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Chapter 11:
"Merry Christmas" the jolly seven year old Charles announced as he ran to his mum and pecked her on the cheek. The small crowded living room, had been beautifully decorated 12 days before Christmas by Charles, his father John and his mother Edna. On the ceiling hung mistletoes and holly leaves, and sparkling golden garlands were draped from wall to wall. Beside the window was an old wooden nativity scene which had been sprinkled with silver tinsel and against the window was a traditional, bright green christmas tree. Several presents surrounded the tree, each one was beautifully wrapped and carefully tucked under the tree.
Edna sat resting on the couch with a ciggarette dangling from her mouth, and clutching a glass of red wine. She watched as Charles rushed to the presents with a glowing smile wiped across his face. Charles sat beside his presents, he couldn't decide which one to open first. Edna stared at her son with an intense gaze, before she drank her glass of wine empty and put out her ciggarette. The room was filled with an eerie silence as Edna pulled herself off the couch and began to walk towards her son. Charles shivered with fear, his mothers brows furrowed and her lips pressed tightly together as she clenched her fist.
His mother looked frightening and scary, "where's dad" Charles mumbled as he hoped his father would come and rescue him. "He's abandoned you" Edna explained in her high-pitched voice before she added angrily "he doesn't want you anymore...he hates you".
Charles shuffled further away from his mother, but she kept stepping towards him. "He loves me mum, he loves us...He wouldn't leave me" argued Charles as tears began to gather in his eyes. "Loves us" screeched Edna, "he doesn't love us...he hated us, he's betrayed us" babbled Edna
"Why, I don't understand" cried Charles before he continued "doesn't he love us"
"He loved me" screamed the infuriated Edna as tears began to stream down her face. "He hated you, he despised you" she yelled furiously as she pointed at Charles.
"Am sorry mum, am sorry" repeated Charles as he tried to crawl away from his mother. "Sorry, sorry doesn't bring him back...sorry doesn't bring the man I love back" sobbed Edna before she charged at her son. Grabbing his arm, she ragged him into the kitchen and threw him onto the floor. She seemed like a wild beast as she scolded him with insults "bastard, you piece of shit...Your nothing, your shit". Crying a river of tears, Charles was shocked when his mother grabbed a wooden spoon from the kitchen cabinet then began to hit him with it. He was petrified and in agonising pain as his mother began to violently boot him and beat him with the spoon.
She then sighed with relief when she stopped at look down at her worried, startled, terrified son who was aching with pain. He quickly covered his face as he cried into the palms of his hands.
Charles' eyes shot wide open, he was clutching the bed sheets and his head was dripping with persperation. That day was the first time he suffered one of his mothers brutal attacks, and that day haunted his dreams, forcing him to relive it over and over again. Wiping the sweat of his fod, he scanned his room before he lied back down and drifted off to sleep.
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Tiffany had found herself despising her parents relationship with Charles, she could feel him slipping from her grasp, she almost felt as if she was losing his love for her. She prayed and hoped that she could leave home soon, she dreamt of a place were she could live with Charles. Lying in bed, Tiffany rubbed her eyes with disbelief when she woke up to Charles standing over her. "Hey babe" he smiled as he held a bunch of lilies. "Oh god, my parents usually don't even allow boys in my room" claimed Tiffany before she added "I don't even think a boys ever been in my room".
Charles sat beside her and stated "Well I ain't a boy, I'm a man"
"Oh I know" she giggled. Pulling herself up, she looked at Charles and asked confusingly "so what are you doing her"
"Obviously, I came to see my girl" Charles replied before he added "and I came to discuss that thing... you know what we were talking about"
"Oh you mean the girls" shrugged Tiffany
"Shh, we don't want no one to hear" Charles whispered
"Oh Chucky, don't be silly...why don't you just do it with Eddie" Tiffany said
"'Cause I want to do it with you, your my girl" explained Charles.
"I may be your girl Charles, but were are we gonna' take her? What are we gonna' do with her?" questioned Tiffany
"Yeah" agreed Charles before he continued "I know, we should get a more steady plan". The rest of the conversation was dominated by Charles who boasted about Kenneth offering him a job, god I need to get us away from this house she thought after he'd left.
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Vera sat in her office, staring at the stack of police files that sat on her desk. "Who is he" she wondered to herself, she'd searched desperately for Ryan but couldn't find him in any of the police database. The detectives on the case had dismissed him as a suspect, "there isn't enough evidence to hold up in court, he'd get off scott free" they informed her. I know he's got something to do with it, and if he hasn't he knows something she thought, after several years on the police force she'd learned to trust her instincts. Her instincts told her to find Ryan, if I find Ryan, I find the rapist she told herself.
