I am trapped. Stuck in a body that simply refuses to do what i think. I tried screaming but no sound escaped my lips. My eyes refused to open not matter how much i tried to force them to open. They felt so heavy, like the rest of my body, like somebody had been let loose with super glue.
My bed sunk a little bit, somebody sat down inches from my hand. Something was touching my head, stroking it, playing with my hair.
My body isn't working but at least my ears are. At least i am not completely cut off from the world. I could hear someone crying and banging on something, making lots of noise. In the background there was some muffled words.
"My son i hoped that it would not come to this" There was silence, and then the man stood up. I could hear him pacing up and down beside my bed. "I never meant for it to happen like this, i never meant to hurt you when i chucked grease on the edge of that stage"
"GARY LET ME IN!" A woman shouted, she must have been the person banging on the door. "He's my son"
I needed to open my eyes. I needed to make some kind of movement or sound yet my body refused to give in. It was a battle between myself and me, who will win? Probably my body.
I was tired and bored, trapped in my own mind with nothing else to do but think but i can't think. All i can think of is this, my body and whoever the hell is that man. Trapped with nothing to do. And with a stranger, who is he?
"You want your revenge don't you?" The woman asked.
"Yes payback for not ever seeing my son"
The woman laughed "you lost that right when you decided to hurt us both"
Katie
"Mum what are you taking about?" I asked, holding my cheek.
Logan was fussing about me trying to check my cheek "Logan i am okay" i said. "I am just confused mum"
She shook her head "it's not important i will tell you later"
"NO!" i snapped. "I want you to tell me now"
"But my boy..."
"Mum Kendall is unconscious he's not going to notice" i pointed out. "tell me what happened"
"Mama Knight i saw you in the hospital ten years ago you were covered in bruises" Carlos said.
"How?" Mum asked "Why were you here?"
"Me and my mum came to visit my dad who had been hurt in a raid he set up it was about ten or eleven years ago"
"Did you ever tell Kendall?" Mum asked him.
"no i kept it to myself because the Kendall i saw that day was not the Kendall i know now" He explained "he was a scared little boy who was sitting at his mother's bedside waiting for his mama to wake up"
A tear rolled down her cheek. She nodded "I will tell you all about Gary"
She took my hand and we both sat on the chairs next to Kendall's room.
"I won't bore you with how we met we don't have time for that"
I nodded. My throat getting drier by the minute, scared of what mum might tell me.
"Gary hit me one night after he had drunk a lot of whiskey. I still don't know why he didn't give me a reason he apologised and i forgave him. I only had a cut on my cheek so all my friends believed that i had just walked into the edge of the fridge. We were happy for some time then he hit me again. I loved him and i had just found out that i was pregnant with Kendall so i didn't want to leave him. I told him about Kendall and he didn't hit me again." She took a sip of the drink Jo gave her"He was the perfect husband loving and caring, and the perfect father for Kendall so i forgot about the past especially because he didn't have a drink. We were too busy with Kendall beginning to walk and trip and fall and everything so it worked well. But as soon as Kendall started school Gary found out he was being made redundant so he started drinking again. Soon i found myself being his punching bag again and i fell pregnant after an affair. I was going to leave him but then one day i took Kendall to the park after school and he fell off the swing. I lifted him up very gently but i still hurt my son. I lifted up his top and he had nasty bruises and scaring all over his sides and stomach."
A tear rolled down my cheek "That's horrible"
Mum shook her head "I confronted him at home when Kendall was at school, asked him why he hurt Kendall and he didn't answer i told him that i was leaving but he wouldn't let me. We had a fight at the top of the stairs. And that is all i remember until i woke up at the hospital a couple of days later with Kendall sleeping the chair beside me. Later that night we moved to Minnesota and I changed our names and we stayed with a very close friend of mine until Katie was born and then we moved out into a flat. Ever since if Gary found us we have been changing flats and staying with different people"
I hugged her. "You don't have to be ashamed of what he did. You didn't ask for any of this"
"Neither did Kendall but i failed to protect him both times" Mum said holding me tight.
"Accidents can happen anywhere" Logan said gently.
Mum shook her head "No i think Gary hurt Kendall to get close to us again and he's winning right now"
"Not on my watch"
"Dad!" Carlos said.
"Hi son we'll get him out of there" he said.
"He's crazy, violent he could do anything to Kendall" Mum told him.
"We'll get him out Jen i promise" He said.
