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Rei's father sat still in his seat and watched the end of his cigar butt burn as he listened to Rei explain his situation.
He breathed in deeply, inhaling the sweet smell of the cigar. "Well... That's about all. Here's the letter he left," Rei said after his brief pause, digging into his back pocket before putting the crumpled sheet of paper on his father's mahogany desk.
"Where did you say the girl's stepfather worked?" he asked, giving Rei a long and steady look.
"Uh... Some fancy smancy law firm," Rei said after pausing for a good five minutes to think. "Why does it matter?"
His icy cold blue eyes went wide and he ran a hand through his short and greasy hair. He held his head in his hands and shook it. "How could you have done something this stupid!? I don't think you can weasel your way out of this one. Even if you managed to pull through, there is no way that you'll ever see or hear from Kira again."
"How could you have done something so stupid Rei," he said, mocking his stepfather. "The stupid thing would have been to let her go back home to her sadistic rapist stepfather!" Rei snapped back. His face began to grow red with anger, not all of it was directed at his father. He hated everything and everyone at that very second.
"You know what I mean, don't try and put words into my mouth. I'm just trying to figure out what you were thinking. I mean you broke her out of a psychiatric ward and impregnated her," his father added, a look of complete disbelief played across his face. "Really Rei, this is a new low. I commend you," he finished off, bringing his hands together slowly as though he was applauding Rei.
"I don't need this bullshit right now. Either you help me out or I go looking for help elsewhere," Rei said angrily as he placed a hand on each of his chair arms and got ready to storm out of his office.
The smile left his father's face and he got serious once more. "Okay I'll help you, I know a good lawyer that specializes in this sort of thing. However I have a few conditions," he said, the smug smile returning to his face once more.
Rei sucked in what was left of his pride and nodded his head.
For the third time that day Kira listened to her mother crouch down on the floor on the other side of the room door. "Hey Kira, how are you doing in there? Dinner's ready. Why don't you come out and eat something?"
Kira remained silent. She decided a long time ago that she'd hate her mother forever for knowing what her stepfather had been doing to her and doing absolutely nothing to stop it. In her eyes her mother was just as bad as her stepfather.
"You'll get sick if you stay in there. Your baby will starve. I know you don't want to be here, but if you just put in just a little energy we can build a new family together. Your stepfather promises never to touch you again. He's changed, and I've changed too," she paused and sighed. She knew that Kira probably didn't buy any of it. "If you wont do it for us do it for us, then do it for yourself, for the baby."
Kira crawled next to the door and rested against it. "You can tell I'm pregnant?" she asked softly, trying to maintain the iciness in her voice. Her clothes were beginning to get too small for her, but she didn't think she was that big yet.
"Well, not that obvious... I remember back when you were younger up until you left that you never gained a pound no matter how much you ate. You walked in and your stomach was much rounder than usual, and the way you held your back while walking up the stairs. It's maternal instincts," her mother explained.
"What did you make?" she asked, satisfied with her mother's reply.
"You're favorite."
"You mean tofu lo mein?" Kira asked, allowing herself to be excited for a while. The only food she had in close to a year was food from the home, and what she cooked herself and nothing compared to her mother's cooking. "Can you bring it up to my room?"
"Sure thing," her mother replied glad that Kira had finally spoken to her. She had been three days and Kira never left her room.
Moments later a harsh knock was heard on the other side. Kira made no move to open it. She knew it was her stepfather, her mother was mild and very meek and never knocked so violently.
"Think you're so smart? I have a key to every door in this goddamn house!" her stepfather roared as he opened the door and flipped on the lights, causing Kira to wince from the sudden exposure. "Our hearing is a month from now, I just found out from our lawyer and thought that you should know," he said as he set the tray of food on her dresser.
She looked at him skeptically for a moment. 'Just thought that you should know?' That sounded like something a considerate and kind person would say, both things that her stepfather was not. "Will Rei be there?" she asked, making her voice seem as cold and uncaring as possible. She can't give her stepfather the satisfaction of knowing that he got to her and broke her spirit.
