Broken by the Bully

Chapter : 9. Punishment..

Kizie's point of view:-

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I am currently trying to convince Sammy that this is not her fault, but she's denying it every time.

“If I haven't forced you to trust him, then you wouldn't be with him today. I don't know why I believed his sweet talks. I knew he was a playboy.” Sammy was about to cry.

“For the last time, this is not your fault. So please, can you promise me that you will never say that, it's your fault…” I reassure her.

“Ok, I promise. But now you have to stay away from him.” Sammy ordered me.

“I can't do that…” I mumbled to her.

“What? Why? Are you crazy?” She is more than shocked now.

“He said he loves me.” My sound was not above a whisper. But she heard me clearly.

“You think he was serious? What if it's one of his pranks again?” I know it is a possibility but still...

“But he seemed serious. And I can't push away someone who loves me. Because there is a very few of them who loves me.” My tears are now flowing down my cheeks.

“Hey, babe don't cry. If you think that he was serious, maybe you should take some time to know him before making any further decisions. And I promise I'll support your decision.” She said while hugging me sideways and rubbing my arm.

“I think that will be a good idea. I have to think about all of this with a clear mind.” We both nod together.

It's 10.30 pm now and Sammy just dropped me In front of my house. I changed my clothes back in her place and removed my makeup. When she left I looked at my house and shied. All the lights are off, which means everyone's asleep. Thank god our plans worked.

I went to the backside of my house, stepped on the porch, and turned the door handle. It was unlocked just like I told Liza and entered through the back door quietly. It's dark inside. I locked the door behind and turned around. Suddenly all the lights turned on and there they are standing In front of me. I instantly freeze in my spot.

My dad's face is red with anger and Susan's eyes were red with some tear stains on her cheeks. What happened here? How did they know I was outside? And why was Susan crying? Something's wrong.

“Here is your slut daughter, sneaking in at midnight after whoring around. I swear David, if you don't do anything about her today, I'm going to leave you…” Susan said and started sobbing.

My face turned pale. What did I do wrong with her? My dad came near me and I start shivering in fear.

“I… I swear dad… I… I didn't… do… anything.” I took a step back. But he grabbed my hair and pulled me In front of her.

She slapped my face hard, I wasn't able to turn my face around cause dad was still holding my hair tightly. I just kept my eyes closed for any upcoming hits. She slapped me again, this time he left my hair making me fall on the ground.

“Wha… what is my…fa… fault?” I asked while sobbing.

“What is your fault? How dare you ask us what is your fault. You put my daughter's life in danger while you're whoring around.” Susan answered my question. My eyes got wide with worry at that moment.

“What happened to her? Where is she?” I get up and was about to run to her room when someone pulled my hand and slapped me again. I turn my face up at the person, and it was my dad.

“You're not going anywhere without your punishment. Because of you, that little girl got her hand burned. She had to cry for you.” He explained to me the reason for my punishment.

I can't believe Liza got hurt for me. How can I be so stupid? It's my mistake. I should have been careful. How much pain she must have gone through. I deserve this punishment.

Dad pulled out his belt from his pants and whipped me with it. My legs gave up from pain after some time and I fell to the floor, but he kept his hitting. After a while, he stopped, get closer to me, and kicked my belly twice. I took in all pain silently because I know I deserved it.

When they left me, I got up to go check on Liza. My whole body was aching from pain, but I ignored it and get to her room. She was sitting on her bed, head in knees. I called her, and she shot her head up and started to cry.

“I'm so sorry sis. I tried to hide everything, but my finger got burned from the hot pan.” She told me in between her sobbing.

“It's okay sweetie, I know you tried your best. I'm sorry. I should have never made you go near the fire. You're too young for that. It's my mistake, and you had to pay for that. I'm so sorry.” I kneeled In front of her and put my head on her lap.

She gasped looking at my torn shirt, blood wetting my whole back. She felt more sorry for that.

“They hit you so ruthlessly because of my little pain! How can someone be this much cruel?”

Then she pulled herself together and helped me clean my wounds and bandage them up. She is sure much more mature than her age. I love her so much. Thanks to God for giving me someone like her to be with me, in my messed up life.

It's been two days since that incident, and Jake has never tried to contact me ever since. Maybe he realized his mistake and changed his mind. He was really drunk that day. If that's the case then my decision should be to stay away from him.

Today Sammy's not going to school because she had to attend a wedding along with her parents, so I walked alone to school. It took me an hour to reach there. I was tired by the time I reached there. I regret now that should have taken the bus.

Reaching school everything felt weird, everyone was staring at me. I ignored all glares and made my way inside. Why is everyone looking at me? Is something on my face? I thought to myself.

I heard some of them talking nasty things about me. Now I understand, they are behaving weirdly for Jake's little speech that day. As I was going in, all girls were shooting daggers at me with their eyes and calling me dirty names. The life where nobody cared about me was way better than this. I tried to get to my class as soon as possible.

Suddenly someone pushed me with full force and I hit my back with the wall. My previous day's wounds were almost healed, but it's still had a little pain. My eyes tear up from the pain and I was about to fall onto the floor. But before I can, a hand grabbed my neck and started to chock me. I looked at the person and it was Cristy.

“How dare you to hook up with my Jake, you slut?” She shouted at me.

“He is only mine. If you think you can take him away from me then you are wrong. He will never be with someone pathetic like you. You may have bewitched him for now, but mark my words, he will get back to me eventually.” She was choking me so hard that I was about to lose consciousness when someone pulled her away from me.

I took a few deep breaths and looked up at Cristy. There was standing a furious Jake pulling Cristy's hair with his hand, in front of me.

“What are you doing Jake! Leave me…” she squirmed to get her hair away from his grip but failed.

Then he slapped her making me gasp in shock. She falls to the ground and started to cry.

“What is wrong with you? Why did you hit me?” Cristy asked him.

“I told you before to stay away from her, but you dared to hurt her. Now you have to pay for your mistake.” Jake said and was about to hit her when I stopped him.

“No Jake don't. Violence is not the way to solve all problems. Please leave her.” I requested him.

“I'm sorry Jake. I promise I'll never come near her again. Please forgive me.” Cristy begged.

“Ok fine. Everybody listen I am warning you last time, if I saw any of you near her or talk bad things about her, the consequences won't be good. Nobody's allowed to look at what's mine, and she is mine. She always will be mine.” He told everyone with a dominating voice.

Now I noticed that there was a huge crowd gathered around us, and I felt a little ashamed. He just claimed me as his again, in front of everyone. This time sober. That means he really loves me, and I know what my final decision should be. I am ready to give my heart to him. I am finally ready to love the bully.