Jessica couldn't fall asleep... She thought about her kids all the time and she missed them so much. She thought about all the good and bad times she had with them.

She missed Sarah and all her other friends too. She laid in the bed for three hours and cried most of the time.

After a while she heard foot steps and tried to stop crying but she couldn't. Leo entered the room and looked at her confused. He sat down on the bed and gently asked "What is wrong? Why are you crying?"

"I-I m-m-miss my f-familly." She said and sobbed.

"Jessica. I am your family now. You shouldn't cry about your old one. So stop crying." He said and gently brushed his thumb over her arm.

"I j-j-just can't. I-I have to think a - about them a-a-all the time..." she said and tried to pull herself together but failed miserably.

"If you can't forget them maybe I have to beat them out of your mind. Do you think I need to punish you or will you stop crying?" He asked and watched satisfied how her facial expression changed.

"No... I will forget about them and stop crying." She said and tried so hard to stop crying.

He waited a few minutes without saying anything. She couldn't hold back her tears anymore.

"Jessica..." he said with an angry voice.

"Please don't punish me. Please..." she almost pleaded him.

He grabbed her arm and pulled her up from the bed. "No! No... please noooo!" She screamed as he threw her over his shoulder and walked with her down the stairs.

He threw her onto the kitchen table and slapped her across the face.

"Please..." she tried it one last time. She cried and sobbed so hard she almost couldn't breath anymore.

He punched her into the face until blood ran down her forehead. She tried to cover her face with her hands but that didn't prevent him from punching her.

"Give me your arm..." he said cold and took a knife out of the counter next to him.

"Noooo. Please... I will do whatever you want me to do." She begged and held her arm close to her body.

"Jessica. I won't repeat myself again. Give. Me. Your. Arm. NOW." He said and she slowly stretched her arm out to him.

She knew if she wouldn't he would hurt her even more. He took her thumb and pushed the knife into the side of it.

He cut through her soft flesh until he reached her upper arm. She screamed in pain and even more tears streamed down her face.

"Now say 'You are my new family. I will forget about my old one and never cry because of them again.'"  She kept crying and sobbing.

He twisted her arm and she screamed in pain "SAY IT!!" He screamed.

"You are my new family. I will forget about my old one and never cry because of them again." She said and he let go of her arm. The blood was still running down her arm and the cut wasn't deep but long.

She held her arm close to her body and looked at Leo with fear in her eyes. "You know I just did that because you didn't listen to me. I love you."

She looked away and kept crying.

"Say it. Say that you know that I love you and that I would never punish you for no good reason."

"I know you love me and that you would never punish me for no reason." She said and sobbed hard.

He walked over to the counter and took out some rubbing alcohol and bandages.

He took the rubbing alcohol to clean her wound and she screamed in pain as it connected with her skin. It burned like hell and she gripped the edge of the table hard with her other hand.

After he cleaned the wound he bandaged it and kissed her.

"Next time listen to me and that won't happen again." He said and picked her up. He carried her over to the couch and gently placed her on it. She curled into a ball and closed her eyes.

She was still crying because of the intensive pain in her left arm and thumb. She couldn't believe he did that.

Ok she did something wrong but why did he have to cut almost her whole arm? She didn't want to see him ever again but she knew this wasn't possible.

He sat down beside her and gently caressed her back. "Everything is alright baby." He said and  put her head into his lap.

"I don't want to hurt you so please behave. I didn't cut too deep so it should be away in a few weeks. You may have a little scar but that will only remind you that you should always behave." He said and kissed her head.

She didn't pay attention to what he was saying. The pain in her arm was too strong. She felt how she got dizzy and thought she would faint but she didn't.

She had a huge headache because she cried the whole time and so she stopped crying after a while. He was there for her all the time and held her until she fell to sleep.

He brought her up and gently placed her on the bed. He covered her with the sheets and walked back down. He drove to the next pharmacy and bought some pain killers.

When he came back she was still asleep and so he started dinner. She would be hungry when she would wake up so he made for once dinner.

He punished her enough for one day. He really hated to do that but she needed to realize that she can't act like this.

When his parents and brother would be back she couldn't act like this. She just couldn't. She would be as good as dead if she would.

He hoped that she would soon adjust and just do what he tells her to do. He hoped that she would understand that he just loved her and tried to protect her.

He thought so often about running away from his family but he just couldn't. They would find him everywhere.

He woke her up and they ate dinner in silence. She didn't eat much and she kept her eyes glued to her plate. She didn't look up at him once.

She was too afraid of him. She didn't know if she could ever trust him. Just when she started to trust him he disturbed everything by punishing her.

If he wouldn't have done that she may have trusted him but now... she didn't know if she still could do that so easily.

He hurt her really bad and this time he was even harsher than the last time. He cut her and she probably would have a scar the rest of her life.

She couldn't move her thumb and moving her arm hurt too much so she didn't event try to do things with her arm.

After dinner she cleaned and went straight up to their room. She changed into her sleep clothes and went to bed. She faced the window and made sure that she wouldn't lie on his side of the bed.

She wanted to show him how much he hurt her but if she would have slept on the couch he would have punished her again...