Page 3 of Brek's Obsession
Chapter 2
Sienna
For most, growing up without a voice would be the worst thing anyone could imagine. Especially when you had one to start out with.
Sienna Barker remembered singing, talking, and laughing. But could do none of those things now.
When she was 9 years old, she and her family were on a road trip. They had been gone for over a week, seeing a lot of beautiful things and making so many wonderful memories as a family.
They had stopped for the night in a dirty, old cabin situated far from the road, with a long, overgrown driveway.
After cleaning it out for a bit, with her mom giving her dad a lecture on how they should have spent more on a hotel and not staying in this nasty place, they finally got situated for the night.
Sienna had a hard time going to sleep, not liking how the wind made the trees scratch the side of the cabin and wishing she could sleep in the room with her brother.
She had finally shut her eyes and fallen into a fitful sleep out on the couch, with her mom and dad in their small room down the hall and her brother in another, when she heard a very distinct scraping noise outside of the door.
Sitting bolt upright on the couch, clutching her sleeping bag to her chest, she watched as the doorknob on the front door turned this way and that.
She started breathing hard, and stood up, backing away from the door and toward her parent’s room.
The door creaked open, and to Sienna’s dread and revulsion, a tall, skinny, and extremely dirty man walked in the cabin.
He looked around the room, noticing their belongings all around and finally saw her standing by the hallway and grinned at her. Showing off his dirty and rotting teeth in his mouth.
She could smell him from where he stood and when he took another step inside, she said in a shaky voice, “Why are you in our cabin?”
He took another step toward her and she backed up again, “Little girl, this is my cabin. And I didn’t want anyone here and certainly didn’t allow anyone to rent it out. But here you are. So, you see, you all need to be punished for trespassing. I have the right to do as I see fit to anyone on my property.”
She gasped and stepped back again, “I will wake up my mommy and daddy and we will leave.”
He shook his head, “It’s already too late for that. You should know better than to trespass on someone's property.”
Then he lunged at her, his age and how frail he looked, not at all an issue with his speed.
She screamed and tried her best to run to her parents’ room, but he caught her, making her leg twist wrong, falling to the floor and hitting her head on the wood.
She cried out at the pain and he sat on top of her, spinning her around and putting his hands around her throat, cutting off her air.
Sienna scratched and clawed at his hands, trying to get him to let go, but he was much bigger than she was, and she felt her strength leave her.
With his weight on her weirdly bent leg, she felt it snap, and she tried to scream, to cry out at the pain of it, but his hands held her down too tightly, and everything went black and she slumped to the floor.
When she came to, she heard her mother screaming, and her dad pleading with the man to leave them be.
To let them take her body and go. She could see only shapes and could barely hear what was happening, but it was enough. As she also saw enough. Saw too much in fact.
While she watched and tried to get her body to move, to respond to her brain, she watched as the man lunged at her father, and this time a long, shiny thing winked through the air and it disappeared in her dad's stomach.
He let out a strangled gasp and dropped to his knees and her mother screamed.
Then her dad fell back, and the silver thing was now dripping red, and it flew again, and her dad let out another groan.
Then he lay still. Her mother was screaming, and she saw her brother run out of his room.
Her mother tried to shield him from the man, but the man had the-what she now knew as a knife- swish through the air and a horrible wet noise sounded and her mother dropped to the floor, red flowing free from her body.
Her brother grunted and tried to wrestle with the man, and she could hear him screaming, and crying.
