I'm cold, hungry and covered in scratches.
Eddie was supposed to be out tonight. Catherine had arranged for me to come over for dinner, but evidently his plans changed, so ours did too. But they must have changed at the last minute giving Cath no chance to warn me, which is why I just almost walked straight into the house, straight into a confrontation with Eddie. But hearing his raised voice inside stopped me at the last instant with my hand on the door handle. I was going to go home, maybe phone later and see if he'd gone by then, but something stopped me in my tracks.
"Come on, whore, who is it?" The words were muffled a little, but the open window let me hear the venom in his voice clearly. That's the reason I'm currently hidden in a bush under the front window of Catherine's house.
"I told you, it's no big deal, just some guy at work trying to go further than he's allowed to. The bouncers stopped him before anything bad happened, but he got the scratches in first." Her tone of her voice is obviously meant to placate him, but it doesn't seem to be working.
"Don't give me that bullshit, you've been fucking someone else, haven't you? Why don't you just admit it?"
"Because it isn't true, Eddie. It was that guy at work, he had me pinned against the wall-"
I heard a muffled thump that cut off the end of whatever Catherine had been going to say, and Eddie snarled, "Like this, you mean?"
I can hear scrabbling noises, which I suppose are Catherine trying to get free, and I have to force myself to stay hidden. Every fibre of my being is telling me to go in there and stop Eddie, but I know that will make things worse. I have my cell phone on me, but I have to squirm my way out of the bush to use it so I can't be heard. Once over the road and out of earshot of the open window, I call the police. They assure me they will be here as quick as they can, so I sneak back to the house to wait.
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Eddie was supposed to be out tonight. Catherine had arranged for me to come over for dinner, but evidently his plans changed, so ours did too. But they must have changed at the last minute giving Cath no chance to warn me, which is why I just almost walked straight into the house, straight into a confrontation with Eddie. But hearing his raised voice inside stopped me at the last instant with my hand on the door handle. I was going to go home, maybe phone later and see if he'd gone by then, but something stopped me in my tracks.
"Come on, whore, who is it?" The words were muffled a little, but the open window let me hear the venom in his voice clearly. That's the reason I'm currently hidden in a bush under the front window of Catherine's house.
"I told you, it's no big deal, just some guy at work trying to go further than he's allowed to. The bouncers stopped him before anything bad happened, but he got the scratches in first." Her tone of her voice is obviously meant to placate him, but it doesn't seem to be working.
"Don't give me that bullshit, you've been fucking someone else, haven't you? Why don't you just admit it?"
"Because it isn't true, Eddie. It was that guy at work, he had me pinned against the wall-"
I heard a muffled thump that cut off the end of whatever Catherine had been going to say, and Eddie snarled, "Like this, you mean?"
I can hear scrabbling noises, which I suppose are Catherine trying to get free, and I have to force myself to stay hidden. Every fibre of my being is telling me to go in there and stop Eddie, but I know that will make things worse. I have my cell phone on me, but I have to squirm my way out of the bush to use it so I can't be heard. Once over the road and out of earshot of the open window, I call the police. They assure me they will be here as quick as they can, so I sneak back to the house to wait.
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