Police

Paul snatched my hair back just as I was unlocking the phone to call Victor. Then I heard sirens coming. I yelled the police are coming and they are going to arrest you! Paul did not let go. My sisters boyfriend came over and told him to let me go too but he wouldn’t. He started to put his arm around my throat and squeezing. I was able to push my chin down as he was putting his arm on me so I had a little bit of separation from his arm and my neck but it still hurt so bad! I could barely breathe. I focused hard on not moving, it seemed the more I moved the harder he squeezed. There was so much noise at first, then I closed my eyes and felt myself drifting away like I was going to sleep. I relaxed my body and the next thing I know I had a mouth on me breathing in air.
I started coughing and moving my hands to push whoever this was away and off of me. I could feel the cold hard ground and the rocks and sticks all on my back. I rolled over and started coughing more. I laid there for a second before the noise all came back. My head was pounding, my vision was blurry. I felt like my face and neck was so tight and my body was sore ALL over! The officer moved over to in front of me again and I recognized who he was. We went to school together, he was a few years ahead of me but I remember seeing him in the hallways. “Miss are you ok?” he asked apparently for the hundredth time.
“Yes” I wheezed out. Then I seen headlights through all the blue flashing lights from the county cop cars speeding up the driveway. I heard the roar of Victors truck. I don’t think the truck quit moving yet he jumped out so fast.
“DAWN, DAWN” Victor started yelling.
The officer stood up and waved him over. He rushed to my side and tears started falling down his cheeks immediately. “Dawn…. Who did this?” He asked
“Paul…” I choked out. The officer went to go grab Victor but he was too late, he dashed to the other side of the yard where it looked like they were arresting my mom, Paul and one of the brothers. I seen flashlights going into the woods. I went to stand but felt dizzy so I sat back down on the ground. My sister came rushing over to me and asked if I was ok and the an EMS was on the way. She was crying her eyes out and her boyfriend was rubbing her back trying to get her to calm down as well. I asked what was going on.
Apparently the brother with the gun was in the woods somewhere. The one that came back (Kristopher) tackled Paul when I blacked out to get him off of me. And Paul said that mom started it all so they were all under arrest. I could hear Victor screaming, I jumped up and ran toward him. There was three officers on him trying to hold him back from Paul. Once I reached him the one holding Victor around his shoulders looked over at me to tell me to step back and his face turned into shock when he made eye contact with me.. I guess that allowed his grip to loosen up enough that Victor made contact with Pauls face and started punching him. I yelled for him to stopped and reached over to him and Victor looked at me in rage. His hands froze mid air and he turned to me
“I am so sorry Dawn, Im so sorry, I should have came. I should not have told you to come. I should have been here” He was talking in my ear as he was hugging and cradling me against him.
The officers that were holding Victor finally broke through our embrace and told him they should arrest him to but considering the issues at hand they will not but he has to cool it.
I asked Victor if I really looked that awful, The way everyone was looking at me was a mix of shock, sadness and fear. He told me I was beautiful and walked me toward the EMS that was pulling in. I turned back around toward Paul and my mom and told both of them plus the officers that I WAS pressing charges.
The EMS looked me over and wanted to bring me in to the hospital but I knew I could not afford that bill. I glanced in the window as I was entering the back of the ambulance and I started to cry. They gave me an ice pack for my face and checked all my wounds and helped clea up all the cuts on my legs and arms. Then one of the officers came over to take my statement. I told him everything. He said you want to press charges on your mom too? But I told him no just my mom she herself did not do anything to me just him. She should be pressing charges on him too. But because Paul said that she started it and was hitting him first then that is way she was being arrested. My sister, the boyfriend and two of the brothers would not make a statement. Only Kristopher but it was just at the end. He did not tell the officers that he was there earlier just that he pulled in at the end. I told him that that was a lie. And he jotted it down. Once I was done with that Victor helped me out the back of the ambulance and to his truck. My sister winded up talking the ambulance to the hospital because she started feeling labor pains. I was just ready to leave. We locked up my car and I got in Victors to head home.