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Chapter 13
It’s now been a few weeks since that night with Jonah, and not a lot has changed. He has become sneakier now with the beatings, only placing bruises where they cannot be seen. The beatings themselves had never been as bad as the one that night but some were getting extremely close. When he was done he would still continue to cry and shake and repeatedly tell me he was sorry, or that he didn’t mean to and how he loved me so much. Every time like the fool I am forgave him, he’d try and make it up to me, buy me presents, be extra nice for a couple of days, well until I stepped out of line again. Jonah now wanted sex most of the time, especially after he had hit me, a way to prove his love he said. When I say no he still manages to make me, he has this way of persuasion. Although when sometimes I have said no he hasn’t tried anything that was the sweet side of him. I mean yes I hate the evil side of Jonah, the side that hurts me but when he was acting nice and sweet it’s like when I first met him. People at school didn’t have a clue of course, not even my friends, Jonah had most of the school adoring him. Most of the teachers thought he was an excellent student and made the cutest couple, apparently we were even nominated for the cutest couple of the term. The one person who of course wasn’t fascinated over Jonah like everyone else was Eli. Eli has been strange these past weeks, he’ll go through stages of being the sweet nice guy and then in a day it would all change to the arse hole again. When we went back Monday, after that night, he seemed torn like he wanted to do something but like he wasn’t allowed. He was pretty moody that day, but I didn’t expect anything different with his past behaviour. Sometimes in lessons he would look at me with a cheeky grin on his face as if to say hey, but the next of course would be that same pained teacher expression. Mum had been away a lot recently, so she would never notice the bruises or how Jonah used to behave. When we were alone Jonah would be the guy I loved, we could sit for hours together laughing and joking then he would change. He has eased up on letting me see my friends a lot now seeing as Amanda had a go at him for keeping me all to him. I actually hadn’t seen him a lot this week, I mean school he was like glue but he would say he could trust me to be alone with friends. We had a Christmas show coming up in a weeks on the last day of term, Jonah knew that the band was singing so he let us get on with it and concentrated on his football, the main reason we hadn’t seen a lot of each other after school.
Today was a Saturday and I knew Jonah would probably be round this afternoon. It was about 11 and I had just come down out of the shower. I really couldn’t be bothered with anything today so I decided to stay in my sweats and put a jumper on. Mum was due back mid-week after her weekend trip, so I knew I had the house to myself. I walked into the living room and collapsed on the sofa, while grabbing the remote. I must have started watching a re run of glee for about 20 minutes when there was a knock at the door. I looked at the time and thought it couldn’t be Jonah as 1. He usually let himself in and 2. I knew he was with his mum this morning. I thought I must just leave it as I really couldn’t be arsed to move but then they knocked again. I tore myself away from the sofa and muttered expletives until I approached it. When I opened it, a guy was standing there, he was about 5’8, had black straight hair and was in dark denim jeans and a jacket I couldn’t see his face as he had his back to me. “Hello?” I asked grumpily. The guy turned automatically and I soon recognised him. “Hey Grace Erm this is slightly awkward but is there any chance I could come in for a bit?” he said a bit sheepishly. “Yeah your right awkward and why?” I asked now curious. “Well I kind of lost my key to Eli’s place and I can’t get in until he gets back and its cold out here please?” he looked at me with puppy dog eyes and with a pout. “Fine but any whores you have stay outside” I said dead seriously. His face was an absolute picture, his mouth fell open and then it turned into a mock offended look, “I don’t go with whores, only sluts, I have standards” he said walking in. I looked at him after closing the door and we both burst into fits of laughter.
