Ok chapter 2!
hope you like!
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I got through the day and dreaded going home once again and repeat what always happens. I knew I had to go to the grocery store before I got home. I walked what seemed like forever and got to a Wal-Mart finally. I knew I wouldn't able to get too much, since I had to walk three miles home with all the bags by myself. I truly hated my life. I gathered something's that we would need and remembered that I needed a new hoodie since my last one was destroyed, shaking my head it was after all my favorite one. I knew I would have to get the cheapest one or I would get it worse. I went to the girls section and was looking at different ones when I heard a crash feet from me. I looked over and you wouldn't guess who it was, yup the boy from school, I quickly went over and help him and his friend pick up the stuff that dropped, they literally had two full carts of stuff. I helped them pick it up and what was so embarrassing me and the boy from school went to pick a box of cereal up at the same time and bumped heads and boy did it hurt. I tried to not show it and started walking away.
"Hey wait" I turned around and said nothing.
"Thank you um what's your name?"
"Riley"
"That's really nice my names Damon and this is my friend Jake" I looked him over, he wasn't overall muscular but rather just fit and he had blonde hair and blue eyes and looked like the type to break a girls heart. He smiled at me and I realized I was still staring, when I heard a noise but I couldn't quite figure out what it was a growl?
"Well nice to meet you, but I have to go now"
I already had the hoodie I wanted and the stuff I needed, so I said good bye and went to the register to pay for the little bit that I had gotten, with the four bags in hand I began walking the three miles home. the bruises on my arms and being sore, I was flinching every couple of minute. After about twenty minutes of walking the pain was already becoming over whelming, I went to sit and rest on a step and let the pain subside. After five minutes of resting I realized I had to get home or I was in deep shit, well deeper then I already was. I grabbed my bags and began walking again after about two miles of walking I was exhausted.
"RILEY" someone yelled.
I looked back I didn't recognized the truck and it stopped right next to me. It was Damon and his friend Jake, were they following me? I looked forward I only had a mile or so and I had to get home it was already getting dark out. I turned back to Damon.
"Ugh what do you need? I got to get home"
"I wanted to know if you needed a ride home." I knew if I got caught getting a ride I would have hell to pay, but I could have them stop at the end of the corner.
"Ok sure I live on Marple Street you know where that is Jake?"
"yeah a mile or so away I live around there"
We drove in silence and we were there in minutes, I had told them I wanted to stop at the corner because my dad wouldn't want me in a car with two teenage boys. Damon got out and helped me out and asked me out to dinner with his family one night. I couldn't think, I didn't think that he or any other guy would ever want me a girl that wears Wal-Mart clothes and a worn pair of converse with Normal poker straight brown hair, when there were so many other girls he could go for. I never actually had a boyfriend, and I didn't even know how to go about this at all. I knew that I wouldn't be able to go, since I wouldn't be allowed to go. It was hard enough going out with friends and I didn't want to be made a fool, if he was joking.
"I can't I'm sorry I have to go thanks for the ride" I walked to my house and dreaded the coming hours, walking in the door i announced that I was home, put the grocery's away and hurried to my room. I grabbed my book and waited for it to come.
"RILEY!" I didn't even know if there was a god anymore, how could some create a man like my father?
"Coming" I said in all but a whisper. I walked to the living room, he was already drunk and that just made it worse.
"How did you get home so early?" It was slurred but hardly an excuse to say I didn't understand him.
" I got out early today because the electricity kept going out so they let us out early, it should be on the news" I knew he would never watch the news his shows came on and he wouldn't waste his time.
"Alright why haven't you made dinner then hmm? You know to make me dinner" he started get up out of his chair and I backed up, fear flowed threw me.
"You told me you wanted turkey sandwiches tonight, I thought that's what you wanted" My nerves were on edge.
"You knew to make me my sandwich though" he slurred came toward me and slapping me in the face, making impact I fell on the coffee table the candle jabbing in my back. He grabbed my already bruised arm in a deathly grip.
"Dad please stop" I pleaded but it never worked. He threw me to the floor and was yelling things I didn't understand. He kicked me in the ribs and it hurt like hell, pain radiated threw my body. I didn't know how much more I could take. He ended it with one last punch in my face and darkness engulfed me swallowing my conscious. When coming back to consciousness, my head was pounding and it was hard to stand. I looked at the nearby clock it was four in the morning, I had been unconscious for about seven hours. It hurt to walk I think my rib was broken as well. I knew I wouldn't be able to go to the hospital, so I looked on the internet for the best way to fix a broken rib. There wasn't much I could do but take a few Tylenol and call it a day. I only had an hour to sleep before I had to get up and go to school, and I had to get up earlier than usually to cover up the giant bruise around my eye. I fell asleep with discomfort and before I knew it the alarm was going off and I had to get up. I got in the shower and tried to ignore the pain radiating of my body, and dressing and doing my hair was making it that much worse including Sneaking past my past out father to grab a breakfast bar hurrying into the bathroom and applied cover-up as best I could, and when I finished it looked only like I had baggy eyes. I grabbed my book bag and set out to school. I had to walk four pain staking blocks to school and it hurt to even move. When I got to school I couldn't breathe properly and I looked upon the school stairs with dismay. I made it with little time to spare before people started pouring in. I stopped at my locker and made it to my first class to get a note saying I could stay in the library to study. Since I was a quiet A student my teacher hardly cared, I would use that note to spend the day in the library to study and pass the time so no one would see I was limping. After three periods of studying, I seen my only two friends enter the library. They spotted me and walked over I smiled threw the pain.
"Hey Danny, hey Ashley"
"Hey Riley, what you up to?"
"Nothing much studying as usual"
"oh well we wanted to know if you wanted to go to the fair this weekend on Saturday?" I knew my rib was broken but I hadn't done anything in a few weeks and I had been saving what little money I could scrounge up without my dad knowing, oh how I missed my mom.
"Sure what time?"
"How about seven?"
"Ok I'll see you there" I would have to sneak out my window and there would be hell to pay if I was caught, but I mean what worse can there be? I went the rest of the day with no distractions but thinking of the fun that awaited me on Saturday, that's the only way I would fight off the darkness I so desperately wanted to give into.
fun fact:I got Damon's name from the vampire diaries show haha :)
