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What? I stumble and fall to my knees. What? He’s telling me something but...but…
Distracted, I spy my phone under the sofa. Slowly I crawl towards it, trying to make it look like I’m going to use the sofa to get back up. If I can just reach my phone…
I scream as I’m wrenched backwards by my hair and shaken so hard my teeth chatter. My eyes roll back and darkness dances across my vision.
“You’re not even listening are you?” Charlie screams. He’s crazed. Out of control. “I told Michael to make sure you got pregnant! When you switched out Tilly’s birth control pills, he did exactly the same to you!”
F-f-fuck. My phone lights up under the sofa but I can’t see the caller display. Please let it be Rebel, please let him be outside and not phoning because he’s delayed. Why can’t I fight? I am not some helpless victim; I never have been.
“I can’t believe you killed him you fucking bitch!” The kick to my solar plexus steals all the breath from my lungs and my eyes water painfully as I gasp like a fish out of water.
Fuck.
“It should have been you!” he screams in my face, spit flying everywhere.
I don’t have the energy to care.
And then he pulls out the knife. My own carving knife from the kitchen.
Fuck.
“But now it’s my turn! I will avenge his death!”
Silver dances before my eyes, chased by black spots.
I think I hear a roaring in my ears, but it could be anything.
“But first, I’m going to have fun with your cunt that you’ve denied me for so many months. I’ll have something Michael was never able to!”
Greasy, hot hands on bare skin are the last thing I feel as the world starts to tilt, slide...fade to black. I send up one silent, final prayer as an almighty roar fills my ears: please, Rebel, hurry…
Charlotte’s Diary
09/07/20
Such a good day today! Phoenix sat up all by herself for the first time!!! Admittedly it was only for a few seconds and then she seemed to topple over onto the cushions in slow motion, but I’m counting it! I was so proud of her. I just wish someone had been there to share the happy moment with me.
