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

He yanked me closer to him

entire body felt cold with fear. He

the disgusting smell of stale beer and body

around my wrist, and

get off!” I screeched, bringing my knee up in between

could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my bedroom and slammed the

with the lock through the tears that had sprung

my bed and let a few tears

but it would all

me like her own daughter and instead looked forward to

on the bed for hours, not daring to move until I heard the front door open and Melissa

off the bed and trudged into the shower. The steaming water hid the tears as they

always needed to be on guard around him. That fact alone was tiring and put me in a

out of the shower feeling

morning came around much too quickly. After a few hours of restless sleep, I woke up

outfits I had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and

left on my porcelain skin

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

other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark

our normal table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade.

to be more serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so I plopped

eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested

our group project?” Alec teased, his hot

shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t let the

Alec’s fingers danced over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a

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