Hush

Monster

The hum of the lights mixed with the smell of dry blood made it so hard to concentrate. How could this happen to me? How could I let this happen. How could he hurt me?
"Ashlynn....? You need to get help this is the 4th time it's happened. I know you love him but this isn't right and you know it."
"Kiera drop it. He was angry I antagonized him anyway I shouldn't have been talking to that waiter . Can you please just get some Kleenex so I can clean up my nose"
Kiera the only person who knows what's going on with me. My best friend my rock. I'm stuck in this grimy apartment, the windows barely shut and the smell of beer and weed clinging to every piece of clothing in this living hell. What makes it worse is my step father ,if you could even call him that, was laying in bed with my mother in the next room. When I met jay he made me feel invincible like everything would be okay as long as I was with him. He came from the picture perfect family, in the suburbs of Texas . His mom baked cookies every Saturday for fucksakes.
"ASHLYNN GET YOUR USELESS ASS OVER HERE , I NEED A BEER IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE LIVING IN MY HOUSE BITCH"
dragging my feet and picking my head up from the bathroom floor hugging Keira goodbye I grab the beer and brace myself for the sour stench that follows. There basking in the musty lighted room lying in the mattress on the floor is my stepfather AKA "monster" shoving my tired mother off of him. "Took you long enough " he snarled. "Maybe if you got off your lazy ass and stopped rapping my mother you'd be able to do more then take up space " the sting that followed was worth it, the son of a bitch deserved to rot in hell. " mom your just going to let him do this to me ? Your own daughter?"
"Honey maybe you should stay with jay for a couple days.." She murmured
"You are unbelievable."
With that I ran through the dirty apartment to the sidewalk below. Her own daughter she would kick out before standing up to that monster. I took care of her when she was to drunk to stay conscious and this is how she treats me. I can't bother Keira anymore her parents already won't let her have me over because I'm a "bad influence" I have no place to go no money and no one to trust what is going to happen to me now.