, turning on my side to get a

iar surroundings. I was in a room with beige colours that had nothing except two beds. I was

ed, but she d

drip, wincing slightly at the pain before rushing over to mother's side. She still wasn't moving, but when I put my finger under her nose, I felt her breathing. I exhaled in r

allway I was standing in. I would have run to them

uent Frank, you need to reign in yo

bout him that I didn't like. Maybe it was the slightly creepy way he stared at me or maybe it was because he was dad's friend and helped patch mother up after an 'accident' because the ER asked too many questions. This man

around her head. If you hit her again, she won't wake up again. Ever."

ly nature and beat my mother. Probably a week, or less if someone annoyed him at work, or at the gas station

and his flesh and blood. On a whim, I tiptoed after him on barefoot. What I planned to say to him when I caught up to him, I didn't know but he needed to understand that he couldn't carry

as too wired up and antsy to wait that long. Our house was in a private gated community and Dr Boyle's clinic was on the other side of it, which meant home was three mile

o get in enough oxgyen to live. Oh God. That was officially the dumbest decision I ever made. Why did I walk barefoot over three miles to catch

d for some strange reason, I wanted to enter the house without dad knowing I was coming in. If he was trapped without an escape, then he'd have to listen to reason. I hobbled around back and crawled in through the broken patch in our fence. Since the door was locke

ut of my room towards my parents' room where the giggling only got louder and happier. I found my parents' door ajar and I craned my neck to see the most disturbing thing I'll ever see in my entire life. It was the stuff of nightmares. My father lay butt naked on t

you'd be done with Lame-o soon." She whined plaintively. W

now. We just gotta wait until she turns twenty one and can recei

of her front jiggled as she fumed at him. "I've been waiting

m basically their whole ma

ill into Kiera's name when he found out that Louise was pregnant. I swear, if I'd known he was going

ing and fell on my butt. The doctor said the next time he hit her, she would never wake up again. From the sound of things, he needed me alive only to get my grandfather's mo

a keg of gasoline and set this whole h

ht about it, it