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.

he had managed to get this close to me weren’t pretty.

his alcohol tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and I nearly gagged

entire body felt cold with fear. He

disgusting smell of stale beer

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

get off!” I screeched, bringing my

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

the tears that had sprung up in my

door was successfully locked, I flopped down on my

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

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

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

The steaming water hid the tears as

always extremely aware of Frank’s movements in the house, and always needed to be on guard around him. That fact alone was tiring and put me

hopped out of the shower feeling completely exhausted, and fell

quickly. After a few hours of

on one of the outfits I had recently bought, a

left on my porcelain

working on our assignments. My next class was the one I was worried about. Kade’s comment about cologne

Alec 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

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

be more serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down in the seat

some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested in what the teacher was

project?” Alec

my lips shut and ignored

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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