"She's been raped!" Marissa said, shocked by these news. Ryan nodded slowly.
"How is she doing? I mean, is that the reason why she ran away?"
"Well, Sandy asked her if something had happened, but she was too afraid to tell, so she ran away." Ryan explained.
"Do you think it would help if I talked to her?" Marissa offered.
"Let me just ask Sandy and Kirsten about that. But don't tell anyone, not ever Summer. Promise?"
"I promise. You can trust me, we've already been through that."
Back at the Cohen house, Kirsten was in their bedroom getting dressed, she still thought about what could have happened if Sandy hadn't been on his way to the bathroom. The thought made her feel sick. Sandy had saved her, she was going to make it up to him later…
Sandy entered the bedroom. She quickly wiped away the tears that were forming in her eyes, she didn't want Sandy to notice. Too late.
"What is it, honey?" he said with a voice full of concern as he walked up to her.
"I just, I'm scared. If you hadn't been there… Oh God, I can't image what would have happened. Thank you" she said, new tears coming up.
"You know I'll do anything for you. It was a good idea for me to stay home today" he hugged her tight.
"Why is he doing this? Why is he doing this to us?" Kirsten asked.
"I don't know. But I do know that it must have something to do with Kelly." Sandy said. Kirsten went silent for a moment, before realizing something.
"Oh God" she looked absolutely terrified.
"What is it baby?" Sandy asked worried.
"He's raped Kelly, kidnapped Seth, he's been after me. Now it's just you and Ryan left!"
He looked down. That thought had crossed his mind too.
"I know that you are worried, but Ryan is strong, I think he can take Logan if he were to attack him." Sandy said. Kirsten just stared at him.
"I know, and I'm really worried about him. But what about you! I can't have you hurt. I've never seen you in a fight before, besides at cotillion, but that didn't go so well. Sandy, I'm worried about you. What would I do without you? Seth is already missing, and it's killing me that we can't call the police." She let all her feeling out, including the tears. He looked at her.
"We're going to be fine. I won't let him hurt you, or Ryan or Kelly. I promise you that" he didn't know what else to say to this. She started to get furious. How could he not understand that it was him she was worried about? She knew he would do anything to save his family, even if that meant giving up his life, and she couldn't let him do that.
"You don't get it, do you?" She said and walked out of the room. He looked after her, surprised by her reaction. He sat down on the bed, trying to figure out what to do.
"No" he said to himself.
Kirsten was angry. She had stormed out of the bedroom, into the kitchen. She took out a glass and headed over to the sink. She looked out of the window, saw his face, and screamed. He shattered the glass…
Sandy sat straight up. Was that his wife screaming? There it was again. He ran out of the room and down the stairs, into the kitchen.
"Kirsten!" he looked around, then he saw her.
She was lying on the floor, her arm was covering her face, it was covered in blood.
"Kirsten!" he shouted, and fell down on his knees next to her.
"Honey, are you alright?"
She made a noise. Thank God.
He carefully moved her arm, she had a scratch right above her left eyebrow, but nothing more. She slowly looked up at him.
"Sandy" she said weakly. "It hurts" her face was pale.
"Let me get some water and clean it up, so I can see the wounds" he said as he quickly got up and filled a bowl with water and grabbed a towel. He sat down beside her again and started to clean the blood off. He saw that there were pieces off glass in the wounds.
"How did this happen?" he asked.
"I was going to get a glass of water, looked out of the window… saw him…he…he shattered the glass…he had a knife" Kirsten said weakly, she was crying. She screw up her face in pain.
"Let me get the first aid kit" he said and hurried to get it. He sat down beside her again. They heard the front door open, and Kelly shouting.
"Mum! Dad!" she ran into the kitchen, stopped at the sight of her parents. Her face went pale.
"Oh my God. Is she ok?" she whispered.
"It's just the arm, thank God" Sandy answered, but Kirsten slowly shook her head.
"No, Sandy. My stomach." Her voice was faint. Sandy looked at her stomach, but her other arm was covering it, he moved it, and almost throw up. Kelly screamed.
The look on Kirsten's face showed that she was in pain. She had a long cut across her stomach, it was bleeding.
"Why didn't you tell me? We have to get you to the hospital! Kelly, help me get her to the car! Now!" Sandy was in shock. Why hadn't she said anything? Why had she been hiding it?
Sandy and Kelly were sitting in the waiting room at the hospital, waiting for some new about Kirsten.
"How come you rushed into the house shouting for us?" Sandy asked his daughter.
"On my way home I met Logan. He told me that I better check that my mum is ok. I got so scared" she said just as Ryan and Marissa walked up to them.
"Hi Sandy. What happened?" Ryan asked, he had been scared when he had heard the panic in Sandy's voice over the phone.
"Hey. Kirsten's been stabbed but I don't know how" he looked tired and worried; he just wanted to talk to Kirsten.
"Hey Sandy" Marissa smiled weakly at him. But Sandy wasn't looking at her; he was looking at the doctor walking towards them.
"Mr. Cohen?" he nodded. "Your wife is going to be alright, but she is asleep and won't wake up within an hour, but if you want you can stay until she wakes up and I can tell her you're here" the doctor said.
"Thank you. I'll stay here" Sandy said, the doctor nodded and turned around and walked away to take care of his other patients.
"Do you guys want to stay or are you going home?" Sandy asked the kids. They looked at each other.
"Maybe we could go out and do something, we could go to the mall. If, of course, Ryan doesn't die from boringness" Marissa said, she thought it might be a good idea to take Kelly's mind off thing.
"Ok. I need to buy some Christmas presents anyway." Kelly said with a small smile.
"Do you want to come, Ryan?" Marissa asked, hoping for a yes, it would be much safer with him there, especially for Kelly's sake. Ryan must have been thinking the same way, cause he agreed to come with them.
"Are you going to be ok, dad?" Kelly asked, looking at her father. He did his best to force a smile.
"Of course I'll be ok. I'll call you later, honey"
She kissed his cheek before she walked off with Ryan and Marissa.
He sat down onto a chair and thought about Seth. He had been worrying sick over his son, he was just hoping he was ok.
After one and a half hour a nurse came and told him Kirsten was awake and that she wished to see him.
He stood outside her door, placed hishand on the doorknob and slowly opened it. He closed the door and walked over to her bed and sat down on a chair. He hadn't even looked at her.
"Sandy, look at me" he heard her voice beg. He slowly looked at her,saw the tears forming in her eyes as she spoke again.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you he cut me, but I couldn't muster the words. It hurt so badly."
"It's ok. I have been so worried, I'm just glad you're ok" he said and leaned in and kissed her lightly on her lips. "How are you feeling?" he slowly stroke her hair.
"Ok. Not as bad as before. They wants to keep me here over the night. Do you think you can convince them to let you stay too? I don't dare to be alone, not with Logan on the loose"
He nodded "I'm going to stay here with you weather they wants me to or not" he smiled. She smiled back.
"You know, I was planning to thank you for saving me from him later tonight, but I believe that has to wait, I'm not really in shape…But when I am…" They both laughed and kissed each other.
