When Love Met Destruction

Sunlight peered in through the slightly drawn curtains, shining on my face and awaking me from my nightmare-filled slumber. I sat up warily and glanced around the room. Any one of the five vampires that I was living with could be lurking in the shadows, so I had to be sure I was alone before getting out of bed. Once I was sure, I tip-toed into the bathroom. After a minute or so of adjusting to the bright light I stared at my reflection in the mirror. My eyes were swollen and bloodshot from crying and I had dark circles under my eyes.

I sighed and turned away from the mirror, moving further into the bathroom towards the shower. I turned the handle and watched as the steaming sprays of water erupted from the shower head. The water was scalding on my hand - perfect for scrubbing away the invisible grime that covered every inch of my body. I stepped in and let my head drop as I inspected myself. I was thin already, having been apart of a nation wide famine, but my ribs stuck out further than before and my hips were sharper than ever. It was going to stay that way - possibly get worse - because the voice in my head told me I'd be a fool to accept any food from them. They could poison it, fill the food with powerful drugs that would have me out like a light in a minute. I could not allow that to happen.

Once I had scrubbed my skin raw, I moved on to shaving. Andy had bought me a razor when we went shopping so I had it handy in the bathroom. My skin was an angry shade of red but I paid no attention to that as I continued.

Rough, startling knocks caused me to lose my footing and slip on the wet shower floor. As I fell, I cut my upper calf and knocked large shampoo bottles onto myself. They fell onto my ribs with a hard landing, causing a string of curse words to fly out of my mouth from the pain. I knew I was going to be covered in bruises, not just on my ribs, but pushed that in the back of my mind as I attempted to stop the heavy bleeding coming from my leg. The wound stung under my hand as I held pressure on it and I hissed, watching the stained red water run off my leg and down the drain to distract myself from the burn.

During my fall and my attempt to stop the bleeding, I failed to notice the door - that I dumbly left unlocked - swing open. Only when the shower curtain was drawn, did I become aware that I was not alone.

I pressed my body up against the shower, my jaw clenched. "Leave!" I yelled.

Ashley's expression morphed from worried to a look of pure evil with a hint of lust and back again. This happened multiple times and my head hurt from trying to decipher what was real.

'Watch out....'

My head shot in the direction of the whisper. I glanced frantically around the shower, searching for whatever whispered in my ear. I normally heard the voice inside my head but now I was hearing it beside me, or around me - I wasn't sure - and it came out in a whisper.

A hand gingerly touched my leg and I slowly turned my head to look back at Ashley.

I glanced down at his hand, that was still on my leg, and grit my teeth. "Don't touch me." I growled.

Ashley removed his hand. "Scarlett.. Are you okay?"

Silence.

I was cowered in the corner of the shower, under the now cold spray. My facial expression resembled something of a mental patient being approached by a hoard of doctors. My jaw trembled in fear as I stared up at Ashley.

'He's going to touch you.. he's going to hurt you.' The voice taunted

I shut my eyes right and seethed, "Shut up!", through clenched teeth.

'You know I'm right. Don't be so stupid. Fight back. You need to fight back. Are you really that weak? Are you really that pathetic?'

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" I screamed.

My head was reeling from Ashley's worried questions that were drowned out by the voice continuing to call weak, pathetic, and stupid. I had my fingers curled around damp locks of my hair and tugged helplessly. I was so full of anguish that I didn't even feel the sting of my hair being pulled out.

"Scarlett, please talk to me." Ashley begged.

"No," I mumbled over and over again. "I'm not weak. I'm not pathetic."

A puzzled look crossed Ashley's tanned features before he called out for back up. I was too distraught to pay any attention.

"What's wrong?" Andy asked anxiously. Jinxx, Jake, and CC were in tow and were all mimicking Andy's worried expression.

"She..." Ashley trailed off, "I wanted to see if she was okay but I guess I scared her and she fell and cut her leg. I came in and she started yelling at me to leave then was screaming shut up when I wasn't even talking. Something is seriously wrong with her, Andy.."

Andy's eyes flickered over to my curled up body and he immediately rushed over. I was now staring off, my gaze locked on the floor of the shower. My torn locks of hair were wrapped around my fingers, stuck together in certain spots from a mixture of water and blood.

He kneeled down in front of me and gingerly placed his hand on my knee. I whimpered, my gaze shifting towards his hand, but made no movements to get him to stop touching me. The four other vampires emerged further into the bathroom, towering over my shrunken frame.

'They're going to hold you down and touch you.. they're going to do exactly what Chris and Ricky did.' The voice warned.

"Get away from me, please." I cried.

"Scarlett, it's okay. We just want to ~touch~ you." Ashley spoke. I was confused and scared. The beginning of his sentence was calming but towards the ending his tone grew more lustful.

My eyes shot over to him and I tried to decipher if what he said was real or not.

"No.." I murmured.

My muffled sobs drowned out the unanimous decision to just take me out of the out of the shower. Andy asked Ashley to help him grab me while the others were ordered to stand by and intervene if I got out of control.

The two vampires hauled me out of the tub and I almost immediately began to thrash around and scream. Considering they were stronger than I was and I had grown to be incredibly frail, my attempts to break free from their grips turned out to be unsuccessful. My breathing quickened as I realized, or more so was informed, that I was still naked and that I didn't know where they were taking me.

'You're outnumbered. One frail girl against five powerful vampires? They can do whatever they want to you. They WILL do whatever they want to you. If you thought being raped twice was bad, imagine being raped five times in a row.' The voice said.

My thrashing became more violent as they brought me closer towards the bed. Suddenly, I screamed, "No! No! Let go of me! Please, I don't want to be raped again!" I kicked and scratched at everything I could get my hands on, whilst my eyes were glued shut. I couldn't bring myself to look into their menacing eyes as they wandered over my exposed body. I've seen that look before and it haunted me. I could not see it again.

"We're .. going to rape you." Jake said.

I was placed on the bed and instantly curled myself into a ball. I shook as a clean pair of clothes were put on me and I was helped under the covers. Andy quietly ordered everyone out of the room before placing a chaste kiss on my forehead and exiting himself. He sighed sadly at the sight of me crying into the pillow before closing the door.

When will this end?

Notes

this was supposed to be up yesterday, but the page didn't load. :/
I worked on this chapter on and off for a couple weeks so hopefully it's up to your guys' standards and you enjoy reading it!
soooo sorry for how unreliable I've been when it came to updating. I am now free to post regular updates!!!
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