cheater, she loved him. But she didn't know why, maybe it was the fact that he saved her from the prison sentence that idiot Hans had received. She was glad it was finally Winter Break though, maybe she could find a way to sneak away from the cops for a night. She walked up to her house to find her parent's car gone.
That's odd...
She shrugged and grabbed her key from her purse. She walked to the front door to find it was also unlocked.
Weird...
She felt a little suspicious but entered the house slowly. She cautiously stepped in her house and closed her door.
"Mom? I'm home.." She said
She put down her stuff and turned on the light. Her attention fixed on the two men on the couch.
"Oh look, she's home.." One said
Her eyes widened and she desperately tried to open the door.
"No use in trying to open the door." The other laughed
She let go of the door knob and took a deep breath.
"W-Who are you?" She asked
"That is classified information." They said
"Why are you here?" She asked
"Here to take care of some business, someone wants us to take care of you." One of them said
She gave a confused expression and the men covered her face in a rag. The chemical in the cloth knocked her out immediately. They picked her up and took her upstairs. The men threw her on the bed of the master bedroom and undressed her. They made sure not to take off her undergarments though, then they threw her arms over her head and tied them to the bed post. They shut all the curtains and put Vanessa in a gag.
When she woke up, the men were gone. She examined the room, it was her parent's room. Vanessa noticed she was almost completely naked. Something rung a bell. She knew what they were going to do.
"Karma." She muttered
She grit her teeth and started crying.
She finally knew what it was like to be afraid. Usually, people were afraid of her, but now she was afraid of others. She knew this was exactly what Elsa and Anna felt, she hated this feeling. Why had she been this way? Why couldn't she have been like Ariel?
Her thoughts were interrupted by the opening of the door. The men stepped in and laughed.
"Who sent you?" Vanessa asked
"Well, someone who wanted revenge against the consequences you forced on him." One of them said
She immediately knew exactly who sent them. Hans.
When the men approached her she knew there was no escape.
After the men's torture, they left Vanessa crying in the cold, dark, room. She tried to break free from the rope's tight grip. She somehow managed to get one hand out and untied her hands. She ran out of the room and grabbed a robe. She slipped it on quickly and ran out of the house. She didn't bother to wear shoes, she needed to leave. She looked around for a while, and decided where she needed to go. She ran a couple of blocks until she reached the only home she was welcome in. She walked towards the door and opened it. Uncle Triton looked at her confused.
"Where are mom and dad?!" She screamed
"Your mother left earlier this morning to run errands, has she not returned?" He asked, puzzled.
"No!" She screamed
"Where is Ariel?!" She asked
He pointed upstairs and Vanessa wasted no time. She walked upstairs, tears staining her face. She walked to Ariel's room and opened the door. Ariel turned to Vanessa and frowned, even though she was extremely mad at her, she knew something was wrong.
"Vanessa is something wrong?" Ariel asked
Vanessa broke down crying and collapsed on her floor.
"I-I'll call your parents..." She said
Ariel picked her phone up and called her Aunt and Uncle. Vanessa continued crying on the floor, clutching the carpet.
Ariel sat her phone down and helped her cousin get up. She put her on the bed and sat next to her.
"Vanessa, what happened?" Ariel asked
"H-Hans." She said, she barely managed to say the name.
"What do you mean? Isn't he in jail?" Ariel asked
"He is, but he sent some guys after me." Vanessa sighed
"What did they do?" Ariel asked, concerned
"They raped me!" She cried
Ariel patted Vanessa's shoulder, not that it helped. Honestly, she didn't feel that bad. She caused more pain to Elsa and Anna than they themselves could endure.
When her parents arrived, they took her home and put her in bed. Vanessa did not want to tell them what had happened, she just said the mess was because she got angry. That night, she couldn't sleep. She wondered if they would do something else. She picked up her phone and checked if she had any messages from Pitch. No messages. She grit her teeth and called him.
