"AAAAHHHHH!" She yelled in surprise, dropping the phone. The tiny little pink thing just skittered across the floor and stopped. She stared after it. Why am I so jumpy? she wondered. She briefly remembered her vacation in hell. The beatings, threats, and rapes. Her eyes began filling up with tears remembering her violent rapes, but she quickly blinked them away. Micheal CAN NOT see her this way. She knew he was comming back and knew that he would most likely wait for her to feel comfortable again. And if she showed fear, he would only wait longer and all she wanted him to do was kill her off and get it over with. Slowly, she picked her phone up and stuffed it in her pocket. She looked around her. No sign of him. Quickly, she continued her walk home. It wasn't long before she felt a hand on her shoulder. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she screamed.

"Sere?" Its me," she turned around. It was Lita.

"Sorry Lita. I'm just a bit jumpy," She said sheepishly. They began walking towards her house.

"I can't blame you, after all thats happened. If I were in your place, I'd probably stay at home or move or something. And by the way, why are you wandering around by yourself? He could take advantage of that,"

"Eh. He'll try to kill me sooner or later,"

"Yes, I'm sure of that but when he does, what are you going to do?"

"I'm not sure," she said. "But if he does kill me I wont go down unless I bring him down with me," she said. clenching her fists. This startled Lita. Serena had somehow managed to keep her cool until just before Micheal took Mina.

"Are you okay Serena? Because yo-" Lita began.

"WHAT IS IT? CHECK ON SERENAS MENTAL HEALTH DAY? IF SOMEONE ASKS ME THAT ONE MORE TIME I'M GONNA SCREAM!" she yelled through gritted teeth. She felt all the bult up anger bubble up. Now, Lita was scared. The marks Serena had carved with her nails in Reis wrist were still there and she'd heard from Seiya about her outburst that nearly costed Joshs life.

"Serena...maybe you need a nap..." Lita stuttered.

"I'M FINE!" she screamed.

"But Sere you loo-" Without thinking she raised her hand and came very close to backslapping her in the face, but was stopped, since Lita had grabbed her wrist just in time. "SERENA GET A GRIP!" she screamed into her face. Serena looked at Lita, then at her outstreached arm, than back at Lita.

"Oh my God WHATS HAPPENING TO ME?" she yelled to herself. "I'm so sorry Lita! I really am!" she said quickly. She turned and ran the rest of the way home.

"SERENA! Where the hell were you young lady! You had us scared to d-" her dad began as soon as she opened the door.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" she yelled, running up the stairs. She slammed the door shut and locked it. She ran into her bathroom, shut the door and locked it. Get in control...get in control... she thought calmly to herself. The bubbling anger she had felt earlier began dying down. Her cell phone started ringing, breaking the peaceful silence. She slowly picked it up. "Hello?"

"Nice breakdown. You know, usually my victims dont live long enough to have so much anger built up," a way way way to familiar voice chirped.

"Micheal, when are you comming?" she asked calmly.

"When you least expect it. And I will leave my mark, you can count on that," he said.

"By killing me?"

"Nah. Just have you suffer a bit...any ideas?"

"Why would I give you ideas on how to torture me?" she asked bitterly. There it was. That bubble of anger and hate began filling her head with extreamly violent thoughts and feelings. Those violent feelings scared her. She was unable to control what thoughts and feelings she was having, and sometimes, that resulted in her violent outbursts.

"Never mind I have an idea!" Without answering, she hung up. A second later, her phone rang. She picked it up.

"What do you want?" she asked hotly.

"You know you were a good fuck. Maybe I'll do another round with y-"

"Micheal stop...please..." she said, almost begging. She was trying to keep her cool. And Micheal wasn't helping. As usual.

"What about Rini? Do you know if shes tight?" he asked with the same perverted voice he used when raping her.

"What th...OH MY GOD YOU SICK FUCK! TOUCH HER AND I'LL KILL YOU!" she screamed into the phone. He laughed.

