I just laid in my bed as Sandy, Seth and Ryan walked in with the shopping bags from a couple days ago.
"Hey kiddo, we just wanted to bring your things in. We never had a chance to when you were gone."
"'Kay, thanks. You can just put then down and leave."
They exchanged glances as Sandy nodded at them to do as I say. They put down the bags and left. Ryan was about to close the door when he just looked at me. It was a sad, longing look, one that I can not forget.
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I slowly close the door, while I try to forget what Sandy has told me. Donna and Trey, Trey and Donna, it can't be possible. I stand in front of her door, unable to move from that spot. I can't stand it, I have to know. I burst back into her room.
"WHAT DID YOU AND MY BROTHER DO!"
I looked at her and see the guilt written on her face.
"We didn't do anything…" It was the five year olds voice again. "he saved me…he saved me from..fr.from…" She looked down and I saw the tears fall onto the quilt Kirsten had put on her bed.
"I'm sorry, I didn't…"
"…but what did happen was an accident."
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"Dad, do you think Ryan is okay?"
He walks over to me and put his hand on my shoulder.
"Yes son, Ryan he is and if he isn't he will be."
"What does that mean?"
"Ryan is going to get a visit by someone who might help."
"Who, the tooth fairy?"
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"An accident? Things like don't just happen."
By this point, I am so enraged that I am now pacing across the room.
"But you don't know the situation."
"The situation! What the…"
"Ryan! He saved me!"
"From what!"
She mumbles something that I am unable to hear.
"What?"
"My dad! Ryan, my dad! You see this…" She lifts up her shirt and rips off the bandage that covered her lower torso and exposes a stitched up gash that goes across her abdomen. "…he did that to me and if it wasn't for Trey, I would be dead right now!"
I look at the gash and I am in a state of shock/terror. I back up slowly as I watch her gaze follow me but her mouth is still. I walked out of the room and slowly closed the door behind me.
