The man with the brown eyes

5

J.E and I head inside as everyone is getting their dinner. So far Sawyer hasn't come near me since J.E  is with me. Aunt Nellie made all my favourites collard greens and mashed potatoes, macaroni salad and sweet chilli corn.

Mee maw made her blue ribbon Pecan pie it smells so good. All the amazing smells remind me of the picnics and fishing trips we would go on when I was little.

Uncle Walt piles food on J.E's plate as aunt Nellie shouts.

"Walter that's too much he won't be able to eat all that food!!" She said as I got the extra napkins.

"Nell, he's to thin I'm just trying to fatten him up."  He said patting J.E's back.

I walk over to the table with the napkins as Sawyer blocks my way.

"So you show up with him now?" He said towering over me.

I've had enough of the Sawyer abusiveness, I push past him and l place the napkins on the table and walked to the kitchen, only for him to pull down to the hall to my old bedroom and pushed in knocking me down on the floor.

"So you get some dick and you don't know how to act." He said pulling me up by my neck.

I put up a pretty good fight kicking him shin to release my neck from his grip.

He holds his leg in pain falling to the floor as I kick him across his face.

"How you like that, bitch!"  I said kicking him in the gut for every time he's laid his hands on me, so far I counted forty five gut blows.

Nothing rage fills me as I climb on top of him and started to throw jabs on him (in the same places he gave me; the black eye, chest and jaw.

"You no good slimy rotted son of bitch." I yell before trying to escape.

He then grabbed my ankles tripping me to ground. He gets on top of me and starts choking me, all I could muster up was gasps for air and faint screams for help as his grip kept increasing.

"Got nothing to say now huh? You're so full of shit Lani!" He yells  I tried pulling his hand off my neck but I wasn't as strong as him I blink tears out of my eyes as I feel so close to blacking out my vision blurs before collapsing on the floor and hearing the door busting open and scattered yells around me.
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Soft faded beeps is all I hear around me along with people talking, but I couldn't make out the voices.

"Pudding? Wake up." I hear a familiar voice before fluttering open my eyes. Seeing aunt Nellie, and uncle Walt and J.E. who sat me next to me. 

"Thank the lord, she alright, thank you god." Mee maw says crying happily.

Once my eyes fully focus I look at my surroundings in hooked up to and heart monitor and oxygen.

J.E had a few cuts and a few blows to the jaw. I stretched my hand out brushing my fingers against his knuckles as he looks up at me with glossy round eyes.

"J.E. heard the commotion and found Sawyer beating on you babydoll."  Uncle Walt said stroking my hair.

"How long has Sawyer been doing this Lani?" Aunt Nellie asked wiping her eyes.

Soon I get a flash back to the first time Sawyer ever touched me;

It was my senior year formal, Sawyer and I had only been dating for a year but he'd left out he had a drinking problem. Well he had one too many glasses of "punch" and he lost his senses. Other than that time he started to get worse and worse but I was too scared to think that no one would care or even save me.

"He's been beating me since high school auntie."  I said as J.E balls his fist.

"I should've broke the fuckers jaw for what he did. " He grits his teeth as Uncle Walt pats his shoulder.