Chapter.3 🇨🇦

"What do you mean she's gone???" Dylan asked.

"S-she was just there like 3 minutes ago, how did she leave? Hell, I didn't even hear the door open!" Matt exclaimed, he blew it. He really did. The only time he has finally reunited with his long lost sister, now she ran away, and without even saying anything!

"Ok I'm going to look for her, so I'll talk to ya later." Matt said.
"Might as well since you blew it dumbass."
"Good bye Funny." Matt said in an annoyed voice then hanged up.

As soon as he did that he felt someone grab him and held a knife to his throat.
"What the-?!"
"You got 3 seconds to tell me who you are and why you brought me here." He heard a female voice say.

•Maria?•

She pressed the blade harder to his throat that he felt it cutting slowly in.

"W-wait! I found you badly hurt so I took you in to clean your wounds!" He yelled out in a panicked voice.

She stopped.
She widthdrew her knife away and pushed him to the ground then pointed her knife at him.

"Who are you?"
Matt couldn't help but stare at her, if the situation wasn't so serious at the moment he would've said that she's beautiful outloud.

"I said, who are you?" She asked once again but with a more meanicing voice.

"M-Matt." He said in a stutter.
"My name is Matt, and you're Maria, Maria Alexes Busek."

The woman was silent and had no expression on her face.
In a fast move she pressed the knife to his throat again.
"How do you know my name?" She asked. Matt gulped.

"Y-you're my s-sister." He said.
Again she was silent, she pushed him down and put her knife away.
"Lair. I have no sibilings." She said as she looked around.

"No it's true, you have that beauty mark underneath your eye and a heart shaped birthmark under your ear." Matt said hoping she would understand.

"So what? There's a bunch of women who tattoo their faces with fake beauty marks and hearts or other shapes underneath their ears." She opposed.
"But-"
"Enough, I'm getting out of here."

She turned to leave but stumbled and fell to her knees.

"Fuck!" She said as she clutched her left hip.

Forgetting that she had a knife to his throat moments ago he quickly went to her side.

"What's wrong?" He asked her as he tried to support her but she pushed him away roughly.

"Don't touch me..." She started to breathe heavily.

"I don't need your help." She said.
Matt ignored her remark and helped her up again.

"Sit." He said and this time she said nothing but grunted in pain.

Matt noticed she was bleeding.
How could he have missed that? He checked to see where else she was harm as he was cleaning her wounds but didn't see anything else. Could it be that she moved a lot that it started to bleed now?

"Let me help you." Matt said but again she pushed him away with more force that he fell on his back.

"I... Don't need... Your help." She said and tried to stand up again but sat back down onto the bed.
"Just lay down and let me fix that wound." Matt insisted.

She groaned out and layed back onto the bed breathing heavily.
Matt left for a moment then returned with the first aid kit he used when he treated her wounds.

"So you actually found me? You didn't attack me or something while I was unconscious?" She asked suddenly.

"Yea I was just walking around until I saw you in an alley, and like I said you're my sister so of course I would take you in and treat your wounds." He said.
"I don't believe that we're related, and even if you really are my brother I don't care. I don't want you in my life." She said very serious.

Matt felt like his heart broke into a million pieces as she said that.
This wasn't the reunion that he always thought about.

As he put alcohol on her cut he noticed that she shivered a bit but made reaction on her face.
"Does it hurt?" He asked.
She shook her head.
"Not really." She responded.
Matt nodded and continued.

"Why don't you want me in your life?" Matt asked.
"Are you almost done?" She avoided the question.
Matt was about to ask again but closed his mouth shut then opened it to respond properly.
"Yea, let me just cover it." He put a white bandage to her wound.
Since she won't answer his question about their relationship as a family then he may as well ask her what happened.

"Why were you in that alley? Who hurt you?" He asked her as he packed away the kit.
She shrugged.
"Beats me. Probably some bad people who wanted to pick up a fight with a woman." She said.

"Well... You're going to be fine and get some rest, we'll talk more in the morning." He said remembering how late it was.
She nodded.
"Whatever."

Matt left the room and headed to his. Even though his reunion wasn't exactly as he hoped it would be like, he was still happy that he finally found her.
Now all was left to do was convince her that he's really her brother and show her how much he cares for her and see if maybe she will accept him in her life, then after that she could introduce her to his friends and most importantly, his mother, her last wish is to meet her daughter and Matt took it as a goal for his mother.

"I finally found her." He said softly to himself as he laid on his bed then slept.

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-Maria's POV-

I stared at the ceiling of this room.
I should not be here.
They're probably looking for me.
I need to get out of here as soon as possible as well, not only for my safety but for this guys safety as well.

