(1995)
When will it end?
That's what we all want to know.
For me it would come sooner than I thought - or hoped.
When I ended up slamming my bedroom door shut for the third time that day, I knew something had to change. And for the sanity of me I prayed it would be my dad. See, I had been living with him for the past three years after he had gotten away with my mothers murder with only me as a witness. But he didn't know that last part.I chose not to say anything in hopes it would save my life, or at least make it last longer seeing as I had only been eleven at the time.
"CASEY!" I heard my drunken father call out to me. I silently backed away up against the wall and sank down hoping he would just walk away and forget me. But I had never been lucky since my mother died, the door flew open and my father stood there with more hate in his eyes than ever. "Casey you no good girl! What am I supposed to do with you!? You are completely useless just like your mother!"
"Mom was not useless! You would even know you were never here anyway!" I screamed back at him and quickly regretting it. "Don't you dare talk back to me girl!" he strode across the room and smacked me across the face. He continued beating me repeatedly until I screamed for him to stop. Eventually he did, leaving me on the floor bleeding and to fend for myself. After he was gone, I slowly got up and dragged my self up and leaned against the wall trying to ignore the massive amounts of pain. From the other room I heard yelling and objects breaking, I tried to sort out what was going on but couldn't focus for the life of me. Witch at the moment wasn't holding on much longer. Once more my door opened and a man dressed in black can over to me hurriedly, he called out and more men came in and took me away to an ambulance out side my house. Before I blacked out I saw my dad being pushed into the back of a police car, the sight made me smile for real since my mother's death.
When I woke up I was in a brightly lit white room with a nurse standing over me. She smiled at me warmly "welcome back" she joked making me smile in return. She finished checking me before sending in an old looking woman "hello Casey, I'm your aunt Macy. Your mother was my sister" I nodded numbly for her to continue "since you have no other relatives, you'll be moving in with me to New Jersey. Now don't look at me like that, Jersey isn't that bad" she patted my leg and went back over to the nurse to discuss about letting me leave that night. I stopped listening and turned my attention to looking around the room. There was one other bed in the room with an old man sleeping it, along with a small bedside table next to me. I sighed and leaned back into the pillows.
Knowing my friends, they already knew where I was and why. So I shut my eyes and settled in to take a small nap before all hell broke loose… "CASEY!" well that didn't last long.
"Yes Matty, nice to see you too. Where's everyone else?"
"Oh, just down the hall-"
"HEY WE'ER RIGHT HERE!" Jill yelled as she dragged in her sister, Mina, behind her. The nurse who was tending to the sleeping man gave them a glare of disaproval before looking back down at his charts.
"Perfect!" I clapped my hands together, "now, I have good news and bad news."
"What's the good news?" Jill asked.
"I'm going to be just fine and can leave the hospital tomorrow night."
"YES!" Matty and Jill both jumped into the air "we have a tournament tomorrow anyway so it'll work out!" Matty added.I shook my head
"And the bad news?" Mina asked quietly. I sighed "I have to move to New Jersey…"
"WHAT!?" Jill and Matty both screamed "shhhhh!" the nurse across the room said pointing to where the sleeping man was. "What?" Matty asked more quietly. "Well since my dad's in jail now I need to live somewhere, and that place is in NJ with my aunt."
"Not cool man!" Jill said earning another "shhhh!" from the nurse. Mina shook her head sadly and sat in the chair to my left. "I'm sorry guys… But I have no choice…"