When we had stopped I made my way back to the living room and once again collapsed on to the sofa, Max followed behind me but sat across from me. We sat in quite an awkward silence for a while until he was brave enough to break the ice. “So how’s things?” I turned the TV off and sat up to look at him. “Things are ok thanks, haven’t seen you at Eli’s in a while” “Yeah been trying to concentrate on college and stuff, how are things between you and Eli now?” he asked with his eyebrow raised. “Max to be honest with you I don’t have a clue, one minute he’s fine the next an arse I don’t know where I stand anymore.” Wow that felt god to say it aloud. Max looked at me intently, “Well he’s probably confused and torn; I mean Eli always wants to do the right thing” “What do you mean?” he was been very vague. A small smirk appeared on his lips, admittedly I could see why girls go for Max, he was nice looking, nothing compared to Eli but still up there, and that smirk must run in the family. “Well it’s just a pretty girl like you that he obviously likes and would love to kiss you but knows he can’t be with you because of his job, it must hurt him and he must think not doing anything about it is the right thing to do.” I looked at him blankly; Eli like me, no he has made it clear in the past that we were a mistake. “Max you know don’t you?” “Know what?” he asked smirking once again. “That we kissed” he pulled a face of shock horror and then said “You playing tonsil tennis and trying to get into my cousins pants, yeah I know” “I was not trying to get into his pants” “You were so thinking about it though” “No, I wasn’t Max he’s my teacher” “Didn’t stop either of you practically dry humping back stage did it” I was in shock, what the fuck did Eli tell him happened. “Max I can assure you there was no and I repeat no other form of sexual contact between me and Eli apart from a kiss” “So you didn’t try to unbutton his shirt” shit I forgot about that, well that’s a lie I think about that kiss some nights when I’m not with Jonah. “I’m taking your silence as a yes” he said smugly. “Ok but that was it then he just walked off and then screamed at me on Monday, he becomes an arsehole for weeks then at Amanda’s party apologises and dances with me, and now I don’t know where I stand.” I sighed out helplessly. “He does like you, although he finds it hard to admit it he does. I’ve never really seen him this way with a girl before, when I have been round he either sits in his room or does work all depressed like. When I try and ask him about it he just tells me I don’t understand.” I thought about what Max had said, why my life has to be so confusing. “If he does like me and just admitted it to himself I would have been his from the first day I met him, but I have Jonah now and I see the amount of women that goes in there.” “Ah yes Jonah, how could we forget and everyman has needs Grace even if that boy is whipped on you.” “Can we talk about something else?” I asked hopefully, Max had given me a lot to think about. “Sure, got anymore gigs lined up?” “Not really, we’re playing in the Christmas show on the last day at the end of next week, you coming to see it?” “Yeah Eli has roped me in to come watch, he is singing.” “Is he, oh god all the ladies there are going to be drooling” we both burst out into fits of laughter again.
Max had been here now for about 2 hours and was now reaching 1 o’clock. I had made us both something to eat at lunch, which he demolished in seconds. We talked about a lot of different things, Christmas, New Year, college, what our plans were. The convocation became so relaxed and friendly, it felt like I had known Max for years, he is also so funny many times we would both be in stiches. I looked at the time, “Whens Eli actually back?” I asked, “He said when I called should be here around half 1, so you got any games?” “What?” I asked making sure I heard him right. “Games you know like to play I’m bored” “Games Erm well got snakes and ladders, monopoly and twister” Max’s face lit up immediately, “Please can we play twister?” he asked like a year old. “Fine I’ll go get it child” I replied laughing.
When I got back we laid the mat out in the middle of the floor and put the spinner next to it. “How we going to play with 2 people?” I asked him. “Will just spin for each other I guess, you can start” he said smirking. “Fine but if you try anything Maximus I will break your arm” I said sweetly. “Why would I do a thing like that” He spun the spinner and I had to place me left foot on the bright yellow circle, I spun for him and before long we were in some very strange positions. We were now on our third game and we were having such a laugh. Every time we landed in a heap, we would both almost wet ourselves laughing.
Max had just spun for me and I had to bend down and my top started to rise slowly. “Grace it’s your go- What the fuck!” he screamed and gasped. I realised he must have seen the swollen blue bruises that lied on my rib cage. I immediately shot up and pulled my top down; Max had now a jumped beside me. “Grace what happened?” he said trying to comfort me. I couldn’t look him in the eye, and just shrugged. “It’s nothing” “Doesn’t look like nothing, have you got them anywhere else?” he asked curiously, I knew I had dark purple ones at the top of my arms but they were covered by my top. “No” I whispered. Max quickly grabbed my hand and pulled my closer to him “How comes I don’t believe you?” he started slowly lifting the sleeve up my arm, I reached out and placed my hand on his “Please don’t” I pleaded. It didn’t stop him and soon the hand shape bruises appeared. Once again he gasped and I just looked at the celling, tears threatening to fall any second. He traced the bruises carefully making sure he wasn’t hurting me, I flinch a couple of time but allowed him to continue. “Grace who did this to you?” he asked shock and pity on his face. This is just what I needed right now, months I had been hiding it and had been so careful, and no its all come out because of a stupid game of twister with my teachers cousin. “Grace who did this to you?” he shouted. I looked him in the eyes and burst into tears. They flowed down my cheek and onto Max’s top. He held me for what seemed like forever and as I whimpered kept comforting me. When the final tear had fallen I knew it was time to tell Max. “Max I think we should sit down let me just clear this up” I lead him to the sofa. “Grace, who did this to you?” he spoke softly. “Well Max it was Jonah” I could see the rage build up in his eyes. “Jonah, I’m going to kill him” “Max please whatever I say now you can’t tell anybody nor do anything please Max” I pleaded to him. He seemed to think about it for ages before just nodding his head. I proceeded to tell him everything. When Jonah had first started acting weird, becoming controlling, to at the gig when he pushed me over. I then told him about the first time Jonah hit me. I could see Max’s reaction and knew he was becoming angrier as I went on; he didn’t speak once but just nodded and rubbed my arm, encouraging me to continue. I went on to tell him about Amanda’s party and what happened that night, it felt like every sentenced I said he became more sympathetic. About half an hour since we started I finished by telling him about this last beating. “I’m so sorry Grace” is all he could say. “Why are you sorry it’s not your fault” “I know but why don’t you just leave him?” “I can’t, I still have feelings for him, and I know it’s so stupid.” “What about Eli?” “Please Max don’t tell Eli, please Jonah has promised to stop he hasn’t done it for ages, Max please” “I can’t keep this from him Grace and how do you know he has stopped, eh how do you know today won’t be the day?” he half shouted at me. “I knew I should have never let you in or told you” I said half-heartedly. “Grace I swear if he does it one more time I’m telling, I don’t care if you never speak to me again.” I just nodded in agreement. “Come here” he sighed offering out both arms, I moved to him and embraced his hug.