This guy claims that he's my brother... Well I was adopted so he could be telling the truth, but why would he care? It's been 25 years shouldn't he be worrying about other crap? Why would he bother waste all those years trying to look for me? Hell can I even trust him??

I already lied to him about how it happened, I know exactly what happened in that alley, shit I can't believe I let them get away like that. But wait why didn't they take me? Why did they just leave me there?
Hmm... That's starting to worry me more at the moment.

I'll figure that out later I should rest for now anyway...

~2003~

I knew it was too good to be true!

This was the third attempt at trying to leave that house.

This time my friends managed to bail me out and now we were all at the run for it, they all promised that they all had a plan on where to go so I had to prepare myself.

As we ran away from that huge location of that house we heard dogs barking. Shit...

"Are those dogs?!?" Harley asked in shock.
"Ugh... Yes! Damn what do we do?!?" I asked them.
Rick reached out to his bag and took out pieces of meat.

"I had a feeling this would happen so I have us prepared." He said and threw the pieces behind us.
"Ah! Thank god!" Liza said.
"You better thank me with a kiss there lil Liza!" Rick teased.
"If we manage to escape I'll promise you a kick in the ass!" She said making him flinched.

We laughed, I turned to see the dogs stopping to eat the pieces of meat, but one of them ignored the offering and ran at us at full speed.

"Fuck!" I forgot about that dog.
"What is it?!" Devon asked.
"It's HellBound."
"HellBound?"
"Yea it's the most loyal dog they have, and the most deadliest of them all and it's still on our asses!" I yelled out.

"Great! Now what do we do?" Liza asked panicked.
Great, we were almost near the fences but our lungs were already begging for air, and our legs are sore but there's HellBound right behind us!

I stumbled a bit causing me to fall forward. No!!!
HellBound was right on top of me after I fell to the ground.
"Maria!" They all yelled in unison.
"Fuck!!" I yelled as I tried to keep HellBounds sharp teeth away from my neck or anywhere near my face.

Devon came to my rescue as he tackled the dog off of me.
"Devon!" I yelled out.
"You guys keep going!! I'll handle this!" He yelled out as he struggled with HellBound.
Harley helped me up.

"Let's go Mary." she said then we all made it to the fence. We climbed over it, I thought we were going to wait for Devon but they kept running across.

"W-wait! What about Devon?!?" I asked.
"He'll catch up! We have to go or we'll miss it!" Rick yelled out.
"Miss what?!?"
"The train!!!"
We stopped at the train tracks and at a far distance a train was coming.

"We're going to jump in." Harley said.
"What about Devon?" I asked again.
"You'll just have to trust him on this, he'll make it!" Rick said with confidence.

The train started to pass by us so we all run to see if there were an opening to get inside.

"There!" Liza yelled out.
We all threw our bags in, Rick jumped in, he helped Liza up then Harley. I looked back to see if there were any sign of Devon.
"Hurry!" Rick said.
I grabbed his arm and he pulled me up.

"Whew! We made it!!!" Harley exclaimed as she let herself fall in the piles of hay that were in here.
I frown.
What about Devon?

"Don't leave yet fuckers!!"
Devon's voice!!!
We all looked to see Devon running as fast as he could next to us.
"Well get on board motherfucker!" Rick yelled out and helped him in.

We made it... We all made it!!!

"Devon!!!" I yelled out and hugged him, I took him by surprise as we both fell on the large pile of hay.
We laughed then he hugged me back.

"Thought you'd see the lat of me huh?" He said.
I blushed then I looked at him.
I gasped.
He had a huge scratch underneath his right eye.
"Your eye..." I said.
"Dude, that's gonna be a badass scar!" Harley said with a thumbs up.

"Hey! He could've lost an eye!" I said angrily.
"Hey, it's alright it's just a scratch. Let's just be happy that we freed you, and now we can all move forward." He said smiling.
I smiled back.
"Yea."
"Yea! We're all in this together!!" Liza said and we all cheered.

"So where is this train heading to?" I asked Rick.
"Well according to my research we're going to Canada Mary!" He said.

"Canada?"

Hmm that doesn't sound too bad.
Hell anywhere would be better as long as I'm not in that hell hole anymore...

But it was just the beginning of the dangerous path I'm about to walk on.

~2012~ 

-Normal POV-

The light shining from his window woke him up, it took him a while to remember about last nights events.

"Maria."

He got off from bed and headed quickly to the room he last left her in, it was expected that she would not be there but he hoped that she would still be there.

"She left." Then he quickly spun around in defence in case she decided to try that stunt she pulled off last night, but she wasn't there.

"Maria?" He called out as he walked around his tiny and messy apartment. He felt a bit embarrassed knowing that she must've most likely seen the mess.
He slumped down on his couch.

