Chapter Four: The Raven's song
Hello, thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far, please review, I would really appriciate it, I'd like to know if people actually read it, lol. Anyway a special thanks to: Dark Angel66, Vivienne, Apple_Violet, and Dawnfighter!
Well here's the next chapter, and the disclaimer is in the first chapters, so look there! :)
Chapter four
Kim sat on the old worn out couch, that had come with the apartment. She was thinking about that man, Angel. Was he telling her the truth? What did he want? Why wouldn't he leave her alone? Although, she had to admit there was somthing about him, sure he was cute and mysterious, but she didn't feel threatened by him much. She could some how sense he was good, maybe it was his eyes, they looked sad and sincere. But, he was also a vampire, and she knew those were evil. Though, he had said he had a soul, that probably made a big difference, she thought. She shifted in her seat, and winced, she had a lot of pain from the damn bruise still. Just as she was about to start reading a book, she heard a knock at the door.
Angel walked into the abandoned building, he smelled her scent very strongly. He followed it up to a door, that was chipped and old. He knew it was where she was, first from her scent, and the fact that there was light coming from inside. He knocked on the door, and waited for her to answer.
Kim groaned, she was comfortable and did not want to get up. Despite that, she got up and slowly walked to the door.
"Who is it?" She asked loudly.
No answer came, and she rolled her eyes, and opened the door. Much to her surprise, there stood a tall, well built figure, with a familliar face. Coming out of her shock, Kim looked at him.
"Why are you here? I told you to stay away from me, and how did you get here?"
"I tracked your scent, just because you did that, did you think I would actually stay away? Your in danger Raven, and I'm here to help."
Her eyes hardened, and she spoke,
"First of all, my name isn't Raven anymore, it's Kim, and I don't need your help, or anyone's help, got it?"
Angel simply replied,
"No."
Kim glared at him.
"Raven, invite me in, we need to talk."
"No way, I'm not going to invite you in when I told you to go away, now I suggest you just go away, you're wasting your time."
With that, she slammed the door in his face.
"The nights still early, only 9:30, I have awhile, even more considering I'm inside, so I can stay until you open the door."
Kim rolled her eyes,
"Well then you're going to be there a long time."
'I don't think so' Angel thought.
He began singing a *really* annoying song.
"It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all......"
As soon as Kim heard it, she plugged her ears. She *hated* that song. He kept going, and Kim yelled
"Shut up!"
But, that didn't work, he kept singing. After about an hour, he was still singing 'It's a small world', and Kim was lying on her couch with pillows over her ears, trying to drown out the song, but to no avail. Finally, unable to take it anymore, she walked over to the door, pulled it open, and said
"Okay, Okay, you win, come in, just stop singing."
Angel looked at her, and stood up, he walked past her and into the apartment. She looked at him sorely and closed the door. Angel looked around the battered apartment.
"Nice place." He said sarcastically.
"Well ya know I'm rich, gotta keep up with the lateset fashions." Kim retorted sarcastically.
Angel turned around to face her. He looked into her eyes, and she looked back.
"So, what did you want to talk to me about so badly, that you sat outside my door for an hour annoying the hell out of me?"
"Sit down." Angel commanded.
She stared defiantly at him, and said
"Excuse me, but this is my apartment, you can't tell me what to do."
Angel shrugged his shoulders and looked at her sternly.
"Doesn't matter, sit down."
Taken aback a little by his tone, and facial expression, Kim 'hmphed' and plopped down on the couch.
"Thank you." Angel said, sitting down himself.
He sat back and looked at the young girl.
"First, I have a few questions for you."
She looked at him.
"What is this, an interview? I'm not answering any questions."
Angel again looked at her sternly, and she faltered.
"Fine, I'll answer a few questions."
Angel nodded.
"Good."
"How old are you?"
"Fourteen, I'll be fifteen in a week." She replied as if it was a army drill.
"Why did you change your name to Kim? What are you hiding from?"
Kim froze, how was she supposed to answer that? She didn't want to tell him, what was she going to do?
"I uh, um, I didn't like my name, so when I came here, I changed it, and I'm not hiding from anything." She lied.
Angel could practically smell the lie coming off of her, but sensing her discomfort he didn't push.
"Well, I have somthing to tell you Raven, somthings wrong, my friend only gets visions when someone needs our help, and that person in her vision, was you."
For the third time today, Kim rolled her eyes.
"I don't need anyones help, I'm not in any danger, so just forget it, you have the wrong person."
Angel shook his head.
"No, we don't, and what arn't you telling me?"
Kim stood up, and glared at Angel.