"Well, I know your weakness now. Thanks sweetheart," then he hung up. Mentally, she slapped herself. Thanks to her, her sister was now in danger. Should I tell my parents? she wondered. No. They have enough trouble with me as it is. She stood up and walked out of the room.

"Serena? Are y-" Sam began when he saw her.

"Yes. I'm fine," she said blankly, heading towards Rinis room. She opened the door and peeked inside. She sighed with relief at the sight of Rini sleeping peacefully. She went over and kneeled down next to Rini. There was a folded peice of paper sticking out from under her pillow. Groaning, she pulled it out and unfolded it. YOUR SISTER IS SAFE...FOR NOW it read. She stared at Rini, then at the note. She stuffed it in her pocket and went downstairs. She will figure out what to do later.

"Serena...sit down. We want to talk to you," her dad said as soon as he saw her. He and her mom were sitting on the couch. She sat down next to them.

"Yes?" she asked, knowing what they wanted to talk to her about.

"We want to talk to you about...you know...him," her mom said. She sighed.

"Don't worry. He wont come back,"

"Serena, he will. I think he is," her mom said.

"Even if he does, I'll kick his ass," Serena said.

"Young lady, don't use that language in this house," her dad said.

"Okay whatever,"

"Your blowing this off as if its no big deal Serena. This is a big deal," Mr. Tuskino said.

"Better than sitting in a corner wallowing up in my own pity," Serena said.

"You cant treat this as if its nothing! Thats what your doing! Pretending like its all some big bravery game!" Mr. Tuskino said.

"I know this isn't a big game. But I have to act like its nothing,"

"I just don't see why your rejecting protection so much!"

"That woul just add a person on his list to kill," she said. "And besides. I can protect myself,"

"You were nearly killed. So were your other two friends," Last thing she needed to hear

"But we're alive,"

"An hour longer and you would've been dead,"

"Baisically I'm death on two legs?" she asked sarcasticly. The anger was beginning to come back.

"No, your not. And I know you think your fine but I'm going to arrange for you to get counciling,"

"WHAT! WHY!" she screamed.

"Serena look at you!"

"WHATS WRONG WITH ME?"

"YOU CANT CONTROL YOURSELF! EVERY TIME SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING YOU DONT LIKE YOU START SCREAMING!" yelled her dad, standing up. She stood up and narrowed her eyes.

"You have no idea what I've been through. If you knew, You'd understand. Now please leave me alone!" she turned and ran up the stairs. She found herself running into Rinis room. She opened the door and nearly screamed in horror at what she saw. She saw Micheal standing next to the window...with an unconsious Rini in his arms.

"Aw. You caught me," he sneered.

"Micheal PUT HER DOWN! PUT HER DOWN!" she cried, running towards him. He jumped to the side, laughing when she crashed into Rinis desk. He hoisted Rini on his shoulder and pulled out a large knife. He held it over her back.

"You don't want anything to happen to her do you?" he asked. Serena stood up and stared. Her parents and Sam, who had heard the loud noises, had came up to investigate. They gasped at what they saw.

"Micheal...don't hurt her...shes a little girl...shes only ten...she doesn't deserve this," she said in a whisper. He only smirked.

"Should have thought of that before you made that phone call," he said simpily. He turned to climb out the window, with the knife still hovering over Rinis back.

"MICHEAL DON'T TOUCH HER! PLEASE! TAKE ME! I'M THE ONE WHO DESERVES IT! PLEASE MICHEAL DON'T HURT HER!" she begged.

"Too bad," he said. She stood up and grabbed a lamp. He quickly made a large cut in Rinis back. Serena dropped the lamp, nearly crying at the sight of the blood rushing down her back.

"Good girl," Quickly, he dissapeared. Throwing her stunned parents and brother aside, she bolted down the stairs and out the door. She tried to find Micheal but couldn't. He was gone. She dropped to her knees and buried her face in her hands. Surprisingly, no tears came.

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