It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing

Chapter 1

Elena sighed as she waited for the bus to pick her up. She had to get out of here and start her life over again. She needed a way out of her shitty home life and horrible school system. She needed to live again. She wanted to live again.

Elena exhaled as the bus pulled to a stop and she was so close to going up those steps when her 'mother' pulled her back.

"I'm sorry sir. My daughter's not going anywhere."

The bus driver nodded and closed the door leaving Elena alone and deprived at her last chance at freedom.

"Are you crazy?" he mother said grabbing her ear and pulling her back into her junkyard of a car. It always reeked but Elena expected no different. It was the same way her clothes always smeeled because they had no real money to spare. With her mom's drug addiction and her father's booze and gambling addiction she was surprised that they still had this piece of shit car.

"You're in big trouble when we get home Elena. I guess you're the one who's not getting super when you get home."

"You never have any money for it anyway."

"What did you say you little whore?"

"Don't act like you didn't hear me."

"You are such a little ungrateful whore you know that. I pull you out of that horrible foster care system your birth mother put you in because she didn't want your ass. I give you food, home, and family to call your own and this is the thanks I guess. I mean I also get you laid every other week. Isn't that good enough for you?"

"Those men force themselves on me since you pimp me out. I never wanted this life. You just wanted all of us for the money."

"I will admit I get a nice chunk of cash to put up with your ass."

Elena rolled her eyes as her mother pulled the car over and punched her multiple times. Elena swore she had a cut above her upper life and a swollen black eye by then end of it.

"Don't you ever disrespect your mother again. You fucking ungrateful bitch or the next one you get will be worse."

Elena exhaled as her mother pulled her from the car and pulled her inside. A man was waiting for her on the couch and she pushed Elena towards him.

"Change of plans Graig. She's all yours. By the way Elena he loves ass stuff so have fun."

Elena cried as the man pulled her into the bedroom. She closed her eyes during the horrible ordeal trying to picture anything besides what was happening. When Graig was done Elena pushed him off of her and ran to the bathroom to scrub the scent of him off.

It was truly disgusting every time her mother put her through that as a punishment. She couldn't stand to be here any longer, but there was no way out. There was no place she could hide where her parents couldn't find her. She was all alone in this world and she knew from this point on it will only get worse.