“Grace, What the hell?” Jonah shouted standing at the entrance to the living room. Shit! I must not have heard the door open, I realised then I was still hugging Max and let go and moved so far away from him. “Hi babe this is Max, he is my next door neighbours cousin.” I said walking over to Jonah to hug him. I nervously put my arms around his shoulders and pecked his cheek. He squeezed me tight and I tried not to whimper as the bruises on my ribs started to hurt “You’re going to be sorry when he has gone” he whispered in my ear. When I looked into his eyes they were the cloudiness I feared. I gulped and forced a smile on to my face and I turned back to face Max, Jonah clenched my hand tightly to the point I knew he had broken a finger, I let the pain rush to that area as I tried my hardest not to let it out. “Hi, So how comes his at ours Sweetie” Max quickly spoke up “Oh I left my keys at my house and my cousins not back so I asked Grace if she wouldn’t mind me sitting in here until he gets back, we just watched some TV. Sorry I didn’t mean anything by it” “Oh no that’s fine just panicked then seeing my beautiful girl hugging some random dude that I hadn’t seen before. Anyway is your cousin back now?” he asked politely obviously trying to get rid of him. “Yeah he is, I’ll speak to you soon Grace.” He said showing himself out. As soon as we heard the door shut all hell broke loose. “What the fuck, Letting guys I here alone, I thought you knew by now Grace!” he screamed at me. He still had hold of my hand and squeezed even harder breaking another finger. I could now cry out in pain. I burst into tears and waited for the oncoming storm of slaps and being thrown about. When he was done, I could barely move. Jonah was someone in the front room but had disappeared out of sight. I could hear him crying and screaming at himself. From what I could make out he was saying how much he hated himself and how much he was like his father, why did he always hurt me. Soon enough he was by my side nursing me, and before long asking for my forgiveness and repeating how it was the last time. As always I forgive him and soon he was undressing me, ravishing my neck with his lips. The whole time his groaning in pleasure, silent tears started to drip down my cheek, while I kept thinking about what Max said, will he ever stop?
Max’s POV
When I saw Jonah enter the room I just wanted to jump up and punch him square in the face and beat him like how he had beaten Grace. Instead I stayed in my seat and watched how she reacted. Fear spread upon her features and soon she was by his side. He must have whispered something in her ear as her whole body stiffened. When he had her hand I could see she was in enormous amounts of pain and I knew then I was going to tell Eli, he needed to tell her how he felt it could be the only way to make Grace realise. I made my excuses and left. I stood outside the door and snuck along to the window. What I saw made my stomach churn instantly and was sick. It took every ounce of my energy to not storm back in there and beat the living crap out of him.
I walked over to Eli’s house and I already knew he was in, but his sleek Mercedes parked on the drive, oh how I envied him when he got that car. I knocked and he soon came to the door, “Hey Max, man up look rough” “Yeah well must be a bug around” I said walking into his house. “Well I don’t want to catch it” he chuckled. We sat down and started to watch the game, but I couldn’t really concentrate I couldn’t get the image of Jonah beating Grace out of my head. Eli seemed to notice something was up. “Dude what’s the matter you have hardly said 2 words since you have been here” “Eli, how do you feel about Grace?” “What” he sounded shocked, I mean I kind of expected that, I had caught him off guard. “Grace?” “Max I’m not going into that again, just drop it, she’s happy with whatever his name is.” “But” “No buts Max, leave it ok.” He shouted at me, this is going to be hard.
