"Dreams can show the truth"
The sky was black. I was standing in the back of my house. Caleb, Melanie, the rest of their family and my friends were standing there. All of them were saying the same thing 'tell us! Tell us what happened'. then Caleb stepped forward, and grabbed my hand. "Shawna," he said "Tell me what happened." I didn't say anything. "Please! I want to help you!" I tried to say something but the words wouldn't come out. I wanted to tell him what my dad did! I wanted to tell him how much it hurt! And I wanted to tell him that I need him to help me! But I couldn't something was pulling me back.
All of a sudden the backyard was gone and I was inside the living room in my house. My dad was passed out in the recliner there were at least ten different empty bottles sitting around on the floor, table, and couch.
Now I was being pulled into another room. I was in my room. But I was already there. I was sitting on the edge of my bed. I had a black eye and bruises up and down my left arm, and my legs. Like I had been pushed down the stairs of something. Things around my room were broken. And so was my arm! I had a cast on, and I was crying. What was happening?! The sun was rising quickly and there was a knock at the front door. I looked out the window -and the other me ran up to it still crying- it was Caleb! My dad opened the front door and started yelling at him.
"Caleb what the hell are you doing here! I told you never to come back!" Caleb pushed the door open before my dad can shut it in his face.
"I'm not leaving until you let me see her" he spat at my dad
"Well then I hope you like waiting, because you'll be able to see her when hell freezes over! TWICE!" then he shut the door. Caleb looked crushed.
The me in my dream started crying again and opened the window as Caleb was walking by.
"Caleb!" she whispered. He came to the window.
"Shawna! What happened to you?" he was very upset now.
"Come in through the window and I'll explain everything" Caleb climbed in through the window and closed it. He went up to 'me' and inspected all the bruises that 'I' had.
I started to say something but I couldn't understand what it was. Everything got hazy, and I felt my head and eye throbbing. I jumped up from my bed and landed on my floor.
"It was a dream?" I whispered to myself. The movement I just made sent my head into a frenzy hurting so bad. My eye wasn't feeling so hot either. I couldn't remember what had happened to make me fell this way. I walked over to the mirror, and what saw was horrible one whole side of my face was red and the opposite eye was completely black and blue. I went and turned on the light, then went back to the mirror. That's when I saw that there was a red spot in my hair. It was blood! How did I hit my head to make it bleed. I couldn't remember how this happened. Just that before my dream, I was with my dad and he was-… my DAD! My dad did this to me! I started crying "I need you mom" I whispered "I need you to come and make it stop! I need you mommy."
I turned of my light, locked the door and went back in my ,bed crying. I fell asleep listening tom favorite classical music and fell into a silent, dreamless sleep.
Again I woke up with my head and eye throbbing. This time is felt like my head was banging. No wait, the banging was coming from the other side of my door.
"Shawna open the door!!" he was still drunk, and still angry. I ran to the door and opened it. "Why was your door locked?! Never lock you door do you hear me?" before I could say anything he pulled me downstairs and into the kitchen by the phone. There was a piece of paper right by it.
Calls From:
Caleb
Caleb
Caleb
Caleb
Melanie
Caleb
Melanie
Melanie
Caleb
Caleb
"They keep on calling, so you must have told them something! Didn't you!" he yelled and pushed me against the wall.
"I swear I didn't tell them anything!!" I was panicking, my voice kept cracking. Was he gong to believe me or was he going to hurt me again. I really didn't want to get hurt anymore.
"LIAR!!" he yelled, he raised his arm up and I remembered all the bruises I saw this morning: my black eye the black and blue on my arm, and the blood in my hair. The doorbell rang. I ran to my room when my dad went to answer it.
"What do you want Caleb? I thought you would get the message when i disconnected the phone lines." my dad spat at Caleb
"I want to see her! Let me see her!" Caleb yelled at him.
"NO!!" and with that my dad slammed the door in his face. I ran to the window and closed the blinds. I didn't want Caleb to see me with all the bruises. But I wanted to tell him everything, I didn't want my life to end up like my dream. My dad didn't bother me for the rest of the night. I figured he was drinking in his room or study. I went out to the kitchen and got something to eat. After I ate, I walked through the living room the second staircase to go up stairs when someone grabbed my arm. It was my dad.
"Sarah don't go I need you." he said. he though I was my mother. I couldn't move, thinking about what he would do.
"DAD!! IT'S ME!! IT'S SHAWNA!!" I yelled "DAD LET GO!!" he pushed my head against the wall, hitting in the same place as my last scar. He fell to the floor and started begging.
"Sarah please, please. Don't go!" he grabbed onto my left leg and started squeezing, until it went numb. Then he grabbed my right leg and squeezed it but this time I was able to get out of his grasp. And ran to my room. He didn't move from that spot.