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.

me weren’t pretty. Frank was always

breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and I nearly gagged at the

cold with fear. He was much too close

disgusting smell of stale beer

around my wrist, and I gritted my teeth against

screeched, bringing my knee up

let out a hiss of pain as his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his

with the lock through the tears that had

the door was successfully locked, I flopped down on my

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

had quickly lost hope that Melissa would treat me like her own daughter and instead looked

not daring to move until

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

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

the shower feeling completely exhausted, and fell

few hours

put on one of the outfits I had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and an off-shoulder long sleeve

left on my porcelain skin and yanked my

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 restaurant had me confused,

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

this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced to myself, realizing I’d have to sit next to

and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down in the seat

kept my eyes averted from

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

Alec snickered. I clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t let

shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in

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