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.

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

tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me

cold with fear. He was

grimaced at the disgusting smell of stale beer

grip was tightening around my wrist, and I gritted

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

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

through the tears that had

locked, I flopped down on my bed and let a few tears trail down my

harder than others, but it would all be

years, I had quickly lost hope that Melissa would treat me like her own daughter and

daring to move until I heard the front door open and Melissa come

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 gave

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

feeling completely exhausted, and

morning came around much too quickly. After a few hours

put on one of the outfits I had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and an

handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin and yanked my sleeve down

first 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

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

at our normal table, only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to

and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down

smirked at Kade, as if he had won some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended

group project?” Alec teased, his hot breath curling

shut and ignored him. Of course I

I sucked in a

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