Opened Sores by Zarah Smith (uplifting books for women .TXT) 📖

to normal. Right?

Mrs. Reed placed her mug onto the wooden coffee table as she passed the living room. She walked slowly and straightened up her clothes and made sure she looked almost decent. She opened the door and saw a man standing in front of her. He had brown eyes that looked strangely familiar. He was tall and had black hair.

"Can I help you," She asked curiously.

"Is there a," He paused looking at a white envelope with small letters printed onto it. "Gavin Reed here?"

"Yes, he's my son," Mrs. Reed answered. "He's not here right now."

"My name is John." He smiled. " I found this letter while I was walking my dog. It was addressed to this address so I thought I would just hand deliver it."

"Does it have a name from where it came from," Mrs. Reed asked.

"No. It just says Gavin Reed and then the address."

"Okay," Mrs. Reed takes the envelope and begins to shut the door.

She watches the stranger walk away and questions him. As she shuts the door, she took another look at the envelope. Mrs. Reed walks all the way over to Gavin's room and places the envelope onto his pillow. She wanted to read it and see who it was from. Her curiosity grew stronger but she had to have some faith in her son.

She shook her head and tore open the letter. There wasn't much words printed on it. All it said was, "Dear Gavin, good-bye. Signed, Alyssa." She would never leave him, Mrs. Cameron thought. Who was that man, John? Why did he look so familiar?

She walked over to the window and saw a figure in the distance and felt her heart jump. It was that stranger, John. He was staring at the window and he was smirking. Mrs. Reed got a weird feeling in the pit of her stomach and quickly shut the door. She ran downstairs and made sure all of the windows and doors were locked. What was going on here?

*****

Mr. Cameron walked through the old bedroom door and looked at Alyssa. He smirked and laughed at the thought of Mrs. Reed. He walked towards Alyssa and watched her cringe in fear. He laughed again and sat next to her, taking a deep breath.

"Dear Gavin," Alyssa said. "What else did it say."

"Good-bye," Mr. Cameron grinned.

"Has forever come yet," Alyssa looks away and squeezes her eyes shut. "You couldn't have possibly handed it to him."

"Oh don't worry," He laughed. "They both got the message."

"Both?" Alyssa said, quickly looking at him.

"I'm sure his mother got the message too."

Chapter 19

Alyssa opened her eyes awaking from a hazey sleep. She rubbed her eyes and blinked a few times, trying to acquire a good vision of the room around her. The room was dark but not too dark as to where she couldn't see. For a moment, Alyssa forgot where she was. She looked to her left and saw a laptop on a computer desk. She looked towards her chained ankle and hoped that the chain would reach far enough. She crawled towards the desk and extended her arm as much as she could. Her fingers moved over the keyboard and slipped off, pushing the laptop away. She cursed under her breath and tried again. Once she got a good grip, she pulled it towards her and flipped it open.

She clicked on her fathers e-mail and clicked on compose new message. She quickly typed in Gavin's e-mail hoping that he would get the message instantly from his cell phone. If he came fast enough, then she could make an escape. She clicked on the body and started to type her message:

Gavin, it's Alyssa. DO NOT reply to this message. I somehow found access to a computer but I am starting to think that it wasn't on accident. Anyway, I don't have much time. I need your help, I'm scared and I don't know what my father is going to do. I'm at the old abandoned house on Gracie avenue. Please hurry. I miss you. I love you.... -Alyssa.

Alyssa started to delete the message from the sent folder. She heard footsteps coming down the hallway towards her room. Her eyes flickered to the door and she paused for a moment. She shut the laptop and placed it back onto the desk, quickly moving into the corner she was previously in. The doorknob started to flick up and down and Alyssa's eyes were instantly drawn to it. Her heart began to race and as she watched the door open, she held her breath.

*********

"What's this?" Gavin mumbled as he picked up the little white envelope off of his pillow.

Gavin squinted his eyes, unsure if he was reading the words correctly. There was no way Alyssa could have written any of these words. Plus, he knew she had better penmanship than this. Gavin looked around the room for any other signs of Alyssa's presence. Was it possible that Alyssa was actually there? She couldn't have been, he thought. He saw that the drapes over his window was closed. Gavin thought that it was weird, he never closed his drapes.

Gavin felt something moving in his pocket and looked down. He pulled out his cell phone and saw that he had one new message. It was an email. He looked at the address and read MystoMr.C1243@aol.com. He started to read the e-mail and he suddenly felt somewhat relieved. It was from Alyssa.

"Mom!" Gavin yelled turning on his feet. "Mom, where are you?"

Gavin walked through his entire house looking back and forth and didn't spot his mom anywhere. He started to walk out the door and looked back. Something was different but he didn't know what it was.

*****

Alyssa watched the wooden door slowly start to creep open before slamming open.

"What the hell is this?" Mr. Cameron spat as he entered the room enraged.

