~~~~ CHAPTER 2 ~~~~

After I got home from school, Randy's car pulled up right after i had gotten inside, he must have followed me home. "Oh I can't do this right now," i thought to myself. randy got out of his with that same old drunken meaness he's had for the last few weeks. when randy got to the front door i already had it open. My mind was telling me to run but deep down i was hoping and praying he would just be Randy asked in a slurred angry tone "why i'd you never come back last night?" I told him why and he denied it all. We went inside and I put my stuff down I looked out the window at all the children getting off their busses for school, wishing my life could be that simple again. Randy jerked me to reality again and looked me in the eye and said "I want you to stay in here, while i go get my beer from the car, alright? If you so much as move an inch i will slice you open!"

i was trying to make a plan to run for it when i realized that if i didn't tell someone soon i might end up dead. i got up quietly and went down to the basement so i could go hide in the woods behind my house again. i was walking through the woods when it hit me, what if he does the same thing again tomorrow? I didn't want that to happen again. What if next time Memaw or Emily are home? I ran into a neighborhood that looked like it was having a block party, so he would stop chasing me. I was shaking violently, to others it probably look like i was high or something, but for once the stares didn't bother me so much i just really wanted to call Shawn and get him to come get me. i walked a few blocks to the local diner, and used the pay phone to call Shawns cell. He's the only one I could trust not to tell my Memaw or Emily. I want to be the one to tell them. His phone rang forever until finally someone answered.

Cameron answered the phone in his usual very sexy dark voice. I didn't have time for this I needed Shawn now! I asked him where Shawn was, but he wouldnt tell me. " Cameron I don't have time for this just please tell me where Shawn is!" i all but screamed in frustration. I guess he heard how shaken up i was and asked whose phone was i on so he could come get me. I told him the directions to Daisy's Diner, and he said "hold tight i'll be right there." I waited about 10 minutes for him to get there, when he found me and saw how shaken up and how muddy and scratched up i was he pulled me into the warmest hug i have ever had. He had this way about him that just made me feel so protected and safe. I told him about randy and how he was abusing me, but that i didn't want anybody to know just yet. " You need to tell Emily or you Grandmother alright beautiful?" I agreed and he let me use his phone to call Emily.

Emily rushed into the diner and over to our table like a bat from hell. I could tell she was trying to be calm, but it wasn't working for her. She asked me " is it alright if i go get the guys and we kick Randy's ass in?" I tried to convince her that violence wasn't the answer when Cameron said " Tonight that dick is going to get what's coming to him." I knew there was no stoping them now so i agreed. I made them both swear to not tell memaw, that I had to be the one to tell he. They thought that sounded like a good idea. After about 30 minutes the gang found him in the park and started beating the shit out of him. There was blood everywhere when the cops got there.

The cops called Memaw into the station for questioning on her right to be our gardian. When she got to the station all hell broke loose I've never seen her so livid! She was yelling at both emily and I, when out of nowhere she falls to the ground and is shaking all over. Cameron holds Emily and I back. Thank the Lord their were two EMT'S were there.