Together We'll Set The World On Fire

I screamed and started banging on the door.
“HELP!” I screamed and started to sob but no one would answer.
I sank to the floor grabbing at my hair…
MY HAIR
It was no longer black and red…
It was it’s original platinum blonde.
I heaved a wet sob and wrapped my arms around my legs.
I didn’t understand what the hell was going on. Where was Andy? Ashley was waiting for me.
I sobbed until I couldn’t breathe. I suddenly remembered my bathroom! I ran to it and looked inside. It was just as I left it. I tried opening that door but it too was locked from the outside. Who did this to me? I ran to my window determined to escape but it was sealed shut. I saw the deep snow on the ground outside and my familiar backyard.
I tried screaming again.
This time the door opened and my father walked in.
“Dad?!” I squeaked.
“Hello Harper. Welcome back.” He said in a dead voice.
“What did you do to me!?” I snarled at him. “You kidnapped me!”
“No I brought you home.” My dad said pleadingly.
“I was home in Los Angeles with my real family!” I spat at him. “Chloe told you where I was didn’t she?”
“Yes Chloe did.”
“Where is that bitch!” I demanded.
“She’s at your mother’s.” My dad shrugged.
“At mom’s…?” I said momentarily forgetting my rage.
“We’re divorced now. Your mother got custody of Chloe and I got custody of you.” My dad said taking a swig of his drink. It must be some sort of alcohol.
“You can’t just demand custody over me! I wasn’t in either of your custodies!” I yelled. “So what are you going to keep me here against my will!? Chain me to the wall? Rape me?”
“No I love you Harper but you need to be normal. Look your hair is normal now.” My dad tried to insist.
“Normal!? I’m being held captive by my own father how in any definition of the word is this normal?” I demanded before sinking to the floor and hugging my legs rocking myself back and forth back and forth. “I want to go home. I want to go home.” I sobbed.
“You are home now.” My father knelt beside me and inhaled my hair. “And you’re never leaving.”
I roughly shoved him away and screamed “GET AWAY FROM ME YOU FUCKING PERVERT!”
And there was my mistake.
My dad roughly grabbed my long now blonde hair and literally dragged me into the hallway outside. He dragged me into the dark musty basement and put me in a cement room with a mattress and nothing else. “I’ll be back Harper darling” He whispered.
He locked the steel door. I could barely see through the dimly lit tiny room. No it was a cell. I sat on the mattress and cried. I cried for what seemed like hours when the door finally opened again. My dad came back bearing chains and what seemed to be a leather whip.
And then he wrapped my wrists in the chains and chained me to the wall.
And then he beat me.
Over and over and over again as I cried and begged for him to stop.
I didn’t know what happened to him… I always thought my mom would be the one to abuse me but I never pictured my dad abusing me in such a way.
He finished after I lost consciousness I supposed. When I woke I was still in the dimly lit cell. But I was on the mattress in a new nightgown. I wanted the nightmare to be over. But I knew there would be no hope and that I’d probably never see Ashley, Andy, Jinxx, C.C., Jake, or Sammi again.

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