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

sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and I nearly gagged at the sight of his sweat stained

fear. He was much too close for

smell of stale beer and

was tightening around my wrist, and I gritted my

my knee up in

a hiss of pain as his hand dropped my wrist. I could hear his drunken yelling as I ran to

the lock through the tears that had

down on my bed and let

than others, but it would

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

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

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

to be on guard around him. That fact alone was tiring and put

shower feeling completely exhausted, and fell

came around much too quickly. After a few hours

bought, a pair of skinny jeans

my porcelain skin and yanked my

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

were tousled and had that messy look that other guys struggled

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

seemed to be more serious than Alec and sometimes scarier,

kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended to be interested in

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

my lips shut and ignored him.

bone. I sucked

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