The station
1514 Words
Emmett’s
P.O.V
When I found dad in the shower I lost my s**t! Only coming to when Leah dad pulled me off of my father, he wasn’t moving. Served that fucker right.
He lead me to believe that inflicting pain on a woman was how you show love! Dam him to hell and back.
“Emmett I have to take you down to the station son.”
“My.. my mom is she okay? And brace.. Leah how is she?”
“They are both okay son, but now I have to take you down to the station.”
Mr Lockwood cuffed my hands together while he told me my rights and drove off to the station, he led me to the interrogation room.
“Alright son from the being tell me what happened”
I explained to him how dad had been abusing mom since I was little too how he told me that that was how he showed love to mom and I believed him.
“My mother never showed that what he was doing hurt or was wrong, she would smile when he gripped her to tight or shoved her, I never saw her cry or bleed. I guess she hid those things away from me. Until a few hours ago.”
“Okay and what happened a few hours ago?”
“I was at Shaun’s place, played some games then watch a movie, it was about her husband that abused her and she called the cops on him, I said to Shaun that she didn’t love him because why would she put him in jail if all his done was showing her he loves her, that’s when they told me that it was wrong. I remembered dad was coming home and always when he returned from a business trip he give her love marks as he put it, I found mom bloody and crying for the first time then I just lost it.”
“Okay son, your dad is in a critical condition. So at the moment this would be called a tempered murder. Do you understand that?”
“Yes sir I do.”
“I know you this this to help your mom son, but you can’t take the law into your own hands. Has no one ever told you that what your father was doing was wrong? And how is it that for so long this was the first time that you have seen a movie based on abuse?”
“Dad made me believe that, that was how a woman wanted to be treated and mom never showed signs of hating the things he did to her, also I was never allowed to watch television growing up, we owned one but in mom and dads room.”
“Alright son I’ll have to keep you here for the night, just until I get a statement from your mom, but I’ll suggest you get a lawyer.”
“Leah is she gonna be okay?”
“Yes she is don’t worry about her right now hopefully she will be home in a few hours. Would you like me to say anything to her?”
“I’d like to be the one to talk to her if that’s okay, although she will probably hear about this before I get a chance to speak to her, so you may tell her about what has happened. Will I be able to see her just to explain?”
“I’ll have to hear what she has to say son, I’ll be back in the morning to check on you okay.”
Mr Lockwood left and I was taken by another officer to the holding cell but this didn’t bother me, what bothered me the most was that I hurt someone I love thinking that it was right.
Would she even forgive me? Will she wait for me if they find me guilty? I didn’t even know how this worked but I didn’t care my father got what he does, I only hope mother and Leah can forgive me.
If I am to loose Leah I’d be broken, I just hope she understands why I did what I did even though it was wrong I was taught differently.
Sleep failed to come to me my mind kept going back to all the times I have hurt Leah and to be truthfully honest my actions towards her hurt me.
I’d have to make this right whenever I get out of here if given a second chance I will show her how sorry I am for treating her the way I did.
Leah’s
P.O.V
I was feeling good about my self so I took a shower and washed my hair, yip my eyes hurt so did my head but I pushed past that nothing was gonna chance my good mood.
I got dressed, left my long hair wet and loose so it could dry naturally. The bell rang, dad has a key I’m sure so why is he ringing the bell, maybe his hands are full or he forgot his keys.
I took my time down the stairs and the bell kept on ringing.
“Geez keep your pants on this is as fast as I can go!” I shouted hoping dad could hear me
When I opened the door I was surprised to see Shaun and another girl from school standing there.
“What do you want Shaun?”
He didn’t answer right away instead he was gawking at me with his mouth hanging open.
“Close your hole Shaun you’ll catch flies”
I said to him
“I.. er sorry uhm… wow you look
“What? Why are you here?
I cut him off mid sentence
“Sorry I just came by to see how you are doing.”
“Well you saw so you can leave now.”
“No wait I.. we came to talk to you.”
“About what?”
“Can we come inside”
The girl asked
“Fine but make this quick”
Once I led them to the lounge area I offered some sodas to them.
“So why are you here?”
“Well, this is Anastasia my younger sister.”
“Hi I’m Leah, but I’m sure that’s not what you came here for!.”
“Hi, no that’s not what we are here for, we’ll we actually came here to tell you something and before you say anything just please listen okay.”
Anastasia said
“Okay I’ll listen”
“We know what Emmett has been doing and it’s not right I know I’ve asked him many times why he would always treat you the way he did but he would always tell me to butt out, he can be intimidating and honestly he frightens me a bit but last night at our house something happened that made him realise that what he has been doing to show you that he loves you was wrong.
“Oh come on Shaun, what he means to say is that since the first day that Emmett saw you at school he has loved you it’s cute I think, so he rusted home to tell his mom all about his future wife, his father over heard, gave Emmett advice on how a woman should be treated and loved which is actually bullying but come on he was a kid and he thought his dad was helping him win you over, turns out his dad has been abusing his mom all these years in-front of him and his mother never once let on that it hurt so anything like that.”
Anastasia finished
“So what does this have to do with me?”
“He thought that what he was doing to you was love Leah.”
Shaun said
“That’s bullshit and you know it!”
“Yes it may seem that way but you had to see his face when my father told him that it wasn’t love it was abuse. He ran home because his dad came home from a business trip and he would always show love to his mother when he was out of town, Emmett found his mom in a bad shape when he got home and lost it, beat his dad to a pulp, I’m not here to excuse what he has done to you but it was what was taught to him Leah, Emmett was a young boy and he never once thought that his father was teaching him the wrong things.”
Anastasia said
“So you want me to believe he loves me?”
“Look we don’t know everything that all we know, I’m sure Emmett will clear things up better then we can, just don’t give up on him.”
Shaun said
“Well that’s, I don’t know, I… what do you expect me to do?”
“Talk to him Leah, he really cares about you.”
Shaun said
“Okay then I’ll call my dad.”
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