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 You were a complete shell of your formal self.

Before the relationship you would have never let this go on longer than what it needed to, Never tolerated the disrespect, Never let Ashley talk down on you, and never let  Andrew take advantage of the situation in your own life. the blatant disregard of your feelings. The mocking and gaslighting, trying to convince you that you were crazy about Ashley's feelings towards her own brother. It was too much for you to handle. You should've left sensing the first red flag. 

You don’t know how you were able to put up with it for 4 years, let alone the verbal abuse, and insults from his sister Ashley, but you didn’t wanna throw away the effort and time you put into the relationship, you were trying so hard to make it work, but you realized after all the time and effort, nothing was gonna change no matter how much time passes, and how much you yearned for it to.

When you and Andrew first got together you thought the way Ashley behaved was normal. Although you were only a year older than Ashley, 16 and 17 at the time, you understood that you were Andrew's first girlfriend, and she just needed a little more time to come to terms with the fact that Andrew wasn’t always gonna be there for her.

So when she began to insult you and mess with you it didn’t faze you as much, she was just a 16 year old girl who didn’t like her brother's girlfriend and you were ok with that, with a little more time she would learn to get over it and live with it. Andrew told you so.

As Ashley got older she began to compete with you over small things. Who was the prettiest out of the both of you?, who weighed the smallest, who could cook the best meal for Andrew in a small amount of time, who would Andrew go to when you were both hurt, who would Andrew give the most amount of his attention to in your day-to-day life.

But as you also got older and the relationship got older, instead of Ashley calming down like you thought she would, she only got bolder, sending you death threats through the phone when Andrew wasn’t near, pushing you around and purposely tripping  you down. One time when you fell down the stairs and Andrew rushed to you, you could have sworn that you saw Ashley on top of the steps glaring down at you with her glimmering purple eyes. Ashley denied it and Andrew said you were seeing things.

This torment from Ashley went on as time went on, and Andrew would reassure you each time, excuse after excuse, threat after threat, you had begun to question yourself, had you done something to warrant this type of behavior?, maybe you said something she didn’t like?, you thought that maybe her issues with you went beyond Andrew's love for you, and the problem was something beyond that.

You were wrong, you observed the way the two interacted with each other, the way Ashley would smirk at him with her pink rosy lips. The way Andrew would look at her sometimes when he thought you weren’t watching, the way  Andrew would slip his slender fingers into the back pocket of her short black shorts, and the sheen in his bright green eyes when you and Ashley accidentally kissed one time bumping into each other.

It made your stomach twist with sickness and your mouth taste of bile, at first you thought it was normal, you never had siblings before, and Andrew and Ashley had been like this since the beginning of your relationship, but one time when you came back into the apartment after you had left your car keys on the kitchen table, you heard strange noises coming from Andrews room, as you got closer you recognized the voices as Ashley’s and Andrews and a pit dropped in your stomach at the horrible realization.

You noticed the door was slightly ajar, you stepped closer to the door, peeked in and saw the two, your eyes widened at the scene before you, you quickly covered your hand over your mouth to keep your mouth shut and locked eyes with Ashley’s lust filled purple orbs.

Ashley loved her older brother a little too much and she wouldn’t let you have him.

The day you left from their house was the day you had left Andrew, he just didn’t know it yet. 

But what you didn’t know yet was that, despite the fact that his love for his younger sister was strong, the love he had for you was even stronger and genuine, you just didn’t know it yet, but he would prove it to you soon.

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Andrew murdered his younger sister Leyley.  

Andrew wanted to make you jealous, but Leyley ended up getting in the way. The night Leyley drugged him and had her way with him, was the night he couldn’t forget. Even though he felt paralyzed and drowsy he would never forget the horrified look on your face when your widened eyes locked with Leyley’s purpled hazy ones.

When he opened his bright green eyes and came back to his senses he had come to a realization of what had happened to him last night, outraged and not in his right mind, he sensed Leyley asleep next to him he acted on impulse, he slowly climbed on top of her, so he doesn’t wake her, and wrapped his slender hands around her pale pulsating neck.

When he wrapped his hands around her neck, he locked them and squeezed, hard. All of the hatred and dislike over her towards the years had led him to this moment, he was able to tolerate it for some time, but now that she had actually acted on what she had wanted, and scared you away, it had been the final straw for him, he had been putting this off for some time now anyway. 

