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.

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

fear. He was much too close for

at the disgusting smell of stale beer and body

tightening around my wrist, and I gritted my teeth

my knee up in between his stubby

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

the tears that had sprung up in

flopped down on my bed and let

would

hope that Melissa would treat me like her own daughter

not daring to move until I heard the front door open

and trudged into the shower. The steaming water hid the tears as they fell from my

house, and always needed to be on guard around him.

the shower feeling completely exhausted, and fell into

a few hours of

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

grimaced down at the handprint bruise left on my porcelain skin and yanked my sleeve down over

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

and had that messy look that other guys struggled to achieve. Kade wore a dark blue button down shirt, while Alec

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

serious than Alec and sometimes scarier, so I

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

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

shut and ignored him. Of course

I sucked in a sharp breath at the tingles that bubbled against

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