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

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

fear. He was much

the disgusting smell of stale beer and body

my wrist, and I gritted my

get off!” I screeched, bringing my knee up

I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to my

the lock through the tears that had sprung up in

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

would all be

I had quickly lost hope that Melissa would treat me like her

not daring to move until

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

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

out of the shower feeling

too quickly. After a few hours of restless

bought, a pair of skinny jeans and an off-shoulder

my porcelain skin and yanked

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 confused, but I let

and had that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark blue button down shirt, while Alec had on a simple

across from Kade. I grimaced to myself,

more serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so I

if he had won some bet. I kept my eyes averted from

little doll finish our group project?” Alec teased, his hot breath

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 twins ruin my

didn’t answer Alec’s fingers danced over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at the tingles that bubbled against

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