"I suppose. If you so much as smile at him I'll break your neck. You are to have no contact with him at all. You will not speak to the judge... or anyone else. The jury will think that you are mute, just like how you fooled me and everyone else into thinking that you were mute. It seems to be the only thing you're good at; fooling people, you dirty little bitch," he mumbled the last part under his breath, loud enough for Kira to hear, but low enough so that her mother wouldn't.
Her eyes widened with terror as she got up, pushed past her stepfather and ran to her mother. "Court date? You're pressing charges against Rei!? Why?" Kira exclaimed , her face growing redder with anger
"Honey, I know that you think you're in love and you're probably very angry with us right now but we're only doing what we think is best for you," her mother explained trying to sound as sincere as possible. It wasn't helping, every breath that escaped from between her slightly wrinkled lips made Kira hate her even more.
"And we've both decided that what's best for you is that Rei be locked away where he can't hurt you anymore," her stepfather continued from behind her.
Kira whipped around to face him, "You're the one who needs to be locked away where you can't hurt me!" she cried, using the last of confidence she didn't even know she had.
"What!?" he snapped, his eyes narrowing dangerously as he reached out for her pony tail and pulled her close.
She winced and tried to turn her face away as his hot breath beat down on her cheeks. Kira tried to open her mouth and repeat what she'd just said, tried to do the brave thing, tried to do what Rei would have done, but found that the words would not come.
"I thought so," he said angrily as he thrust her away from him, causing her to stumble backwards and almost lose her balance and crash into the kitchen table.
Rei's knee bopped in time to the second hand on the large grandfather clock on the wall behind the desk of the lawyer. His tired and weary eyes glanced over to it for the thousandth time since he entered the stuffy office wo hours ago. He watched as the lawyers stubby and wrinkly fingers rummaged through the thick folder on his lap.
"So, how do things look in terms of how things will or may end up?" Rei's father asked intently.
The lawyer's beady eyes darted from the pile in his lap, to the notes he'd been taking on the notepad on his desk, to the slouching frame of Rei's body and finally rested his eyes on Kashino senior. "Well in all honesty the future looks very bleak," he said sadly.
This caught Rei's attention and he sat up in his seat and edged closer to the desk to be able to hear the lawyer better.
"You knew she was faking being mute and failed to report it," he began, but was quickly interrupted by Rei.
"It was to save her from being sent back home to her abusive stepfather!" he exclaimed, almost jumping out of his seat.
"You must learn how to control that anger if you want to win this case," his father said, throwing Rei a warning glance.
Rei bit his tongue and said nothing more in his defense.
"She could have been a pathological liar, Unless you have rock hard evidence that her stepfather molested her then you have absolutely nothing. 'He said, she said,' does not stand well in the court of law," the lawyer said, resuming from where he left off. "There's so much else that looks horrible on your record. I mean disorderly conduct in school shoplifting, grand theft auto, assault with a deadly weapon... It's a wonder they even aloud you out of home," he commented after reading his offenses out loud. He shook his head in dismay, causing his hair peice to shift on his head, hanging lopsidedly on his head.
Having heard all of this a million times Rei allowed his mind to drift off to other matters. He wondered where Kira was right now, prayed that she wasn't hurting, and wished pain upon her stepfather. He closed his eyes tightly as he tried to shove the unpleasant thoughts out of his mind. Why was all of this happening to him; to her; to them? They'd finally found happiness alone together and something this terrible had to force them apart.
Tears sprung to his eyes as he began to envision her face, realizing just how much he really missed and cared about her.
'Shit, I haven't cried this much since Sei died,' thought to himself angrily before quickly covering his eyes with his hand and hurrying out of the office.
Kira sat down on the carpeted floor of her bedroom staring at her twin bed, where it all began.
At the time her stepfather and mother had begun to date pretty seriously and he was sleeping over pretty regularly. For the most part she liked him, he took them out to fancy restaurants and allowed her to order whatever her heart disired.
