Fiction/ Death in a Heart Beat
It was a dark and scary night. The stars were shining bright as diamond next to the bright light of the moon. The moon was high, high up in the sky, and in that dark and scary night there was a 2 story house and in that house there was a room with cold brick walls. On the window of the room there was a girl facing in the corner of the room, the girl was wearing a light green rob with blood splattered all over. The girl’s name was Esmeralda but they called her Esme for short, she was 15 years old, she had dark curly black hair as black as the night and her eyes were brown. The girl was hiding, in her left hand she had a knife and it was dripping with blood. She was crying and crying because she felt guilty for what she did. Esme lived with her mom Gloria and her dad Javier and her 3 year old brother Alex.
Esme’s parents were always arguing until one day Javier came home drunk and yelling random things at 2:00 in the morning. “Hello family, where are my beautiful kids,” Javier yelled.
But the kids were sleeping, but Esme’s mom was awake she went to the living room where Javier was. “Be quiet Javier the kids are sleeping,” Gloria said.
“Get out my way I want to see my kids,” Javier replied.
“No your way to drunk,” Gloria said.
“I said move!” Javier said pushing Gloria to the floor.
“Esme, come and bring your brother,” Javier yelled.
“Esme stay in your room and leave your brother,” Gloria yelled.
“Shut up Gloria, Esme!” Javier said hitting and punching Gloria and leaving her bleeding and unconscious for the whole night.
The next day Esmeralda woke up finding her mom crying in the kitchen while cooking, Javier had left Gloria a black eye and her lip was swore.
“Mom are you okey,” Esme asked her mom.
“I’m okey Esme,” Gloria responded.
In the afternoon Javier got home mad and was hungry, and when he arrived he yelled asking for Gloria to cook food for him, Gloria immediately started to cook because she was scared of Javier, Gloria and have had been married for 7 years and in those 7 years Gloria had to suffer so many hits. Esme was a 15 year old girl really smart and a really nice girl but in class she was always quiet and she barley talked during class, every time that her Gloria and Esme went to conferences they would always ask Gloria if there was something wrong with Esme or if there was something wrong at home. Gloria would always respond that everything was okey, but they weren’t okey Gloria would suffer of abuse from her husband and Esme would suffer of the same abuse of her father. When Esme was 9 she was raped by her own father at that time Esme didn’t know what to do she was scared of telling anybody because she was scared that her father might of hurt her again, until one day when Esme was 11 her mother found blood when she was washing Esme’s covers she asked and asked Esme who had did what they did to her but Esme didn’t.
“Esme, who did this to you!” Gloria asked with a very panicked and concerned face.
“Nothing mom I was doing a project and accidentally cut myself and cleaned it with the covers that all don’t worry,” Esme replied
But Gloria didn’t believe her she was worried and afraid that it could have been Javier. In the afternoon Javier got home drunk like every other night.
“Javier can I talk to you,” Gloria asked calmly to not get Javier all mad and end up hitting Gloria.
“What do want know Gloria I’m tired we’ll talk tomorrow,” Javier said in a sober voice.
“No we are going to talk know,” Gloria said raising her voice. “Can you explain this to me?” Holding the covers up and showing him the blood.
“What did Esme tell you that it was me, what do you really think I am able to do that to my own daughter,” Javier said in a convincing voice.
But Gloria didn’t know what to do; she didn’t want to make any arguments with him because he was going to hit her. Two years had passed from that accident, Esme was 13 she was a very pretty young girl she was aware of everything know but nothing had change a lot, Esme in school was still very quiet and shy and was always looking sad, at home, Javier would always come home sober and he would always hit Gloria for no reason. One night Gloria was working because she had gotten a job in the night and Esme and her brother who was 6 years old were sleeping, Javier was drunk when he got home.
He slowly went up the stairs while Esme and Alex were sleeping, Javier carefully went to Esme’s room that was right across his bedroom, slowly opening the door he entered it was completely silently, Esme woke up and she could hear the footsteps of her father coming closer and closer, all up could hear was Esme’s heart bounding bump bumpity bump Esme was scared think it was someone she thought it was a robber, but then the footsteps were so as close that she could feel them, Esme was laying down still, that’s when she felt a heavy hand on her left leg she was laying sideways all crunched up like a ball, as she felt that heavy hand going up until it was close by her arm. The next day when Gloria got home she was going to do the laundry when she noticed what she had noticed 2 years ago, their was blood on Esme’s covers again just like when she was 11 years ago.
“Esme is your bed covered with blood,” Gloria asked in a mad voice.
“Nothing mom,” Esme replied innocently.
“No tell me the truth did you father do this to you… please Esme tell me did your father do this to you,” Gloria asked worried while tiers ran down her face.
“No mom it wasn’t,” Esme responded with tears as like if she had two waterfalls coming down her face.
“Oh Esme why didn’t you ever tell me this,” Gloria said.
“I didn’t want dad to hurt you anymore,” Esme asked.
“You don’t need to worry about me I’m fine,” Gloria asked holding her stomach; Gloria was really injured from one kidney and had two bruised ribs because of the beatings that Javier would have given her. When Javier got home Gloria went up to him and started yelling at him because of what he did to Esme. Javier had a bad day at work ant wasn’t in the mood to fight with Gloria, until he was so mad that he pushed her to the ground and punched her and licked her so bad that at the end Gloria was bleeding, Javier had left her laying their all night, Javier rushed up stairs looking for Esme he did what he did to her before then he punched her and left. Esme was crying her little brother Alex came in he ran up to her and hugged her.
“Esme mommy she’s on the floor,” Alex told her scared.
“What, come-on lets go with her,” Esme said.
“Stay in your room don’t get out of their!” Javier yelled at Esme and Alex.
Esme and Alex stayed all night in her room; they had spent that night in those four cold brick walls. Javier was sleeping, it was on Saturday morning, Esme and Alex went to the living room Gloria had laid their all night, when they went with Gloria she didn’t answered she didn’t wake up, Esme checked her heart beat Esme didn’t hear anything just complete silently, Gloria was dead Esme and Alex cried so hard and Esme was mad she was furious because she knew that Javier had done that to her. While Alex was with his mother on the floor Esme rushed to the kitchen she grabbed a knife and slowly she went up the stairs and walked slowly to her father’s room he was waking up he started yelling at her to leave Esme was walking slowly towards him as she walked she got up and was about to grab her and hit hr when Esme pulled out the knife from behind her and stabbed her father in the stomach he fell to the floor on his knees he was bleeding and bleeding he didn’t stop then Esme stabbed him again when he was on the floor.
That’s when she ran out to the room not even looking back walking slowly towards her room, Alex saw her and ran to her hugging her and asking her if she was okey then he was choked on seeing the knife dripping with blood drip drip drip the blood falling to the floor. The next day the police went to their house because the neighbors reported to be noises and screaming of Gloria and that after that nobody came out or in, when the cops got to the house the knocked and knocked on the door but no one answered so the broke open the door and entering they found Alex in a corner crying and sobbing as they walked in the living room they found Gloria laying their dead, as they went up the stairs they found Javier in a poodle of blood they were choked because the didn’t think that a 6 year old boy was going to commit, when they hear someone in the other room also crying in the corner it was Esme she was sobering and mumbling “it was all my fault, it was all my fault,” they took both parents bodies and buried them, Alex was taken to his grandparents house, and Esme was in rehabilitation in a hospital every day when the police went to interview Esme they would always find her on the floor facing the corner of the room repeating over and over “it was all my fault, it was all my fault."