“Amelia I need to have a word with you”, Melanie announced as she barged into Amelia’s room without knocking. “You’ll lose Tom if you carry on like this, he’s devastated”.
“What do you mean? What have you done?”Amelia asked, feeling annoyed with her sister.
“He texted me asking if he had done anything to upset you. He said that you were distant with him and that you ran out on him yesterday”, said Melanie.
“I wish people would stop interfering. What did you say?”inquired Amelia.
“Well I said it wasn’t anything he’d done. Said you were in a pretty bad way and quite down”, Melanie stated.
“And what did he say?” snapped Amelia
“He said to tell you he’ll keep away if you need some space but loves you all the same”, Melanie told her sister. “You need to sort this out Ams. Mum's making you an appointment at the quacks this week you know.” Amelia sighed. She hated the fact that everyone seemed to be interfering in her business. Whilst she wanted to open up, she wanted to keep everything buried deep inside. She was scared of the shame she would bring upon herself and scared that she would be abandoned because she was damaged far beyond repair. “I’ll get it sorted Melanie, I’m sorry”, said Amelia whilst hugging her sister.
Amelia had had very little sleep since she had stormed out of Tom’s house yesterday so she decided to have a nap. Amelia had been scared too scared to sleep recently as each time she managed to drift off to sleep she started to have flashbacks of her violent rape. She managed to doze off for an hour or so, but tossed and turned violently. She woke up suddenly and sat bolt upright, she had had another nightmare. She could not remember exactly what had happened but she knew that it had most likely involved Lewis.
Amelia had decided that she should concentrate on getting some placement work done, especially as she had taken some time off of work recently. She had begun to write about admitting a patient onto the hospital ward when there was a knock at her bedroom door. Melanie poked her head around the door, “You got a visitor hun”, she said. Melanie disappeared and then a familiar figure walked into Amelia’s room. Amelia immediately filled full of fear. How could Melanie have let this monster into her bedroom? “Hello Amelia”, Lewis said, menacingly.
“Get out”, Amelia ordered.
“Seems like we need to have a little chat Amelia”, Lewis said, with an evil glint in his eye.
“I mean it. GET OUT!” Amelia shrieked, but as she started screaming Lewis grabbed her and covered her mouth with his hands.
“Will you ever learn? Now you’re gonna keep silent while I tell you show shit’s gonna go down from now on”, Lewis informed Amelia, with menace in his voice. He began to tie an old tattered cloth round her mouth to ensure that if Amelia screamed, she would not be heard. Amelia tried screaming, but it was useless. “You are causing my brother a great deal of pain”, Lewis said while grabbing Amelia’s hair and pulling her down onto the floor. “And I don’t like that. You are selfish Amelia. You are ugly. You are fat. You are repulsive”, Lewis carried on. He grabbed Amelia’s hair again and dragged her back up onto her feet and pushed her against the wall, whilst gripping her neck. “You’re gonna get down on your knees you dirty slut and suck my cock. And then you are gonna tell my brother what a good for nothing piece of shit you really are”, Lewis demanded. He again threw her back onto the floor and began kicking her. Amelia managed to get up onto her knees but Lewis kicked her back down on the floor, whilst laughing to himself. Amelia managed to get up onto her feet but Lewis tried wrestling her to the floor again. Amelia took a swing with her fist at Lewis and punched him in the jaw. Lewis’ eyes filled with rage. He attempted to punch Amelia back but she managed to duck and avoid Lewis’ punches. Lewis grabbed her and started punching her in the stomach. Lewis didn’t realise that during the scuffle the gag had slipped down from Amelia’s mouth and she began screaming, “MELANIE! Help me! Get off me!”
“What the heck is going on?” Melanie demanded. Melanie had heard banging coming from her sister’s bedroom along with her screams and ran straight to her sister’s aid. She could see that Amelia was in a great deal of distress. Lewis took one look at Melanie and ran out of Amelia’s bedroom and out of the house. “Amelia what’s going on? What did he do to you? Oh god Amelia your lip’s bleeding”, Melanie said, her voice fuelled with rage and shock at what she had just seen.
“I can’t do this anymore. I can’t do it”, cried Amelia.
“What can’t you do Amelia?” Melanie asked. Amelia remained silent whilst sobbing. Melanie could see her sisters’ mouth quivering; she knew she wanted to say something. “Write it down Amelia if you can’t say it”, Melanie said. Amelia scrambled around her bedroom to find a pen and some paper. There was complete silence while Amelia was writing. It was so quiet that the only thing that could be heard was the pen scratching against the paper. After a little while of writing, Amelia handed the piece of paper to her sister. Melanie glanced over the note and began to turn pale, whilst swallowing loudly to try and stop herself from bursting into tears. The note read, “It was him. It was him. He raped me when I was 15 after that New Years Eve party I went to. I didn’t know he was Tom’s brother. I didn’t know. He’s torturing me. Ever since Tom’s party he has tortured me. He wants me dead. He says he’s going to do it again. I can’t do this anymore. I just can’t do it anymore”.
“You need to tell the police Amelia and most of all you need to tell Tom. He needs to know what his brother has been doing to you”, Melanie insisted.
“I can’t. What if I lose him? What if he blames me?” doubted Amelia.
“You have to. He needs to know”, persuaded Melanie.
“Not tonight. Just not tonight”, Amelia said solemnly.
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