TAMING BECCA

TWELVE

TWELVE

Well Anthony did spend the night at Becca’s place; he was highly hoping that she wouldn’t send him out of her house because he had to pass by her friends, Joanna, to pick up his brother Michael, although she had him spend the night in the guest room which he was okay with, he just didn’t want to leave that night, but he ended up sleeping with hr later, she was having a bad nightmare which she always had but not every day, it was the night her mom and sister died in the fire, it always in her dreams and even though she had tried so much to go to the therapist, it only still came back and she just had to learn to live with it, and since that fire she was always afraid of fire, it always reminded her of the day she lost her sister and mother, and that night she dreamt about again and this time it was just not her with her mother and sister but there was her whole family, Tyron and his wife, her dad and she was just super confused, she was walking alone on the lonely path, she was walking from school, the school bus didn’t take her home that day so she took a bus and alighted just close to her home and decided to walk the rest of the distance to her house which was a few blocks from the main road, she walked and when she was about to reach home she realized that something was wrong, there was no one in the compound and she could smell smoke from the house so she ran quickly into the house but to her surprise her whole family was inside but the door was locked from inside, she could nothing about it, she could not get into the house to save her family because the door was locked from the inside and she could not get into the house, the neighborhood was clear and there was no one around so she was the only one that could save her family, so she fished the phone out of her backpack and dialed 911, by the time the fire fighter arrived, most part of the hose was burnt beyond recognition and they could not save her family, she cried but they were already dead, then a man passed by where she was seated, just outside the house as they took her family’s bodies out of the hose, one look at him and she got terrified, he was looking all gangster like and everything about him scream danger, before she knew it, she was all alone with him and there was no one around them, not the house, not the fire fighters, not even the onlookers, he looked straight into her eyes and she could see pre fury, anger and malice in his eyes, he grabbed her by the collar of her dress

“You know you got lucky, you should have died with them in that fire, that was my plan, but little princess got lucky today, she was at school and that saved her ass just for a few minutes because I am going to kill you now and hang your body on these tress for the vultures to eat” he said menacingly and she was shaken with fear, she had already pissed in the clothes, it was not the best moment of her life, the guy held a gun against her throat and she knew the guy was not joking about it, she knew he was going to kill her so she closed her eyes and started counting from one to three but then her guardian angel shouted on top of his voice to the man to let her go

“Let him go or I will hit you with this stone” the boy shouted and the bad guy turned to look at him then laughed, he was intimidated by him, the boy was about eleven years old, he was holding a stone in his hands and the moment he threw the stone straight into the bad guy’s left eye, the guy lost grip of Becca and she fall down with a thud, blood was oozing out of his eye and he was groaning in pain, the gun fall on the other side and the boy motioned her to get up and run to where he was and that is exactly what she did, she did not even get time to ask him his name, they were running aimlessly around the forest and when they stopped at the far end of the forest to catch a breathe, the bad guy was in front of them again, and this time he had tied his left eye with a piece of his clothes and he was laughing so hard at them

“So brave kids thought you could run away from me huh? I tell you no one can run away from me, I always find my way out to them and here we are again, I know you were finally happy that this little boy here was going to help you or be your guardian angel, oh how sad because he just made everything easy for me, I am going to cut your body into small pieces one by one from now until the sun sets so you can count how many hours we have with you” he said and smiled wickedly, she could notice the black crooked teeth the guy had and it only made him look more ugly, she wished the earth could open up and swallow them alive

He tied both of them on the tree and when the boy tried to resist, he shot him straight on his head and she scream loudly in fear and that is when she woke up drenched in sweat and she was breathing heavily, Anthony was there in a minute and she immediately hugged him in fear, her heart was still beating fast and her night gown was drenched in her own sweat

“Shush, don’t cry I am here, it was only a dream, I am here with you” he said trying to calm her down but her mind was far away, she didn’t even know who the boy was but the boy had just tried to save her life and the bad guy shot him in front of her, her whole family just died in the fire and the bad guy was after her life and she didn’t even know what to tell Anthony because she was already shaken, she was breathing heavily

“It was so real, the guy shot the boy in front of me, oh my God it was the most terrible thing I have ever seen in my life, he shot him and he was going to kill me” she said as she tried to catch her breath and Anthony held her in his hands made her look straight in his eyes

“Hey, hey look at me, the guy is not here to kill you and he is not here either, I am the one who is here, I am here to protect you, just look straight in my eyes and tell m what you see, focus on me come on” he said and she looked straight in his eyes, he had beautiful eyes and she knew she could get lost in them for a while, it was a god destructor and she forgot about the dream for a few minutes

“I see your eyes sparkling the dark, what else do you want me to look at?” she asked and he smiled

“Nothing, I want you to stay here for a few seconds I will pour you some water to drink” he said and walked out of the room and straight to the kitchen and poured water into a glass then headed back to the bedroom, she had still hurled up herself in the sheets and was looking straight at the door, he walked in and handed her the glass of water, she gulped it down and gave him the glass, he put it on the stand and sat beside her

“How are you feeling?” he asked her after a few minutes, he checked on his watch and it was around two in the morning

“A little bit shaken but I am good now, thank you for being here” she said and he shook his head

“You don’t have to thank me; do you want to talk about it? I mean the dream? If you don’t then I totally understand” he said and she shook her head

“No, I don’t want to talk about it now, I just to rest” she said and he nodded in agreement but he knew she was shaken a little bit, although he was not sure of what the dream was about but he had his doubts which he was yet to confirm, it was just a matter of time and he would know what was troubling her

“Okay, I should probably let you sleep, it is two in the morning and you need to sleep, I will be in the next room if you need me” he said and made to stand up but she stopped him midway and pulled him back

“No please, just stay with me here, just for tonight please” she said and he nodded and that is how he got spend the night with her in her bed for the second time even though nothing happened. As they slept that night, he had a lot of things running on his mind