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.

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

me closer to him and I

fear. He was much too

at the disgusting smell of stale beer and

grip was tightening around my wrist, and I gritted my teeth against the

bringing my knee

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

with the lock through the tears

down on my bed and

but it would all be

me like her own daughter and instead looked forward to escaping the moment I turned

to move until I heard the front door open and Melissa

was 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

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

the shower feeling

much too quickly. After a few hours of restless sleep, I woke

recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and

left on my porcelain skin and

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

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 Alec had on a

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

seemed to be more serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so

my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested in what the teacher

project?” Alec teased, his

wracked through 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

my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at the

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