A few times before he savagely raped her for the first time he'd tuck her in bed, feeling the small mounds of her breasts through her thin cotton night gown, or kissing her like men and women did in romance movies. Being only ten years old and wanting her mother to be happy she thought nothing of it, no matter how uncomfortable it made her.
It was late at night and her mother was fast asleep down the all in her own bedroom. Kira too had been fast asleep until the sound of her stepfather busting through the door woke her. He held a bottle of beer in one hand and his breath reeked of the devil substance that seemed to run through his veins.
"Good, you're already awake," he leered as he threw the bottle to the floor and advancing towards her, closing the door behind him.
She began to tremble in fear, terribly unsure of what he would do next.
He pinned her small arms and legs to the bed after shoving one of her stuffed animals in her mouth to muffle the sound of any scream she may try to make. Hot kisses that seared her cheeks and lips, then progressed to her neck, shoulders and eventually her breasts. His hot kisses and ferverent licks turned into painful nibbling of he nipples.
Kira's young and inexperienced body writhed and bucked beneath him as she squeezed er eyes shut, afraid that looking would make her remember more when he was finished.
He alternated between placing brutal kisses on her body to feeling his way to her nether lips. A gasp was absorbed by the small bear that was shoved into her mouth when he found it and plunged his fingers inside, stretching her out. A tear ran down her cheek, soon followed by another and another as the large man above her grew more excited and his actions grew jerkier and more violent. He pushed into her and relentlessly slammed into her until the unbearable pain became too much for the ten year old girl and she blacked out.
The next conscious moment she remembered was waking up in sweat, semen and blood stained sheets.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked away from her bed to the window. She knew she'd never forget the first time she'd been raped by her stepfather, nor the many other times after that. Without Rei she found it hard not to sink back into the inviting dark pool of loathing that she spent seven years of her life drowning in. She silently prayed that she'd see him again soon and slowly drifted off into a restless sleep.
Author's Notes- Hello Reader, thank you so much for reading this far. For a while I was feeling pretty uninspired, especially because I barely got any reviews for my last two chapters. I'm on summer vacation now thankfully and so I should be able to review more often than usual.
Rei's father sat still in his seat and watched the end of his cigar butt burn as he listened to Rei explain his situation.
He breathed in deeply, inhaling the sweet smell of the cigar. "Well... That's about all. Here's the letter he left," Rei said after his brief pause, digging into his back pocket before putting the crumpled sheet of paper on his father's mahogany desk.
"Where did you say the girl's stepfather worked?" he asked, giving Rei a long and steady look.
"Uh... Some fancy smancy law firm," Rei said after pausing for a good five minutes to think. "Why does it matter?"
His icy cold blue eyes went wide and he ran a hand through his short and greasy hair. He held his head in his hands and shook it. "How could you have done something this stupid!? I don't think you can weasel your way out of this one. Even if you managed to pull through, there is no way that you'll ever see or hear from Kira again."
"How could you have done something so stupid Rei," he said, mocking his stepfather. "The stupid thing would have been to let her go back home to her sadistic rapist stepfather!" Rei snapped back. His face began to grow red with anger, not all of it was directed at his father. He hated everything and everyone at that very second.
"You know what I mean, don't try and put words into my mouth. I'm just trying to figure out what you were thinking. I mean you broke her out of a psychiatric ward and impregnated her," his father added, a look of complete disbelief played across his face. "Really Rei, this is a new low. I commend you," he finished off, bringing his hands together slowly as though he was applauding Rei.
"I don't need this bullshit right now. Either you help me out or I go looking for help elsewhere," Rei said angrily as he placed a hand on each of his chair arms and got ready to storm out of his office.
The smile left his father's face and he got serious once more. "Okay I'll help you, I know a good lawyer that specializes in this sort of thing. However I have a few conditions," he said, the smug smile returning to his face once more.
Rei sucked in what was left of his pride and nodded his head.
For the third time that day Kira listened to her mother crouch down on the floor on the other side of the room door. "Hey Kira, how are you doing in there? Dinner's ready. Why don't you come out and eat something?"
