Lucky "325" Page 83

When we arrived back at the Hotel, I couldn’t wait to give Joe the gold penknife. He thanked me and said it was a stunning gift to have. Well, that night, I should have seen it coming, but I didn’t. I did feel as thought something was about to happen, but I shrugged it off. At supper Joe was drinking heavily and wasn’t supposed to drink. Joe is epileptic. He had a plate in his head, and alcohol increased the chances of a seizure. I didn’t know if he took his medication that day or not. Watching Joe drink made me nervous because I knew how nasty he could get, but I shrugged it off. He went back to his room after dinner, and I hoped that Joe would go to sleep. Finally I thought I would get some peace for the night, and went to visit with Heidi in the adjoining room. I was dead wrong. Joe was faking it! I was sitting in Heidi’s bathroom while she removed her makeup, getting ready for bed herself. I was telling her how much I loved Joe, when all of a sudden Joe was standing beside me. I didn’t see him, expect for the punch that I felt. Joe grabbed me by my long black hair and dragged me into Heidi’s bedroom. Joe kept hitting me and the look in his eyes was wild and crazy. He was acting like a crazy person, hitting and dragging me all over the carpet. He had the knife that I bought him that day in his hand, there he was, getting ready to stab me in the back. Luckily I moved and he stabbed me in the ass, twisting the knife! Heidi was in total shock! I was standing there in complete horror, not knowing what to do. It seemed all too fast, like a nightmare in hell. Once he saw all the blood gushing from the wound, he calmed down, returned to our room, and left me there to die! After the initial shock, Heidi took care of me that night, cleaning my wound, trying to stop the bleeding. What a mess Joe made. The walls and carpet had blood all over them. There was blood everywhere, like an animal was slaughtered in a religious sacrifice. Heidi cleaned the walls and scrubbed the blood out the carpet. Then she gave me two sleeping pills so I was able to sleep off the physical and emotional pain that night. I slept in her bed and she slept on the sofa in the living room.