Chapter 1
Blood drips down my shoulder as I realize I need to get out of there, away from him before he does anything worse. I head for the door but feel his rough hands grab my arm and try to throw me to the ground, out of instinct I bite him and as he screams in pain I make a run for the door and get outside. Then I realize I'm scared and don't know where to go, I know I could go to Romes but is family is somewhat accepting of me, sometimes, and other times they don't want me there. I decide to give it a chance and walk down the street somewhat fearfully. I make it to his house and go up on the porch hesitantly knocking on the door until his mother open' s it. "Brian, what are you doing here, do you have any idea what time it is" she says sternly, "I'm sorry, I didn't have anywhere else to go, my dad's being violent again" I say shakily, "honey it's OK, you're more than welcome here you know that, let's get you inside and taken care of" she says gently hugging me as I flinch. We go inside and she takes me to the bathroom, then sits me on the edge of the tub, "off with the shirt" she says gently helping me and after it's off she assesses the damage. Suddenly a voice comes from the doorway, "mom what's going, Bri" he asks, "shh it'll be OK, his dad beat him bad this time and he came here because he had nowhere else to go" she says looking at him. Roman then comes in the room and kneels beside me grabbing my hand as his mom cleans up the wound on my shoulder, and on my back. She finishes and helps me get the rest of the way undressed as she tells Rome to get me some of his clothes for the night.
He gets me the clothes and they help me get dressed, then we go back to his room. I sit down on the bed and get under the covers, and Rome does the sane. Then his mom sits on the bed beside me, "Brian honey look at me, we're going to need to talk to the cops tomorrow, we don't have a choice" she says stroking my cheek, I don't say anything but I know she's right. She leaves after awhile just leaving me and Rome, and that's when I finally breakdown. "Easy Bri, do mind telling me what happened tonight" he asks, "no, I don't, he just got drunk tonight and he started a fight over nothing, he was going to hit mom and I couldn't stand it, I couldn't let him hit her and he threw the glass at me and it just went from there" I say tears finally coming even though I don't want them to, "it's OK, do you think your going to report him tomorrow" he asks putting an arm around my waist, "I don't know, maybe, what' good will it do, I'll just get kicked out."i say, "well it'll make the situation stop, and you know you can stay here as long as you need" he says, "OK, I'll try it" I say tiredly. After that we don't talk as he turns of the light and I lay there looking at the ceiling until I fall asleep, scared of what the morning will bring but knowing that he'll help me out anyway he can.