"Who do you think you are? It's none of your buisness what I'm hiding, and I don't need anyones help!"
Angel just stared at her for a moment, and almost out of the blue asked,
"The song you sang at the cafe tonight, what was it about?"
'Maybe' Angel thought, 'that has somthing to do with what she's hiding'.
Coming out of her fit for a moment, Kim tried to figure out a way to explain her song, without telling the truth. Angel, however, sensed it and didn't give her the chance.
"Well?" He asked.
"It um, it's none of your buisness."
"Tell me Raven, I'm not going to hurt you. I want to help you, I'm here so talk to me."
Kim's eyes welled up with tears, and for the first time in a long time, Kim started to talk about her past, somthing she had been trying to forget with all her heart, but couldn't. At first she seemed angry, but as she went on, she seemed to soften.
"You want to know what I'm hiding from? What I'm not telling you? Huh? What my song was about? Well, I'll tell you."
"My little sister Avery, was killed. , My mother died when I was three, after giving birth to Avery. My father was never a great person, but most people didn't think he was capable of doing what he did to us."
"He hit us, sometimes to the point where we could die. I would never let him lay a hand on Avery, I would stand in front of her, and take all the punches from him. It wasn't just that, he would punch me until I fell to the ground, and kick me, when she wasn't home."
"God, this bruise on my stomach is from him."
She put her hand gently on her stomach, and looked down. Then she looked up again, and began talking again.
"It's a funny story really, my sister went to bed early that night, I was downstairs reading, and he comes in drunk, I could smell it before he walked in the room......"
*~Flashback~*
A middle- aged man stumbles into a nicly furnished room, and falls onto the couch. After a minute, he looks at a young girl with dark hair, sitting there reading a book. He yells in a slurred voice
"What the hell are you doing?"
With out looking up, the girls replies
"Reading."
The man stands up, and screams
"Get up!"
She just sits there looking at him, and he pulls her up by her hair, and throws her against the fireplace. She hits her head, feeling a sharp sting.
He lunges at her, and starts to choke her. She kicks him in the shin, causing the man to let go of her and grab his leg. She takes the chance, and gets up running through the room in an attempt to escape. Just as she is about to get out of the room, the man grabs her arm and pulls her back. She hits the back of the couch, but she's ok. He comes at her, and kicks her stomach rather hardly, and keeps doing it. She tries to block it, and goes into the fetal position on the ground. But, he keeps kicking her, getting her head a few times, so she sits back up. It's hurts her badly, she feels like she's dying. Her head throbbed, and still he keeps kicking her stomach. She never says anything, or even cries, refusing to let him see her like that, to give him the satisfaction that he was hurting her. After a little while, he is still kicking her stomach, and now she was lying on the floor. She starts to see black spots, and becomes really sensitive for a moment, and everything was as if in slow motion. She even feels blood dripping down the side of her head. Then, everything just goes black.
She wakes up shortly after that, to the sounds of sirens outside, she looks around and sees the man, her father, passed out on the floor a few feet away, and her little sister at the front door talking to what she assumed was the medics, as they followed her into the room. As they put her on a stretcher, and take her out, she sees her sister's face. She looks terrified. Her sister was just ten years old, and had to call 9-11 for her older sister.
When the girl wakes up next, she sees a white room, and can smell rubbing alcohol. The doctor is standing beside her, looking down at her. Her little sister is sleeping in a chair next to the bed. She has a breathing mask on her face, and can feel the air coming from it. The doctor looks blurry, but she can still see him. He tells the thirteen year old girl that she was hurt pretty badly, and gave them quite a scare. He tells her she has internal injuries in her stomach. That they are permenant unless she gets another surgery (they had given her one before that). He says it wouldn't hurt all the time, but she would always have a dark bruise there.
*End of flashback*
Kim stood there, as she told Angel, and everything played in her mind.
"I was so angry, my father had done this to me, I felt so weak, my body was sore, but I knew I would be fine, just a stupid bruise, nothing to serious."
"That night, I had a nurse bring me a mirror. She held it for me, and when I saw my face, I was even more angry. I had a large bruise on my cheek, and a black eye, I also had butterfly stiches on a cut on my head, and it was forming a black and blue around it."
"They would all heal I thought to myself."
"When I got out of the hospital, my sister followed me everywhere, like I was a hero......"
~*Another flashback~*
The girl was now out of the hospital, her father in jail, so her Aunt had come to stay with them. That night, while the two sisters were watching television, the girls younger sister turns to her and says
"Rae, (the girl's nickname) I want to tell you the name I made up for you, it's Concrete Angel."
