| MORNING MRS. HANSON :o) HERE IS YOUR COFFEE BABY, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS FLIP THE SWITCH. I JUST WANTED TO SAY I LOVE YOU AND I WILL MISS YOU WITH ALL MY HEART. I WILL CALL YOU TONIGHT AND KNOW THAT I THINK ABOUT YOU CONSTANTLY. OH YEAH, AND EAT BREAKFAST! REAL FOOD! I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL NEXT MONTH BABY. I'LL GO CRAZY FROM THE WAITING. ALL MY LOVE, TAY I set the note down and wiped my eyes. I didn't think it was possible but I loved him more every day. I flipped the switch on the coffee pot, then opened the fridge to find something quick, but REAL, for breakfast, since my husband asked so sweetly. I looked up quickly, thinking I heard footsteps, then shook my head. "Wishful thinking, Jess." I told myself. "He's long gone.." I contented myself with the fact that I would probably hear from him twice a day. I went back to making breakfast and swore I heard movement in the other room. I stepped around the corner and looked into the entryway. "Tay? Honey? Did you forget something?" I called out. No answer. I chuckled. "Jake? You're not my honey, and stop lurking aro...." I stood frozen in the doorway. "How in the hell did you get in here?" I demanded. |
| "You really should hire better security, Jessie." Alex stated as he stood in my entryway, staring at me. "They'll be along any minute, actually. But I suggest you get your stupid ass out of my house. I am quite cacpable of taking care of myself, thank you." I stated, noticing that his face was still quite bruised from the beating tay and I had given him, yesterday. His eye was puffy and a rich shade of purple, and his lip was cut. He stood there, looking me over as if I were a side of beef to be bought. "You turned out alot better than your mother actually. you should consider my offer, Jessie. I wouldn't go off and leave you alone for months at a time." he said. "How sad for me. I wish you would. Are you deaf? GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!!" I raged. "Did you HEAR me that time?" "Come on, Jessie...just think about it.." he urged, stepping closer to me. I took a step back. "No. I might puke. This is the last time I will give you a chance to walk out of here on your own to feet, Alex." he stepped closer and snaked his arm around my waist before I could slip away. "You'll be alot more fun than her..." he breathed, "I like a feisty woman." My stomach churned violently as he moved his head to press his lips to mine. I slipped my arms around his neck and put my hands in his hair. "That's better, Jess.." he grinned. Then I yanked his hair as hard as I could and kneed him in the crotch at the same time. I rocked back and kicked him in the stomach, sending him slamming into the doorframe. I spit and wiped my mouth. "Nobody touches me like that except TAYLOR! YOU GOT IT!?!?!" I roared. I moved toward him to shove him out the door with my leg, but he caught my ankle, twisted it and I hit the floor with a thud. "You little bitch! You have no idea what you're turning down!" he glared and lunged at me. I rolled away and was on my feet in a flash. "Wrong. I know EXACTLY what I am turning down." I said quietly. He lunged at me again and suddenly we were in the kitchen, and Alex had me cornered between the island and the fridge. "We'll see Jessie.." he said and came at me again. I let him catch me, so I could make my way to the door and he crushed his lips to mine again. This time I punched him in the stomach, grabbed his arm and flipped him, landing him flat on his back. I backed slowly out of the room but he was up in a flash, wielding the knife that had been drying in the dish drainer. "Oh now that's a REAL man.." I taunted, hoping he'd move the fight outside. At least then I could run and Dave or Jake would step in at the end of the long driveway. I KNEW I could outrun him for sure, and from the look on his face, he would probably rape me before he killed me. Or he'd die trying. He came at me again and I slipped past him, but not before I felt the hot sear of metal slashing the skin on my arm. I bit my lip and kicked him in the jaw, knocking him toward the entryway. Everything was moving in slow motion now, and I hoped that Jake would be here soon as I watched my own blood drip onto my new tile floor. At least I wasn't bleeding all over the carpet, I