Her Eyes♡

2

Nicole Williams

***Flashback***

"𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑝𝑖𝑑 𝑔𝑖𝑟𝑙-" 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑚 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝒉𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛. "𝑐𝑎𝑛'𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑖𝑔𝒉𝑡!"

*kick*
𝑌𝑜𝑢
*kick*
𝐴𝑟𝑒
*kick*
𝐽𝑢𝑠𝑡
*kick*
𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟
*𝑝𝑢𝑛𝑐𝒉*
𝐹𝑎𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟!

***End of Flashback ***

I have never been one to cry when she hit me but that made me want to.

My father was a terrible excuse of a man. He would cheat, hit and sometimes even take advantage of my mother but she said that is how a husband should treat his wife.

She obviously didn't know about the cheating cause he made me promise not to say anything to her.

My thoughts get interrupted by a car honking. I didn't even realize that I was still in the drive thru of McDonald's. I instantly grabbed my stuff from the lady by the window and paid and drove to work.

I check the time and it was 8:35. I could still sit in the parking area of my job and eat my fries and burger.

***Flashback***

"𝑁𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑒!!!" 𝐼 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑗𝑢𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑚 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔.

"𝑌-𝑦𝑒𝑠?" 𝐼 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑔𝒉𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝒉𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑤. "𝐷𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑑𝑜 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛?" 𝑠𝒉𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑. 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝒉𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑦 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑛'𝑡 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝒉𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑒. 𝐴𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠.

𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 '𝑤𝒉𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑜 𝑖𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑙𝑎𝑧𝑦 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐-

𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑐𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑚𝑦 𝑡𝒉𝑜𝑢𝑔𝒉𝑡𝑠 𝑏𝑦 𝑎 𝒉𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑝 𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝒉𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝒉𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑛𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦.

"𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝒉𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢!!!" 𝑠𝒉𝑒 𝑠𝒉𝑜𝑢𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑔 𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑦 𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝒉𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑦. 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑦 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝒉𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒. 𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑠𝒉𝑒 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝒉𝑜𝑤 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝒉𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑐𝒉𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠.

"𝐼 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑀𝑜𝑡𝒉𝑒𝑟 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑟-" 𝑤𝒉𝑦 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑐𝒉 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓. "𝐼 𝑑𝑜𝑛'𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝒉𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑛 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑠𝑠 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑜 𝑑𝑜 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑟𝑦! 𝑊𝑎𝑠𝒉 𝑡𝒉𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝒉𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝒉𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒!"

***End of Flashback***

I make my way out of my car and go inside of the diner. I am met with a weird tension in the air when I enter and see my boss Gabe's body tense.

I walk over to him and he immediately sees me and his face breaks into a breath taking smile.
"Nicole!" he shouts and everyone in the diner looks at me.

Gabe is a 45 year old man, he was dark black hair with amerald eyes. He's 6 foot tall and a bit muscler. He has 1 son who is 3 years older than me. He's wearing a black fitted t-shirt with light blue jeans.

"Hey Gabe" I chuckle while shaking my head. He pulled me into one of his amazing hugs and my smile got wider. "How are you love?" he asked and my smile instantly dropped when I remembered what happened this morning.

I think Gabe noticed this and he looked at me worriedly.
"Nicci, what's wrong?"
Gabe had one of the biggest crushes on my mom and when I mean had, I mean he didn't like her after I told him what she does or did, let's just say he hates her more then I do. If possible.

"My mom was found dead last night" he face went from a worried expression to a hurt expression and I could see the tears in his eyes. Why was he sad but I wasn't.

"Oh honey! Are you ok?" he asked and I shrugged my shoulders. What was I supposed to say. 'No I am not fine because I wanted to be the one to shoot her' he would probably think I was crazy.

"Are you sure you wanna work today I can give you the day off if you want?" he said and I just shaked my head 'no' and head to the locker room to change into my uniform.

I come out with my apron on and went to the register. I look around the store and everyone is still tense and everyone stopped talking. I just shrugged it off and continued what I am doing.

I could feel someone staring at me but just brushed it off.