Page 4 of Brek's Obsession
And then her brother fell to the side, his cries going silent, and the man stood.
Then he turned and walked out of the house and Sienna felt a tear fall down her face, and she tried to move again.
It took several tries, but she was able to move. It was slow going, but she crawled the best she could over to her mom, and her leg dragging along behind her. Making her cry out and sob at the pain. Her throat hurt, her leg hurt, and another sob fell from her mouth.
Her mom was staring at the ceiling, unseeing eyes looking at nothing and Sienna screamed, she was covered in red from everywhere.
And seeing her mother not moving, her body slowly going cold as Sienna sobbed over her, made her scream as loud as her throat allowed and sob until there was nothing left to scream.
Nothing left to sob. She finally fell to the side on the floor, her eyes shutting. She felt nothing and heard nothing.
She didn’t know how long she lay there, her throat feeling as if there was a hot poker down it, her leg hurting and making her whimper silently in the cabin, covered in her mom's dried blood and shivering with shock.
She lost track of the hours that she lay beside her mom, knowing that she was hungry, cold, tired, and thirsty. She had watched the sun move across the sky and tried her best not to look at the devastation that the man had left.
She didn’t want those memories of her dad, and her brother dead on the floor etched into her brain. It was too much for her young mind and she hated that she had seen it in the first place.
She knew deep inside that it was something that would haunt her for a long time to come.
Sienna spent that day trying to move in small increments so she could get a drink, or something, but each time she moved, it would jar her broken leg, and she would try to cry out, but nothing came.
She finally gave up, just staying in place, breathing hard and exhausted to the bone.
Shutting her eyes, she blocked out everything in the cabin and tried to sleep. It was a restless, half sleep that was more just shutting her eyes, than actual sleep, when she heard a noise coming from the front of the cabin.
She didn’t know who it was, and lay completely still, not wanting the man who killed her family to know she was still alive.
She didn’t know if it was him, but it didn’t matter anyway. She was terrified and tried her best to keep still.
She heard a man’s loud gasp of “Oh my god!” and then heard the door slam shut.
The next thing she knew, her eyelids were bathed in blue and red lights and the darkness outside was lit up with them, and the sirens pierced the silence she had dealt with all day.
When the cops, firemen and paramedics came in the room, the horror she saw on their face broke her even more. And when they noticed her move, seeing that she was still alive, a kind cop gently lifted her from the floor and up onto a stretcher.
She tried to tell them what happened, but they covered her mouth and nose with a plastic thing, and she shut her eyes. Knowing she was finally safe.
* * *
When she came to,she was alone in a hospital room. A beeping noise came from the machine next to her, she was warm, finally and she was dry. Not covered in blood any longer.
It was terrifying. She tried to call out, to have someone come, but her voice wouldn’t work.
No sound came out. She cleared her throat and tried again, and still nothing.
She tried her best to scream for her mom, for someone to hear her. And yet? The silence lasted.
For the next few days, the doctors and nurses all tried to get her to talk. To make any sort of noise. Nothing worked.
The cops came to ask her questions. Which she did her best to answer but had to write it all down.
They asked about the man who killed her family and she told them all she could. Describing him in great detail and the cops went on a man hunt for him.
They found the man and told her that he was going to be put away for a very long time because of her statement and that no trial was needed for him. As he confessed to all the murders with no remorse. She found that detail out later.
The cops came more than once, trying not to overwhelm her. And they asked her if she was certain that there was another person there. When she didn’t understand their question, the cop explained that they had found her brother’s bag in the cabin, but they didn’t find his body with her parents like she had said.
They said he had survived somehow, but that he was missing. Like he had left the cabin and tried to find help. That he had left a trail of blood that they were able to follow for a bit, but that his trail had disappeared, and they couldn’t find him anywhere.
