A Warrior Of Youth

Jinxxs POV

The morning sunlight beamed through my window, rudely waking me. I forgot to close the damn blinds.
Sammi was still asleep, hugging the side of the bed that was against the wall.
I was so exhausted. Between fighting with Sammi for half the night and pounding on the bathroom door the other half, I should still be sleeping.
Unfortunately, there was no going back to sleep.
I rolled out of bed, being careful not to wake Sammi.
I was going to go see if Sandra was awake yet, but I noticed the bathroom door was slightly open. Lissa must have opened it when I went to bed.
I pushed the door open and gasped at what I saw.
A small pool of dried blood surrounded Lissa's stomach as she lay unmoving on the tiles. I inspected her closer to see the subtle rise and fall of her shallow breathing.
Her hands were covered in darkened blood and a silver razor lay close by. I grabbed the razor, dropped it into the toilet and watched it being taken by the heavy flow of water when I flushed it.
I looked down at Lissa and dropped the floor beside her. I gently rolled her onto her back and assessed the damage she had done to herself.
Seeing the scars she made, made me want to cry. Some long shallow lines, other deep and jaggered. But a lot of them. Covering from her belly button to her hips. All puckered and red. It was all still covered in blood so I grabbed a face towel, wetting it with warm water and tried to clean up the dried blood.
I wasn't sure if it made them look better or worse. It just looked like it hurt. I was continuously cringing every time I uncovered a scar.
As I was finishing cleaning off the blood, Lissa stirred and her eyes fluttered open.
"Don't get up Liss" I said as I put a hand on her shoulder.
"Jinxx, my stomach hurts" she whined.
"I can imagine. Removing an unborn child and mauling yourself with a razor. I thought you threw out your razors?" I said a little sharply.
"I always kept one in case..."
"You didn't have to do this!" I said gesturing to her stomach.
"Yes I did! I heard you and Sammi arguing last night! I caused that! I am the cause of everything that had happened. I don't want to be here anymore!" She said carefully sitting up and looking at the damage. "Fuck. I did this?" She questioned.
"It's how I found you. Completely covered in blood."
"Shit. No wonder it hurts like a mother fucker. I don't remember stopping."
"That's cause you didn't. Look how deep that one is" I said pointing at one on her hip.
She looked down at the cut, running her finger over it. Then over her other cuts. Shame appeared on her face as she tried to pull down her red stained top and holding it down with her arms.
She went to get up off the floor and she hugged me.
"Thanks Jinxx."
"For what?" I asked.
"Everything. I owe you."
"You owe me nothing. I just want you to be safe."
"I'll try."

Lissas POV

Later that day, Jinxx dropped me off home so I could get some rest without interruptions. He gave me a fresh shirt and threw out my blood soaked one. I was pretty pissed off when I found he flushed my razor. Luckily I still kept a couple handy. What Jake didn't know, wouldn't hurt him. Not that he would care now. He'd be pretty happy for me to cut myself.
I walked in the door and I heard my mom call me.
"Melissa? Can you come here please? We need to talk."
"Mom, I'm really tired. Didn't get the best sleep. Can we talk later?" I called back, not caring what she could possibly want.
"Now Melissa!" She said with anger seeping into her tone.
I sighed and made my way into the living room.
I was faced with my parents sitting on one end of the couch and my pregnancy test sitting on the coffee table, wrapped in a plastic bag.
I started to panic. They knew. There nothing I could say to cover this up.
"Take a seat Mel" my dad said sternly.
I sat on the edge of my seat, already cringing at what they had in store for me.
"Is this true? Are you pregnant?" My mom said angrily pointing at the test.
I looked between her and dad and just nodded my head.
"What the hell were you thinking?! Did you not use protection?! I didn't think you were that stupid!" My mother yelled.
"We did use protection! The condom must have broke!" I yelled back. "I'm sorry, okay?"
"No! Not okay! What do you plan to do now?!" My dad said, keeping the yelling at a high volume.
"You don't have to worry. I already took care of it! So you can just go back to leaving me alone. No baby is going to be coming out of me."
"What do you mean you took care of it? You got an abortion? You could have told us! What did Jake say about this?" My mom said, slightly calmer.
"Yes, I got an abortion. And, no I couldn't have told you cause I wanted to avoid this" I said gesturing to us. "And Jake threatened to kill it while it was inside me if I didn't get one. We said some other stuff, but the point is we broke up."
"Sweetie, was probably for the best" she said giving my dad a look and both their faces softened. "Are you okay? Does it hurt? Are you tired?" She said without letting me answer.
"I'm fine. They said recovery is about two weeks. Just nothing that will upset it" I said wrapping my arms around my stomach.
"Okay. As long as you are alright. I'm glad you have dealt with this."
"You're still in trouble young lady" my dad chimed in before my mom went too soft.
"I figured."
"I want to have a chat with Jake's parents. Mel, you can't let him threaten you like that!" My dad said, re-sparking his anger.
"Dad, it's okay. He can't complain now. We broke up anyways."
My dad didn't look convinced. "Go rest now. We'll sort stuff out later" my dad said dismissing me.
I headed up to my bedroom, stripped down to my bra and underwear to get ready for a shower. I had just taken off Jinxx's top and shoved it into my bag, when my mom barged in my room.
"Hey! What the hell!" I said surprised. Too surprised to cover my new scars on my stomach.
My mom looked like she was going to say something, but she was too gobsmacked by what she saw.
"What are those?!" She said enraged.
Fuck, fuck, fuck...

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