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Sonny could feel her whole body shaking as she walked up to the front door of her house, slowly opening it and looking at the scene in front of her. She shook her head in shock, she had been expecting a lot of things – smashed glass, blood, unconscious mum, wrecked home, she had even considered the possibility of tripping over her own mother's dead body but not this... never this.
She stared at her mum as she sat down at the dining room table, laughing and joking with the man who had abused both of them for years.
"Mum?" She took a step back, wondering if she had walked into the wrong house and this was just a person who looked like her mum and dad.
"Your dad told me you ran away from him baby, I was wondering when you were going to come back." Connie looked at her daughter, who was visibly shaking with worry and shook her head, walking over to the girl and taking her in her arms.
"Your dad went into rehab after prison, and here he is, a new man!" She smiled and then looked back at the husband, she tried to forget about those times he had been leaning over her, spitting words down at her that would always haunt her as his hand made contact with her face and instead tried to remember the man he was during the first few months of marriage.
She looked back at her daughter, suddenly remembering the girl that she had been only four years ago.
"One chance baby, if he even raises his voice then he is out of here." She whispered in the girls ear, Sonny nodded but still looked over at the man, her eyes wide with fear, trying to open her mouth to say something.
"I saw your show! You're amazing." She nodded at him when he spoke, trying to give him a small smile, not noticing the tears that had found their way down her cheeks. She shook her head, she knew her mum had fallen for it, but she couldn't.
She took one look at the man and she could still see that evil in his eyes, she could see his fists clenching right now when she didn't answer him. She knew that she couldn't go through it again, she wouldn't let him put her through that whole thing again.
"I am going to my room." She muttered, pulling away from her mum and glaring at the man she hated more than anything as she walked past him, slamming her bedroom door and locking it before sliding against it.
She wrapped her arms around her knees as she cried, why was he here? Why couldn't he just leave them alone?
She winced when she heard raised voices outside her door, she knew it was going to start all over again. She stood up and stumbled back from the door, listening to them shout at each other about her 'attitude', she knew it was her fault that he was angry and she had no idea what to do about it.
She bit down on her lip and unlocked the door, looking up at the man she was still scared of after all these years. She saw the tears that ran down her mum's face and shook her head,
"I had a bad day at work, sorry for taking it out on you." She muttered to them both, hoping this would save her mum from a slap across the face. But she knew when she saw the hatred in his eyes that he was done pretending, she looked at her mum, knowing that the tears in the woman's eyes meant that he wasn't going to get chucked out any time soon.
She screamed when he raised his fist to her mum's face, bringing it down hard, causing the small woman to stumble back and hit her head on the wall behind her. Sonny bit down on her lip,
"I'm sorry." She whimpered, hot tears ran heavily down her face as she took a step back, wincing in pain when his hand made contact with her cheek. She touched it, her fingers lightly dancing along the fresh mark, all the pain that she had almost forgotten hit her at once and she shook her head.
"I knew you hadn't changed." She muttered, slamming her bedroom door and running over to her bed.
"I knew it." She whispered into her pillow, hugging the soft cuddly cow her granddad had given her – the only man that had never hurt her.
"Am I all alone again?
'Cause I am kind of feeling like I'm screaming with my mouth shut, when it's really open."
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