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IMPORTANT: Chris is 15 in present time in the story.
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Recap:
What Sabrina didn't know is that while she was apologizing for having to hang up is that John was trying to tell her something that would have caused her to not have been as shocked as she opened to back door. Another thing Sabrina didn't know was how happy it made John to hear her worrying about something as simple as being late to a family BBQ. John now knew that he made the right choice in calling Smirt to take Sabrina and Daphne away, even though they took his happiness with them.
The Past's Not Always in the Past Chapter 10
Sabrina's POV
My hands are clenched and I am almost biting my lip off, standing there like he owned the place was Andrew. The boy that haunted my nightmares till I moved to Ferryport Landing and learned there were more things to be scared of than foster parents and a dangerous, stupid, jealous, now 17-year-old boy.
Ray was glaring up at him with a look I have never seen her use before, it was pure hatred and disgust. What I surprised me most about the scene, beside Andrew being there, was that Chris was cowering behind Ray. Everyone else at the party had no clue about what was happening, to busy with laughing eating and mingling.
I flashback to what made me hate both Chris and Andrew so much.
I landed the final blow. Knock out. I knocked out a boy four years older than me, yes! I get out of the ring. I was at the I.B.R, illegal boxing ring. Xavier and Ray congratulate me as I get out of the ring. Some girl two years older than me pushes by me, yelling at me for hurting her boyfriend, which much be the guy that just got water dunked on his head to wake him up. This isn't the first time she's given me a hard time, she always picks on Ray and me, she says girls shouldn't box, and other really sexist, stupid stuff, I usually ignore her. I think her name is Christine or Chris, I'm not really sure, but I don't care.
"Andrew! Andrew!" She squeals, oh that must be his name. He gets up, and uses the towel she handed him. He looks furious. Whatever. He climbs out of the ring and stocks over to me. Xavier and Ray stand behind me to make sure he doesn't tackle me or something.
Andrew leans down and whispers in my ear, "a ten-year-old girl is not going to beat me and get away with it. You made me look weak and stupid. So I promise I will return the favor." I keep a straight face as he walks away so he doesn't think I'm scared or that I think this is funny, I'm sure that he would attack me right now if I started laughing. Don't get me wrong though, I am not scared, this is not the first time I've been threatened because I damaged someone's ego, I just like to avoid drama.
Also I'm not ten, I turned eleven a week ago, I don't tell him though because that's what a little kid would do. Besides it's not important, Daphne forgot about it, which is understandable, and no one else knows when my birthday is, I would like to keep it that way. I have hated my birthday ever since my parents disappeared.
Christine huff and flips her straight blond hair as Andrew drags her out of the alley. "What did he say?" Ray asks.
"Oh, ya know, he just wanted to congratulate me on the win." I say sarcastically while rolling my eyes.
"No, but really what did he say?" Xavier jumps in, worried about others as per usual.
"Nothing important, I promise." I respond, trying to move on.
They leave the subject alone, trusting me. I collect my money for winning the match, say bye to Xavier and Ray, and then I leave.
John and Schmidty don't like the I.B.R.; they think it's dangerous and that we might get caught. But they understand why we do it, they know that not everyone can own a boxing gym and have money like they do, especially eleven kids. They have offered to take Daph and me in, feed us have us live with them, but I know they can't afford us, the space we take up, the food we consume, especially Daphne, so I turned their offer down.
A large amount of the people that hang out or box at the I.B.R. are kids that should be in an orphanage, they live in abandoned buildings, on the street, or any other place they can find. Most of them have been to an orphanage before, but ran away from bad foster families.
As I'm walking home I see a book, it says Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales on the front. I take it with me, Daphne would love it, our dad never let us read fairy tales so whenever we got some, we read them. And when I'm out at the I.B.R., Daphne is alone and all she does is read, so whenever I see a book I grab it for her, she loves it whenever I bring her a new book. And I love it when I see the smile on her face that she used to wear all the time before our parents disappeared.
THREE DAYS LATER
I haven't gone back to the I.B.R. since I beat Andrew, this is only because that match got me a lot of money, and I haven't needed more. I am walking home from the grocery store with cereal, milk, bread, and microwavable Mac 'n' cheeses that Daphne likes. Our abandoned building that we stay in doesn't have electricity, but Schmidty's gym does so we cook the food that needs to be cooked there.
I am thinking hard into this so I don't hear the shuffling behind me, and next thing I know, my head hurts and everything is going black, I think I got hit on the head with a bat, I can feel blood dripping through my hair. I punch my attacker hard in the stomach, grab the groceries and try and run away but every thing is hazy, I'm dizzy, my head hurts and is pounding, I almost collapse. But I don't, I need to get to the gym. I get to the end of alley and, surprise surprise, there's Chris.