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Elizabeth sat cradling Draco in her arms, she'd found him at his home locked inside his bedroom. He'd been so upset he'd sank into a suicidal depression, masking his sadness by consuming bottles of alcohol and isolating himself from the world. She'd found herself at his front door several times, hopeful that he'd answer, but he never did. Until now. He'd answered in a dreadful state, drunk and filthy. He stumbled towards her repeating "Elizabeth, I love you". She'd been forced to drag him into the living room. "I'm the on who was raped" yelled Elizabeth "so don't you be feeling sorry for yourself. I love you to, but I've been so alone with out"
"I'm sorry Liz" apologized the drunken Draco before he added "I love you, really, I do"
"I love you to" replied Elizabeth who then said "I'm staying over tonight, I will not have you getting drunk again. You're gonna' be getting a shower to". Elizabeth thought he'd be in a vengeful rage, not drinking gallons of alcohol to supress his sadness.
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"Mum, am going out" yelled Tiffany as she walked toward the front door
"Wait, aren't you staying in tonight. Me and your dad thought we could enjoy a lovely family meal, I'm cooking your favorite" Bella smiled
Maybe I will stay in, no, wait! this is my chance, this is my excuse to leave the conniving Tiffany thought before she angrily frowned "god, I just want a bit of freedom"
"Tiffany, you don't have t-" calmly replied Bella
"Oh my god, that is it! I'm leaving. I can't stand being in this depressing house anymore... am moving out" screamed Tiffany before she spun around and rushed up the stairs to her room. Bella panicked and ran after her, but Bella didn't know that this was part of Tiffany's calculating plan to make her parents look bad so she could leave. "Where will you go?" asked the worried Bella as she watched Tiffany toss her clothes into a suitcase she'd secretly had ready. "I dunno'" shrugged Tiffany before she added "but am not staying here again". Grabbing her phone, she shoved it in her pocket before she ran back down stairs and stormed out the house clutching the bag as her mother begged her not to leave. Phoning Charles she spoke briefly and ended the conversation with "come and pick me up".
After an hour of waiting outside her old house, Charles finally arrived and she quickly leaped into the car then smiled evilly "I've left"
"What do you mean" questioned Charles
"I ain't living there no more, am moving in with you" answered Tiffany. Tiffany had only been away from her family's home a few hours when she received a phone call "how's my little princess" Kenneth said
"Hi daddy, am doing good. I'm living with Charles" replied Tiffany
"Well, I don't want you staying so far away from home, so I found a place for you and Charles. I've paid first months rent and I swear your going to love it" explained Kenneth
"Really daddy, thanks daddy" smiled Tiffany as she knew it would be luxurious and wonderful
"Anything you want my darling" replied Kenneth before he said goodbye.
Charles and Tiffany's new home 2478 Bluebird Lane was in the wealthy area of Lakeshore, and was right beside Lakeshore Community Park which pleased Charles.
Tiffany and Charles walked through the large, double french doors, of their new home nervously, their first step into their new home echoed. She looked down at the cold, hard marble floors, each tile chosen with a specific taste in mind. She looked around to see wonderful rare paintings all around the room. There was a set of double staircases, one on the left, one on the right. The railing of the staircase was exquisitley engraved with flowers and vines, never one to be the same. There were six large stone pillars evenly spaced, to keep the house standing. Each one was elegantly carved to accent the Renissance feel of the luxurious house. To her left, there was a grand wooden door that ledto a very large library. To the right there was a door that led to a green house, with too many plants to even think about counting. Each one from a diffenent place in the world, she could tell. There was a moderate sized fountain that showered water gracefully back to where it started. Their new home was a place of pure peace and elegance.
"Home sweet home" giggled Tiffany before she announced with a grin "thank you daddy"
"Oh yes, thank you Kenneth" laughed Charles before she grabbed Tiffany and together they danced around the hallway. They finally had a place of their own, Tiffany was delighted as she was away from her parents who she seen as irritating and nosy, and Charles was happy as he thought this could be the place were they started bringing his fantasies to life. Tiffany's moral compass had slipped still further; first when she helped dispose of Corrina's body but stayed silent, and then now when she agreed to become Charles' accomplice and lure girls to him for his pleasure.
Chapter 11 finished
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