Chapter 23
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When Eve woke up on Thursday morning Cujo was sleeping by her bed. It seemed that even now he tried to protect her, make her feel safe. But there was only so much this dog could do for her. Eve went to the bathroom mirror. There it was, a black eye on Eve's face. It wasn't some horrible nightmare. Adam, her oldest friend,and recently her boyfriend, had hit her. Eve thought about the previous night, Adam thought she was ready to have sex. She had told him to stop, but she had said it gently, maybe he got his signals crossed. Perhaps she could've just said no more forcefully. Kicking him off her bed physically must've hurt Adam. But did that give himthe right to hit her like that? Eve didn't want to believe that Adam would really hurt her. But then isn't that what most women think, the first time their lover hurt them? Eve knew she couldn't date Adam anymore, but she wasn't sure she wanted him to get in trouble with the law. Eve went downstairs. Her mother was making eggs and hashbrowns. She apparentlywasn't too hungover to make breakfast. Eve tried to not look Kendall in the eye, but Kendall saw Eve's black eye. Kendall became worried about her little girl, asked what happenned. Seeing her mother worried, more maternal than she'd been in a couple of months, Eve couldn't lie to her. Eve told her mother the whole truth.