"Ashley," I heard Mom's voice. "Where have you been?"
"In school,"I lied. Where's Luke? What's Mom doing here?
"Stop lying!" She hit me on the leg with a wooden spoon. "Tell the truth!"
"She's not going to tell the truth!" Dad snapped. "Leave our children alone and stop being so abusive!"
"Don't tell me what to do!" Mom said as Dad was hit like how I was.
"I want to divorce you!"
"I don't want to divorce you! I just want!"
"What the crap do you want?!"
"Nothing you idiot! Nothing!"
"Nobody's going to love you!" I shouted.
"Don't you talk to me like that young lady," I kept getting attacked with the spoon. It was quiet, then my phone went off.
"Give me your phone!" Mom demanded.
"No," I ran into my room, slamming the door shut, and crying.
"Open up ASHLEY!!" Mom kept banging on the door.
"Shut up!" I cried. "Just shut up!"
"Don't tell your mother to shut up!" I pulled my phone out and FaceTimed Alex.
"Hello," He gasped. "Beautiful, why are you crying?"
"Ashley, OPEN THE DOOR!" He could hear Mom's commands.
"It's so mean, Alex," I cried even more.
"I'll come over to your house," Alex and I hung up.
"Who's coming over?!" Mom kept banging on the door.
"None of your business, I'm going to sleep!" I pulled the covers out of my bed and tiptoed towards the window. I opened it and went out of the window. I shut the window. I walked out onto the dirt road, sat down, put my head in my arms and cried.
Alex came by and saw me. He sat to be next to me. I put my head on his shoulder.
"Who's she with?!" I could hear Mom's voice coming towards me.
"Let's go, Ashley," Alex pulled me up and we ran away from the house.
"What are you doing?!" Mom yelled in the distance. We ignored her and ran closer to Alex's house. She was chasing after us. We hid in Alex's yard hiding in a bush.
Alex wiped my tears.
"Why is your mother so abusive?" Alex said.
"I don't know, I just don't know why," We saw Mom knocking on Alex's door.
"Where's my daughter?!" She shouted. Alex guarded me so I couldn't see her.
"We don't know where where your daughter is," Alex's Mom said.
"Yes you do!" She hit her.
"Get out of my house!" Mom left the property. Alex and I left the bush and opened the house door.
"Mom, this is Ashley, Ashley, this is Mom," I shook hands with Alex's parents.
"Is your Mom abusive?" Alex's mom asked.
"Very," I replied.
"Well, you're welcome to come here if you need to,"
"Ok," Alex and I have been dating since last Wednesday. Today was Friday.
"Let's go up to my room," Alex and I walked to his bedroom. He turned on his TV.
"What movie would you like to watch?" Alex said.
"I don't care," We both sat on his bed watching a 60's movie. I ignored Mom's texts and laid my head on his shoulder.
I just remembered something. I was 5 years old and I remembered playing a game with 2 year old Luke. We were running around the house.
"No running!" Mom told us. Is that how she started becoming so mean?
Alex and I slept together. No, we just laid there.
I woke up, reading his alarm clock time "1:42 am". Mom's going to be mad at me! Alex also woke up with me.
"I wouldn't go back home if I were you," He was right. I shouldn't go back home because Mom might be there and she could hurt me more and I wouldn't be allowed to go back to Alex's house ever again.
I was too scared to go back to bed.
"It's okay," Alex said, kissing me on the cheek. "You're protected and cared for here,"
"I love you," I said.
"I love you too," Alex rubbed my hair. "Let's go back to sleep," We both fell asleep in the same bed. I pulled the blue covers up.
We woke up at 9.
"Good Morning, Ashley," Alex kissed my forehead. I opened my eyes and stretched. I haven't had this much sleep in forever. I've always been up listening to Mom arguing.
"Breakfast in bed coming up!" Alex's Mom, Mrs. Johnton walked in with plates full of food.
"For my lovebugs!" She smiled. There was a plate of pancakes for me, then a plate for him, scrambled eggs for the both of us, bacon and fruit. All for us.
I've never been treated this nicely in forever. I've been grieving since Luke never came back and since Mom's been an abuser. I texted Dad where I was while I was in bed.
"This is your mother, your father's been murdered, now where's your house?" I ignored every text from Dad now. Dad was dead.
"Alex!" I shouted. "My dad died!"
"Awe," He laid next to me. "It'll be ok," He rubbed my shoulder while I was crying.
In the afternoon...
"Here's clothes for you, Ashley," Mrs. Johnton gave me 3 tubs of clothes she's made or hand me downs. Alex and I went upstairs to his bedroom and I moved my things. We hung out for a little bit in his room.
"Ashley Rae, I have something for you," Alex pulled a rose out. "For you, my love," I smiled.
"Thank you," I said. We kissed. My love for Alex was unreal, he and I were met for each other, and we're perfect for each other. We were both the same height and I love it.
We walked outside and went through the forest.
