I was hiding in my closet with my baby girl in my arms. Troy, my step-father, was looking for me. Troy married my mom after my dad died. "Aria come out come out where ever you are." his rough voice rang through the house. I felt hot tears running down my face. "Aria please come play before I have to go to work." he said coming closer to my closet door.
As he got closer Mary Alice started to cry giving my hiding spot away. Soon he opened the door and took her from me and put her in her crib before coming back over to me and picking me up by the hair. It was useless to try to run or to fight him. "So thats where you hide. Well I guess I need to punish you for not coming when I fucking called you." he said as he pushed me on the bed.
He unzipped his pants and kicked them off before he grabbed the back of my hair and forced me to suck is dick. "Do you like that bitch do you like my fucking cock?" he said looking down at me. "Answer me!" he yelled. "Yes" I chocked out. If I agreed with him it would be less painful. "Good girl now get up." he said pulling me up by my hair. He pulled my shirt off and then my pants and thong, he popped my bra off before he pushed me down on the bed. He roughly pushed in me making me scream out in pain. He continued to thrust into me roughly before he cam in me. He pulled out and fixed him self. He leaned over and kissed me roughly on the lips before turning and leaving for work.
I waited until I heard his car start and pull away from the house before I got up. I went to take a shower since Ali was asleep. After I took the shower I packed a diaper bag because I was supposed to go over to Ezra Fitz's house for a study party thing that he called pre-exam jam. I quickly took the stuff out to my car and started toward Ezra's house so that I would be first there.
I pulled up and Ezra came outside. "Hey Aria, I'll get Ali you get your stuff." he said opening the door to get her out. "Looks like someone's sleepy." Ezra said as he picked Ali up out of her seat. I grabbed the portable crib and closed the trunk. We walked in to the house and I sat my books and the diaper bag down. "I'll set this up in my room so no one bothers her." Ezra said taking the crib and handing me Mary Alice. "Thanks Ezra I don't get the bond you and her have but there is a big one there." I said following him to the room. "I love her like she was my own. I guess its because I've always wanted kids but haven't found the right lady." he said as he set the crib up by his bed. "There that will do it lets put her down." He said taking her from me and rocking her in his arms until she fell asleep. Once she was asleep he set her down in the crib. We walked out quickly and quietly as to not wake her.
"So we have an hour before other are supposed to be here so what do you want to do?" Ezra asked as we walked over to the kitchen. "Would you like something to drink?" he asked. "Sure what do you have?" I asked looking around the room. "I have water, sweet tea, soda pop, kool-aid and I'm making coffee." he said. "Sweet tea please." I said smiling at the fact he had kool-aid in his fridge, he truly was a kid at heart. He handed me a glass of tea and we went to sit on his couch.
"So how is your mom and Troy?" Ezra asked looking at me. I had become close to Ezra since my father's death, because he understood what I was going through. Even when Troy and my mom married I knew Ezra was someone I could trust. I told him everything that had happened just hours ago. He was angry and I could tell. "What kind of guy does that to someone so young and innocent? I mean he knocked you up once and it could easily happen again. I admire you Aria, you have more strength than anyone I know." Ezra said still a little pissed about what Troy did. "Ezra sometimes I just want to kill myself. After he does what he does I just w-want to die because I feel so dirty and used." I sobbed. Ezra hugged me like he always did when I began to cry. "You aren't dirty Aria and you can't die because Mary Alice needs you to be there for her." he cooed. I started to calm down after a few minutes when my phone started buzzing. I took it out and looked at the screen. I had a text from the monster that is called Troy. I started reading it,
Come get your shit and never come back you filthy little slut you have less than an hour to get it or I will pack it and send it to the dump.
I started to cry even harder as I re-read the message. Ezra asked "What's wrong Aria?" I showed him the message and rage flashed across his face.
"Come on I'll grab Ali and we'll go get your stuff I'll call and tell everyone that we'll have to do this another day." he said getting up and going to grab Ali. He walked out of the room with her in his arms still asleep. He had his blue-tooth in his ear and he was talking to someone. I followed him out to my car, he placed Ali in her car seat and strapped her in. "Okay I'll follow you in my car that way we can get all of your stuff in one trip." he said as he opened my drivers door for me to get in. "Okay." I said getting in the car. I started the car and waited for Ezra to start his car before I took off toward the hell hole.
When we arrived I saw my mom and Troy in the front room. Ezra and I made our way to the door, it swung open to reveal my mother she had tears in her eyes. "I'm going to say goodbye to my granddaughter" she said taking her from my arms. "Just don't let that thing near her." I said as I made my way up to my room with Troy and Ezra right behind me. "What the fuck does that mean 'Just don't let that thing near her'? Huh bitch what does it fucking mean?" Troy yelled at me as he grabbed my shirt. Ezra came up and pushed him off of me. "It means stay the fuck away from her and her daughter you nasty ass bastard!" Ezra yelled at him. Troy looked at me with hatred he walked over to me and punched me in the face. Ezra jumped on Troy and knocked him down before he could do anything and knocked him out. I quickly packed everything in my duffel bags and any other bags I could find. Ezra grabbed most of them and I grabbed the rest. We ran downstairs and I grabbed Ali before loading the cars and leaving.
When we got back to Ezra's house and got all of my bags in the house we laid Mary Alice down after feeding her dinner and her playing. Then Ezra and I started talking about sleeping arrangements. "So I only have one bed and my other room is an office. I will take the couch and you and Mary Alice can have my room." he said as he handed me a cup of coffee. "No I don't want to take your room plus I'm younger." I argued. "Yes you're younger but you are also a lady and I a gentlemen and the lady always gets better than the man." he came back with. "How about we both sleep in the bed I mean it is big enough to share." I suggested sipping on my coffee. "And what would the board of education think about this?" he asked. "Who said they would have to know. I mean my mom and Troy don't know that you're my teacher so they can't tell anyone and who will find out?" I said looking him in the eyes. "Just give in I always win." I said smiling a little. "Plus I'm a little scared to sleep alone I've been scared since Troy started." I whispered. "Fine we'll share the bed but only until I get another one." he said apparently hearing the last few words I said. "And its time for bed tomorrow starts the last week of school and then Spring break." Ezra said looking at his watch. I nodded before getting up and taking his coffee cup and mine to the kitchen. He followed me and watched me from the door.
"You know Aria, you have changed so much since your mother married Troy. You seem so much more secretive than before. We'll have to work on that." He said as I was washing out the cups before placing them in the dish washer. "Let's just go to bed I'm so tired from today." I said as I pushed past him and walked over to my bags I was about to look through the bags but Ezra stopped me. "Tomorrow after noon you can find everything just for now sleep in one of my shirts." he said handing me a Beatles tee-shirt. "So you like the Beatles?" I asked as I walked over to bathroom. "Best band ever." he said before I walked in and closed the door behind me. I put the shirt on before I came out. "Um Ezra do you have something I can put on other than a shirt?" I asked. "I only have boxers my shorts are put away." he said. "Okay well give me a pair of boxers." I said. He tossed me a pair and I slipped them on before climbing in bed. That night I didn't have nightmares about Troy coming in and rapping me in the middle of the night.