I always want you here, Lili.
I'd been stumbling around for a long while before I had made my way home, noticing Kai's light on in his front room as I reached for the garage door. My heart and mind burned, all I'd done is walk- or sit and think of Sweet Pea.
I slid under the garage door, my boots sliding across the ground. My back hit the concrete floor suddenly forcing the air from my lungs.
Thankfully my hands flung out, catching the door before it slammed down on my neck. The metal rattled violently at my sudden forceful grip.
I let out a small laugh as I rolled into my safe space, I rolled my eyes at my drunken mistake. My body had been drowned in alcohol these past few days.
The warmth of my buzz seemed to shock me as suddenly and immediately my body freezes at the cold thick- blood pooled; my hands in it. I couldn't help but recognize it immediately.
I squeeze my eyes shut, terrified to find the source. I sat back, already knowing I was covered in whoever's blood this is.
I took a deep breath before I forced my eyes wide open, only for them to fill with tears. I shot the inside of my elbow over over my mouth as I screamed out.
"Caliban." I whimpered out at the sight of my dog, clearly having been dead for some time due to the thickness of the blood I was in. The temperature bringing goosebumps across my skin.
Despite me knowing this I still laid a blood covered hand over his smooth black fur, I choked back a sob. At the sight of multiple bullet holes in my baby I knew they had come from my father. I cried out in hysterics, my one friend.
My one last comfort in my dark world, the one thing I thought my father wouldn't take from me. I could barely see his figure through my tears as I sat in his blood, it soaked through my clothes and to my skin. The feeling; the sight of my murdered baby making me gag.
I rushed back out of the garage, vomiting into the dead grass.
My traumatized haze instinct was to call Sweet Pea only to curse loudly before shoving it back into my pocket and standing up on my buckling legs.
I forced my feet to Sami's
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Lilith banged on the door, "Sami!"
Sweet Pea could barely hear- clearly it had been an accident but he couldn't help but pick up the moment it rang. He regretted his words, his ultimatum. They hadn't talked in days.
"Why the fuck are you covered in blood?" A male's voice rang out clear as day, making Sweet Pea glare at his table.
"Where the fuck is your sister, Kyle." Sweet Pea felt like he was actually going to vomit. Of course Kyle was Sami's brother, the "friend" she had stayed the night with. He couldn't help the scoff that came out of him, throwing his head back against the couch.
Despite him not wanting to hear anything else he didn't end the call. "Are you hurt?"
"Don't touch me, you freak." Sweet Pea's eyes opened in hope, his mind racing up to the words blood and Lilith being hurt.
"He fucking killed him." Sweet Pea's was so confused.
"He fucking- fuck!" His girl yelled out in stress.
"He shot him and left him on the fucking ground for me to find." Her words are rushed as she stares Kyle down, refusing to let her emotions show through.
"Where the fuck is Sam." Lilith snapped at the tall blonde.
"Who'd he shoot? She's not here shut up about it." Lilith rolled her eyes hard, Sweet Pea tensing up at the guys tone.
"Caliban." Sweet Pea's guilt soared at the dogs name, Lilith had send him multiple pictures of the dog and her grinning besides his mean face.
"Why don't you take those off? Take a shower." Lilith glared hard at his wondering eyes.
"If you look at my tits once more fucking time I'll gut you like the fucking pig you are." Lilith wanted to lunge at him, cut his fucking throat open. Even Sweet Pea was slightly intimidated by the girls threat.
"Chill the fuck out, God. You're such a fucking bitch, but a nice ass fucking lay." At this Lilith slapped his head hard.
"My fucking dog is dead! This is why I broke your fucking nose." Sweet Pea is relieved to hear her speak again, smiling slightly knowing she hit the man.
"You're a fucking freak. You're predator. You rape underage drunk girls and tell them they fucking asked for it." At this Lilith's rage rises and so does Sweet Pea's, her words about their encounter played through his head. He'd kill him.
"You were begging for it. I don't give a fuck if your pussy was fifteen or not." Lilith's fist flies out, punching him as hard as she could.
Lilith tugs her knife out, "Stay fucking silent unless you want me to slit your throat. I haven't done it because I like your sister but with one more word I won't give a fuck who you're related to."
The twenty six year old man leaned away from the blade at his neck, putting his hands up in surrender.
"Listen-" He starts only for Lilith to start too, her hand doesn't hesitate to drag across his chest.
"Fuck!" The man all but screamed out making Sweet Pea sit up in concern. She wouldn't kill someone, right?
Sweet Pea did the only thing he could think of, he hung up and immediately called back.
The ringing made Lilith ease back, not taking her eyes off of him.
"Hello?" She didn't even recognize her own voice as she watched Kyle's blood cover his shirt.
"Come over." Sweet Pea demanded, bouncing his knee up in down.
Lilith didn't need anything more than that though, "Okay."
She didn't utter a single word to Kyle, just immediately exited the small house.
Lilith didn't remember the drive over, she couldn't feel her own body as she stumbled towards Sweet Pea's door.
"I need to shower." The girl muttered as soon as his door opened, tears rising as she looked over her arms.
"That's okay. You know I don't mind you getting naked." Sweet Pea tried to tease, tried to bring her back down from wherever she was.
It didn't take long for her to get to him and it confused him but he knew he couldn't focus on that right now.
Sweet Pea stared as she entered. Her knees down were covered in blood, making her boots matte instead of their usual shine. The entirety of her hands were red, it smeared up to her elbows. Sweet Pea couldn't help but wince at the streaks across the girls cheeks.
"Don't fucking ask. It's not mine." She tried to her boots off without touching anything.
"Please fucking help me!" Lilith cried out of seemingly nowhere, her hair kept falling over her face and that too had been dripped into the blood.
Sweet Pea all but ran to her, feeling guilty for not offering. Her upper arm leaned against his shoulder as Sweet Pea unlaced her boots, pulling them off before standing before her.
Lilith's usually bright eyes were bloodshot with tears, with grief. Sweet Pea aided her shirt off of her before tugging her shorts down, he didn't hesitate to lift her into his arms despite the blood. The intense metallic smell that engulfed the poor girl.
Sweet Pea hated himself for noticing how sticky she was from the blood.
"Stay in here, please." Lilith whimpered out as Sweet Pea turned from her.
He nodded as he turned on the water, not looking when she tugged off her intimates and stepped inside.
Within minutes he could hear her crying, sobbing really. She cried more now than she had the night her dad had assaulted her.
"What happened, Lili?" His voice filled the small space making her sniffle.
"H-He killed Caliban." Sweet Pea's heart clenched at this. No sane person would kill an animal, much less a household pet that their daughter loved more than anything else in the world.
"I'm sorry, Baby." Sweet Pea didn't know what to say, but his voice helped ease her from her hysterics.
"Can I please sleep here, Sweet Pea?" Her question seemed unnecessary to him.
"I always want you here, Lili."