Chapter X
"Dad, please. Please don't hurt her," Johnny begged, his eyes almost as scared as they were in the hospital. He walked over to Johnny and pulled him by his shirt, and threw him down.
"You brought a girl in here, son. How long has she been in here?" he banged his son against the wall. Avianna was in too much shock to do anything. Johnny gasped, out of breath. He was hyperventilating, white as a sheet. Johnny looked at Avianna.
"Run!" was all he could get out. Cade turned around, and looked at Avianna with her tear-stained face and scared eyes. He liked it. He knew she was scared, same as his son was. He punched Johnny in the face, and flung him face forward into the floor. Avianna cried, and looked down at Johnny. His eyes were closed.
"You're cryin'," the old man came toward her with a leg of a chair. "You're weak. You're cryin'. Well I'll give you something to cry about!"
He tried to hit her in the face with the wooden leg, but she ducked, and looked at the door. He blocked in in a second. She backed up into a corner, schooching back from where she sat to duck as he came closer with the leg. He grabbed her by the neck.
"You just don't come into people's houses, miss," he told her. He raised the chair leg, and she flinched. He smiled. He liked being feared.
"Stop!" Johnny opened his eyes. His father lowered his hand, and looked at his son.
"Stop?" he questioned, furious. Johnny was white as ever, hand shaking, but he said it again.
"Stop."
"Why should I?" he raised his hand again to her. Avianna was crying so bad that her eyes were red.
"Take it out on me," Johnny spoke up. "I'm the one who wanted her here." He looked at him, and said, "Is that what you want?"
"Yes."
"Fine, you'll get what you want." With that, he smacked Avianna's face and threw her down. "Get out."
Avianna looked at Johnny who nodded to her, crying to. She ran out of the house as fast as she could. She saw Dally by the road and ran up to him crying.
"Sugar, Sugar, what's wrong?" he asked as she ran up to him. She burst into tears again.
"I was worried about Johnny, so I-I went to his house, and-"
"Avianna your eye!"
"I found him, hurt under a table. His father came in and I just"-she broke down again. Dallas snapped.
"What did he do to you, Avianna?" he asked real seriously, almost yelling, grabbing the side of her head, forcing direct eye contact.
"He just hit me, Dally, that's all but Johnny-"
"Oww!" they heard Johnny screaming on the top of his lungs. They heard screaming and crying. And banging.
"This is what you wanted, isn't it?" his father was banging him against the wall. He threw Johnny down. "Well, you still wanted more, Johnny?"
Johnny breathed deeply and tried to crawl away when his father grabbed him by the left leg, and dragged him across the living room.
Dallas ran in, angry as ever, and grabbed Johnny's dad by his shirt, and threw him against the wall. "That's just a taste of your own medicine," he yelled. He bent over to Johnny.
"Dal.." he began. Dallas just picked him up.
"You're alright, Johnnykid. We're taking you to the hospital."
"He remembered my name," he whispered. "He remembered my name."
"He has a pretty sprain in his ribs and left leg, but other than that, he'll be alright," was the doctor's reply. "He'll be sent home in three days."
Dallas and Avianna sighed with relief. Johnny's father had been drunk the entire time, so he didn't remember anything. Avianna came to see Johnny. She started to cry. Her eyes were welling with tears, and she was just heartbroken.
"Hey Avianna, I'll be fine," Johnny hugged her. He kissed her cheek, and held her tight.
