"wait here, I'll be right back"she said flipping the switch to keep the elivator door open.She walked to her room and entered cautiously(sp?).She let out a sigh of relief.
"Ivy?" a woman's voice asked from the other room.Ivy froze in the middle of the living room.The voice belonged to Ivy's mother.Her eyes were filled with anger.
"Were were you?" she asked through clenched teeth.
"M-mom," Ivy trembled.Before she could do anything else her mother's hand came down on her cheek hard.Ivy winced in pain as her mother repetedly slapped her.She dropped to the floor holding her cheek and he mother walked over to the refidgerator.She grabbed out a beer and walked back to her room.
Ivy's eyes were filled with tears when she walked back to the elivator with her purse.
"I have my purse." she mumbled and looked away from Zack.He noticed her weird behavior and tapped her on the shoulder.He could see her wince and a tear slid down her cheek.
"Are you ok?" he asked looking at her.She dropped to the floor and started to sob.He sat down next to her as she kept on sobbing.After about 3 minutes she stopped.Standing up quietly she told him the story.
"My mom's an alcaholic,she has been since I was born.At first she would take it out on my older sister, Kelly, untill she commited suicide and I turned four.One day she came back from the bar and started hitting me,telling me it was my fault that my sister died and how it was my fault my father left,"She used her sleave to wipe away the black tears that were rolling down her cheeks.
"And one time, when I was 8 she hit me so hard that I broke my arm in 6 different places.She just told the docters that I fell off my bike...and they belived her"She once again started sobbing and burried her head into her hands.
"I may be a little slow, but what does this have to do with why you were crying?I mean it IS a big deal and all-"He stopped mid sentence when she turned her left cheek to him.It had hand marks were her mother slapped her and her eye was swolen and had a bruise around it.He pressed the button for his floor and grabbed onto her hand.He stopped infront of his hotel room and ran inside, grabbing an icepack frome the freezer and a washcloth from the bathroom.He ran out into the hallway and gave her the towel to wipe off her running makeup.She handed it back to him and covered her eye with the icepack.
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