Chapter 18

Whoa, Sin! You're actually writing a chapter?!
Me: Maybe. *shushes you* Just, read. Read the chapter.
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It has been a day since the accident at the court house, and Arita was now standing in the court house, standing blankly at the entrance doorway, Kaida standing right next to her.

"You alright?" He asked.

Arita nodded dully. "Yeah." She whispered.

"Don't worry, we'll be fine." Kaida said. "We'll be with you though the whole trial. Right behind you."

Airta looked at him, seeing the host club behind him, she felt her eyes water and she nodded, a small smile on her face. "Right." She said.

They all walked into the court house and got ready, Arita was seated with her lawyer, watching as her father walked up and sat down at the table on the other side.

She looked at him, her eyes wide and she started to shake a bit. She jumped as she felt a hand on her shoulder, and she looked back to see Hikaru looking at her with a small smile on his face.

"Don't worry, he can't hurt you." He said with a smile.

"R-Right." Arita stuttered.

The judge banged his little wooden hammer that Arita forgot the name for, she looked up as the judge called the court to order.

"Alright, everyone, order, order!" The judge exclaimed. When the court quieted down, he picked up some papers, "Today's trial is Arita Sukejuro against Shiro Sekejuro, with the charges of abuse in the first degree and rape in the first degree, and I would hope that we can put what happened yesterday behind us for the time of this trial."

Arita could feel her father's eyes on her, she looked down at her hands, not able to bring herself to look up.

"Please call your first witness, Hibiki." The judge said, looking at Arita'a lawyer.

"I call to witness, Kaida Sukejuro." Hibiki stated.

Arita watched as her brother walked up to the witness stand.

"Now." Hibiki started. "It's my understanding that alongside your sister, you were abused too, am I correct."

"Yes." Kaida said.

"Can you tell me how long the abuse has happened."

"A little over a year."

Arita heard her father snort, and she looked over, seeing a board expression on his face. He leaned over and whispered in his lawer's ear. Arita watched as his lawyer nodded, and she got a bad feeling.

Hibiki asked some more questions, then he sat down, allowing her father's lawyer to stand up.

"So, I'm to assume that the abuse you and your sister received has been happening for a year, but there have been no complaints, or any concerns sent in from anywhere."

"We-" Kaida started.

The lawyer raised his hand, to stop Kaida from speaking.

"If it had been happening for over a year, someone would of noticed."

Kaida looked at him, speechless. Arita knew the expression well, he didn't know what to say.

"I'm supposed to believe that two mature adults with a ton of social respect and a reputation to uphold would go out and get drunk, only to return home to abuse their children. Without even a rumor in the media?"

That stroke a nerve. Arita saw his expression change and he looked up, rage in his eyes. "They own the media!" He exclaimed. "Why the hell would they let any word, even a rumor, slip through their hands!"

"Now young man, watch your attitude." Their father said from where he was sitting.

Kaida looked at him. "Like you have room to talk." he seethed. "Do you know what's it like to walk into my room, and see my twin sister on the bed, staring blankly in front of her with tears running down her face?" He asked, Arita's eyes widened as she saw tears start running down his own face. "To wash her wounds so they wouldn't be infected, to bandage her?" He pulled back, trembling with anger and sobs. "To know she isn't able to sleep at night because of what you did to her?"

"Order! Order!" The judge exclaimed, tying to make the two stop shouting.

"Stop lying boy!" Arita's father shouted, standing up suddenly, knocking his chair back. Arita flinched, placing her hands above her head, trembling. "You're making things up again! I knew that active imagination would get you in trouble one day! Look where it's gotten us!"

"I'm not making these things up!" Kaida shouted back, standing up in the witness stand. "They're all true and you know it! We may of been there when Akaila died! But we aren't to blame!"

Arita felt tears stream down her face as she covered her ears. She hated shouting. It scared her.

"Why you little-" Arita watched with blurry eyes as her father headed up to the witness stand and she watched as his hand moved, and heard the sound of skin hitting skin in the shocked silence of the court room.

Everything happened quickly after that. Security officers ran past Arita and grabbed onto her father, pulling him back. She watched through blurry eyes as her brother stepped away from the witness podium, holding his cheek while tears ran down from his eyes.

"I hope you burn in hell." She heard him say.

"This trial is over, I declare Shiro Sukejuro, guilty."

Arita felt more tears run down her cheeks. They were both finally free of their parent's abuse. She could finally live her life. She felt bodies surround her, and she immediately knew it was the host club, looking up, she saw Kaida looking down at her with tears running down his cheeks, a red mark from their father hitting him. Though he had a soft smile through the tears.

"We're finally free." He said.

Arita looked up at him, smiling through her tears. "Yeah, we are." She told him in a soft voice, almost a whisper.

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Woo, finally got the chapter done! Hope you guys enjoyed it everyone! So sorry for the wait, but I should be back on this now! Love all of ya sinners!

Thanks to @_AshyPanda_ for the idea of Kaida and his father fighting in court!

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