"Hello?" He answered
"Babe, you haven't called me all day." She said
"Oh, yeah..." He sighed
"I was umm sick." He explained
"Right." Vanessa said
"Yeah, I'll visit tomorrow." He said.
"Yeah, love you." I said
"Yeah, uh huh, bye." He said
When he hung up Vanessa threw her phone on the ground and cried herself to sleep.
2 weeks later...
Vanessa got up in the middle of the night due to nausea. She threw up for the fifth time that day. When she got back, she started panicking. She knew there was a possibility she might have been pregnant, two men raped her after all.
Her parents still didn't know.
She sneaked into the bathroom and checked if there was a spare pregnancy test. Luckily, she found one her mom had bought a few years ago. Her mother had wanted a second child ever since Vanessa started rebelling. She opened the package and took a deep breath.
After the test, she stared with wide eyes at the result. Positive. She sat there and cried silently, not wanting to alarm her parents. She had just ruined her youth. At the young age of 17, Vanessa Hook was pregnant. There was nothing she could do. Of course not an abortion! Even though she was cruel, she wasn't cruel enough to take an innocent baby's life. She didn't know whether to tell her parents or tell Pitch. She couldn't tell him the baby was his, they had never even had sex. How was she going to tell him? She put the test in paper and put it at the bottom of the trash can. She got out of the bathroom and ran to her room. She closed her eyes and tried her best to go to sleep.
In the morning...
I called Pitch that morning after Dad went to work. My mom was downstairs watching soap operas and I was sure she wouldn't hear. She called Pitch, he answered on the fifth ring.
"Hey babe." She greeted
"What's up?" He asked
She sighed deeply, he never called her by her name or by her nicknames. He was a terrible boyfriend but she loved him anyway.
"U-Um. I really need to talk to you." She said
"What's wrong? Are you dying?" He chuckled
"N-No, but I really need you to listen." She said
She felt him nod at the other end of the phone, she sighed and began her story.
"A couple of weeks ago, something happened. Basically these guys took advantage of me, they raped me. And last night, I discovered I was pregnant..." She whispered
The line was silent...
"Lies." He muttered
"What?"
"They're all lies, you just want to use the rape as an excuse to cheat on me." He shouted
"No, I really was!"
"Whatever."
The line was dead. Vanessa clutched her cell phone and lay back on her bed, what was she going to do? She gulped and went downstairs,
"Mom?"
"Yes dear." She answered turning from her screen.
She paused for a moment, eyes fixated on her mom. She never noticed how striking the resemblance was between both of them. We both had the same eyes and mouth. Her hair was wavy like mine, except that hers was kept in a bun and was a shade lighter than hers. Her mom wasn't an unattractive woman, neither did she look old. She would've easily had another child, Vanessa wondered why she didn't.
"I really need to talk to you." she said
"Well, what's there to talk about."
She gulped, she was going to lie again.
"A few days ago, I sneaked out of the house to a party and I got really drunk or whatever and I slept with these guys and, I'm pregnant." She explained, rather quickly.
Of course she lied. She couldn't tell the truth. Her mom's eyes widened, she got up from the couch and approached Vanessa.
Vanessa was expecting a hug, but she got slapped.
Her mother had slapped her!
"Vanessa what were you thinking!" She shouted
"Well, it wasn't my fault!" Vanessa screamed
"You could have gotten arrested!"
"Well, who cares right? I'm in jail anyway!" Vanessa shouted
"Vanessa, that was a foolish decision, what are you going to do about that baby?"
"I don't know." Vanessa muttered
"Well here this, I'm talking to the police officers. Hopefully, they will allow you to stay with us until you have the baby. Then, the baby stays with me, you are sent to jail."
Vanessa leaned against the wall, "Sounds like a plan."
Vanessa ran upstairs and locked her room door. She gave a scream of frustration and fell in bed. She touched her belly, as if she could even feel a bump. She cried,
"I don't want you. You ruined my life." Vanessa said
She looked up at the ceiling.
"Karma's a bitch."
