Chapter Four
Kari gave it everythig she had to survive. She pushed herself to eat when she wasn't hungry, forced herself to talk whenever someone(mostly the nurses) talked t her, all to get herself better.
Tai and T.K would visit her reguarly. Kari asked T.K to bring her homework from school. Tai and T.K both insisted Kari get rest but Kari would tell them she wouldn't get better by being lazy so they listened.
After a wekk Kari was finaly released from the hospital. Tai only walked her to the door.
"Where's T.K?"asked Kari.
"He's in school right now"
"You mean it's schooltime? Why aren't you at school?"
"I got permission from the teacher to pick you up. Mom's too busy at work, and Dad, um,-
"I understand"said Kari.
Tai was ready to clench his fist just at the thought of his father, but held himself back, not wanting to upset Kari, especialy after just coming out of the hospital.
Outside reporters were out by the dozens.
"Miss Kamiya, was it true you were attacked?"
"Hey, back off! NOW!"roared Tai.
"Hey back off kid-
"LEAVE USE ALONE!"said Tai on the verge of slugging them.
Kari personaly would've loved nothing more then to see them slugged.
When they kept pestering Tai just shoved them out of the way, at one point he even took the microphone and tossed it away. When he finaly got into the car with Kari, he sped off, causing some of the reporters to fall back.
"JACKASSES!"he yelled to them before he was out of sight.
Tai calmed down after a few seconds, reverting his attention to Kari.
"How do you feel?"asked Tai.
"Fine Tai"said Kari.
"Should I tell her? It's possible she may have just forgotten about the whole gun thing. Nah, I think she's learned her lesson. At least I hope. I'll keep it to myself for now, but if Kari pulls another stunt like that again I'll have no choice"thought Tai.
"Tai, what's the matter?"asked kari as she saw the look of mistrust and frustration on Tai's face.
"Those reporters, I swear if anyone should be in prision or get killed it's them"said Tai, who despite his calm voice, was expressing some serious anger.
When they arrived home Tai helped Kari into her night gown and into bed.
"Just rest for now Kari, I'll check on you after school. Promise me you'll stay in bed Kari"
"I promise Tai"
After Tai leaft, Kari closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep. *****************************************************
"Wake up you maggot!"
Kari jolted up to gasp, as she found her father standing there.
"What are you doing home this time of day?"asked Kari obviously scared.
He grabbed Kari by the throat and picked her up. Kari cleched her hands onto her father's fingers to keep him from chocking her out.
"You have no idea, do you? You have no FUCKING IDEA! You've made my life a living hell at that office! All of the workers there respected me for who I was. I was never anyone famous there, but I was treated well enough. Now even my boss treats me like common trash! And why? Because of you!"
Kari couldn't respond, and was tossed onto the ground. her whole body felt the full impact.
He sat ontop of her.
"You, ruined, my,life,you,miserable,little,brat!"he said as he slammed Kari's head on the ground between every word.
"GET UP NOW!"hr ordered as he stood up off of her.
With the scrap of strength she was leaft with, she did so, only to get her face slammed into the wall. She started bleeding from the nose and mouth, and her face wiped across it.
"Repeat after me:I am a miserable little brat, I amount to nothing above garbage and hope to brun in Hell for eternity"
"I am a miserable little brat, I amount to nothing above garbage and hope to brun in Hell for eternity!"
He slammed Kari's face into the floor before walking away. He saw his image in a mirror, seeing how horrible he looked now and broke the mirror with his fist and a loud scream of rage, before slamming the door.
Kari could barely move anything in her body, her face felt as numb as her mind. What if he did this to Tai?
She had nothing to wipe the blood off of her face with, and if she used the sheets her father would have more reason to beat her. She wanted to fight back, she could feel the rage as she realised how helpless she was.
"I want to kill him, so badly"she thought. She used her hands, which luckily for her had hose long Pink gloves on them, to soke up some of the blood.
The rest of the blood was dried. Kari dragged herself back into bed, face down on the pillow, just resting. She couldn't fall asleep, for fear of what was in store for her now.
Now the question of whether living was worth it or not was mre debatable then ever. ****************************************************
Tai walked in, and was suprised to see his father home.
"Hey Dad, why are you home so early?'asked Tai.
"Got fired today. All the years I gave them and they fired me"
"Sorry to hear that. Did you find a new job?"
"Not yet"
Tai walked into Kari's room, unoticed by his father who continued to read the paper.
"Hey kari, how do-
When Tai saw her face stained with dry blood, he almost gasped.
"What happened?"
"I tried it again"lied Kari.
If she told Tai she was beaten, Tai would try to fight their father, then he would get treated as badly. Why should Tai have to suffer because of her.
"Kar"said Tai with a sigh.