I try to get past her but she doesn't let me. I try to punch her in the face but I'm much weaker, and my head hurts so much, so ultimately I fail. I try to scream, but she covers my mouth, so I bite her hand. She squeals and pulls her hand back, "You little rat!" she yells at me. I try to get away again, but some one much stronger than her pulls me back by my sweatshirt hood.
"Not so fast." A voice growls, I look at my attacker; and of course it's Andrew. He's grinning at me with a sick grin. I don't struggle anymore, because I've already passed out.
I wake up and scream out, "DAPHNE!" she is always the thing I worry about first. Memories of what happened flood my head once I realized Daphne wasn't there. I immediately take in my surroundings, I'm in an a dirty apartment building, my legs and hands are tied to the chair I'm sitting on. I look for a way to escape, but before I get a real chance to, Andrew comes in.
"Who's Daphne?" He asks.
"No one of your concern." I spit.
"Whatever, lets just get this over with." Andrew says while he cracks his knuckles and neck. Chris slips into the room while he's doing that.
"Where do you want your friends to find your body?" Chris asks snidely.
"You're going to kill me?" I ask laughing slightly showing no fear "'Cause that will cause you more trouble than me."
"No." Andrew answers, "I am just going to beat you up so bad, you won't be able to move, so you will look weak and stupid like I did."
"Well then, I would like my body to be found at the gym on Heath Boulevard." I say sarcastically while rolling my eyes, but still meaning it, "Don't you think this is not very fair, I mean, I can't even protect myself." I say. I am trying to act very nonchalant; I don't want them to know I'm actually very scared. I know there is no way out of this, so I was very relieved to hear they would not kill me. Not for my sake, I couldn't care less about my life, it's just if I died… who would take care of Daphne? I will never leave Daphne. I will never abandon her like our parents did to us. Even though I have no control over when I die, I know when I die; it won't be leaving Daphne to fend for herself, I just know it.
"Well it wasn't fair that you cheated." Chris said.
"What?" I asked, I have no idea what they are talking about.
"Don't play dumb," Andrew added, "We know you cheated, no one your size could pack a punch that hard, you put something under your tape."
"I swear I didn't." I say trying to convince them to let me go.
"Yeah, sure. Whatever, liar, cheater, doesn't matter to me, all that matters is you can't stop me from beating you to a pulp." Andrew answers. I sigh and slouch back into the chair, I knew he wouldn't be convinced, I shouldn't have hoped.
Andrew stocks towards me with his fist raised, and lands the blow. He hits me right in the nose. Pain shoots though my head and I groan. That punch just adds to the horrendous headache I had from being hit over the head earlier.
The next punch is to my stomach, all the air that was in me had left. And now I think my food is coming… I hurl to the left side of the chair. Andrew just kept punching and punching, never letting up. I see Chris covering her eyes it the corner, she is weak, and I will never forgive her or him for this.
I get a punch to the shoulder; it hurts more than anything else, it's probably dislocated. He hit my face, now I have split lip and bloods flooding my mouth. He kicks my legs, pulls my hair. I never knew how hard he could pack a punch, during our match I dodged most of his punches, and the ones he landed were not very strong.
It feels like my ribs are crumbling, he lands another hit to my head, and it all goes black for a second time.
I was left at the gym like promised, John and Schmidty fixed me up, "I have picked up a lot of skills in my life time, including medical," That's what Schmidty said to me when I asked him how he knew all this stuff about healing broken bones, and putting dislocated shoulders back in to place. I vowed after that, that I would never be caught in a situation like that again.
I really want to go up to Andrew and punch him in the face, but I restrain myself, all I do is walk up to him and growl in the darkest voice I can conjure "Get. Out. Now."
WOW two days in a row, whoa! It's never to late to start reviewing people! And now you Guys know why Sabrina hates Chris, I can't believe I introduce a whole new character in this chapter alone!
FIRST OFF: CURLSCAT I hope this chapter cleared thing up, if not I'm going to explain it now:
Ray is on her own, she has no adult that cares about her, so no one is worrying about her being gone. And no one knows that much about Chris yet, but most of the kids that hang around the I.B.R. are on his or her own.
Guest, coo-coo clock,-I did update *yay* thanks. And Happy Easter to you too.
Guest,- Thanks it means a lot that you like it. And about the John and Puck thing, maybe ;D
Guest, mel,-Thanks! I think you're a little confused though, John already knows that Sabrina and Puck know each other, Puck mentioned her in a letter that he wrote John.