{Pic of Olivia}

Song: Venom

Artist (s): Eminem

Believe in yourself

(Sensitive Chapter)

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I believe that we are who we choose to be. Nobody is going to come and save you. You've got to save yourself. Nobody is going to give you anything. You have to go out and fight for it. Nobody knows what you want except you, and nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Which is why I finally decided enough was enough and gathered the courage to do what I should have done a long time ago.

I clenched and unclenched my fists before the umpteenth time, mentally preparing myself, before I pushed the door to open and stepped into the house that still haunted me.

"Tobias. Is that you?" a deep voice echoed around the empty house sending chills down my spine.

"No, it's Olivia" my voice shook as I took heavy steps towards the voice. There he sat, staring out the window a cigar in his left hand whilst his right hand held a bottle of beer.

"Glad you could make it, seems like you've finally come to your senses" he laughed putti g out his cigar and dropping the bottle before jumping to his feet.

"You've been a very bad girl, haven't you Olivia?" I instinctively took steps back as he creeped towards me. That was until I bumped into something, or someone.

"Olivia?" I turned around to face the voice.

"Tobias" I replied curtly. His face held disbelief for a second before he barked out an obnoxious laugh.

"You really are stupid aren't you." he continued laughing and soon his father joined in too, grabbing my arm pulling me back towards him.

"I think you need to be disciplined" his smoke filled breath fanned my face as he harshly squeezed my cheeks.

"Haven't you done enough" I yelled pulling myself away from him.

"Don't you raise your voice at him" Tobias gritted taking a step forward.

"Why not" I yelled louder. "For years you've abused me physically, emotionally and sexually and I've had enough".

"So what? So what If you've had enough. We'll do whatever the fuck we want with you and I dare you to do something about it" Tobias laughed before landing a punch to my cheek sending me to the floor with a groan.

"You've hurt me but I won't let you hurt my friends" I gritted out spitting the blood from my mouth.

"Friends? You don't have any friends. No one likes you. You should have died with your mom" Tobias father yelled gripping my hair, pulling me back to my feet.

"And if wasn't for Neel, I would have. You nearly killed me, isn't that enough for you?" I screamed holding back my tears.

"Not near enough. Especially after the stunts you've pulled recently. Now it's our turn" Tobias explained his eyes growing darker with each word.

"I'm going to hurt every inch of your body until you beg me to stop, but I won't. I'll continue to break every single bone in your body and then I'll have your lover boy watch as I ravish you" he continued to explain as I felt my blood run cold.

"I'll tell the cops" I threated and they just laughed.

"And you think they'll believe you? Like hell they would. We raped you, we physically and emotionally abused you and I'll scream it out loud right now, but as soon as you mention this outside this door no one will be you." Tobias wrapped his arm around my waist pulling me into him.

"How are you going to prove it?" he taunted while his father watched with a smirk covering his lips.

I didn't say anything. He laughed at the silence before he pushed me towards his father, who effectively caught me.

"God, it's been so long" he caressed my face, the look on his face making me sick.

"No, like hell I'll let you do that again." I pushed away pulling out the gun underneath my jeans and in my left shoe.

"Get away from me" I pointed the gun at the duo taking slow steps towards the door.

"You won't shoot" Tobias mocked. I wouldn't, the gun wasn't even loaded.

"I wouldn't be too sure" I said clicking the safety off. I gave myself a mental pat on the back when they fell for it and lifted their hands up in defence.

"Throw me your keys" Tobias threw the keys to my feet before I swiftly picked them up.

"And you" I pointed the gun at the other bastard, who did as instructed.

"Don't move" I moved backwards to the door shutting it behind me locking it and dropping the keys down the gutter nearby before running. I ran until I couldn't breathe but I didn't stop. Once I saw the familiar door, I let out a sigh of relief walking in and dropping the gun on the nearby drawer, before entering the living room.

"What the fuck happened to your face?" Julian shrieked once he saw me walk in.

"Nothing, where's Neel?" I asked taking a seat trying to catch my breath.

"He's upstairs. Olivia, what happened?" Julian sat next to my holding my chin assessing the forming bruise.

"A lot" I shrugged and accepted the glass of water that Julius had gone to fetch.

"I'm going to call Neel" Julius left the room and within 10 seconds there was loud thudding in the hallway and then Neel was knelt in-front of me, one had gripping my knee whilst the other held my jaw.

"You said you were going church. What the hell happened?" Neel tilted my head back assessing the wound further, cleaning the blood.

"Are you hurt anywhere else. For fucks sake, why do I let this happen to you?" Neel punched the floor cursing himself under his breath.

"Neel, stop. I did this." I took a hold of Neel's hands. "I went to see them" I explained.

"Why would you do that" Julian questioned in disbelief as Neel stared on.

"You went to see them?" Neel whispered.

"I'm sorry, I didn't tell you. I had to do it" I looked down at our intertwined hands.

"What if something happened. What if they did something? It would have killed me" Neel held my hand tighter as if he thought I was slipping away.

"They didn't do anything" I shook my head. Neel gave me a look of disbelief as he eyed my bruise.

"I was the one who did everything" I smiled wincing at the sting in my cheek.

"What do you mean?" Neel asked sitting by me holding the pack of peas Julian had grabbed from the freezing against my jaw.

"I'm going to the cops. It's about time they faced the consequences of their actions" my heart began to feel lighter as every word left my mouth.

"You've already done that. Nothing came of it, they were left free to go" Julian said with his eyebrows scrunched.

I smiled.

"This time I have proof" I moved away from Neel checking the back pocket of my jeans, retrieving my phone.

"And you think they'll believe you? Like hell they would. We raped you, we physically and emotionally abused you and I'll scream it out loud right now, but as soon as you mention this outside this door no one will be you."

"Our entire conversation is recorded in this phone. Everything. They confessed." my eyes instantly filled with tears. Happy tears. Neel looked at me before a second before his face broke out in a smile.

He jumped from his seat and wrapped his arms around me, holding me close. What I had done today I could have done ages ago, but I was terrified. But, when then rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.

Julian and Julius laughed in their seats before getting up and throwing their arms around Neel and I making it a group hug.

Moments.

Our lives are made up of series of moments. If you're lucky, you'll get to have hundreds even thousands of them. There will be small moments, moments when you're doing something so mundane that you won't even realise that you're in a moment. But there will also be big moments. Life changing ones. These ones will be in your memory for an awfully long time.

This was my moment.

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I'm actually so proud of Olivia and how much she's grown throughout this book. This is not the end of this book but it is very close, probably one or two chapters left.

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