Chapter 3 Returned

Chapter 3 Returned

I woke up as Parker screamed. When my eyes opened the front window was broken and they were inside. I saw Mallory close the bathroom door sealing herself and Kevin in. I immediatley stood and ran to Parker's side, I grabbed her hand and ran toward the kitchen. Parker's hand was gone and when I turned she had been knocked down. I grabbed a kitchen chair and smashed it over the back of Parker's attacker. He turned to me and tackled me to the floor. "Parker run!" I screamed, she stood up and looked around. I felt the guy on top of me scratching at my neck and then he was choking me. I smashed his head against the bathroom door once, twice, three times his grip tightened. Parker was crying now and I could see her start to panic. I shoved my tumb hard into my attacker's eye, as he squeezed my throat harder. Parker ran up the stairs. I felt his eye pop under the pressure of my thumb. He finally let go and shrieked raising his own hands to his empty socket. I coughed, placed my foot on his chest and pushed hard. He soared back and slammed into the wall. I stood up slowly and dove at the woman that had hold of Isabella. She fell to the ground and I was on top of her. I started to punch. Alessandro came over and grabbed his wife guiding her to the stairs. I kept punching as she let out a howls of pain. I didn't stop. I wouldn't stop. Her face was chop meat after three minutes and I saw the bathroom door get forced open. I stood up, the guy that had forced his way in let out a scream as I saw Mallory spraying hairspray into his eyes. I jumped over the coffee table and forced him away from the door. Mallory closed it quickly and I kneed the guy in the stomach and pushed him into the kitchen. It was the guy with one eye. I grabbed him by his shirt and dragged him to the back door. I opened and closed the door on his head until he stopped moving, and then sunk to the floor. I put my hands on my face and looked back into the living room. My hands were covered in blood and now my face was to, my neck was raw. I was finally catching my breath. I stood up slowly and walked over to the bathroom door, "Scotty doesn't know." I said hoarsely, the door opened slowly and inside was Mallory and Kevin who was still unconscious. He was sewn up and he had some of his color back. I looked at them and Mallory stood up off the floor.

"Oh my God. Are you okay?" she asked as I walked over to the stairs. I nodded and started up them toward the bedroom, my heart was still thumping hard in my chest as I reached the second floor. Mallory was still on the first floor, looking up at me. The only problem was that it wasn't me I was empty. I wasn't feeling anything. I was going on instinct. I knocked on the bedroom door.

"Open up." I said as I knocked on the door to the bedroom, Alessandro swung it open a lamp in hand.

"Jesus Christ, you scared me." he said as I looked in the room and behind him was Isabella and Parker. Parker was immediatley at my side wrapping her arms around me.

"I'm sorry. I freaked out. I didn't know what to do. I just. . . "she was crying.

"You did good." I strained to talk, my throat was killing me.

"What, but I ran." she said. She looked at me, and finally noticed all the blood, "Oh my God you're bleeding." she screamed out. I heard something break downstairs.

"Most of its not mine." I said, she held my hands and then I heard a small yelp. I took off, racing for the stairs and then down them. When I reached the landing Mallory had stabbed a piece of glass from the broken window into the head of the woman that I had punched. Mallory looked over at me, and then started back toward the bathroom. Alessandro was behind me, his hand on my shoulder.

"Go wash up, Isabella will give you some of my clothes to changing into." he said, I coughed a little and nodded. Turning back to the stairs I walked past Parker and into the upstairs bathroom, it was pitch black. I turned on the light, and stripped. I had small cuts on my knuckles and there was blood on my face, arms, and hands. I turned on the shower, and climbed in. The cold water woke me up and tensed my muscles. I was freezing but at least I was feeling. I heard the bathroom door open, I opened the curtain a little and it was Isabella coming in with a candle and clothes. She smiled at me and turned off the light the room dimmed to candle light as she left it on the sink and closed the door. I sealed my self back into the shower, away from the others and away from the world. I watched as the blood drizzled down my body and onto the white porcelian of the tub. The cold was biting my skin harshly and my teeth were chattering. I formed fists and tightened them. I had killed someone. It wasn't like when I had hit them and they got back up, that guy wasn't going to get back up. He was going to lay there still forever. Warm tears slid down my face as I clenched my fists tighter. I could feel my finger nails break the skin of my palms. I closed my eyes to stop from crying. I had to kill him. It was me or him, Parker or him. I shut off the water abruptly and stepped out of the shower. I grabbed the towel off the towel rack and dried up. I dressed in the very tight white shirt, jeans that were to big, and an overshirt that was like a parachute that Isabella had laid out for me. I walked out of the bathroom leaving the candle in there and made my way down stairs buttoning the third button from the top and leaving the rest undone.

"Thanks for the clothes." I muttered walking past Isabella.

"The t-shirt is mine I didn't think that any of Alessandro's would be fitting you." she walked over to her husband who stood by the broken front window.

"We can't stay here." he said looking over at me.

I snorted, "To bad where else are we gonna go."

Mallory walked out of the downstairs bathroom, her hand was bandaged. "I don't know." he answered.

"Look," Mallory said, "Our friends are coming for us. They went for help. When they get here then and only then are we leaving."

