Chapter 2
"I swear to god, if one day I get in this building and the elevator is available, I can die happy then!" Lauren said while taking the stairs. 'Shot, I forgot my jacket! I'll text Joe to take it tomorrow' she thought. Finally, she got to her apartment. Lauren took the keys from her bag and opened the door.
"Hi honey!" she said gently.
"Sorry, but the honey thing won't work tonight" Mark said as he got up from the couch, putting his beer down on the coffee table.
"What do you mean? Is there something wrong?" Lauren tried to calm him down, because after the talk with Joe, if she showed up with a new bruise, things would go pretty badly.
"Shut up! You are pathetic! Look at you!" It was getting to the screaming part now. It was always like this: Lauren would do something he didn't like, she tried to calm him down, he screamed at her, and when he got really mad, he would hit her. "First you lie..."
"I didn't lie, what are you talking about?" she cut in.
"Don't interrupt me! Are you that big of a useless piece of shit, you can't even listen properly?" he screamed at her.
"I'm sorry..."
"Shut up! You're a whore! I saw Joe's car out there! I thought it was a movie night with Julia!"
"I didn't lie, I was..."
"I know what you were doing! You were with your stupid friends and then you cheated on me with the asshole who hit me!"
"First of all I don't like it when you talk about my friends like that, and second of all Joe was just giving me a lift!"
"Oh, giving you a lift? Is that what they call it these days?"
"Mark, baby, please stop this, this is ridiculous!"
"Are you calling me ridiculous?" Lauren realized what she said.
"No, I was..." Lauren couldn't finish her sentence, because Mark punched her right in the nose. She screamed in agony. Blood was falling from her nose, but she was still up.
"Please, not again! Please!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, but you don't get a say in this! I'll stop when I think you learned your lesson!" he slapped her. Lauren fell to the floor. She just wanted it to end.
Luckily, she saw someone running through the door and punch Mark right in the face. It was Joe. She felt relief, but at the same time she felt fear for him.
"Oh, not you again." Mark said before punching Joe back. The two guys engaged in a fight and even thought Joe was the strongest guy Lauren had ever met, Mark had the experience.
Eventually, Joe had managed to grab a tight hold of Mark, but then he kicked him in the stomach, which caused Joe's strength to go away. Mark got up, wiping the blood from his mouth with his arm, and walked up to the still opened door. "This is not over. This is far from being over." he said running out.
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