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After Dark
Chapter 4
Serena went up to her room and closed the door behind her, she lied down on her bed as the tears started to stream down from her eyes again. She sat up as she looked at herself in the mirror and saw her reflection looking back at her; then she picked up her hair brush and threw it at the mirror causing it to brake and the pieces to shatter every where.
Ilene heard a noise from down stairs so she went up stairs to investigate. She knocked on Serena's door and got no answer as usual, so she just walked in and saw Serena sitting on the floor with broken mirror pieces all around her, as the tears shed from her eyes.
Ilene walked over to her daughter and wrapped her arms around her as she helped her to her feet and walked her to the bathroom. She sat Serena down then took a damp rag and gently wiped the tears away from Serena's eyes.
Serena looked up to her mother's caring eyes as she gently whispered "thank you". Ilene smiled at her daughter as she told her "your welcome, now why don't you go lie down in my room. I'll go clean up the broken mirror and then I'll make us both some lunch okay"
Serena looked up to her mother as she stood up then walked out of the bathroom, and into her mother's room then closed the door. Ilene watched her daughter walk away then got a dust pan and broom from the closet and walked into Serena's room. She started to clean up the broken mirror pieces when she saw a picture of Serena and Darien discarded on the floor as she picked it up and thought aloud "Serena I wish you would at least let someone help you. You shouldn't have to go through this alone" as she put the picture back on the dresser then finished cleaning up the mess.
After she finished cleaning up Ilene went down stairs and made tuna fish sandwiches for lunch then brought one up for Serena. She opened up her bedroom door and found Serena fast asleep on her bed. She put the sandwich down on her bedside table then pulled the covers up over Serena as she kissed her on the cheek and walked out of the room closing the door behind her.
Later on that day Ken came home from work as he hung up his jacket and sat down on the recliner putting his feet up. Ilene walked in the room a few seconds later as she turned to her husband asking "your late tonight, where have you been"
Ken looked to Ilene as he told her "I stopped by the police station on my way home from work. I wanted to see if they had any leads on the man who raped Serena"
Ilene looked to Ken as she asked "did they get him yet, do they at least know who it is"
Ken looked to his wife as he told her "I'm afraid they don't, they haven't figured out who this guy is, but they are showing the sketch of him around hoping someone will recognize him"; as Ken and Ilene were talking they didn't realize Serena was listening to there whole conversation from the stairs.
She heard her father say that they still hadn't found the man that raped her and destroyed her life; they didn't even know who did it. How could they not know who did it? Every time she closed her eyes she could still see him staring back at her with that sinister smile. She just wished so much that she could go back in time and do things differently.
Ilene heard sobbing as she turned around and saw Serena sitting on the stairs. Ken walked over then picked his daughter up in his arms as she grabbed on tight to him and cried on his shoulder. Ken walked her up to her bedroom with Ilene following as he lied her down on her bed and sat next to her as he wiped the tears from her eyes he told her "it will be alright Serena, the police will find who did this to you, and then they will be locked up for a very long time"
Serena heard her fathers words but they were no help as she turned to her parents and asked them "everything will be alright, how can you say that, nothing will ever be alright again. I lost something I can never get back, and they took it from me. I'll never be the same person I was never, never again."
Ilene was about to protest what Serena was saying when she turned to her parents and told them "please just leave, I just want to be left alone"
Ilene looked to Ken not sure if she should do as Serena asked and just let her be as Ken took her hand and told her "come on, let's let her rest some"
After her parents were gone she sat up and looked around her room at how bright and cheerful everything was, and she hated it. She didn't feel all bright and cheerful, she felt broken like the mirror. She was broken and there was nothing anyone can do to put her back together again.
She turned and looked out the window as she stared at all that was going on outside as the cars passed by and people walked down the sidewalk going on with there daily lives.
She stood up from her bed as she walked over and saw something shiny under her dresser, she walked over and picked up a piece of the mirror that broke earlier, as she just stared at the broken piece in her hand, and it's sharp edge made contact with her flesh. Her blood started to drip from her hand, and she just watched as the blood came out and dripped, as it stained her flesh making her look on the outside as she did on the inside, stained.
End chapter 4
Author's Note: I hope everyone enjoyed chapter 4, and please stay tuned for Chapter 5. If anyone has any thoughts or ideas they would like to share, please let me know and as always please read, review and enjoy! Thank you Mars Light!