Chapter Two: Welcome To Her World

The rest of the drive was a silent one, until they stopped in front of her apartment, her crappy hellhole, of an apartment.

"Go in and let your mom know that you're safe and then come back out and I'll take you to my house." Jay said, turning to her, after parking.

"Go home Jay, I'll be fine." She said as she stepped out of the car.

"Bu-"

"No buts. Just go." She leaned in to kiss him.

Jay sighed, knowing he couldn't change her mind. "Bye Lexxi, just be careful." He drove away as she walked into the apartment building.

As she walked to her door she moved out of the way of a bunch of little kids, running down the hallway, like always.

As she opened the door she could smell the smell of Vodka, which wasn't unusual when walking into her apartment, and hear the baseball game that Brian never missed. Looking around the apartment she was reminded how much she hated it. The walls that were cracked in places when she was shoved into them, the carpet that had blood stains from all the bloody lips and noses that she and her mother had received from Brian, and of course, Brian himself, the whole reason she despised her life, the reason for all the walls she built up.

She tried to walk past him, without being seen but he had heard the door open.

"So you didn't get shot eh? Shame, I was going to invite my friends over, have a party." He said maliciously as he walked over to her. "Do me a favor, go back and have the kid shoot you."

"For you, I would do just that, but there's one problem, he'd dead." She snapped before she could stop herself but immediately regretted saying it.

He backhanded her, slamming her against the wall. "Don't you talk to me like that you good for nothing bitch." He spat before sitting back down.

She slowly got up, going to her mothers room. "Mom Jay and I are okay, we were in class when the shooting happened."

"Okay." She said not paying much attention to her.

Alex sighed, before going to her bedroom. Her cell phone that she had forgotten on her desk that morning, was blinking and she looked at it, surprised that there were 15 missed calls since barely anyone had her number. They were all from the one person besides Jay that seemed to care if she was alright, her father. She took the cell phone, and dialed his work number as she laid down on her bed.

"Hello Nuñez law firm, may I help you?"

She hated the overly cheery voice of her dad's secretary. "May I speak with James Nuñez?"

"I'm sorry he's in a very important meeting may I take a message?"

"No but you will give him the phone, it's important."

"Please hold."

Alex was put on hold for ten minutes and had just gotten up to see the bruise already forming on her cheek when a very stressed and tired man answered "Hello?"

"It's Alex."

"Thank god! Baby girl why didn't you answer your phone, I was so worried?"

"Sorry, I forgot my phone at home, but I'm fine."

"Is Jay okay?" He has always treated Jay like the son that he was sure he would end up being in the future.

"He's fine. Jimmy Brooks was shot and Rick, the shooter, was killed."

"I'm just glad you two are okay, I was just informed of the shooting, not the details." He let out a sigh of relief.

"Sorry. I'll let you get back to your meeting."

"Bye baby girl."

Alex shut her phone. She hadn't seen her father in months, he owned a law firm in Alberta and she could only see him when Jay could bring her. Between school, Student Council, Jay working, and Alex working, that wasn't very often.