Axel wakes up from Acoma to see Lou directing the nurses to the morgue. A body laying on the gernie. Something about the body even though it was covered made him cringe. He didn't like death but murder contributed to his biker ways. Of course no one knew he was awake. He lifts himself up. He carefully takes off the heart monitors and I.v.
He felt dizzy when he stood up. He stretches himself almost cat like. He felt pretty good for someone who had been in Acoma for several months and his wounds had faded. He goes to the bathroom and turns on the faucet. He splashes some water on his face to wake himself up. "God how long have I been out?" He whispers to himself. "Almost six months." A familiar but oddly strange voice spoke. He splashes his face with water again. Suddenly, he felt a pair of arms wrap around him. "It's okay, it's just me." She whispers. "Cottie?" He asks. She removes her arms and turns him around. "Yes." Cotton giggles. Axel couldn't help but notice the stitching on her neck. "Cotton what happened to your neck?" Axel asks. She didn't respond. She just stares at him blankly. Axel found it odd for Cotton to do so. She never does that unless there was something very important pounding at her thoughts. "Cottie!" Axel snaps his fingers at her. She jumps and stumbles a bit. "Sorry and just an incident with Anabelle." Cotton responds. Axel takes her hand and walks out of the small bathroom. She seems distant and he wanted to get to the bottom of it. He sits her down on his lap when he sat down. "Cottie what's the matter?"
Cotton speaks. "About three days ago, Joshua came back and I've been falling for Kaleb lately. But I can't help feeling torn between the boys." As much as Axel disliked Joshua, he had a bad feeling about Kaleb. He didn't feel like Kaleb was a right fit for Cotton. He seems to have alot of secrets. Joshua didn't keep anything a secret. He was open about everything. But still Axel felt there was something missing. "Who do you prefer?" Axel asks his little sister. "Kaleb." Cotton replies. "Be careful with him. He seems to be very secure and closed off. That's very dangerous and I will be dammed if he harms you." Axel says concerned. "I will." Cotton smiles and kisses Axel's cheek. "I love you Axie."
"I love you to Cottie." Axel replies. "But what happened to your neck?" Axel adds. "Anabelle tried to kill me." Cotton simply replies. "Why did she try to kill you?" Axel asks. He was really curious. "I slammed a rock on her head. I guess it was her way of getting revenge I guess." Cotton shrugs. Axel nods. "What happened to her?"
"Jake murdered her." Cotton says quietly. Axel just said a blunt oh. He kinda got a bad feeling about Jake. He didn't think Jake was murderer but Cotton always told the truth. Now that Axel thought about it. Jake could potentially be a dangerous threat, same with Jessica. He looks at his sister. "Are y-you afraid of him or Jesy?" Cotton sighs not wanting to answer his question. "Mummy." Cotton simply replies. Her voice was almost trembling. Axel brushes back Cotton's brunette curls behind her ears. It reveals the most beautiful orbs he's ever seen. If he could he'd give her kisses but he can't. "Shh.. She won't ever hurt you. I promise." Axel smiles and kisses her cheek. Suddenly, a pregnant figure stood in the doorway spooking both Cotton and Axel. "Jessica?" He says quietly. She just nods. Something was definitely on Jessica's mind and he needed to find out what it was. "Cotton, daddy wants to see you." Jessica tells Cotton. Cotton didn't want to leave her brother. "Why?" She asks. "I don't know but just go to him." Jessica commands. Cotton gets out of Axel's arms and walks out. "Does he really need her?" Axel asks in a suspicious tone. "No." Jessica replies bluntly.
Axel found himself admiring Jessica. Then she snaps her fingers in front of him to get his attention again. "I have a question." She says as she sits down. "Okay ask." Axel says. "Why does Cotton get upset easily?" Jessica asks. It was a good question. But even Axel couldn't explain Cotton's emotional distress. "She feels no one loves her. People abuse and take advantage of her. She's kindhearted and loving but people think she's vulnerable because of it. She let's everyone hurt her because she feels it. When she gets upset, she just wants affection and love instead of abuse and hate. What you need to realize is that giving her that satisfaction is going to make your relationship with her so much better and slightly easier. She's not looking for sexual affection. She's just wanting affection. When someone doesn't give her that she gets upset. If you make her to upset she'll distance herself and isolate herself from the outside world. I'd advise you to take caution when it comes to her." Axel explains in the only way he knew how. Jessica took a deep breath after she received the explanation on Cotton's behavior. It all made sense to her. Cotton was a very depressed and suicidal little girl. The first day Jessica officially met Cotton, made Jessica feel so much love and compassion for the used to be nine year old. She is now eleven. It's been two years since Jessica adopted Cotton and saved her from herself. But Jessica couldn't help but feel that Cotton's gonna resort back to her old ways such as cutting and burning herself. Jessica definitely didn't want her baby to get that way again. So she needed Axel's help at whatever cost it may be.
