Chapter 7
Matt had a whole bunch of idea’s about what she might look like. But when he saw her, his gut was wrenched. He felt like being sick. Her brown hair was a sort of crimson colour and her face was bloody. She was hunched against the bed and wall in a defensive position. The phone lay beside her, it had bloody hand prints on it.
“Yonni...?” Matt spoke gently and felt like screaming when she blinked and looked at him.
“Matt?” She tried to smile but winced. Her lip was split. Matt was all too familiar with what that felt like.
“Jeff, call an ambulance!” Matt ordered. Jeff went up to the phone and grabbed it, dialing 911.
“Where is Mark?” Matt asked bending over her to move sticky hair from her face.
“He..left. James called and said he needed to get bailed out of jail, he didn’t say anything except be back in a while.”
Jeff looked at him. “Yonni, I’m going to try and get you on this bed okay? Can you put your arms around my neck?”
She nodded, but winced when she moved her arms. He saw why. She had deep lashes in her arms.
“What are those from?”
“Belt...”
Matt thought he was going to bit his tongue clear off, how hard he was biting it. Who would treat anyone like this? Wrestling was a
dangerous sport but they trained a long time, and are able to take the pain.
He lifted her and she screamed, but Matt kept going, laying her gently on the bed.
“Are you okay?”
“My stomach feels really weird...he kicked me a lot.”
Matt looked at the blood everywhere. “Yon, I am going to try and clean this blood up a bit. Tell me to stop if it hurts, okay?”
She nodded and watched him go get a cloth and some warm water.
Jeff hung up the phone. He knelt beside her, rubbing her shoulder. “The ambulance will be here in a half hour. Can you hang on till then?”
She looked at him fear in her eyes. “I don’t know, Jeff. But- what if Mark comes back...I...”
“I will take care of Mark and his minions.”
She smiled at him lightly as Matt came back with a bucket of warm water and two cloths. Jeff grabbed one and gently started dabbing at her arms, not on the cuts directly, but around them. This still elicited a whimper from her, but not a wail.
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She was nearly sleeping by the time the ambulance got their. Mark never did show up, so they took Matt in the ambulance with Yonni, and Jeff was to follow behind in the Viper.
The paramedics in the ambulance said they couldn’t tell much, but the cuts she had were treatable, they knew by the way she coughed there was something wrong inside. Matt just hoped it wasn’t too serious.
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