Chapter 11, this story just gets longer and longer...I'm so proud!! Sniffle ! im' so happy! But schools about to start and that means band practice so that might slow down my whole writing progress. Boo hoo so lets get to the story!!

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=Sunday=

Nothing better then driving the windows down in the bright morning. The wind tossed Nidas dark brown locks and warmed her face.

Slowly Rikus mansion came into view, she parked outside the gate. She stepped out smoothing the wrinkled from her short rufflely skirt and wife beater. She noticed the huge steel gate was open slightly, 'might as well surprise him,' she was sure he was in the gazebo in the back near his pool. That was his favorite place after all.

Meanwhile-

Riku clutched railing of the gazebo for support. Sora watched his friend in pity, there was nothing he could do to help him. Riku was paler than usual and he swayed freely like a tree.

""Riku why do you keep doing this?" He didn't answer he just touched the bruise on his cheek. "Answer me Riku!" Sora screamed.

"Riku? Sora?" Nida walked into the pale blue gazebo. "What's wrong?" she didn't know she was just adding wood to the fire. She was part of the reason he was like this, weak and defenseless.

"Go away Nida, I don't want to see you again!" Rikus words shattered her heart, she held her chest to keep it from falling out. "I don't understand I thought..." She stopped when she saw the new trail of hickies beside the trail she put on his neck. "You thought wrong," he said. "Maybe I have," she whispered, they only hooked up because they were drunk.

"Anyway, I see you hooked up with some one else," her eyes fell back on his neck. "I-I ...what does it matter," he tried hard to defend himself since Sora wasn't helping. "If you remembered Riku, you kissed me before we got wasted!"

Sora hated seeing his friends fight, there was nothing he could do though. He watched them scream back and forward. "Guys?"...they kept yelling. "guys?"...they kept yelling. "GUYS!!"

=Nida= "You think you're such a playa huh."

=Riku= "I don't know what you're getting at."

=Nida= "You were always flirting with girls..."

=Riku= "No I wasn't!!!"

=Nida= "I bet Kairi gave you those hickies!!!"

=Riku = "it's not like I wanted her too!"

=Nida= "you are such a hoe.."

=Sora= "Guys!!"

=Riku= "It's your fault she started messing with me!"

=Nida= "please tell me how it's "my" fault!"

=Riku= "Kairi flirts with me just to make you mad!"

=Nida= "you expect me to believe that.."

=Riku= "you can or you won't, besides I guess it's sort of my fault because I should never have messed around with you."

=Nida= "and why is that?!"

=Riku= "because you're just like the bitch squad, all you care about is your looks and popularity."

=Sora= "He doesn't mean that at all!"

=Riku= "Yes I do!!"

Nida inhaled sharply, she could feel her blood boiling with fury. How dare he say that, he didn't know how hard her life was. Sure she would like just to care about makeup and boys, but would never happen. "I thought you knew me Riku but you don't, Riku!"

Tears rolled down her cheeks, "and if you really think that about me Riku, it's over." Before sora could stop her she ran off. Past the pool, past the gate till she reached the car. Was he right, did she only care about her appearance and what people thought of her?

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When she got to the apartment complex her and her mom stayed at a familiar vehicle was parked in their parking space. Her stomach churned, John was back.

Nidas story

Here she was on a gloomy day at her fathers funeral. He didn't die of natural causes, what happened was he was on his way back from work and was hit by a drunk driver. Nida was thirteen at the time, old enough to realize that her father wasn't coming back. Tears streamed down her eyes and she clung to her mother. Her mother was wearing her neutral face, showing no emotion but deep inside she wanted to cry too.

"Gelinda, I'm sorry about your lost, Tony was a good man," some man tried to comfort her mom. Her mom told her that man was John, some man that worked with her dad. He said he would do anything to help them. Nida didn't like the way he was looking at her mom.

It wasn't too soon before John moved into their apartment. He claimed to be her new father but she refused, she didn't care how much stuff he bought. There was a reason her mother made him leave but now he was back...."

"Nida you're home," her mother greeted her. She glared at John, he was black and very huge and muscular. "I'm going to my room," she muttered, she pushed past them and their fake smiles. "Is that anyway to greet your daddy," he hissed. "You're not my dad and you'll never be," she spat.

"You never show anyone any respect, maybe you need a "lesson"," John smirked. Nida continued to her room and slammed the door. She knew what his "lessons" were and he be damned if he gave her another.

Nidas story

In the corner of her room was a bag of new clothes but she didn't want them. She didn't want anything that bastard had to offer. She could hear them hollering right now loud and clear. "Nida!!" He stormed in her room glaring darts at her. "Did you tell you're mother about my secret sash!?" His secret sash was his crack, in fact he was high right now.

She was frighten, he was always so violent. "You need a "lesson"," he barked. He had given he "lessons before. She stumbled off the bed and tried to reach the window but he tackled her. "MOM!!" He pinned his body over hers and slapped her face. "Now she's trying to leave me , thanks to you! You Bitch," he grabbed her throat and pounded her head into the ground.

Why was this happening again? What could she do? Let him beat her? She reached for the lamp John had knocked on the ground. She picked it up and slammed it across his head. Blood spattered on her face and he collapsed on her.

She threw him off and made her way to her mothers room. Her face was completely bruised on the left side and blood drippled down her face. "Mommy!!" Her mother was thrown over the bed , her bottom lip was cut and she had a large dent in the side of her head.

Nida would her to handle this herself. Ripping anything that was Johns from the house, she threw it all outside the door. Nothing could feel better then watching his clothes float to the bottom of the apartment.

"Mom wake up," she wiped the blood from her mother lips and shook her lightly. "n-nida?" Nida ran her fingers through her mother short hair, "you have to help me toss him out." Nida had managed to pull John out her room to the doorway but she needed help getting him down the stairway. If she had a choice she'd toss him down the stairs and kill him.

They carried him down the stairs and laid him by his car. Her mother sobbed and ran back inside.

When Nida was inside she locked both locked and went to look for the secret sash. It was under the stove, where it always was. She went to her room window and sprinkled it out.

Goodbye drugs...goodbye beatens...and most of all goodbye John

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Nida sobbed, how could her mother bring that drug dealer back into their house. 'What a day, first Riku hates me now Johns back,' she buried her head into her pillow. RING RING! She picked up her phone, "Hello? Tidus.....

Well well it's done. So r-n-r