"ALEX!!!!!" Gary's roars had woken Alex up from her deep sleep. The night before he got home pretty damn drunk and had beaten the hell out of her. When he finished, she just laid there on the floor crying herself to sleep.
"What is it now?" she whispered.
"I found this in the bathroom garbage." He said throwing a positive pregnancy test at her.
She picked it up and looked at it.
"Now, I know it's not my baby, so WHO THE FUCK IS IT????" he roared making Alex shiver.
She started crying. She took the test the night before because her period was late but never had the guts to look at the result so she threw it to the garbage. Gary usually didn't even look at that direction when he was in the bathroom. She was the one cleaning and taking out the trash. His slave. His Cinderella. Or so she thought at the beginning when she
"ANSWER ME!" he said throwing one of the dining room's chairs at her.
She looked at him miserably, not saying a word.
"You bitch! You slept with someone else, eh? You cheated on me! BITCH! SLUT! WHOTE! PROSTITUTE!" he said grabbing her arm and picking her up off the floor, throwing her to the other side of the room, using all his might.
She banged her head at the wall and has started to feel blood dripping on her face.
He approached her and slapped her. "Bitch" he said with a disgusted look.
"Gary I�" she started to say.
"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU SLUT!" he yelled as he started kicking her stomach.
She had soon started coughing and blood came out of her mouth with each cough. Dark-red, thick blood. She soon started feeling aches in her stomach and the blood kept going as Gary kept on slapping her, punching her and kicking her. "Stop it�" she pleaded while crying. "You're hurting me"
"My purpose exactly" he said evilly looking at her and then kicking her again.
Alex felt her whole body going numb. She couldn't feel a thing and everything was getting dark all around her. Finally, she lost her consciousness.
Alex was woken up to the sound of banging. She opened her eyes slowly and the figure of a blond guy hitting Gary was the first thing she could see. Slowly her view became more and more clear when she finally figured who it was. It was Kian.
"Don't�fucking�ever�touch�her�again!" Kian said as he was busy giving Gary a punch with each word he said.
"Get the hell away from me!" Gary said kicking Kian's stomach with his knee. Kian fell backwards. "Who the fuck are you??" Gary demanded to know.
"I'm your worst nightmare!" Kian said getting up quickly.
"Oh really?" Gary said with an evil smile spreading all over his face as he reached to a drawer in the bar and pulled out a gun.
"Holy fuck!" Kian shouted.
Gunfire was heard. And then everything went quiet. Suddenly the gun flew to the other side of the room. Alex managed to raise her head up a bit to see Kian kneeling on the ground holding Gary.
Before Alex could realize what was going on, 5 police officers ran into the living room with Kelly following.
Kelly froze as she ran inside the living room and saw the image of Alex half passed-out on the floor and Kian holding onto Gary. Then she looked at her feet where the gun was.
The police officers ran to Kian and cuffed Gary. "We'll take it from here" one of them said as Kian got up and ran to Alex.
"Alex? Are you ok?" she heard him say from a distance�slowly everything became dark again, and she passed out.
Alex woke up again to the feeling of someone watching her. She opened her eyes and saw Kian standing there with a worried look.
"Kian�" she managed to say.
"I'm here babe, it's ok" he said sitting down at the edge of her bed, wrapping his arms around her. "Don't worry that ass is locked away now, he won't be getting any near you, I promise" as she smiled weakly.
"Where am I?"
"At the hospital�" he said, kissing the top of her head. "You had a�um�what did they call it�a miscarriage" he said looking at her.
"I think there's something I should tell you"
"Yeah I think there is" he said passing his hand in her hair, moving it away from her face.
She hugged him and tears started falling from her eyes.
"Just tell me" he said softly.
"I don't know where to start.."
"How about you start by telling me who is that guy?"
"Gary�" she said and paused. "My husband"
Kian looked at her with a confused look on his face.
"Been dating him for a couple of years�he promised me the world and beyond�I thought I would be happy with him so when he asked me to marry him�I didn't even hesitate and said yes�he was my prince charming. But I had him all figured out wrong. The moment we got back from our honeymoon he expected me to be his slave. Serve him day and night and follow his every command. If I refused, he'd beat the hell out of me. After a while he started hitting me when he got home pissed off, or went and had gotten drunk. And then, at times, he just hit me cos he felt like it�" she paused as Kian wiped her tears away with a handkerchief.
"You don't have to keep on going" he said softly.
"I want to�" she said as he wiped more tears away. They just kept falling and Kian was finding it hard to keep up.
"Alex�" he tried to say.
"No�Let me explain�you have to understand�"
"Ok�" Kian sighed as she carried on telling her story.
"I begged him to let me go to college. With the excuse of him wanting me to make something out of myself. Something useful for him�so he agreed�" she paused again closing her eyes as tears kept on rolling down her cheeks. "When I met you�I just don't know what came over me�you looked so nice and I just�took off my wedding ring and hid it�I wanted to be loved. I wanted someone to care about me as much as you did�"
"So when I asked you the first time we were together, if it's been a long time since�you know�the last time you�you weren't just saying it?"
"No I wasn't�it really has been a long time�" she said and the amount of tears rolling down her cheeks grew bigger, if that was even possible.
"But you did sleep with him�you know after our first time together?"
"The only times he touched me ever since we got home from our honeymoon were only to hit me, and hurt me" she said slowly.
"So how could you be pregnant?"
"I never said it was his�"
"Was it�mine?" Kian said, his blue eyes getting wider and wider.
"Yes�"
"WHAT?" Kian said. "I can't fucking believe this!" he quickly got up off the bed and looked at her.
"You're mad, aren't you?" she asked looking at him.
He just sighed deeply and stormed out of the room.
"Fuck�just�fuck" Alex mumbled.