4 days later, Wednesday.
Eli’s POV
It’s been 4 days since Max came round mine and since then all he has done is mention Grace, like he wants me to keep being reminded of her I mean it’s hard enough seeing her in my classroom. Every day it was Grace this and Grace that he just couldn’t get the message, he was really starting to do my head in. it was the last lesson of the day and it actually just so happened to be Grace’s class. I noticed something different with her this week something wasn’t right. Jonah never left her side, I mean he usually didn’t anyway but this was something else, the boy was always there. I saw Monday she had her fingers strapped and my mind wondered how she had broken them. Anyway I was just finishing up in class and waiting for the bell. “So to summarise, impacts don’t always have to be negative they can also be positive, well done today guys you worked hard. Remember I want all of you to be revising your case studies over the holidays, and I want all of your coursework essays in tomorrow.” As I finished the bell rang and everyone started to pack. “See everyone tomorrow.” I started wipe the board clean and sort out my desk. I looked up to see Jonah and Grace leaving, she looked in pain, probably because her fingers were still sore I thought. I had a meeting after school today with Brooke and Adam a guy from the maths department. We were like the only young teachers in the school as well as Declan the PE teacher. As we were all quite young we all knew what the kids were like toward us, so we all got along, well except Brooke she just kind of tried to get on us to put it nicely.
Finally I pulled into my drive and knew Max was here from his car, great this is all I needed, if he mentions Grace one more time I am going to kill him. I got in and changed and soon Max was bombarding me with the same questions. That’s it I lost it. “Max will you please leave off I am suck of you keep asking me about that girl let it go she’s happy with Jonah, and there is nothing I can do about it so stop fucking reminding me ok.” “No its not ok, you need to tell her” “Max I am warning you” “No seriously she’s not happy, she doesn’t want to be with him” “Max last chance” “Eli please just listen to me” “that’s it” I lunged at my cousin bringing us both to the ground. We rolled around both trying to swing for the other. Then that’s when I stopped, when my heart felt like it was pulled out of my chest that’s when Max shouted “He hits her Eli, he hurts her!” I got off of my cousin and apologised. I made him tell me everything. Every detail made me feel sick to the stomach all I wanted to do was not kill Jonah but hug Grace Look after her. It was then I knew exactly what to do, no matter what the cost. “I’ll be right back ok” Max looked confused but agreed.
I didn’t even put any shoes on but left the house in my sweats and ran next door. Her car was there and Jonah’s wasn’t so I knew this was perfect opportunity, I knocked like my life depended on it until she answered.
Grace’s POV
I moved slowly to get up and answer the door, who would be round at this time. Still tender I tried to move as quickly as I could without causing too much pain. When I opened the door Eli was standing there with a pained expression on his face. “Can I come in?” I was a bit taken back so I just nodded and walked back into the living room. I turned to ask him what he was doing here but instead I caught his lips with mine. I was in shock but his lips were like heaven, all the pain went away. My hands went to the back of his hair and I gently started to play with it, his made their way to my hips and he began to rub little circles into them. We were so close and before long I nibbled on his lips pleading for entrance, he of course allowed and soon our tongues were merging with each other’s. This kiss was filled with such passion something I never had with Jonah, ah and there it was that something that brought me back down to earth and realise I wasn’t in heaven. I pulled away quickly, both of us breathing heavily. “What the fuck Eli, you can’t just come into my house and do that, what if Jonah had been here on mum, are you trying to screw me up more?” I half pleaded half shouted at him. “Me screw you up your boyfriend seems to be doing that fine on his own” I was that token back I think I actually stepped back. “What do you mean by that?” I stuttered nervously. “I know Grace what that sick bastard does to you when he gets angry, why do you put up with it?” “Max, I’m going to kill him, he said he wouldn’t say anything” “Yeah well he saw that little show Jonah gave you” “You don’t understand, he is not like that all the time” “Yeah Max told me and it made me sick to the stomach to think of someone hurting you in that way” “Why, why should it matter to you, you hurt me, mess me about” “I don’t mean to Jonah knows exactly what’s he is doing and I could never want to hurt you Grace you mean everything to me” “Well you have a funny way of showing it, oh you’ll probably regret this tomorrow and not speak to me for a couple of weeks at least Jonah hurts me physically you hurt me emotionally” “I’m sorry Grace, I really am, but I can’t have him keep hurting you please” “Eli its none of your business please go” “No I can’t and it is my business when someone is hurting the girl I love” “What?” “Grace I love you!”…
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