The girl knows what her younger sister means by it, and thanks her. Every since then, the girls sister, called her that sometimes.
Awhile after this, their father gets out of jail, and starts living with them again. This is also when school starts up again. Her younger sister is now eleven. During that winter, the ski club that the girl has joined is going on a ski trip for the weekend, for free. The girl really wanted to go, so that weekend she said goodbye to her sister, and goes out the door to catch the bus outside. That was the last time she saw her sister alive.
The girl had a great time on the trip, skiing was her favorite thing to do. When she got back from the trip, a police officer comes up to her, telling her he needs to talk to her in private. So, she walks away fom her friends, and follows him.
"Your father is in jail, late last night neighbors said they heard screams coming form the house, but they chose to ignore it. In the morning, one of your neighbors called us out of concern. When we arrived, your father was passed out in the kitchen, and we noticed blood."
"We followed it into the living room, we found your sister lying there lying face down, we tried to resesitate her, but she was already dead, probably had been for awhile, I'm sorry."
"How did it happen?" The girl asks, her voice shakey.
The officer hesitates, but the girl repeats what she said, screaming.
"She was beaten and stabbed to death by your father." He says, quietly. He knows the family, and feels a loss as well.
The girl falls to the ground sobbing.
*End of flashback*
Kim looked at her hands, remembering that day so vivdly, all the memories flashing through her mind. She continues again, still looking at her hands.
"At her funeral, I had them dress her in a white dress she had loved. I saw her, lying there in the coffin, she looked angelic, like she was asleep. But I had to keep telling myself that my eleven year old sister was dead."
"I had them make a statue of an angel for her, and her name was written on a smooth black marble. My Aunt had paid for everything, and I was supposed to live with her, but I couldn't. So, I ran off on my fourteenth birthday, and I've been here since. It was my fault my sister was killed, if I hadn't gone on that damn ski trip, she wouldn't be dead." Kim finished talking, and stood there, her face in her hands, sobbing.
Angel was in shock, his only thought was 'oh my god' as he stood up and held Kim in an embrace, as she cried.
Okay, that was the longest chapter I have ever written, lol. I hope it was ok. Please R&R, or I won't continue. Sorry about the threat type thing, but please review! OK I'm gonna go now, I'll update soon, and thanks again for the reviews so far! Bye for now!
~Ella~
Hello, thanks to everyone who has reviewed so far, please review, I would really appriciate it, I'd like to know if people actually read it, lol. Anyway a special thanks to: Dark Angel66, Vivienne, Apple_Violet, and Dawnfighter!
Well here's the next chapter, and the disclaimer is in the first chapters, so look there! :)
Chapter four
Kim sat on the old worn out couch, that had come with the apartment. She was thinking about that man, Angel. Was he telling her the truth? What did he want? Why wouldn't he leave her alone? Although, she had to admit there was somthing about him, sure he was cute and mysterious, but she didn't feel threatened by him much. She could some how sense he was good, maybe it was his eyes, they looked sad and sincere. But, he was also a vampire, and she knew those were evil. Though, he had said he had a soul, that probably made a big difference, she thought. She shifted in her seat, and winced, she had a lot of pain from the damn bruise still. Just as she was about to start reading a book, she heard a knock at the door.
Angel walked into the abandoned building, he smelled her scent very strongly. He followed it up to a door, that was chipped and old. He knew it was where she was, first from her scent, and the fact that there was light coming from inside. He knocked on the door, and waited for her to answer.
Kim groaned, she was comfortable and did not want to get up. Despite that, she got up and slowly walked to the door.
"Who is it?" She asked loudly.
No answer came, and she rolled her eyes, and opened the door. Much to her surprise, there stood a tall, well built figure, with a familliar face. Coming out of her shock, Kim looked at him.
"Why are you here? I told you to stay away from me, and how did you get here?"
"I tracked your scent, just because you did that, did you think I would actually stay away? Your in danger Raven, and I'm here to help."
Her eyes hardened, and she spoke,
"First of all, my name isn't Raven anymore, it's Kim, and I don't need your help, or anyone's help, got it?"
Angel simply replied,
"No."
Kim glared at him.
"Raven, invite me in, we need to talk."
"No way, I'm not going to invite you in when I told you to go away, now I suggest you just go away, you're wasting your time."
With that, she slammed the door in his face.
"The nights still early, only 9:30, I have awhile, even more considering I'm inside, so I can stay until you open the door."
Kim rolled her eyes,
"Well then you're going to be there a long time."
'I don't think so' Angel thought.
He began singing a *really* annoying song.
"It's a small world after all, it's a small world after all......"
