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

w***e.” He spat, his alcohol tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and I

cold with fear. He was much too close for

grimaced at the disgusting smell of

was tightening around my wrist, and I

get off!” I screeched, bringing my knee up

wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as

the lock through the tears that had

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

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

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

bed for hours, not daring to move until I heard the front door open and Melissa

water hid the tears as they fell from

Frank’s movements in the house, and always needed to be on guard around him. That

out of the shower feeling completely exhausted, and fell into

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

outfits I had recently bought, a

my porcelain skin and yanked my sleeve down over

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, but I let it flit from my mind shortly after it had happened. Apparently the two of

both 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

only this time Alec sat across from Kade. I grimaced

sometimes

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

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

and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I couldn’t let the

answer Alec’s fingers danced over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at the

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