" I hope everything is ok." Lisa said looking at Kevin and AJ
" Don’t worry if there was something bad they would have called baby." Kevin said as Lisa sat in his lap. It had been two hours since Nick and Brian had left. AJ looked up as he heard a car pull into the driveway. He stood and saw that Nick Brian and Sandy were walking towards the door. Sandy’s head was lowered so no one could look at her face.
" They are here." AJ said moving aside as the door opened. Nick led Sandy into the house and had her sit down on the couch.
" San what happened honey?" Lisa asked getting down in front of her friend. Sandy looked up at her, her eyes were red from crying plus they both were bruised most of her face was bruised. Lisa pulled her friend into a warm hug and then noticed that she had a huge bandage on the back of her head.
" Guys?" Lisa asked looking up at them.
" We found her unconscious on the floor of her place, her phone shattered near her."
" We think that Matthew hit her with the phone." Brian said looking at them. Sandy looked up at him and then over at Lisa. Lisa had sat back down with Kevin and looked into Sandy’s pain filled eyes. Sandy slowly stood and then headed out of the room and up to one of the guest rooms. Kevin watched as she left and then felt Lisa stand and head for the stairs.
" Let her rest Lisa she will be fine." Kevin said looking at her.
" He hit her again and this time did some damage." Lisa shouted looking back at the five men in the room.
" But Nick and Brian got to her before something bad did happen." AJ said
" But something bad did happen. She was hit so hard she has stitches he has never hit her that hard" Lisa said anger filling her voice.
" Lisa this isn’t helping her. We will all stand beside her and see if she gets better. Maybe she has finally left him."
" Maybe finally." Lisa said sitting back down. They all settled in for the day’s events chatting bout the up coming tour. Nick occasionally looked towards the stairs.
" Ok so when does the new tour start?" Lisa finally asked looking at them.
" Next month. Are you sure everything is going to be ok honey by then?" Kevin asked her.
" Yea maybe I can bring Sandy along this time. I mean maybe it will do her some good to get way from Matthew."
Sandy sat down on the bed and cried she loved Matthew but couldn’t bare him beating her again. She could hear Lisa yelling downstairs and that was her fault as well. She slowly stood and made her way down the backstairs out threw the kitchen and out of the house. The soft ocean air blew her long red hair out of her face. She could feel the sting of her head wound as the breeze blew her hair. She reached up and rubbed her sore cheeks and walked down the driveway and out of the yard. She had to think and doing it there wasn’t helping. Her vision was still very fuzzy but she didn’t care she needed somewhere to think. As she walked down the road she stopped a small park a few blocks from Lisa’s house she walked into it and sat down. Not the smartest thing she did but at that point she didn’t care. Her whole body hurt from Matthew’s attack. She heard children playing and then saw a set of sneakers walk up to her.
" Are you coming home?" She heard a familiar voice ask. She began to shake and then looked up at Matthew who stood before her.
" Not with you I am not" She said
" Yes you are." He said grabbing her arm roughly and pulling her towards the car. Shoving her into the passenger’s side he walked around to the drivers side and getting in. She looked over at him as he drove the car down the road. Tears ran down her cheeks as they pulled into her drive way. He walked around the car and pulled her harshly from the car.
" Lisa will notice I am gone." She said fear filling her voice.
" If she did she would have noticed by now. Don’t lie to me Bitch." He said slapping her across the face. She whimpered and looked up at him. He pulled her into the house and closed and locked the door. Matthew shoved her into the living room pinning her to the couch be began to pull her shirt over her head. Tossing it to the floor he began kissing her neck as he unhooked her bra and pulled it off.
" Please don’t." She said crying.
" Shut up." He said as he kissed further down her body as he pulled her sweat pants off roughly ripping them in the process. He pulled his own pants off she began to struggle under his weight. He ripped her panties off and shoved in to her hard causing her to cry out in pain.
" Lisa do you mind if I go check on Sandy?" Nick asked
" Sure Nick go ahead." Sandy said smiling. He was going to be good for Sandy and Lisa was happy for that. Nick had hurried up the stairs and then returned as quickly.
" She isn’t there." He said out of breath. Lisa stood and ran upstairs and noticed the back stairs door was opened. She walked down and entered the kitchen and saw that the door going outside was also opened.
" She is gone. Come on I think she has gone back to her place." Lisa said grabbing her keys.
They hurried to the Sandy’s home; they could see Matthew’s car in the driveway so they knew something was wrong. Lisa knocked at the door noticing it was locked.
" Sandy, Sandy open up." She screamed into the door. She looked up as she heard a high-pitched scream from inside.
" We need to get in there." She said looking at Kevin. Kevin nodded and looked at the others.
" Ok well I will buy her a new door." Kevin said as he kicked the door. Nick joined in as the door finally gave way and literally fell off the hinges. They hurried into the house to find Matthew holding Sandy to the couch. Nick roared and jumped on Matthew throwing him off of Sandy. Sandy pulled her legs against her chest and began to sob. Nick began pounding on Matthew hitting him over and over till Kevin pulled him off.
" Nick stop. I don’t think he is going to hurt her anymore."
" He wont hurt anyone any more." Nick said letting Matthew drop to the floor. He then stood and looked over at Sandy who was now wrapped in a blanket and being held by Lisa. Nick walked over and pulled her into his arms. She shrieked and pulled away.
" Give her time. Come on lets let the police talk to her and get Matthew out of here." Kevin said helping his friend to his feet. Nick felt kind of sad because he wanted Sandy to like him and with all that has happened she was pulling further and further away.
" Sandy he isn’t going to hurt you." Lisa said to her friend. Sandy buried her face into Lisa’s shoulder and cried even harder.
" Miss can we ask you a few questions." An officer asked.
" I guess." Sandy said sitting up.
" Do you know the man that did this?" He asked her.
" Yea I do."
" And his name?"
" Matthew Williams we were dating till he beat me the other day." She said looking at the officer. The officer looked at the bruises that took up most of her face and neck.
" Do you mind if we take a few pictures?" He asked her as a female officer came up to her.
" Sure why not. Those will be the only pictures I will be able to have taken for a while."
" Awe San don’t worry honey your going to be back to your job soon enough."
" No I wont and I will never trust another man as long as I live." She spat. Nick looked towards her. A single tear ran down his cheek.
Chapter 4