Kira remained silent. She decided a long time ago that she'd hate her mother forever for knowing what her stepfather had been doing to her and doing absolutely nothing to stop it. In her eyes her mother was just as bad as her stepfather.
"You'll get sick if you stay in there. Your baby will starve. I know you don't want to be here, but if you just put in just a little energy we can build a new family together. Your stepfather promises never to touch you again. He's changed, and I've changed too," she paused and sighed. She knew that Kira probably didn't buy any of it. "If you wont do it for us do it for us, then do it for yourself, for the baby."
Kira crawled next to the door and rested against it. "You can tell I'm pregnant?" she asked softly, trying to maintain the iciness in her voice. Her clothes were beginning to get too small for her, but she didn't think she was that big yet.
"Well, not that obvious... I remember back when you were younger up until you left that you never gained a pound no matter how much you ate. You walked in and your stomach was much rounder than usual, and the way you held your back while walking up the stairs. It's maternal instincts," her mother explained.
"What did you make?" she asked, satisfied with her mother's reply.
"You're favorite."
"You mean tofu lo mein?" Kira asked, allowing herself to be excited for a while. The only food she had in close to a year was food from the home, and what she cooked herself and nothing compared to her mother's cooking. "Can you bring it up to my room?"
"Sure thing," her mother replied glad that Kira had finally spoken to her. She had been three days and Kira never left her room.
Moments later a harsh knock was heard on the other side. Kira made no move to open it. She knew it was her stepfather, her mother was mild and very meek and never knocked so violently.
"Think you're so smart? I have a key to every door in this goddamn house!" her stepfather roared as he opened the door and flipped on the lights, causing Kira to wince from the sudden exposure. "Our hearing is a month from now, I just found out from our lawyer and thought that you should know," he said as he set the tray of food on her dresser.
She looked at him skeptically for a moment. 'Just thought that you should know?' That sounded like something a considerate and kind person would say, both things that her stepfather was not. "Will Rei be there?" she asked, making her voice seem as cold and uncaring as possible. She can't give her stepfather the satisfaction of knowing that he got to her and broke her spirit.
"I suppose. If you so much as smile at him I'll break your neck. You are to have no contact with him at all. You will not speak to the judge... or anyone else. The jury will think that you are mute, just like how you fooled me and everyone else into thinking that you were mute. It seems to be the only thing you're good at; fooling people, you dirty little bitch," he mumbled the last part under his breath, loud enough for Kira to hear, but low enough so that her mother wouldn't.
Her eyes widened with terror as she got up, pushed past her stepfather and ran to her mother. "Court date? You're pressing charges against Rei!? Why?" Kira exclaimed , her face growing redder with anger
"Honey, I know that you think you're in love and you're probably very angry with us right now but we're only doing what we think is best for you," her mother explained trying to sound as sincere as possible. It wasn't helping, every breath that escaped from between her slightly wrinkled lips made Kira hate her even more.
"And we've both decided that what's best for you is that Rei be locked away where he can't hurt you anymore," her stepfather continued from behind her.
Kira whipped around to face him, "You're the one who needs to be locked away where you can't hurt me!" she cried, using the last of confidence she didn't even know she had.
"What!?" he snapped, his eyes narrowing dangerously as he reached out for her pony tail and pulled her close.
She winced and tried to turn her face away as his hot breath beat down on her cheeks. Kira tried to open her mouth and repeat what she'd just said, tried to do the brave thing, tried to do what Rei would have done, but found that the words would not come.
"I thought so," he said angrily as he thrust her away from him, causing her to stumble backwards and almost lose her balance and crash into the kitchen table.
Rei's knee bopped in time to the second hand on the large grandfather clock on the wall behind the desk of the lawyer. His tired and weary eyes glanced over to it for the thousandth time since he entered the stuffy office wo hours ago. He watched as the lawyers stubby and wrinkly fingers rummaged through the thick folder on his lap.
"So, how do things look in terms of how things will or may end up?" Rei's father asked intently.
The lawyer's beady eyes darted from the pile in his lap, to the notes he'd been taking on the notepad on his desk, to the slouching frame of Rei's body and finally rested his eyes on Kashino senior. "Well in all honesty the future looks very bleak," he said sadly.
