Chapter : 1
Lily woke up with a thud. Fear chased her mind. She peered at the clock.
"7:30, Just on time!" Having to be at work in an hour, she went to the shower and washed her hair,
after she had done that She quickly shoved on a pair of black skinny jeans and a white blouse but before she could do anything else she heard a loud yell. " Lily! Did you iron my shirt today". That was her boyfriend Brett, who was a fellow doctor in the holby city ED. They'd been going out for a while but recently he'd been acting a bit strange.
It started off with abusive words but then it turned into slapping and punching. He beat her last night. Lily quickly splotched on some makeup making sure to cover up the black bruise forming on her eye. She went downstairs and hurried into the kitchen to turn on the iron….
She was halfway through ironing Brett's shirt when he walked in. Lily almost had a heart attack. "Oh, Brett, you scared me!" Brett walked over and stood over her. "Why, haven't you ironed my shirt yet". "I I'm sorry I forgot yeah sorry", answered lily, with fright in her voice.
Brett just stared at her before giving her a hard shove, knocking her against the wall with such power it hit the iron, causing it to topple onto lily. Lily let out a high pitched scream as the iron came into contact with her arm. Brett snatched his shirt and spat on lily. "That's what happens sweetheart when you don't do what your told".
He stormed upstairs leaving lily all alone in the kitchen, she ran to the freezer, grabbed herself an icepack and applied pressure to her scalding burns. Once she had gotten ready, and cooled down her burns, she waited for Brett before running out the door with him to drive to work…