He sounded annoyed.
"You have to stop these games Kari, this is getting annoyinh now"said Tai before walking out.
Kari felt hurt, and sank her head back into her pillow.
"I don't buy that for a second, something's up"thought Tai. ***************************************************
Things didn't get much better for Kari at dinner. After eating, kari felt woozy and weak. Her father suprisingly helped her into bed.
Tai felt glad that his father finally came to his senses and kept brining her water, forcing Kari to drink it whether she wanted to or not.
Kari felt weaker and weaker and she knew why:The drinks were drugged.
During the day Kari wasn't awake for more then 10 minutes because of all the drugged water she had to drink. The worst part was, Tai didn't suspect a thing. Even if she wanted to tell someone she couldn't now. She spent all but 10 minutes of every day sleeping, she even bled in her sleep sometimes from all the drugs.
"Oh God, is there anyone that can help me?"she thought. ******************************************************
"NO! Now go away!"
Mr Kamiya slammed the door on T.K's face.
"Geeze, what's his-
T.K ran to the next window to see Kari there.
"Who was it?"asked kari weakly.
"No one"
"It was T.K, wasn't it?"
"SHUT UP!"
He slapped her, and forced her to gul down more drugged water.
"Oh my God"gasped T.K in a whisper.
T.K grew more frightened when Mr Kamiya saw him at the window.
"YOU!"
T.K ran as fast as his legs would carry him. Mr Kamiya ran as fast as he could too.
T.K, out of fear, pushed himself faster and faster, but Mr Kamiya seemed to be keeping up well.
"Get back here you little bastard so I can kill you!"
T.K got to the lawn and lost all of his strength.
"You little-
He was knocked back down by Matt.
"What beef you got with my little bro?"
"He was spying on me!"
"No I wasn't, I saw him through the window, he slapped Kari and forced some kind of drink down her"
"Do you really believe this hoolagan?"
"If it was some other kid then no. But my brother would never lie to me about such things. I knew something was wrong when Tai said Kari slept all day"
"What can you do, huh? You have no evidence? I'll admit it, YES! I drug the daylights out of her, so what! What are you gonna do?"
"C'mon T.K, let's go home"said Matt helping him into the car.
"You can't do anything!"
"Matt, we can't just leave her there!"gasped T.K as Matt drove off.
"First thing we do is tell Tai. Then we think of a plan"
TBC *****************************************************
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Kari gave it everythig she had to survive. She pushed herself to eat when she wasn't hungry, forced herself to talk whenever someone(mostly the nurses) talked t her, all to get herself better.
Tai and T.K would visit her reguarly. Kari asked T.K to bring her homework from school. Tai and T.K both insisted Kari get rest but Kari would tell them she wouldn't get better by being lazy so they listened.
After a wekk Kari was finaly released from the hospital. Tai only walked her to the door.
"Where's T.K?"asked Kari.
"He's in school right now"
"You mean it's schooltime? Why aren't you at school?"
"I got permission from the teacher to pick you up. Mom's too busy at work, and Dad, um,-
"I understand"said Kari.
Tai was ready to clench his fist just at the thought of his father, but held himself back, not wanting to upset Kari, especialy after just coming out of the hospital.
Outside reporters were out by the dozens.
"Miss Kamiya, was it true you were attacked?"
"Hey, back off! NOW!"roared Tai.
"Hey back off kid-
"LEAVE USE ALONE!"said Tai on the verge of slugging them.
Kari personaly would've loved nothing more then to see them slugged.
When they kept pestering Tai just shoved them out of the way, at one point he even took the microphone and tossed it away. When he finaly got into the car with Kari, he sped off, causing some of the reporters to fall back.
"JACKASSES!"he yelled to them before he was out of sight.
Tai calmed down after a few seconds, reverting his attention to Kari.
"How do you feel?"asked Tai.
"Fine Tai"said Kari.
"Should I tell her? It's possible she may have just forgotten about the whole gun thing. Nah, I think she's learned her lesson. At least I hope. I'll keep it to myself for now, but if Kari pulls another stunt like that again I'll have no choice"thought Tai.
"Tai, what's the matter?"asked kari as she saw the look of mistrust and frustration on Tai's face.
"Those reporters, I swear if anyone should be in prision or get killed it's them"said Tai, who despite his calm voice, was expressing some serious anger.
When they arrived home Tai helped Kari into her night gown and into bed.
"Just rest for now Kari, I'll check on you after school. Promise me you'll stay in bed Kari"
"I promise Tai"
After Tai leaft, Kari closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep. *****************************************************
"Wake up you maggot!"
Kari jolted up to gasp, as she found her father standing there.
"What are you doing home this time of day?"asked Kari obviously scared.
