#thepurge

She stumbles up quickly and begins to run toward her house, tears were sliding down her face and flying backwards with the wind as she bolted. Her foot hits something and she immediately stops, Jasmine looks up to the sky and is faced with red liquid descending. She hardly gets away from the substance: it coats her whole body. She stood frozen in the street as the blood trickles down her arms and onto the concrete. Her eyes were widen while she stood there in complete shock. “Jasmine, shit watch out!”

She turns around to see where the disembodied voice is echoing from, Erik and his friends were riding over to her in their motorcycles. She slams down to the ground, her fingers touch the back of her head. Jasmine rubs them together and feels wetness, her vision was blurry and her drenched hair was concealing her face. Her breathing had became deeper, her chest tightening with every second. A horrid scream floods out of her mouth, the birds sitting on the power lines fly away.

She feels hands wrap around her body, Jasmine jumps out of fear. Hearing Erik’s voice calms her as he pulls her up into his arms. Her body was shaking as if it was zero degrees outside, “E-Erik, I don’t understand. I just w-want to go home.” There was nothing but panic surrounding her whole being, he could see the fright swirling through her face.

“I know, baby, I know. I’m gonna get you cleaned up alright?” Erik wipes her cheek of the blood, he leans down and kisses her skin gently. “You can’t- you can’t go home, Jas.” She stares at him unbelievably the look on her face twisting to animosity. “Please believe me, please. You can’t trust them.” His tone scared her, he seem so serious about this and that’s why she was taken back.

“What the hell are you talking about? Those are my parents, Erik!”

“You have to believe me, please trust me right now. I know that’s hard to do but, I’m not lying Jasmine. They’re danger.”

“You want me to turn against my parents when you got me stuck out here in this god forsaken war zone?! You’re out of your mind.” Jasmine begins to walk down the street, he reaches for her arm and grabs ahold. “Don’t touch me right now, I’m over it!”

“Why do you think you moved after they made you break up with me? Why do you think they hate me? Baby, why do you think I’ve been trying to find you for the past year? Because I found out.” His nostrils were flared and the veins in his neck seem to pop out. Her eyes were piercing with tears while she looks up at him, his heart was aching when he realizes she is about to cry.

“Know what?”

“They’re not your parents.” She stumbles back, the tears finally dropping down her cheeks. “I wanted to tell you but they had already moved away with you. It was too late, I looked everywhere for you. I love you-“

“You lie! You don’t know shit.”

“Please, J-Jasmine.” Erik looks up when he hears wheels skirt against the road, his eyes were low as they glare at her parents car. “Baby, listen to me, come with me.”

“Jasmine!” She turns, seeing her mother with her head sticking out of the window. “Sweetie come on, we have to get out of here. Quickly!” Jasmine begins to walk toward the car, Erik’s voice stops her in her steps.

“If you ever loved me, turn back around and come with me.” She switches to him, her eyebrows creasing together.

“That’s not fair, Erik. That’s not fair.” Her voice cracks, she wanted to run to him and into his arms but, her parents. “I’m sorry... I’m sorry. We can’t be together, not again.” He watched as she got into the car, hatred filling his eyes while they drove away. He screams out a string of curse words, Erik turns around and walks to his motorcycle.

When they had made it to the house, they ran inside as fast as they could. Her mother looked at her with unease, she quickly shooed Jasmine upstairs to take a hot shower. The blood ran down her legs and created a puddle at the base of her feet, she felt sick to her stomach and had threw up when she got out of the shower. Jasmine walked to her room, a pink towel wrapped securely around her body. Tears had came down while she was in the bathroom, the look on Erik’s face was heartbreaking to her.

She couldn’t run away with him, she just couldn’t. What he said was all lies, he always had a thing with lying. Jasmine hears a slight creak at her window, she takes in a deep breath. Her eyes switch over to the bedroom door, her mother walks in with a smile on her lips. “We brought you a sandwich.” Her father follows right behind her and she calms herself, they sit on both sides of her. “No telling what he did to you, he disgusts me.”

“He did nothing, dad. He just stopped me from coming home, he shot out the tires. I was so- so scared I didn’t know what to do.” Jasmine breathes out a shaky breath, her mother’s hand rubbing circles on her back.

“Look at me, it’s okay. You’re here now. But, he found you and that’s just not good.”

“You know what he said to me?” Jasmine wipes her tears away and stares at her mother. “He said you two weren’t my parents, w-why would he say that? Why would he lie about that?” The way she tilt her head was slow-like, Jasmine noticed it and was perturbed. “Why are you looking at me l-like that? He’s lying right? You always said he was a liar.” Her gaze switches between her mother and her father.

“He’s lying, sweetie.” Jasmine’s heart fills with relief, she closes her eyes and breathes out smoothly. She feels her hair being yanked back, her eyes open widely as she gasps. Jasmine’s hands grab onto her fathers wrist. “You weren’t suppose to know that information.” Her mother stands up and pulls a knife from behind her back, Jasmine’s heart was beating out of her chest. The fear on her face amused them, she couldn’t move she couldn’t do anything. She was stuck.

“We stole you from birth, your real parents are dead. Killed on purge night. They were wealthy as you can see by this house their money so gracefully supplied for us.” Jasmine’s head shook back and forth, her vision was blurry from the salty tears sliding down her cheeks. “We were going to live as a family, but Erik. He had to ruin it when he found out. We moved to see if that would work, and it did... for a while. Until he ran his mouth to you today. We always had a plan that if it didn’t work out, we kill you.”

“He’ll come back for me, you’re not going to get away with this.”

“Oh really? Where is he now? You broke his heart back there. We won’t be hearing from him for awhile.” She stalked closer to her, the knife raised in her hand and a stoic look on her face. Jasmine screams at the top of her lungs, her voice ringing throughout the whole house.

“No, no! I won’t tell anyone, I won’t t-tell! I swear on my life!” She thrashes around in her dad’s hold, trying to rip his hand from her hair: her head falling back as she yells once again. “Erik! ERIK, PLEASE! PLEASE GOD!” A deafening sound goes off in her bedroom, her eyes glued to her mother. Nothing but shivering breaths leave Jasmine’s mouth, silence crowds the room as the woman falls to the floor. She looks over seeing Erik, standing by the window in all his pride. “Erik, baby-“

Her father rushes toward him, Erik stands his ground and shoots him in his chest. His body flings back and lands on the carpet, Jasmine sits up, her chest moving up and down as she stares at him. “Do you believe me now?” She walks over to him and suddenly kisses him deeply, he drops the gun and picks her up into his arms. He presses her up against the wall and pulls back, his forehead laying on hers.

“I’m sorry, Erik. I do love you... I love you as much as you love me, I’m sorry-“

“Shhh, I know you do. You had every right not to believe me, I fucked up in the past. But I’m here now, and I’m not leaving.”

“I don’t want you to leave, please don’t leave me.”

“You got my word and you got my heart.” Jasmine nods her head, her fingers twisted through his locs as she kisses his face. “Just don’t, don’t leave me again.” He squeezes her thigh and she whimpers.

“I won’t.”

“Good. Pack lightly, I’ll get you new things but we have to hurry.”

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