"Mallory, don't be such a fucking bitch." Parker interjected coming from the kitchen. "Look," she said turning to Alessandro, "Why don't you and Isabella go check on Iyari in the basement make sure she's okay, and give me and my friends a chance to talk." The couple looked one another in the eyes and nodded, walking over to the basement entrance and vanishing from sight.

"Iyari, whose that?" I asked.

"Their daughter she's like four or six I don't remember any way she's in the basement." Parker said moving to the sofa and taking a seat. "How's Kevin?" she asked looking over at Mallory.

"Better, the stitches helped. . . a lot, but I uh. . . think he might need blood. He's really disorientated." she said.

"Wait he's awake?" I asked.

"Yeah for about a half hour now, but he's not making any sense. He just keeps muttering about random things, 'Hilary Duff can so sing'. . . 'Why do they always kill off Mike Vogel' shit like that." she glanced over at Parker. "I'm not leaving here until Warren comes."

Parker sighed, "What do you want Mallory? Do you want me to tell you that--" Parker stood up and I spun around to look out the window. My car sped up to Courtney's house. I saw Parker take off to the basement entrance and Mallory run to the bathroom. I vaulted out through the broken window and toward Queen Bee. Warren and Scotty jumped out of the car.

"Over here!" I screamed they stopped in their tracks, turned to me and then a light was in my face. I couldn't see.

"Its okay, he's one of us." I heard Warren yell.

"Where are the others?" Scotty shouted and then he was next to me grabbing my shoulders tightly. I grabbed his hand and ran back to the Badia's house. Scott and Warren were both with me when I got inside Mallory had pulled Kevin out of the bathroom and Parker was back on from the basement with the entire Badia family including little Iyari, who was clinging to her mother. "Come on!" Scotty commanded. I saw them first racing toward us, there were so many of them.

"Holy shit!" I screamed, making my way back into the house. Parker fell and hit the coffee table hard knocking the candles down on the carpet. She stood up slowly and I fell on my back next to her. She helped me up as Warren went over to help Mallory with Kevin. The fire was getting worse as I finally stood.

"Get to the cars!" Scotty was yelling, They jumped through the window. I grabbed Parker and ran to the kitchen, making it to the back door. She swung it open and we ran into the backyard. We ran along the side and toward the Queen Bee, there was another car behind it a small old man was behind the wheel, and a black woman who looked not much older than me sat in the passenger seat. I ran to it, and opened the back door. Parker jumped in and as I was about to I saw Isabella stumble to the ground. Iyari was screaming as one of the others started pulling her away by the hair, her mother was trying to get the man on top of her off and get to her daughter at the same time. I closed the back door and ran over to them. I grabbed a pike from their broken picket fence and slammed it on the back of the guy that had a hold on Iyari. He didn't let go and he kept dragging her away. I threw it to the ground picked up a shard of wood instead and shoved it into his neck. He let go and turned to me, and fell. I grabbed Iyari and brought her back to the car with the Parker.

"Watch her." I commanded. Parker nodded and held onto her. I raced back Isabella's face was being pushed deep in the dirt and I ran up to him and with all my might rammed my knee into his jaw. The momentum knocked him off her and onto the stairs of the front portch. Isabella was spitting and coughing, as Alessandro fell to the ground beside her. I took the pipe he had in his hands from him, "Get her outta here!" I yelled, he nodded and took off toward one of the cars, dragging his wife with him. I spun around and swung the pipe at the woman that had knocked Alessandro down. She dodged it. I swung again, and she moved out of the way. When I swung the third time she grabbed it and tried to pull it from me, I slammed my knee in her gut and when she released it I smashed her head again and again with it until I heard a sickening thud. Kevin was on the floor in the burning house, I looked over to the cars. Where were Scotty, Warren, and Mallory? I ran into the house and grabbed Kevin, putting the pipe down. Scott and Warren were getting cornered by four of them and Mallory was being held against the wall by some guy twice her size. He had her off the ground, his hands around her neck. I pulled Kevin out onto the lawn and waved to the car.

The black woman and Parker jumped out of the car and raced toward the house. "We'll put him in the back." the black girl screamed, "George!" she yelled as I took off back inside, Mallory had gotten the upper hand and was getting up off the floor as the man shrieked in pain. I dove onto the back of one of Scott's attackers. He walked back and slammed me on the banister. I screamed out and let go, he turned to me picked me up and flung me on the stairs. I started to stand seeing Mallory pick up the pipe I had left on the floor. She swung it at his chin and connected.The fire was spreading and the large sofa we had sat on moments ago was now a blaze. I kicked my attacker in the gut sending him down the stairs and I ran up them. He followed. I dove into the bathroom with him on my tail I grabbed the candle in there and shoved it in his face. He screamed out. I grabbed the shower curtain rod and pulled it down. He was howling on the floor and when he opened his mouth I drove the curtain rod in his mouth. I felt it hit teeth and then the back of his throat. I pressed down hard and felt the soft tissue give way. When he stopped moving I ran down stairs. When I reached the first floor the fire was everywhere and Mallory was limping toward me. Scotty and Warren were standing up too. The four of us made our way outside. We moved to Queen Bee and got in.