thought. He was up and came back at me with the knife again, and I spun, but he caught me and shoved me against the wall, near the front door and held the knife to my throat. "Now..what was that about a REAL man?" he sneered. I spit in his face and kneed him in the crotch, grabbing the knife when he let go of it. He roared and raised his fist to punch me, but I was faster and I heard his flesh tear as I plunged the knife into his side. He backed up and stared at me in shock and I heard both Jake and Tay scream my name as I sunk to the floor. Taylor was in front of me, cupping my face and Jake had Alex by the throat as I held my bleeding arm. |
| TAYLOR: "JEEEESSS!!!" I yelled as I saw her raise her arm and bury the knife in Alex's side. She gashed him pretty good, but not in a place that would be fatal. I heard Jake yell her name too as she slid against the wall to the floor, her hand over the gash in her arm as blood dripped through her fingers and onto the tile. I was instantly in front of her, making her look at me. "Jessie...baby look at me." It took her a couple of seconds, but she focused on me, still clutching her arm. "I'm alright, Tay. I need something for my arm.." she stopped and her eyes widened, focusing on something behind me. I turned to see Jake, holding Alex by the throat, ready to shove him out the door. Alex' face was purple and I could tell he couldn't breathe. "JACOB NO!!!" Jess screamed. "Don't Jake!! Don't throw him outside..he was trespassing, he can't press charges..JAAACOOB!! Listen to me.." she struggled to her feet and moved around me, "Jake...he has to still be in here, or the police won't believe me..let him go.." Jake looked down at Jess. "Jakey please.." she begged, blood running down her arm. "I don't wanna go through another hearing like the last one...just drop him..please.." I moved in front of Jess, making sure there were two bodies between her and Alex. Dave came running in, out of breath and let us know police were on their way. Jake glared at Alex and loosened his grip. "I oughta just kill you.." he said and threw him against the wall. Alex stared hatefully at Jess as he slumped to the ground. "If you look at her like that again, I will kill you.." I said and turned to my wife. "Baby..your arm.." I had to fight to keep back tears. "It's alright, Tay. Just a scratch.." she said, pulled off her t-shirt and wrapped it around her arm. She was standing there, blood gushing from her arm, in her small sweat shorts and bra top. Zac came in with a wet towel and a dry one."Here Jess...don't use your shirt.." he handed the wet one to her, so she could clean up and the dry one to me. She wiped her arm, and I wrapped the cut with the dry hand towel, as Zac threw another towel at Dave. "Don't let him keep bleeding all over the floor man. Do you know what Jess paid to have it put in?" he grinned at Jess who smiled back. I took the wet towel and started to clean her waist and the side of her leg, where blood had run from her arm and I looked down. I saw the look in Alex' eyes as he looked Jess over. I dropped the towel instantly and grabbed him by the shirt. "You dirty motherfucker..." I growled through gritted teeth and then something in me snapped and I punched him in the face as hard as I could. Once that blow connected, I couldn't stop. Everything blurred until I finally focused on my Dad and Jake, shaking me and pulling me backward. "I'll kill him...I swear I will..he wasn't just here to get her to give him money...look at her..." I yelled. "If we hadn't come...if Jess hadn't stabbed him..he would have.." I kept yelling as Dad, Jake and my brothers tried to keep me back. It was Jess' voice that finally got through to me. "Tay!! Tay!! No!! Look..look at me...TAYLOR!!" Her hands were on my face as I tried to get past her, to beat that sick bastard some more. His stepdaughter, no less. "Tay! I'm alright..I might need a couple of stitches..but I am fine. I wouldn't let him, you KNOW that. I'd rather die than have anyone else touch me...or I would have killed him. He's trespassing, I could kill him now and the law protects ME. He's going to jail, Taylor. Attempted rape, robbery, trespassing..you name it I will press the charges. Also physical child abuse if he doesn't plead GUILTY to everything I just named." she said and actually stared him down. |