As soon as Kim heard it, she plugged her ears. She *hated* that song. He kept going, and Kim yelled
"Shut up!"
But, that didn't work, he kept singing. After about an hour, he was still singing 'It's a small world', and Kim was lying on her couch with pillows over her ears, trying to drown out the song, but to no avail. Finally, unable to take it anymore, she walked over to the door, pulled it open, and said
"Okay, Okay, you win, come in, just stop singing."
Angel looked at her, and stood up, he walked past her and into the apartment. She looked at him sorely and closed the door. Angel looked around the battered apartment.
"Nice place." He said sarcastically.
"Well ya know I'm rich, gotta keep up with the lateset fashions." Kim retorted sarcastically.
Angel turned around to face her. He looked into her eyes, and she looked back.
"So, what did you want to talk to me about so badly, that you sat outside my door for an hour annoying the hell out of me?"
"Sit down." Angel commanded.
She stared defiantly at him, and said
"Excuse me, but this is my apartment, you can't tell me what to do."
Angel shrugged his shoulders and looked at her sternly.
"Doesn't matter, sit down."
Taken aback a little by his tone, and facial expression, Kim 'hmphed' and plopped down on the couch.
"Thank you." Angel said, sitting down himself.
He sat back and looked at the young girl.
"First, I have a few questions for you."
She looked at him.
"What is this, an interview? I'm not answering any questions."
Angel again looked at her sternly, and she faltered.
"Fine, I'll answer a few questions."
Angel nodded.
"Good."
"How old are you?"
"Fourteen, I'll be fifteen in a week." She replied as if it was a army drill.
"Why did you change your name to Kim? What are you hiding from?"
Kim froze, how was she supposed to answer that? She didn't want to tell him, what was she going to do?
"I uh, um, I didn't like my name, so when I came here, I changed it, and I'm not hiding from anything." She lied.
Angel could practically smell the lie coming off of her, but sensing her discomfort he didn't push.
"Well, I have somthing to tell you Raven, somthings wrong, my friend only gets visions when someone needs our help, and that person in her vision, was you."
For the third time today, Kim rolled her eyes.
"I don't need anyones help, I'm not in any danger, so just forget it, you have the wrong person."
Angel shook his head.
"No, we don't, and what arn't you telling me?"
Kim stood up, and glared at Angel.
"Who do you think you are? It's none of your buisness what I'm hiding, and I don't need anyones help!"
Angel just stared at her for a moment, and almost out of the blue asked,
"The song you sang at the cafe tonight, what was it about?"
'Maybe' Angel thought, 'that has somthing to do with what she's hiding'.
Coming out of her fit for a moment, Kim tried to figure out a way to explain her song, without telling the truth. Angel, however, sensed it and didn't give her the chance.
"Well?" He asked.
"It um, it's none of your buisness."
"Tell me Raven, I'm not going to hurt you. I want to help you, I'm here so talk to me."
Kim's eyes welled up with tears, and for the first time in a long time, Kim started to talk about her past, somthing she had been trying to forget with all her heart, but couldn't. At first she seemed angry, but as she went on, she seemed to soften.
"You want to know what I'm hiding from? What I'm not telling you? Huh? What my song was about? Well, I'll tell you."
"My little sister Avery, was killed. , My mother died when I was three, after giving birth to Avery. My father was never a great person, but most people didn't think he was capable of doing what he did to us."
"He hit us, sometimes to the point where we could die. I would never let him lay a hand on Avery, I would stand in front of her, and take all the punches from him. It wasn't just that, he would punch me until I fell to the ground, and kick me, when she wasn't home."
"God, this bruise on my stomach is from him."
She put her hand gently on her stomach, and looked down. Then she looked up again, and began talking again.
"It's a funny story really, my sister went to bed early that night, I was downstairs reading, and he comes in drunk, I could smell it before he walked in the room......"
*~Flashback~*
A middle- aged man stumbles into a nicly furnished room, and falls onto the couch. After a minute, he looks at a young girl with dark hair, sitting there reading a book. He yells in a slurred voice
"What the hell are you doing?"
With out looking up, the girls replies
"Reading."
The man stands up, and screams
"Get up!"
She just sits there looking at him, and he pulls her up by her hair, and throws her against the fireplace. She hits her head, feeling a sharp sting.