"What are you talking about?"

Alyssa looks at the strands of hair that his clutched between her father's fist. She knew it wasn't her hair and she let her eyes travel down and saw a body. It wasn't just anyone's body, it was Mrs. Reed. She watched her father drag Mrs. Reed into the room by her hair. She saw her face and spotted small amounts of blood on her clothes. Alyssa's mouth twitched as if she was going to speak.

"W-what did you do to her?" Alyssa whispered struggling to find her voice.

Mr. Cameron dropped Mrs. Reed's nearly lifeless body onto the floor and glared at Alyssa with a smirk on his face.

"It's not what I did," Mr. Cameron's face started to soften. "It's what she did to herself."

Chapter 20:

Mrs. Cameron looks out of her window thinking about Alyssa. How could her father do such a thing? He was a horrid man. Mrs. Cameron always heard that sick things happened but she never would have imagined that it could ever happen to her and revolve around her life. She tried to think of the places that her father could have taken Alyssa. There wasn't too many places but there was only one that came across her mind. She squinted her eyes and saw Gavin making his way down the side walk.

"Gavin!" She yelled sprinting out of her house. "I know where she is!!"

"Me too," Gavin smiles softly.

"The old house on Gracie," They both said.

"How did you know?" Mrs. Cameron asked.

"No time," Gavin pulled her along and took out his cell phone. "She sent me this."

"C'mon," Gavin said heading towards the house.

*****

"She needs help!" Alyssa cried. "She needs a hospital!"

"Forget about it," Mr. Cameron hissed.

"Gavin didn't do anything! Mrs. Reed did not do a thing!" She yelled. "Why does he have to pay! Why does Mrs. Reed have to atone? It makes NO sense!"

"The world revolves around you, Alyssa." Mr. Cameron smiled pleadingly.

"That's all fine and dandy but what does that have to do with me? Just leave them alone! Why won't you leave them alone?" Alyssa begged and pleaded..

"You still don't get it do you?" Mr. Cameron laughed venomously. "You're so stupid."

"Then explain it to me!" Alyssa said, her voice growing hoarse.

"It all is part of my plan to break you," He says.

"Haven't you broken me enough?" She asks, ignoring her hurting throat.

"Not quite," He smiles. "All that's left is Gavin."

"I don't understand," Alyssa shakes her head wishing that this was all just a dream.

"You're weak!" Mr. Cameron yells angrily. "You have always been weak! It's time to be strong Alyssa!"

"How the hell am I supposed to do that? You've got me locked in chains!" Alyssa exploded.

"Figure it out," Mr. Cameron turned to walk away but heard faint laughter growing louder behind him. It was a sick laugh, one who belonged to someone who was going crazy. "What's so funny?"

"And you call me weak," Alyssa says above a whisper, laughing with pity.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Mr. Cameron eyed her angrily, slowly taking steps closer to her.

"It means that I am not the weak one," Alyssa voice gets louder and louder intul she finds herself yelling. "When in reality, you're the weak one. You prey on the weaker kind! You attack who you know will not challenge you! That is not strength, father!" That is pure and utter weakness!!"

Mr. Cameron glares at Alyssa angrily. She's learning, he thought. He couldn't have been more proud of Alyssa. She was finally standing up to him and he underestimated her. Though, she wasn't ready, that wasn't enough.

"I'll show you who the weak one is."

*****

Mrs. Cameron and Gavin opens the door belonging to an old abandoned house. Gavin walks in cautiously, observing the rooms carefully.

"Alyssa," He yelled. "Where are you?" He opened the door and spotted a body in the far corner. His heart jumped in fear and his throat started to tighten, his eyes becoming watery.

"Alyssa," He muttered running towards the corner and overturning the body. He saw the pale face of his mom and instantly came to tears.

"Mom," Gavin said. "Mom, mom, please wake up!"

"Gavin," Mrs. Cameron said walking into the room. "Oh, Gavin I'm sorry."

"He killed her," He cried. "She didn't do anything and he killed her."

He felt her phone vibrate and answered out of instinct.

"Hello," He sniffled.

"Gavin," Alyssa said.

"Alyssa?" He started to stand up. "Where are you?"

"Gavin, please help." She cried. "I'm home, he brought me home."

The line went dead and Gavin dropped his cell phone. He started to walk out of the room determined not to let anyone else get hurt, not like his mom did.

"Gavin!" Mrs. Cameron called after him. "Gavin please, don't act with rage!" Gavin stopped walking and faced Mrs. Cameron.

"He killed my mother and if I don't do something now, he'll do the same to Alyssa and I am not going to let that happen. I can't lose her too!" Gavin yelled angrily.

"Fine," Mrs. Cameron's voice became stern. "Do whatever the hell you want but do not act out of anger! You know damn well that your mom would not want it that way!"

Gavin's mouth nearly dropped open.