Chapter Ten

Faith woke up dazed and confused about what had happened. It took a few minutes and the pain in her whole lower body to realize what had happened. She was naked under her sheets and she felt disgusting and dirty. She slowly and carefully got up and put on a pair of pajama pants and a tank top. She didn't know what to do. She felt so gross and so lost at the same time. She had been a virgin and that one thing had been taken away from her by someone her mother had brought to their house. She had no real family besides her Grandma and Ben, and now she had lost the one guy she had ever loved. She didn't know where to go or what to do. She wanted to end it all. So she made her decision in that instant.

She went into the bathroom and ran the tub with the plug in. She pulled her pocket penknife out of her purse and set it on the side of the tub. Then she slowly climbed in not even bothering to take her pjs off first. She slowly opened the knife as the tears streaked down her face again. She flinched as the blood gushed out of her wrists and into the flowing water. She sunk down into the warm water and closed her eyes. The blood seeped out of her veins and filled the water blood red. This was it for her, the end. Maybe now her pain would be over.

Outside Joanne was just getting home from an actual job interview. She had decided only that morning that she needed to stop this ridiculous life and look after her children. She had only been looking at old pictures when it hit her that she had turned into an evil, evil person. She had dumped the deadbeat Ronny and cleaned and sobered up and went to an interview.

As she headed up the steps she saw Ronny closing the door with a grin on his face.

"What the hell are you doing in my house Ronny?" She asked.

"Oh just getting to know your family JoJo. That's all. Well your daughter to be exact. She is a pretty little thing isn't she?" Ronny said laughing.

"What the hell did you do to her?" Joanne asked, suddenly seeming desperate.

Ronny just laughed and said, "I think you know JoJo. I think you know." And then he took of down the street.

Joanne just stood there for a second not believing Ronny's words. She would go in and see that Faith wasn't even home yet. That she must be out with that boy she mentioned, David. No Danny.

"Mrs. Anderson?" A voice called out.

"Yes. Can I help you?" She asked.

"I'm Danny Walker." Danny said as he got out his car and walked over to her.

"Is Faith with you?" Joanne asked her face suddenly turned panic stricken.

"No she's not. I left her here, but we didn't leave on good terms." Danny said.

"Oh my God." Joanne said.

"What? What's wrong? Did you do something to her again?" Danny asked.

"No, no. I have been at an interview. I, I wanted to fix everything, but I, I..." She suddenly burst into tears, then just as suddenly stopped crying and ran for the door.

"What is it? What's going on?" Danny asked running after her into the house and along the hallway.

"It's my boyfriend, I mean ex Ronny. I dumped him to start our life over and I, I think he was in here!" She said stopping abruptly and fainting.

Danny jumped over her and ran upstairs as fast as he could. He got to Faith's room and opened the door. He saw that the bed was tousled and the pillows were on the ground, and that basically told him right there what he needed to know. He was horrified. He kept thinking he should never have left her alone. But where was she now? Suddenly he heard the faucet in the bathroom.

"Faith? Faith? Are you okay?" He called out, but got no answer. He slowly headed towards the bathroom and turned the corner. The first thing he saw was the knife and his eyes followed the noise and he saw her there. Tears sprang immediately to his eyes and exploded down his cheeks. He rushed forward and heaved her now lifeless body out of the tub.

"No, no. Faith please don't be gone. Please Faith." He pleaded as he tried to find her pulse.

"Is she? Is she okay? Is she there?" Joanne's voice called.

"Stay there." Danny yelled, "Go now and call 911. Tell them to get here now."

He heard the sound of the phone being dialed, and at the same instant he found her pulse. She was still alive. But he could tell it was barely. As if by instinct he grabbed two towels and tied them around her wrists to stop the bleeding and then he picked up her unmoving body and carried her downstairs. Faith's mother screamed at the sight and sobbed as she watched her lifeless daughter being carried downstairs. Almost immediately the ambulance showed up and Faith was loaded inside.

"Excuse me sir, are you family?" The tech asked.

"No, but I am riding with her!" He said firmly.

"Sorry sir..." He began.

"I love her!" Danny yelled.

"I'm sorry son, but it's not allowed." The man said.

"Come I'll drive you behind the ambulance." Joanne said racing to her car. "We can pick up my mother and Ben on the way."