* Lora Croffard's POV *

I dropped the kids off at school. Angy's  at her grandmother's today for some kind of granny and baby thing at her church. So I'm kinda off until the other schools come out.

I decided to go to the park. I can have a walk and take some pictures.

I parked in front of the gates and locked my car in the parking lot. I walked along the brick road and stopped every few steps to take a picture of trees, flower and everything else I could find.

"Lora." I went cold. That's a voice I would recognize anywhere, but it doesn't mean I want to hear it ever again in my entire life! "Don't ignore me, you bitch."

I turned around to face him. He stepped closer, looking down at me since he's three feet taller than me. When I didn't say anything he grabbed my wrist and dragged me behind a wall that was covered by a few trees.

"Don't you have anything to say to your father?"

"You're not my father!" I yelled at his face.  He pushed me hard to the wall and left me quickly so that I stumbled to my butt.

"Oh yes I am. Do you know how hard it was to get to you? I was in that mansion the other day, but some stupid cat gave me a heart attack."

"That was you the other day?"

"Sorry I left you with all that glass to clean up. I was planning on coming back but when I tried there was to much security."

"What do you want from me?" He bent down to his knees, taking my face in his one hand.

"I just want to catch up. You know in jail I don't have my toys. It gets lonely sometimes." His hands moved down from my face to my shoulders and  moved downwards, slowly. "Now that you're such a grown lady you could be so much more fun."

"Please- please don't."

"Shut up!" His hand made contact with my skin. My cheek started to sting and when I wanted to reach to my face my hands got caught. "Now you listen to me, you bitch. You will be quite during this session and if you try anything that will mess anything up, there will be consequences."

"No, please. Please I beg you." Tears started to role down my cheeks.

"Stop it! Be silent and stay silent." His hands went to my shirt's buttons. I'm not going through this again! I slapped his hands off of me and started kicking him. Unfortunately he's stonger than I am. He picked me up and started to hit me repeatly in the face and then threw me against the wall. I landed hard on the ground- my arm in a very uncomfortable position. It hurt. But he wasn't done. In the corner of my eye I could see him picking up a rock. He then hit me with it.

"Hey!" I heard a voice far away. He stopped and started to run away. That's the last thing  I saw, when everything around me started to get dark and black.

* Liam Lockwood's POV *

My phone rang in my pocket and I picked it up. "Hey, Daniel. What's up?"

"Um, Lora was supposed to pick me up, but neither she nor my mother is answering her phone. She is a hour late now."

"Why would she be late?"

"I don't know, but what if she didn't get Chloe either? Then Chloe is still at her school."

"I'll go to Chloe's school first to see if she's still there." I climbed in my car and drove off to Chloe's school and there she was. She sat on the step in front of the office, her eyes wet.

When she saw me she jumped up and ran to me. "Liam! I though I was forgotten and was going to die alone here. I don't want to die at school!"  she cried.

"Hey, it's okay. I'm here now aren't I?"

"Where's Lora?"

"I don't know. Come on,  we need to get Daniel."

*********

We picked up Daniel and went to McDonald's for lunch.

My phone rang and I saw Alex's name on the caller id "Hey, Alex. What's up?"

"Liam, it's about Lora."

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I ran through the white hallways to the reception. "Lora Croffard?" I asked to the receptionist.

"She's still in theater. Ward nine." I jogged to ward 9. A doctor in a white gown walked over to me.

"Mister Croffard?"

"No, I'm a friend of Lora's. What happend?"

"She was assaulted. Very badly hit with a rock on her head. She might have a concussion, we're busy analysing everything. Her arm is badly broken, though. We'll let you know if we have further news. Does she have there any other family?"

"No, it's only her aunt. But she works for my aunt who's pretty much her supervision."

"Will you please try to inform them about her situation."

"Of course, thank you, doctor." I phoned Mary and she almost immediately answered.

"Oh my gosh, Liam! Lora! Are you with her? Is she okay?"

"She's still in theater."  I informed her about Lora's position and Mary said that she will be over as soon as possible.

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Thirty minutes passed,  a hour, two hours and we're now going on the third.

What is taking them so long?

Mary's here, so is Amber, Nash, Cj, Joe, Lily and even Chris. We're all sitting on the bench, waiting for an update.

After another half of a hour the doctor came out, hs gown having a few drops of blood over it. I stood up walked towards him.

"She's stable. Her arm that was broken is all fixed up now, but the hit on the head was bad. We gave her a few stitches. She's going to have to stay a few days so that we can keep her monitored and have a look at her, because of her concussion situation."

"Can we see her?"

"Yes, but only two at a time. We don't need to overwhelm her."

"Thank you, doctor."

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I took her hand in-between mine. Her hands are cold and her skin pale. It's about nine o'clock and the sun is already far away.

Everyone left, but I just can't go home before I know she is safe.

Her arm is covered with plaster and she has a plaster above her one eye where the stitches are covered up.

Her face is all bruised up with blue and red. There are small cuts as well. On her wrists were blue marks.

I squeezed her hand tight. I won't let go. I put her hand to my lips and planted a kiss on it.

"Lora, please wake up," I whispered "Wake up, please wake up."

I stood up quickly and went to stand in front of the window to look out at the city.

"Liam?" I turned around to face her. There she was in between the white bed sheets.

She's awake.

"Thank goodness, Cinderella. You gave me a heartatack."

"What happend?"

"Shh, just get some rest. I'll call the doctor. You just relax. Everything will be okay."

"Okay." Her eyes fell closed again and I went to call the nurses.

My Cinderella. That's my Cinderella and she's okay.