"What can I do to not make her upset?" Jessica asks looking directly in his eyes. "One, don't yell at her, two, make sure you watch her at all times, three, keep Cotton preoccupied as a distraction from the Ace drama or something like that. It's best to be safe than sorry." Axel replies in monotone. Jessica knew where Axel was coming from but with the baby coming on the way, it'd be hard for Jessica to occupy Cotton and watch her at all times. It's easier said than done. "But how can I watch and occupy her with a baby on the way?" Jessica asks. She sure asks alot of damn questions. Axel thinks to himself. "You have Jake? Your parents? And let's not forget Johnny." Axel responds. Jessica didn't like the idea of leaving her parents or Jake alone with Cotton while she took care of the baby and Johnny, she didn't want Cotton around him cause one thing could lead to another and bam Cotton's no longer a virgin and pregnant.
"I'm not leaving any of them with Cotton. One my parents are dealing with the Ace situation, two Jake beat her a few years ago and I'm not letting that happen. As for Johnny, I think he'd manipulate her into having sex with her and bam she'll be pregnant!" Jessica tells him. Axel grins. "Johnny couldn't get Cotton pregnant if he wanted to. Cotton's eleven and hasn't started her period. So I highly doubt Johnny would get Cotton pregnant." Jessica looks at him funny. "She's eleven, I thought she had periods. I started when I was eleven so did my sister and mum." Axel looks down and then up again. "No she may start at thirteen, our mum started at thirteen so did our aunts' and grandmothers'." Axel tells her. Jessica nods before speaking. "So she's safe?"
Axel laughs. "Of course Cotton's safe. Besides she's a very intelligent girl why would she have unprotected sex knowing the consequences of it?" Jessica knew Axel was right. Cotton had a genius mind and if she were to have sex she'd protect herself from pregnancy. "I don't know. But I am worried that she's going to have sex before she hits twelve and I'm scared it will scar her for life." Jessica voices her concerns on the topic. Axel had his own concerns and agreed with Jessica on the sex situation. "The only way that child is having sex is if she's forced. And back to the one thing, let Johnny help. He I know loves Cotton to pieces." Axel tells her. Jessica felt uncomfortable letting her brother near Cotton. "I will think about it." She simply replies.
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Jake was in the garden examining the beautiful flowers and scenery when he felt like someone was watching him. He looks in the direction of a stone shed which was filled with many beautiful and elegant stuff as well as supplies for the garden. Whoever took care of the beautiful place was very talented and artistic. He wondered who actually did take of this place. So he walks into the stone shed. As soon as he steps in, he feels a warm sensation fall over him. He felt safe and secure. He couldn't hear a sound from outside so it made the shed a lot more peaceful and lovely. He looks to a white painted shelf hanging on the stone wall. On the top were angels of marble with different colored spots in them but he notices one in particular with a small diamond heart necklace around the angel's neck. He lifts the necklace off the angel's neck and looks at it with wonder in his blue eyes. I wonder who this belongs to. He thought as he looks at the diamond which seemed fairly polished. It was clearly old and delicate. Which made Jake admire it more. Then a crashing sound from behind startles him. He drops the necklace onto another shelf. Thankfully it didn't go through the floor boards or it'd be lost forever. He turns around to see nothing but a white fluffy kitten with spots around her shoulders and eyes. Her eyes were a piercing green. She had a blue braided rope collar around her neck with a white blue crystal hanging from the middle. The kitten meows at him. He smiles. "Awe how beautiful are you?" He picks up the smallish kitten and begins petting her. He looks down to see she had knocked over some blue and green paints that were mixing together. The colors were creating a turquoise. A very beautiful turquoise.
Jake looks to the left wall to see beautiful, paintings, portraits, photographs, drawings, digital drawings and sketches hanging all over the wall. He looks down to see a very large desk with a gigantic sketch pad placed on it with blue and black pencils next to it. Lining up against the wall, were teal pencil holders, a few pastel covered notebooks, black covered books, and a picture frame with a photo of a beautiful black haired, bright blue eyed girl with the same kitten he was holding. She must own the garden and the kitty. He smiles and takes a seat at the black Victorian chair. He takes a look around and sees a window. The window had wooden sealing and glass inside of the sealing. Jake could see the garden outside the window. He turns back to the desk. He grabs a very outstanding black book with golden letters written on it that said: The History of us.
He opens the book to see the first page with the introduction.
▪very familiar names▪
That said:
This book is about the little girl and her family who lived a very long time ago but died from all tragic deaths. All the tragic deaths were lined in order.
