My awakening
Author note: Hello readers! This is my first fanfic so please be gentle. This first chapter is not very long but I am almost finished with the second chapter so you wont have to wait very long. Every review is appreciated so please tell me what you think.
Chapter 1
Buzz, buzz! Bill´s annoying alarm clock went off. Not wanting to see his face I pretended to sleep. I heard him get out of bed and loudly look for his stuff. „How „considerate" of him to let me sleep," I thought when he made as much noise as bossible with his drawers. I waited until he got dressed and made his way out of the door. Hearing the lock click into place I jumped out of bed. I SO needed to get rid of him, but I had to be clever. He can be such a douchebag if he wants to and he mostly does. Once I almost succeeded dumping him, but he showed me my place before i got out of the door. I wore the marks of that beating for almost a month. He could also be quite strong if he wanted to but he didn´t want to if it came to lifting heavy things. Then he used the excuse of his asthma and just sit around and whine while I did all the work. Suprisingly beating on women wasn´t that hard of a thing for him. He thought he had broken my will after two years of this shit but it only made me stronger and angryer. I had been through all that and more during my childhood. While thinking i had done my morning routine of washing and gotten dressed. I ate cereal for breakfast and started doing my final packing. I had planned my departure for weeks now with my former roommate Amelia. She had moved to New York two years ago. We had planned on going together but then I was already with Bill and I just stayed and continued my education. I now had a doctorate in biology and had graduated the Shreveport Highest Music Academy. I was only 22. Well I am gonna turn 23 in a month now but still it is quite impressive don´t you think. I took so much extra classes to graduate earlyer that I had practically no free time, But I liked it. I didn´t want to go home to Bill so it was cool. Now he wanted me to be his homey little woman. Cooking dinner and cleaning his house while he goes around and fucks every wet hole in this town. No way that was gonna happen so I needed to leave. He wouldn´t let me go willingly (at least in one piece) so I needed to be smart. I was leaving for New York today. I had put aside mone from my part time work at „Merlotte´s bar&grill" and by now I had a small fortune under the floorboard of Bill´s kitchen. I was going to leave him a letter so I grabbed a pen and a paper on my way out with my suitcase. My guitar was already downstairs so I didn´t have to add that to my heavy luggage yet. I mead my way into the kitchen, sat down by the counter and started writing
Dear Bill,
I am sorry for leaving you like this, but I have no other choice. I have been trying to break tis up for a year now but you have been everything but reasonable towards me. I have known about you and Lorena for a while now and I wish you both a happy life together. You two certainly go together whiny bitches as you both are. I hope you are better to her than you were to me. I think I should tell you that most women (including me) don´t like it when men beat on them. Only coward would hit a woman and that is just what you are. I am leaving and starting a new, happy life without you in it. Don´t contact me or I will tell the police all about what you did to me. I have proof. On second thought I am not sorry for leaving you like this. It is, after all far more than you deserve and you are the one who should be sorry. Goodbye!
Sookie.
I left the letter on the counter for him and kneeled to the ground. Using a knife from the cupboard I peeled off the floorboard hiding my years of hard earned money. I stuffed it in a small box and put the box in my purse. I grabbed all my bags and my guitar and went out of the door. I locked it and put the key under the doormat. I left it there, along with my old life.
Soooo... What do you think. I promise the following chapters will be much longer. It was like an introduction.
All characters belong to Charlaine Harris.
