They Don't Know About Us

Chapter 1- TDKAU

Chapter 1:

I woke up to a slight disturbance outside my door. I tip-toed out of bed, noticing the faint glow of my alarm clock. 2:30am it read. I placed my ear on my door to interpret what was going on outside. As I listened closely, I identified two voices. One belonged to my mum and the other belonged to Jack, her supposed 'boyfriend.' As I continued to listen, I finally figured that this was no ordinary conversation between the two.

One shout after another made me cringe at the thought of my mother raising her voice. Snippets of their conversation like 'my daughter', 'high school', 'only young', made me think that they were talking about me. Why was I the topic of their argument? Maybe my mum was mad at me and she was trying to indirectly inform me about it. I did try to break them up once..

Suddenly, as if on cue, a loud slap and a deafening scream interrupted my train of thoughts. Anger began to rush through my body, and I could feel myself resisting to punch to the door. The thought of someone abusing my mother only made me angrier. Okay, this is it. I'm going to go out there and stop whatever the hell is going to happen.

I opened the door and there, smirking in all his glory, was Jack. Our eyes met and his smirk only grew larger. I turned to the right to see my mother on floor, with a swollen cheek and tears running down her face. I felt tears stinging in my eyes but I refused to let them fall. I saw her mouthing 4 words to me 'Go back to sleep.' Yeah, going back to sleep my ass. I have some work to do right now.

"Well well well, who do we have here?" Jack sneered.

"Someone you don't want to mess with." I stated with finality.

"Nicely said. I never thought Joanna's daughter would be this smart. Guess your genes belonged to your father?" He chuckled and kicked my mum in the stomach. I winced as I saw a flash of pain in her eyes. I narrowed my eyes at him, trying to be serious. Funnily enough, I failed to. For some special reason, I thought this situation was quite amusing. He looked so confident that I found it hilariously!

I finally caught my breath and started to speak, "You may be wondering why the devil am I laughing at this moment. You see, I have never seen someone this driven by cockiness. It's fascinating really, to think that you're going to get away with this." I grinned evilly.

He narrowed his eyes slightly. "What...are you implying?" He hesitated. Hah! I knew it! I am so going to win this! I walked towards him, ignoring my mum's soft cries to stop me.

"What I mean is..." I battered my eye lashes and raised my hand towards his cheek and slapped him hard, "This is what you get for what you just did!" I slapped his other cheek, "This is what you get for playing with my mum's heart." Lastly, I slapped both cheeks simultaneously and added, "And this is from me. Now get outta our house because your idiotic smell filling up our home and it stinks." Jack scrambled his way out of the door, stopping halfway.

"This isn't over yet." He huffed in annoyance. I fake smiled and waved him goodbye.

I rushed back inside to see my mum clutching her stomach. I stroked her back and soothingly said "It's going alright mum. He's not going to hurt you anymore." She cracked a small smile and congratulated me, with tears in her eyes. "Congratulations. You just did something that I have always wanted to do in these last few years. It's a nice feeling to know that my daughter has grown up to become a much braver person than I am."

I felt tears trickling down my cheek but I didn't care. "I don't understand! I've told you to do it but you never did! Why?!" I cried. Mum took a deep breath as I anticipated for her answer. "It was because I was afraid. I was afraid of being hurt again.You know, fear can have a strong effect on those you love. Just remember that." Those were the last words I heard from my mum before she slipped away into a deep coma.  

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HEY!! This is my first story ever! (I'm not exactly a writer) tell me what you think of it! :)