He grabbed Kari by the throat and picked her up. Kari cleched her hands onto her father's fingers to keep him from chocking her out.
"You have no idea, do you? You have no FUCKING IDEA! You've made my life a living hell at that office! All of the workers there respected me for who I was. I was never anyone famous there, but I was treated well enough. Now even my boss treats me like common trash! And why? Because of you!"
Kari couldn't respond, and was tossed onto the ground. her whole body felt the full impact.
He sat ontop of her.
"You, ruined, my,life,you,miserable,little,brat!"he said as he slammed Kari's head on the ground between every word.
"GET UP NOW!"hr ordered as he stood up off of her.
With the scrap of strength she was leaft with, she did so, only to get her face slammed into the wall. She started bleeding from the nose and mouth, and her face wiped across it.
"Repeat after me:I am a miserable little brat, I amount to nothing above garbage and hope to brun in Hell for eternity"
"I am a miserable little brat, I amount to nothing above garbage and hope to brun in Hell for eternity!"
He slammed Kari's face into the floor before walking away. He saw his image in a mirror, seeing how horrible he looked now and broke the mirror with his fist and a loud scream of rage, before slamming the door.
Kari could barely move anything in her body, her face felt as numb as her mind. What if he did this to Tai?
She had nothing to wipe the blood off of her face with, and if she used the sheets her father would have more reason to beat her. She wanted to fight back, she could feel the rage as she realised how helpless she was.
"I want to kill him, so badly"she thought. She used her hands, which luckily for her had hose long Pink gloves on them, to soke up some of the blood.
The rest of the blood was dried. Kari dragged herself back into bed, face down on the pillow, just resting. She couldn't fall asleep, for fear of what was in store for her now.
Now the question of whether living was worth it or not was mre debatable then ever. ****************************************************
Tai walked in, and was suprised to see his father home.
"Hey Dad, why are you home so early?'asked Tai.
"Got fired today. All the years I gave them and they fired me"
"Sorry to hear that. Did you find a new job?"
"Not yet"
Tai walked into Kari's room, unoticed by his father who continued to read the paper.
"Hey kari, how do-
When Tai saw her face stained with dry blood, he almost gasped.
"What happened?"
"I tried it again"lied Kari.
If she told Tai she was beaten, Tai would try to fight their father, then he would get treated as badly. Why should Tai have to suffer because of her.
"Kar"said Tai with a sigh.
He sounded annoyed.
"You have to stop these games Kari, this is getting annoyinh now"said Tai before walking out.
Kari felt hurt, and sank her head back into her pillow.
"I don't buy that for a second, something's up"thought Tai. ***************************************************
Things didn't get much better for Kari at dinner. After eating, kari felt woozy and weak. Her father suprisingly helped her into bed.
Tai felt glad that his father finally came to his senses and kept brining her water, forcing Kari to drink it whether she wanted to or not.
Kari felt weaker and weaker and she knew why:The drinks were drugged.
During the day Kari wasn't awake for more then 10 minutes because of all the drugged water she had to drink. The worst part was, Tai didn't suspect a thing. Even if she wanted to tell someone she couldn't now. She spent all but 10 minutes of every day sleeping, she even bled in her sleep sometimes from all the drugs.
"Oh God, is there anyone that can help me?"she thought. ******************************************************
"NO! Now go away!"
Mr Kamiya slammed the door on T.K's face.
"Geeze, what's his-
T.K ran to the next window to see Kari there.
"Who was it?"asked kari weakly.
"No one"
"It was T.K, wasn't it?"
"SHUT UP!"
He slapped her, and forced her to gul down more drugged water.
"Oh my God"gasped T.K in a whisper.
T.K grew more frightened when Mr Kamiya saw him at the window.
"YOU!"
T.K ran as fast as his legs would carry him. Mr Kamiya ran as fast as he could too.
T.K, out of fear, pushed himself faster and faster, but Mr Kamiya seemed to be keeping up well.
"Get back here you little bastard so I can kill you!"
T.K got to the lawn and lost all of his strength.
"You little-
He was knocked back down by Matt.
"What beef you got with my little bro?"
"He was spying on me!"
"No I wasn't, I saw him through the window, he slapped Kari and forced some kind of drink down her"
"Do you really believe this hoolagan?"
"If it was some other kid then no. But my brother would never lie to me about such things. I knew something was wrong when Tai said Kari slept all day"
"What can you do, huh? You have no evidence? I'll admit it, YES! I drug the daylights out of her, so what! What are you gonna do?"
"C'mon T.K, let's go home"said Matt helping him into the car.
"You can't do anything!"
"Matt, we can't just leave her there!"gasped T.K as Matt drove off.
"First thing we do is tell Tai. Then we think of a plan"
TBC *****************************************************
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