I woke up to find a familiar white ceiling. It has been a long time I came here, the last time being when my mom took her last breath.

I open my eyes wider and took a look around me. I saw an angry Liya and a red eyed Soph, she started crying when she saw me open my eyes.

Other than these two I sensed someone behind the curtain.

"H..how...how d..did you hold on?" Sophia said bursting to tears. "Who?" Liya asks, angrily.

I keep quiet and they understood exactly who did it.

The doctor came in, "She have to get plenty of rest. Now girls don't make her talk." he says and injects me with a sedative. "sleep well." he says as my eyes slowly droops. Before I shut my eyes I saw Liya dragging Soph and marching out after speaking with the figure behind the curtains.

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I wake up with a startle after I saw the nightmare... again. "Are you okay???" I hear a voice speak... a familiar voice that send a shiver down my spine. I turn around, my breath ragged, to look at the person with that voice.

I see Zay, standing next to me, holding my hand, a chair lay behind him. I look at our intertwined hands and he lets it go. "You seemed like having a nightmare..." he tells me the reason why he held my hand.

I keep quiet, looking ahead and asked, "Why are you here? Don't you have things to do?". He doesn't answer.

"Who did this? It seems your friends knows exactly who did it." Zay asks. "My family." I answer. I look back at him to see his shocked expression. "We are 'not related'" I add emphasizing  the 'not related' part.

"Who..." he starts. "I wont say who they are. Its none of your business." I intervene. He looks as if he is debating with himself inside his head. "Sleep" he commands. I do what he ordered... for the first time.

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I wake up... once again. This time not having any nightmare. I'm thankful, even though it was 'not' a peaceful sleep, I did not have the nightmare. This is my first time sleeping without nightmare haunting me.

I found my hands are warm, as if someone was holding me until recently. I was drifting in my thoughts when the doctor came in along with Liya and Soph.

I told the doctor for discharge. "Actually, you need to be here for a few days." he said. But I told him I 'need' to go and that I will take care of my body. "Fine, I guess I will prescribe some medicines. But you have to come here frequently until I say that you are cured 'completely'"he said after thinking for some time and leaves.

After he leaves, I thank Soph and Liya for staying with me. But what they said to me surprised me. "We just came now after leaving before. Was someone else here?" they said.

If it was not them, I know the other person who knows I'm here... I look at my warm hands... Zay.

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{ Liya's POV }

Due to some meeting on the night before, I and Soph woke up late. Dad said its fine not to go to school today. But Soph and I disagreed. We can't... we just can't leave Keira alone with the wolves.

I saw her beautiful face when she removed her hoodie... her beautiful face hidden under eyes bags and sorrow.

When we reached school, we saw Keira and Zay gazing at each other. A few minutes later she sighed and went back to take her books from the locker.

"Good morning" Soph and I  goes to greet her. When she turned we saw she was unusually covered up. Like literally, she was wearing a 'freaking mask'. We gave her a questioning look. The bell rang before she could give us an answer.

She might've thought she was saved by the bell, but who is she kidding. The entire class we kept on poking her thigh with the pencil.

Suddenly Keira turned back, very quickly and just with the speed looked back ahead. That's when I noticed, Zay was burning holes on the back of her head.

What's the beef between him and Keira.

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Finally it was lunch. Time to get some answers.

She started to speak for the first time today, but all that came out was squeaky, wheezy whisper. She excused herself and ran to restroom. Soph and I went back to have our lunch.

Within two minutes, I saw Zay get up and leave.

The day went by... we were give proxy for the last period as there was some teachers meeting. We were walking. "I know... whatever it is that you are not saying to us, you will, when it is the right time. Whatever it is, just know, we support you." I say to her and hugs her.

That is when a smell reached my nose... something rusty... something like... blood.

I voice my thoughts loudly. Still hugging, I say out loud, "Something smells like blood..". "Keira are you on your periods?" I add jokingly and remove myself from the hug.

That is when I felt something wet on my hands. I look at my hands to see my hands which is dyed red with blood. Soph screamed when she saw it. My heart beating wildly... not in a romantic way... Soph and I look at Keira.

She was standing there frozen. Then the color drained from her face and she fell on the ground.

Soph and I go towards her and call her name multiple times, shaking her. Suddenly we were pushed aside by Zay, who appeared out of nowhere. He did not attend any classes after lunch, that we thought he went back home.

He gave me the key to his wheels and ordered us to run to it and start the engine. He proceeds to pick Keira up, 'gently' and carried her in a princess style and started running.

"Open the damn door" he ordered Soph when she stood there gawking at him. When we placed Keira in the back seat, he sits next to her in the back seat. "Drive" he orders me. I do as he said and drives to the nearest hospital.

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Everything happened so fast, we didn't even have time to think it through.

It was after Keira was taken to the emergency ward, we were finally able to take a deep and think it through.

"Who did that?" Soph asked me. Although we both know 'who'. Zay wouldn't do that... ever. we know him ever since we were kids. Well, he does beat girls up... but only those who deserves it. It was something his mother taught him and boy... she taught him well.

Soph and I stood there watching Zay as he sat outside the chairs outside the ward.

"You know who did that... right?" he asked us. We kept quiet. "Does she have a lot of enemies?" he asks again. "No, but she has a lot of 'abusers'" I say sternly. That is when he looked at us.. in our eyes. It send shivers in our body... not in a good way. It was like a predator staring at its prey. killing intent.

"I think you should ask Keira... It is not our place." Soph says

The nurse came out and told us to go inside. We went inside to see a shocking sight that made even Zay gasp and his arms curl to fists.

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For the first time I wrote someone else's POV...

I guess this is a longest chapter....

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