Disclaimer: I know the grammar is messed up but it will workout.

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Diana: Ha...zel you wake up. (I opened my eyes to see my mother
completely out of it with a bottle of Vodka in one hand and a cigarette
in the other.)

Diana: Come on now...wes got a big day ahead of us. (She said
stumbling toward me and attempting to sit down but fell toward the
floor and laughed.)

I caught her before she hit and dragged mom to her bed under the
sheets. It's was Friday and we had gotten beautified all week long;
moreover, tonight was the big night. When mom was like this God only
knows what she can do, so I got ready for school. I'm a little nervous
when Ellie came to give me my home assignments on Thursday there was a
close in counter of her finding out what my mom had done to me.

*FLASHBACK*

'Knock knock'

Diana: Hazel get the damn door already! (So much for House on the
Prairie the Ice Queen is back.)

Hazel: Yes mother dearest.

I opened it to she Ellie and I panicked, I expected it to be the mail
carrier or milkman. Shit, give me something to work with I was still in
my bathrobe for craps sake.

Hazel: Ellie what are you doing here, it's only 10:45 school isn't out
yet?

Ellie: Actually it is...Spinner accidentally set a fire in the science
room. He was mixing chemicals and trying to be funny. He told Paige to
smell she got to close and it blow up in he
face...burning...off...her...eyebrows...and the front part of the hair.
(She said between laughs.)

Then I laughed not a fake one but a full on natural laugh. Ellie looked
at me stranger and stared at me as if I were an alien.

Hazel: What, haven't you seen anyone laugh before?

Ellie: Yeah...but not you. (She looked at the ground and so did I. We
weren't meant to be friends even though it was nice talking to her she
had to go.)

Hazel: Um...was there something you needed. (I made sure she understood
my tone of voice.)

Ellie: I was told by Mr. Armstrong to deliver your home assignments to
you personally. (Said those words and took a step forward, matching my
tone as well.)

Ellie shoved the books at me but not all made it and my history book
fell. We both bent down to pick them up and the she had gotten to it
first. When she stood up before me, my collar came down revealing me
bruises.

Ellie: Oh, my...everything that is holy. (She put her left hand over
her mouth and the other on my bruises.

Hazel: Please El you cannot tell anyone... (I said grabbing my belongs
and rushing her off my porch.)

Ellie: Who did that to you!?

Hazel: None of your business! Just go away!

Ellie: Not until you tell me what happen. (She said lowering her
voice.)

Hazel: My...my....my boyfriend. (I said pretending to cry in shame.)

Ellie: You have to get out before he kills you. (She said shaking me.)

Hazel: Okay...okay...I will. We must keep this between us, okay? (I
pulled her into a hug.)

Ellie: Fine. (She said looking away but holding me tighter.)

After a second, we jumped away and chuckled. We said our good byes and
walked away.

*FLASHFORWARD*

I blinked then headed to the shower and got dressed for school.

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I know it's short but this chapter and the next will boil down to the
big meeting with Robert.