This caught Rei's attention and he sat up in his seat and edged closer to the desk to be able to hear the lawyer better.
"You knew she was faking being mute and failed to report it," he began, but was quickly interrupted by Rei.
"It was to save her from being sent back home to her abusive stepfather!" he exclaimed, almost jumping out of his seat.
"You must learn how to control that anger if you want to win this case," his father said, throwing Rei a warning glance.
Rei bit his tongue and said nothing more in his defense.
"She could have been a pathological liar, Unless you have rock hard evidence that her stepfather molested her then you have absolutely nothing. 'He said, she said,' does not stand well in the court of law," the lawyer said, resuming from where he left off. "There's so much else that looks horrible on your record. I mean disorderly conduct in school shoplifting, grand theft auto, assault with a deadly weapon... It's a wonder they even aloud you out of home," he commented after reading his offenses out loud. He shook his head in dismay, causing his hair peice to shift on his head, hanging lopsidedly on his head.
Having heard all of this a million times Rei allowed his mind to drift off to other matters. He wondered where Kira was right now, prayed that she wasn't hurting, and wished pain upon her stepfather. He closed his eyes tightly as he tried to shove the unpleasant thoughts out of his mind. Why was all of this happening to him; to her; to them? They'd finally found happiness alone together and something this terrible had to force them apart.
Tears sprung to his eyes as he began to envision her face, realizing just how much he really missed and cared about her.
'Shit, I haven't cried this much since Sei died,' thought to himself angrily before quickly covering his eyes with his hand and hurrying out of the office.
Kira sat down on the carpeted floor of her bedroom staring at her twin bed, where it all began.
At the time her stepfather and mother had begun to date pretty seriously and he was sleeping over pretty regularly. For the most part she liked him, he took them out to fancy restaurants and allowed her to order whatever her heart disired.
A few times before he savagely raped her for the first time he'd tuck her in bed, feeling the small mounds of her breasts through her thin cotton night gown, or kissing her like men and women did in romance movies. Being only ten years old and wanting her mother to be happy she thought nothing of it, no matter how uncomfortable it made her.
It was late at night and her mother was fast asleep down the all in her own bedroom. Kira too had been fast asleep until the sound of her stepfather busting through the door woke her. He held a bottle of beer in one hand and his breath reeked of the devil substance that seemed to run through his veins.
"Good, you're already awake," he leered as he threw the bottle to the floor and advancing towards her, closing the door behind him.
She began to tremble in fear, terribly unsure of what he would do next.
He pinned her small arms and legs to the bed after shoving one of her stuffed animals in her mouth to muffle the sound of any scream she may try to make. Hot kisses that seared her cheeks and lips, then progressed to her neck, shoulders and eventually her breasts. His hot kisses and ferverent licks turned into painful nibbling of he nipples.
Kira's young and inexperienced body writhed and bucked beneath him as she squeezed er eyes shut, afraid that looking would make her remember more when he was finished.
He alternated between placing brutal kisses on her body to feeling his way to her nether lips. A gasp was absorbed by the small bear that was shoved into her mouth when he found it and plunged his fingers inside, stretching her out. A tear ran down her cheek, soon followed by another and another as the large man above her grew more excited and his actions grew jerkier and more violent. He pushed into her and relentlessly slammed into her until the unbearable pain became too much for the ten year old girl and she blacked out.
The next conscious moment she remembered was waking up in sweat, semen and blood stained sheets.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she looked away from her bed to the window. She knew she'd never forget the first time she'd been raped by her stepfather, nor the many other times after that. Without Rei she found it hard not to sink back into the inviting dark pool of loathing that she spent seven years of her life drowning in. She silently prayed that she'd see him again soon and slowly drifted off into a restless sleep.
Author's Notes- Hello Reader, thank you so much for reading this far. For a while I was feeling pretty uninspired, especially because I barely got any reviews for my last two chapters. I'm on summer vacation now thankfully and so I should be able to review more often than usual.