"So, what's everyone doing tonight?" said Charlie as everyone slipped eyes at us. We looked at each other and smiled. "Oh…I really don't know yet, you , Chris?" "Nope" We knew that everyone was going to spy on us or causally drop by the tree house. Then we heard a faint screaming noise in the distance. "What the hell is that?" asked Joey, with a pointing toward the next neighborhood. "I don't know lets go see." said Russ sliding down the slide followed by Jay, they were the first to run across the first street and then to the next. I ran last and I first saw a little short woman tan with bruises all over her body and her eyes were pure red blood shot, and her blonde hair was sticking out like someone had hairspray it there to stay. "Melanie Tempest, where the hell are you, you little bitch get your ass over here!" It was my mom she was drunk and "concerned". She stuttered all the time when she was drunk. I ran over to the short woman and realized she got drunk and probably beaten by the strange man that had been living with my mom. "M-Mom" I said grabbing her trying to calm her down. "Hi Melly." She said as she slapped me across the face. "Mom!" I held my face in shock. She grabbed my shoulder and shook me back and forth. I shook hold of her. "Mom damn it , stop!" I was now shaking her back and forth so she would stop. Then she punched me in the stomach. "Lay off bitch." I heard the guys come running. They all gathered behind me and started helping. "Guys don't I'm the only one who can handle her like this!" I said shooing them back to the other side of the road. "I can help ya, Mel!" "Chris, just LEAVE." I screamed starting to cry because I never wanted them to know. I was holding back my mom as Chris walked away yelling at the guys just to go back to the tree house. "Mom!" "What?" Her eyes dazed off. I gave her one good one across the face. After a red indent was left on her eye and face. I held her arms she struggled. I was really surprised nobody else was around or looking. I looked around to see if anyone was around, not a soul in sight, except for Chris standing at the other side of the street shaking his head back and forth in disgust. I turned around knowing that I shouldn't of looked at Chris or any where else or it might cost me my life. I had sweat dripping in my eyes stinging as I wiped them away mom swung her arm back and with out knowing she gave me a punch right in my jaw, damn that hurt. "CHRIS!" I screamed as I fell to the world as everything around went black. I don't really know how long it had been, before I felt a sharp pain in my side and I was lying on a hard floor. "Oh God, Mel, Wake up!" I heard someone yell. I opened one eye, I couldn't open the other one. I shook my head a little. "Mel?" "w-what?" I could barely speak. I shoot up to see Joey pacing in the corner, Jay sitting with his hands over his mouth, my head was leaning on Chris's legs and Charlie was sitting in the hammock just staring at me. I realized as the bright sun from the window that I was sitting in the group home. "What the hell happened?" I asked rubbing my head. I brought my head down to feel dried blood on my fingers. "Your mom beat you up one bad." said Russ just sitting in the corner chewing on his finger nails. "Shit" I said getting up and running to the mirror. I looked in to see my right eye with purple around it and it was swollen shut. I saw the back of my head which my mother probably gave a good blow to. I shook all over. What I didn't know is that I was really hurt. My mom never had hurt me that bad before, why me, why now? "Honey come here lay down get some rest." said Chris as he stuck out his hand. I took it he lead me to the hammock were I laid down. "You guys go get some bandages." I heard Chris whisper to Charlie and the gang handing him some money. "Yeah guys we need some bandages and some peroxide and junk like that." They walked down the ladder and walked down to Kellso's Drug Store at the end of the block. "Hey how you feeling?" asked Chris as he laid next to me on the netting. "Fine, my head hurts a little!" "Yeah I bet so!" Chris said stroking my hair. "What happened to her?" "Well…." "What?" "She's in jail the neighbors saw the whole thing!" "What?" I said actually feeling sorry for her. "They want to talk to you." "I don't want to talk to them." "Well they've been looking for ya." "What- what if they take me away from her?" I said sitting up. Then Chris shot up and started hugging me. "I don't wanna!" I said crying now. Stop it damn it, you don't cry. I remember hearing the voice in my head. "Sorry ,Chris!" I said wiping the tears away. "I'll go today or tomorrow, but you are coming with me!" I said taking Chris's hand and holding tight. "I will!" he said laying us back down so I could go to sleep. "Go to sleep now, Melanie!" "Don't call me that it's girly!" "You are a girl, and hot to!" He said laughing as he kissed my noise. "Come here." I said pulling him down and I gave him a warm passionate kiss. My head still hurt so I told Chris that I was gonna take his advise and sleep.

Please read the rest and tell me what you think.