He lunges at her, and starts to choke her. She kicks him in the shin, causing the man to let go of her and grab his leg. She takes the chance, and gets up running through the room in an attempt to escape. Just as she is about to get out of the room, the man grabs her arm and pulls her back. She hits the back of the couch, but she's ok. He comes at her, and kicks her stomach rather hardly, and keeps doing it. She tries to block it, and goes into the fetal position on the ground. But, he keeps kicking her, getting her head a few times, so she sits back up. It's hurts her badly, she feels like she's dying. Her head throbbed, and still he keeps kicking her stomach. She never says anything, or even cries, refusing to let him see her like that, to give him the satisfaction that he was hurting her. After a little while, he is still kicking her stomach, and now she was lying on the floor. She starts to see black spots, and becomes really sensitive for a moment, and everything was as if in slow motion. She even feels blood dripping down the side of her head. Then, everything just goes black.
She wakes up shortly after that, to the sounds of sirens outside, she looks around and sees the man, her father, passed out on the floor a few feet away, and her little sister at the front door talking to what she assumed was the medics, as they followed her into the room. As they put her on a stretcher, and take her out, she sees her sister's face. She looks terrified. Her sister was just ten years old, and had to call 9-11 for her older sister.
When the girl wakes up next, she sees a white room, and can smell rubbing alcohol. The doctor is standing beside her, looking down at her. Her little sister is sleeping in a chair next to the bed. She has a breathing mask on her face, and can feel the air coming from it. The doctor looks blurry, but she can still see him. He tells the thirteen year old girl that she was hurt pretty badly, and gave them quite a scare. He tells her she has internal injuries in her stomach. That they are permenant unless she gets another surgery (they had given her one before that). He says it wouldn't hurt all the time, but she would always have a dark bruise there.
*End of flashback*
Kim stood there, as she told Angel, and everything played in her mind.
"I was so angry, my father had done this to me, I felt so weak, my body was sore, but I knew I would be fine, just a stupid bruise, nothing to serious."
"That night, I had a nurse bring me a mirror. She held it for me, and when I saw my face, I was even more angry. I had a large bruise on my cheek, and a black eye, I also had butterfly stiches on a cut on my head, and it was forming a black and blue around it."
"They would all heal I thought to myself."
"When I got out of the hospital, my sister followed me everywhere, like I was a hero......"
~*Another flashback~*
The girl was now out of the hospital, her father in jail, so her Aunt had come to stay with them. That night, while the two sisters were watching television, the girls younger sister turns to her and says
"Rae, (the girl's nickname) I want to tell you the name I made up for you, it's Concrete Angel."
The girl knows what her younger sister means by it, and thanks her. Every since then, the girls sister, called her that sometimes.
Awhile after this, their father gets out of jail, and starts living with them again. This is also when school starts up again. Her younger sister is now eleven. During that winter, the ski club that the girl has joined is going on a ski trip for the weekend, for free. The girl really wanted to go, so that weekend she said goodbye to her sister, and goes out the door to catch the bus outside. That was the last time she saw her sister alive.
The girl had a great time on the trip, skiing was her favorite thing to do. When she got back from the trip, a police officer comes up to her, telling her he needs to talk to her in private. So, she walks away fom her friends, and follows him.
"Your father is in jail, late last night neighbors said they heard screams coming form the house, but they chose to ignore it. In the morning, one of your neighbors called us out of concern. When we arrived, your father was passed out in the kitchen, and we noticed blood."
"We followed it into the living room, we found your sister lying there lying face down, we tried to resesitate her, but she was already dead, probably had been for awhile, I'm sorry."
"How did it happen?" The girl asks, her voice shakey.
The officer hesitates, but the girl repeats what she said, screaming.
"She was beaten and stabbed to death by your father." He says, quietly. He knows the family, and feels a loss as well.
The girl falls to the ground sobbing.
*End of flashback*
Kim looked at her hands, remembering that day so vivdly, all the memories flashing through her mind. She continues again, still looking at her hands.
"At her funeral, I had them dress her in a white dress she had loved. I saw her, lying there in the coffin, she looked angelic, like she was asleep. But I had to keep telling myself that my eleven year old sister was dead."
"I had them make a statue of an angel for her, and her name was written on a smooth black marble. My Aunt had paid for everything, and I was supposed to live with her, but I couldn't. So, I ran off on my fourteenth birthday, and I've been here since. It was my fault my sister was killed, if I hadn't gone on that damn ski trip, she wouldn't be dead." Kim finished talking, and stood there, her face in her hands, sobbing.
Angel was in shock, his only thought was 'oh my god' as he stood up and held Kim in an embrace, as she cried.
Okay, that was the longest chapter I have ever written, lol. I hope it was ok. Please R&R, or I won't continue. Sorry about the threat type thing, but please review! OK I'm gonna go now, I'll update soon, and thanks again for the reviews so far! Bye for now!
~Ella~