He brings his attention back to Leyley as he can feel her fingernails clawing at his pale hands to loosen up, Leyley's face is distorted with sweat, her once before hazy purple eyes are now wide open, shaky, and rolled back, And her pale face, is now a bluish color,  he can feel her struggling to breathe. He can feel the life drifting out of her the longer he grips onto the flesh of her neck.

To finalize the action he squeezes tighter, feeling the scratches of her fingernails on his pale skin finally slow down, and her ragged breathing from before coming to a stop, her glassy purple eyes finally stop quivering, and stare off into space, empty. Her soul finally seizes from her still body.

Leyley is dead

Although he knew it was never his fault, he still couldn’t help but feel sick to his stomach at what had transpired a few days ago, he should have tried harder to come to his senses. Not only did you end up hurting in the process. Dreading having to confront you about it and explain himself, but he never saw you again for a few days after that fact.

He needed to find you and make you his once again, he isn’t ready to let you go yet, he isn’t ready to let you off on your own, you need him and he needs you, you just didn’t know it yet.

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You wake up, to find your hands bound and locked together, a rope binding them. A piece of tape on your lips preventing you from breathing and talking, and a weird piece of cloth covering your eyes.

Where the hell am I? You thought to yourself. Your eyes widen as you piece together the situation you're in, but why the hell would anyone wanna kidnap you of all people. Your mind wanders to only one person.

Andrew

You had a feeling in your gut that you were being followed earlier but you brushed it off, you didn’t know he was actually stalking you, let alone planned to kidnap you, but here you are. Your senses being cut off, and your hands bound to a chair.

Your senses perk up as you hear a door creaking open, hearing footsteps enter the room, not too loud but not too quiet either, this was definitely Andrew.

You began to squirm around the chair and mumble into the tape, trying to get him to realize this was wrong but of course It sounded like unintelligible humming,  the tape blocking you from speaking.

You feel the presence getting closer, staring at you intensely, you flinch at his uncomfortable gaze. You don’t understand why he decided to do this, you knew about his feelings towards Ashley, this couldn’t be because he missed you, maybe he didn’t want word getting out of what you knew about the two, it could ruin their lives, maybe this is the reason, you thought to yourself.

You feel cold long hands cup your face, caressing, and gentle. You flinch under the touch. “I see you’re awake” Andrew muttered again, he was close, extremely close, you could feel his breath tickle your face. This has to be an intimidation tactic. Maybe if you could convey to him in some way that you weren’t gonna go to the police about it maybe he would let you go?

You try mumbling into the tape again, trying to catch his attention, Andrew notices  your struggles to talk and considers ripping the tape off.

“Ill take it off I’d you behave” Andrew says quietly, you nod vigorously at the small condition of his , not really wanting to be here any longer than you need to.

Andrew gently peels the tape off the bottom half of your face. He was focused intensely so as to not hurt your face.

Once the tape peeled off you didn’t waste any time trying to convince Andrew to let go of you.

“Andrew, please…. I swear, I swear I won’t tell on the two of—“ you shakily breathed out trying to get out as much as you know before he decides he wants the tape on you again.

“Ashley is dead” Andrew says bluntly and crudely. No emotion in his voice, your posture freezes, eyes shaken, breath hitched. She’s dead? You thought to yourself. You were pretty sure that Andrew loved Ashley and he wouldn’t kill her, or so you thought he wouldn’t. But he did, what if he’s trying to finish you off and  get it done now, so he could start a new life? 

Your breathing began to deepen as your fight or flight instincts is kicking in,  you now began squirming in the chair, Andrew watching you intensely, knowing what you were thinking about

“I’m not gonna kill you” he cleared up, and sighed. “You’re way too precious to me” he mumbled, looking away briefly, his intense green eyes catching onto your gaze, or trying to, with the blindfold you still have on. 

“Y’know, I’m never letting you leave right?” He coldly interrupted, “I love you way too much to give you up that easily” you began to tremble in the seat, this was too much, he was truly crazy, how did it end up like this, why is this happening to you? Panicked, you try to claw at the rope binding you.

You can feel Andrew getting up close and personal again, leaning into your space, you can feel his taller and lanky body over yours, his weight over you is overwhelming. You can feel his black hair tickling your face. And he whispers into your ear cooly.

“You’re never leaving me again”