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.

to me weren’t pretty.

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

with fear. He was much

disgusting smell of stale beer

around my wrist, and I gritted my

screeched, bringing my knee up in between

hiss of pain as his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my

the lock through the tears that

my bed

were harder than others, but it would all be worth it when

treat me like her own daughter and instead looked forward to escaping

daring to move

water hid the tears as they fell

always needed to be on guard

out of the shower feeling completely exhausted, and

quickly. 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 jeans and

on my porcelain skin and yanked my sleeve down

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

and had that messy look that other guys struggled

at our normal table, only this time Alec sat across from

and sometimes scarier, so I plopped

he had won some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested in what the teacher

the little doll finish our group project?” Alec

my 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 ruin

and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at the tingles that bubbled against my skin under his

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