I clocked out of work after making quite a bit of money from tips alone. It would definitely help replenish some of the money I had spent on clothes and necessities.

While I was happy to be free from work, going home was another situation entirely.

When Tori dropped me off, Melissa was still at work for another hour. That left me alone with Frank.

I knew he was completely s**t-faced the second I walked through the front door.

He sat in the recliner watching some fuzzy football match on the TV. His face contorted in anger and I sighed.

“Where the f**k have you been?” He spat, struggling to lift himself off the recliner.

I tried not to roll my eyes, knowing it only pissed him off more.

“Working, Frank.” I repeated myself for the hundredth time.

I turned to walk up the stairs and escape his drunken tirade when something he said had me turning back around.

“Working?” He scoffed, wobbling as he stood from the recliner. “You were out whoring around like your f*****g mother.”

This time I did roll my eyes. If he wasn’t drunk all of the time he’d remember that Melissa made me pay for everything myself. I didn’t have time to ‘w***e around’ when I was busy supporting myself and going to high school.

“Melissa isn’t my mother.” I snapped, turning to walk up the stairs.

His hand wrapped around my wrist and yanked me backwards.

While I didn’t fall, I did stumble back a few steps.

“Get off of me, Frank.” I mumbled, my body tensing in fear.

had managed to get this close to me weren’t pretty. Frank was always handsy when he was drunk, whether it be abusive

alcohol tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to

with fear. He

disgusting smell of stale beer and

and I gritted my teeth

my

hear his drunken yelling

lock through the tears that had sprung up in

I flopped down on my bed and let a few

were harder than others, but it would all be worth

had quickly lost hope that Melissa would treat me like her own daughter

to move until I heard the front door open and

then I pulled myself off the bed and trudged into the shower. The steaming water hid the tears as they fell from my eyes, and I gave up

was always extremely aware of Frank’s movements in the house, and always needed to be on guard

out of the shower feeling completely exhausted, and fell

After a few hours of restless sleep, I woke up and changed for

one of the outfits I had recently bought, a pair of skinny

left on my porcelain skin and yanked my sleeve down over

and second class of the day was with Tori. We sat and talked while working on our assignments. My next class was the one I was worried about. Kade’s comment about cologne at the restaurant had me

and Alec both looked equally irresistible. Both of the twins’ hair were tousled and had that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark blue button down shirt, while

table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to myself, realizing I’d

Alec and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down in

bet. I kept my eyes averted

little doll finish our group project?” Alec

body and Alec snickered. I clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t let the troublesome twins

shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked

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