Nat and the rest of the band sat in the spa pool at the hotel, they didn't envy Alex who had gone to stay at Juanita's. It was a bitterly cold winters day.
"You think Alex is enjoying himself?" Thomas asked smirking.
Nat smiled.
"He's the one that dragged us here, A Reunion concert in Vancouver… who would have thought?"
Rosalina splashed Nat, who splashed her back. Thomas then splashed both of them until soon they were all splashing each other.
Alex groaned on the floor. It felt like a couple of days had passed, but in reality it was only the next day. Those kicks had tenderized Alex stomach and every movement seemed to hurt. He had crawled slowly around the room, he found a bucket in here, but nothing else. He tried the door but it wouldn't budge. So now he just lay on the floor, shit scared.
Juanita's aunt knew she could get a fair bit of money from all Alex's stuff, she wanted more, the more money she had, the more drugs and beer she could buy.
She put Alex's stuff down on her bed, and exited her room and stumbled down the hallway to the room Alex was in. She put the key in and unlocked it. Pushing the door open and light filled the room blinding Alex. He was still lying on the floor. She reckoned Alex was wearing a good $200 worth of stuff. As Alex's eyes adjusted to the light he saw Juanita's aunt coming towards him, and he started cowering and backing away. She grabbed one of his feet and pulled the shoe and sock of it. Alex kicked her in the stomach with the other foot, but it had no effect and gave her a good chance to catch it.
She took the shoes and socks of that foot and kicked both pairs out the door. She then reached down and tightly grabbed Alex's hair, and pulled him up.
"Why are you doing this?" He cried with fear.
She just gave him a remorseless look.
"Give me all your clothes or I'll break your Arm," She slurred aggressively grabbing Alex's forearm.
Alex didn't respond he was too scared. He felt the hand tightening around his forearm and trying to bend it up. He felt the searing pain in his arm and realized she was serious.
"Oh…… Oh…. Kay" He screamed crying.
She loosened her grip, and Alex using his free hand pulled off his Jacket, Hoodie, Long Sleeved shirt and Singlet. She let go for a second and the clothes dropped to the floor, she then tightly regrabbed Alex's Forearm. Alex whimpered as he stood there scared. She tightened her grip even more. Alex began to fumble with his belt buckle, before undoing his jeans and letting them slide to his feet, He stepped out of them and was standing now only in his boxers.
"Don't make me take them off," Alex pleaded pitifully.
Juanita's aunt put her other hand around Alex's arm. Alex looked wide eyed with complete and utter terror.
"NO PLEASE…!" Alex Began
CRACK!
Juanita cringed as she heard the arm break and buried her head in her knees when Alex screamed.
Alex fell to the ground, yelling loudly in pain as he cried. He curled up and shivered, while trying to hold his broken arm. It stung when touched it and just as much when he didn't. Juanita's aunt didn't batter an eyelid as she picked up Alex's clothes before shutting the door and locking him in again.
"You ok Nat? You seem abit wound up?" Rosalina asked Nat.
They were at the GM Place, even though it was still an hour until the sound check.
"Yeah, I just thought Alex and Juanita would be here by now." Nat said a little bothered.
"They still have an hour Nat, and they have a lot of catching up to do, it's been a whole month" Rosalina said smirking. "They'll be fine"
Nat shrugged, Rosalina was right.
"Yeah true," Nat said smirking before giving Rosalina a kiss.
For Alex the hours crawled along at snails pace. The pain in his arm was unbearable and on top of that it was another sub zero day. He shivered uncontrollably, with nothing to keep him warm, Alex wondered how long it would take to freeze to death. Juanita was sobbing quietly, her aunt had left to sell Alex's stuff, and would no doubt come back even more drugged up and drunk. Juanita didn't want to leave Alex, she didn't know what her aunt might do to him if she came back and Juanita was gone.
Nat called Alex's cellphone but got no answer. It was half an hour after the band was supposed to go on stage, and no one had heard from Alex.
"Something's not right." Nat said fretting.
"Nat you're over reacting, he probably lost track of time." Cooper said trying to unwind Nat.
Nat knew Cooper was wrong, somehow he could feel his brother was in trouble. Nat tried to tune out the sounds of a sold out GM Place, he knew Alex would have been here by now.
Juanita's mother stumbled home hours later drunk and on P. Juanita cowered as she stumbled down the passage, she was usually abusive when she came home like this. She attempted to unlock Alex's door several times, before stumbling a bit and entering Juanita's room. She grabbed Juanita's hair and dragged her to Alex's door.
"Open… It!" She slurred giving Juanita the key. Juanita's hands were shaking and she couldn't get the key in the hole, she didn't want to either.
Her aunt slapped her across the back of her before, head butting Juanita into the door. Juanita disorientated managed to get the key in the lock, she turned it before she was pushed roughly into a wall.
Alex wished he was dead, once Juanita's aunt had finished with him. She had beaten Alex to an inch of life, with kicking, punching, slapping and head butting all the time make sure to banged Alex's broken in arm in one way or another. Alex was covered in cuts and bruises, and had a couple of broken ribs. Alex didn't know why this was happening to him, he just wished he was dead.
Police have launched a full scale search for Naked Brothers Band Drummer Alex Wolff and friend Juanita Dunn Also Known As Juanita Mendez. The pair failed to show up for the bands reunion concert last night at the GM Place. The pair have not been seen since lunch time Monday. Inaccurate Government records have hampered the police's search, with current details missing for Juanita and her caregiver
