The following day was not going well, I was late getting to school, which forced me to stay after school, in turn making me late for work which my boss was not happy about. The family I was teaching to sign with each other was having a bad day as well and so their deaf child Sara threw a fit. When I got home I found that Justin had been home at some point and left a mess in not only the kitchen but the living room, hallway, and laundry room as well. When the house was finally clean again I had to start dinner and my homework.
Justin came home ten minutes early and was in a foul mood as well, he overturned a measuring cup containing lemon juice so that it spilt all down my front. Cursing him in my head I went to change, discovering that I needed to do laundry so my only clean clothes were my summer clothes. I changed into shorts and a t-shirt and pounded back down the stairs to finish dinner. The meal was 5 minutes late getting on the table due to the necessary clothes change. I knew what was coming after dinner, Justin was pissed off and that meant he would beat me; he wouldn't dare touch my face or hands, those would be noticeable. I cleaned up after dinner and started my laundry then nervously went back to my homework. To my surprise Justin stays in his room instead of taking his wrath out on me as he usually would. When I was 12 my parents were killed in a car accident, since then I'd been left to my screw up resentful older brother, he thought our parents loved me more than they loved him and hated me for it.
After I finish my homework I sneak a look into my brother's room as I pass by but he's just on the computer. I switch my laundry over to the dryer and take a quick shower before getting ready for bed. I bless the gods as I get into bed for keeping Justin from me this night. As I drift off to sleep I think that maybe this wasn't such a bad day after all.
Suddenly I'm awake and I feel something cold run along my cheek. My eyes shoot open and I stare, shocked, at Justin above me. He has one of the kitchen knives and is running the side along my throat and face. The light from the full moon illuminates his maniac face and I can read his lips as he starts talking to me.
"So, you thought you'd gotten away tonight did you? Well, I thought I'd just let you get more later, that is now really." He laughed. "I found your hiding spot, the one where you'd been keeping the money hidden away. You thought you'd get away with that did you? You were wrong. Very wrong! Now you are going to have to pay me back and I'm going to extract my payment tonight; stupid, spoiled, arrogant, thieving bitch! You take my parents, and now my money? You will pay, and pay dearly."
I try to get up but he pushes me back down and holds the blade to my neck. I feel the sharp edge against the skin on my throat and lie back. I know that if I try to get away he will kill me; he'd gone crazy at some point today, absolutely crazy. Justin proceeds to beat my chest black and blue, making it painful to breathe. Wheezing I stare up at him through my tears, he looked happy but still wild. Justin gets up and walks to the window, I wrap my arms over my ribs protectively, wincing at the movement; suddenly Justin strides back to my bed and grabs one of my arms. I gasp as the motion wrenches my abdomen. Justin brings the knife down on my arm, leaving a deep gash in its place. I stare in astonishment; he'd never done that before. He proceeds to create four more cuts on that arm, and then another six on my other arm. Then he starts madly clawing at my pajamas; he slits through the cloth and drags them off of me. He tears his pants off and I close my eyes in horror. As he shoves himself into me I feel myself scream. Pain ripples through my body and I sob. I can feel him grunting as he moves in and out; I simply lie there sobbing. Eventually he removes himself and my sobbing lessens with the ebbing of the pain. Thinking he was done I opened my eyes, only to see him pick up the knife once again. I close my eyes again, hoping he would just kill me now. I feel him create three slashes along my stomach and two on each leg. Then… nothing. I open my eyes but don't see him anywhere. My mind runs over what just happened and I break, I sobbed until I was exhausted and then I simply stared at nothing in shock, until eventually I slept.