OK so I said I was going to make Joan the beater and John innocent but I changed my mind after certain events.

"I'm so scared" A woman said on the phone.

"I'm scared incase he comes back here, I'm scared if he tries to kill me again" The woman was crying hard now.

"I need someone to come over here, I don't want to be alone" Tears were running down her face.

"Can I not go out for a few hours with my friends without him getting drunk and sending me threatening texts?" The woman asked the person on the other end of the phone.

"Mum, What's happening?" a five-year old boy asked as he walked into the room.

"Nothing go back to bed, Jerome" Jerome's mum said hiding her face. Jerome was wakened by the sound of someone crying.

"Mum..." Jerome stopped talking when loud banging came from the door.

"OPEN THE DOOR!" Came a male voice.

"Jerome just go back to bed" Joan said sounding scared "I'll call you back" Joan said hanging the phone up as she walked past Jerome and to the door "Go away! I want nothing to do with you!"

"OPEN THE DOOORR OR I'LL BREAK IT DOWN!" The man behind the door was clearly drunk the man behind the door was Jerome's father.

"I'll call the police!" Joan shouted, after that everything went quiet, but not for long because the banging only got louder.

"OPEN THE DOOR OR I...I WILL...I'LL KILL YOU AND YOU BOYFRIEND!"

"I don't have a boyfriend, I've done nothing wrong, They're just friends"

Every 7 weeks Jerome's mum would go out with her friends and they would just sit and chat in a pub with a couple of their male friends. Every now and then while John was supposed to be looking after Jerome, John would drink a little too much, and would assume Joan was cheating on him.

Last time he got this drunk he tried to kill her, but she took him back, she took him back because Jerome was only just over a year old, and she didn't want him to grow up without knowing his dad.

This time he had drunk more than seven bottles of beer and a full 100cl bottle of Martini. Before he left to go find Joan and shout abuse at her, he broke a couple of things in the house and sent Jerome to his room. Luckily he didn't hit him, but he was close to doing it.

"I SAID OPEN THE DOOR" John shouted as he started to break it down.

"I WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU!" Joan shouted.

Jerome was getting really scared now. He had never seen his dad so angry and his mum so upset. He ran to the top of the stairs and started crying.

"Please, please make it stop, make it go away" Jerome kept rocking back and forth repeating this as tears slowly made their way down his face."I want to leave, I want to run away"

The door suddenly burst open and a very drunk, angry man was standing there. The smell of alcohol was so strong Jerome could smell it from the top of the stairs.

"I warned you to open the door" John said as he approached Joan.

John grabbed her and pull her up of the ground by her neck.

Jerome watched from the top of the stairs through the railings. Jerome watched as his father dragged his mum into the bathroom.

John was so loud that Jerome could still hear his mum and dad in the bathroom.

"YOU CHEATING WHORE!"

"I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG" JOAN SCREAMED "HE'S JUST A FRIEND!"

hearing his mum so scared made Jerome shake and new sets of tears run down his face.

"DON'T F**KING LIE TO ME, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!"

"NOOOOO PLEASE!" Joan screamed and Jerome cover his ears and began to rock back and forth on the stairs again.

With all the noise a neighbor called the police and they thankful showed up before things escalated.

John was arrested and Joan was getting her injuries looked at, and they were making sure the baby she was carrying was fine. She managed to get away with only a few bruises around her neck and some cuts on her face. The baby was also fine.

Jerome was still shaking at the top of the stairs afraid that his dad would come back for him. From the top of the stairs he heard his mum talking to the police.

"I want to keep my son safe, but I can't be a single mum with two children. I Won't be able to cope with that."

"There is a possible solution for that" The policeman said as he handed her a pamphlet.

"This way you'll both be safe." A woman police officer said.

"Then It's settled tomorrow me and my baby go into witness protection and Jerome goes to boarding school" Joan said as Jerome ran to his room.

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