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.

few times he had managed to get this close to me weren’t pretty. Frank was always handsy when he was drunk, whether it be

w***e.” He spat, his alcohol tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me closer to him and I nearly gagged at the sight of

cold with fear. He was

grimaced at the disgusting smell of stale beer

around my wrist, and I gritted my

my knee up in

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

fumbled with the lock through the tears that had sprung

I flopped down on my bed and

but it would all be worth it when I left

that Melissa would treat me like her own

move until I heard the

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

to be on guard around

of the shower feeling completely exhausted,

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

on one of the outfits I had recently bought, a pair of skinny jeans and

the handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin and yanked my sleeve

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 them

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 button down shirt,

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

serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so

won some bet. I kept my eyes averted from the sinfully attractive twins and pretended

the little doll finish our group project?” Alec

clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course

over my shoulder and tickled my collar bone. I

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