From the mother to the father to the younger brother to the younger sister to the oldest brother then to the baby sister. She was the last to die. Her mother went by the name Jessica Smith, her father, Jacob Smith, her older brother, Axel Smith, Her older sister, Arizona Smith, her younger brother Benji Smith and her baby sister was Lilyonna Smith. But the little girl's name is unknown. People never knew she existed until her family started dying one by one in a very supernatural loop. Jessica had been going through post dramatic stress as well as depression. Her bipolar antics didn't help her in anyway at all. She was twenty three or so when her passing came upon the family. Jessica had swallowed over a 100 laxatives and it completely stopped her heart. Jessica was found in her bathroom laying by a bottle of pills and a knife. On her left arm were the words 'I am not a victim'. Her blood surrounded her left arm. Her family couldn't even process her death so they disappeared from their home and hometown, in attempts to escape her haunting ghost and the disturbed memories they would always endured. Jacob, he never thought his wife was anything but happy. He never knew of her depression. He felt guilty because he couldn't stop her from killing herself. Eventually, Jacob couldn't help but doing his worse to his five young children. He abused them every day. The girls got the worst end of his abuse. The boys would only be locked down in the basement while Jacob abused his girls. Axel the oldest who happened to be about twelve, tried protecting his younger siblings although he never succeeded in doing so. Jacob was out of control by the time he hit twenty five. Several days after Axel's thirteenth birthday, Jacob took a riffle to his head in front of his children and pulled the trigger. His blood splattered all over them, the walls and floors. For months on end, the children lived in a abandoned cabin where Jacob isolated them from the outside world.
Benji decided to leave, he was only a year younger than the unknown little girl. He was five. He walked out into the snowy blizzard and never came back. Months later his decayed body was found frozen underneath the ice of the river. The little girl found him persevered like he was when he left. He wasn't decayed at all. Benji had fallen ill as he tried to find his way back home. He slipped on a boulder beneath the snow and fell into the deep river. He screamed for his siblings until a wave of water surged through the river knocking his tiny body underneath the water. The wave was so hard it caused him to bash his head against a boulder in the river. He had hit his temper causing large mounts of blood to flow out. His breathing eventually gave out causing him to swallow the river's salty water. His heart stopped beating due to the freezing cold. That night the river iced over preserving his body underneath. The little girl so desperately wanted to break the ice to bring her brother home. She kept banging on the ice with her little fists. Cracking the ice and making holes. As much as it hurt her she wanted to get him out. Blood started running from the cuts but she did not care. Eventually Axel found her banging the ice as hard as she could. He called out to her but she did not listen. She was to focused on getting her brother out. Axel realized what she was doing and he came to her recuse. Seeing her brother was underneath the ice was a horrible sight. He could see Benji's blood iced as well. Axel since he was bulky started bashing the ice until he could pull out Benji's cold body. He told the little girl to follow him back to the cabin. She listened. Benji had died and it devastated the children even more than ever.
Arizona who was about nine years old, decided she might runaway. She ran through the woods as fast as she could possibly. But she didn't get to far. Her asthma took over her. She crashed in the snow, trying to get her breathing back but she couldn't. Arizona passed out in the snow. A very cruel hunter found the nine year old in the snow. He picked up the unconscious Arizona and took her to his cabin. A run down cabin if you will. She had woken up. He played the good guy cared on her so she could trust him. He gave her hot cocoa and a nice good breakfast. After that she felt sleepy so he took her into his bedroom and stripped her down. She was oblivious to his plans and before she knew it the cruel man raped her. But that didn't stop him from doing worse. He attached handcuffs to her wrists and car jumpers to her body in every area. He turned on a tortuous electricity box and before she knew it, she was being shocked. He cranked up the electricity to the highest level and as the pain courses through her a reaches her heart. It stops immediately. He was satisfied with his small kill. Arizona was thrown out nude and near the cabin. Axel found her and the sight was terrifying to the young boy.
Axel knew, his baby sisters were all he had left and he knew he had to protect them at whatever cost. He went into the cabin that night and told them they were abandoning the cabin and going to a place that is alot safer. The little girl agreed and packed her stuff as well as the baby's stuff. They abandoned the home. And never came back until now.
Jake read the introduction and just was so puzzled until a voice spoke. "You do realize that's about your family?" The angelic voice wasn't recognizable. Jake turns around to see a very gorgeous woman. Her eyes were the same color as the kitten. She had black,long curls and slightly tanned skin. She was very thin and about 5 foot 3 maybe 2. She wore a a white crystal around her neck, a black laced dress and black wedges with leather bracelets around her wrists. "Who are you?" He asks. She smiles.
"I am Ella." She answers.