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.

pretty. Frank was always handsy when he

alcohol tinged breath invading my sensitive nose. He yanked me

entire body felt cold with fear.

disgusting smell of stale

my wrist, and

my knee

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

the tears that had sprung

locked, I flopped down on my bed and

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

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

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

steaming water hid the tears as they fell from my eyes, and

on guard around him. That fact alone was tiring

the shower feeling completely exhausted,

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

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

down at the handprint bruise left on my

Tori. We sat and talked while working on our assignments. My next class was the one I was worried

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

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

serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so I plopped down in

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

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

wracked through my body and Alec snickered. I clamped my lips shut and ignored him. Of course I finished the project. I

my collar bone. I sucked in a sharp breath at the tingles

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