•Just face it, you'll never see her again. She made it clear that she doesn't want me in her life.• 

As soon as he thought of that he heard a ring tone.
"What the-?"
He stood up from his couch to see where that ring tone was coming from, the ringing was coming from the room Maria stayed at.

"Did she leave her phone here?"

He entered the room again and the ringing was coming from underneath the bed.
The ringing stopped as he got down to lift up the covers and saw a black phone. He picked it up and sat on the edge of the bed.

The phone started ringing again and he answered this time.
"Hello?"
"I need my phone back."
It was Maria again.
"Maria! Where are you?!? Where'd you go?!?" He couldn't help himself but worry about her.
She sighed deeply.

"Look I just need my phone back, I was going to return back to your place but I'm in a hurry so I need you to come over and return my phone."
Matt frowned then had an idea.
"I will if you spend a day with me."
"... I just need my phone back." She said.

"Yes, I'll return it after we spend a day together.
"Are you serious? You know what? Keep the damn phone." She was about to hang up but Matt wasn't about to let her go yet.

"Fine but I will find you eventually with this phone you know, I can search your contacts, your locations, anything." He felt bad for threatening her like that but what could he do? He was desperate.
She was silent for a moment.

"Just meet me by park near your apartment, then we'll talk." And with that she hanged up.
Matt couldn't help but smile, he got her, all he had to do was convince her to let him in her life to fulfil those promises he made years ago.

-Maria's POV-

I angrily hanged up.
This bastard just threatened me.

I was bluffing when I said to keep the phone, then I would've sneaked back to his place to get it back myself but no.

I left early because I really need to leave and I need that phone! I need to let them know that I'm fine or they'll literally kill me then I can inform them that I'll complete my job but my 'long lost brother' is in my way...

I made my way to the park and sat on the bench.
Maybe if I tell him the truth would he back off? No, if he was worried about where I went then I can't imagine how he'd react about what I'm actually doing.
No, I can't let him find out I can't get close to him.

The thought made me feel sad suddenly. I shook my head.
No. You got rid of those feelings years ago, there's no need to have them coming back.

"Maria!"
I heard that curly haired guy calling out to me.
Alright, let's get this over with.

-Normal POV-

As Matt made his way to the park he called Dylan again.

"Hello?" Dylan answered in a groggy voice.

"I got her!" Matt yelled out.
"What the fuck? Got who?"
"My sister! Maria!"
"Oh you found her again? Where'd she go?"
"She was actually hiding I guess she got scared after waking up in an unknown place."
"Well you're lucky she didn't call the cops to report a curly haired rapist." Dylan teased.

Matt ignored his teasings so he got on to what he wanted to say to him.
"Even though she said she doesn't want me in her life, I can change that! I'll make her see how much her brother cares!"
"Is it really a good idea? To just force her to let you in her life? Dude, what if she has a good reason?" Dylan asked seriously.

"Like what?"
"Like how her brother is probably a curly haired pervert?" Dylan laughed at his own joke while Matt had an unamused look on his face, he noticed Maria sitting on a bench.

"Shut the fuck up. I gotta go, I'll talk to you later." He said and hanged up. Matt felt a little nervous from what Dylan told him, is it really a good idea to do this? Well she was the one who brought a knife to his fucking throat.

"Maria!" He called out to her getting her attention.
She turned to look at him and stood up with her arms crossed.

"My phone." She demanded.

Well she was sure straight forward.
"You know the deal, spend a day with me and I'll return it to you."
She gave him a hard look.
"Why?"
"Why? Because I want to get a chance to know my sister, and maybe we'll be closer than you think."

"I don't need any friends or family, I just need my phone. Please try to understand that." She said.
Matt frowned.
"You know, during the past 25 years I've been looking everywhere for you, I've put up flyers, ads and called out to people if they may have seen you or know you."

"You didn't have to do that, you should've just forgotten about me and moved on with your life, you could've gotten a job, a girlfriend, a kid or something, a nice house, hell maybe even a dog or something but no you wasted all your time looking for a girl that doesn't want to be in your life or nor do I want you in mine."

That was a lot to take in.
But Matt was determined.

"You're right, I could've spent most of my time doing more things for myself, but I did it because I wanted to. I care Maria, I care a lot about both you and Mom, I promised her that I would reunite her with her daughter and I'n willing to fulfil that promise."

Maria shook her head.
"You shouldn't make promises you can't keep."

"Please just one day, that's all I'm asking. After the day is over, then you can continue on with your life. I'll stay out of it for good."

Maria thought about it.

Matt hoped she would agree to it.

She did a small nod.

"Deal."

-End of Chapter.3-