And Salt The Earth Behind You

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"Thanks Nate" I say as he fixes my tie and straightens it out

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"Thanks Nate" I say as he fixes my tie and straightens it out. We both look in the mirror at one another. We hadn't talked since everything happened. My knuckles still were a bit bloody from everything and my fathers face was still badly bruised. I usually never raised my voice but when I found out that my father did what he did I couldn't help but scream and swear at the top of my lungs. Everything happened a couple days ago. 


"Can you please come back soon?" Tyler asks me reaching for my hands. "Yeah of course I just need to go a friend and calling me and needs my help!" I turn on the tv and hand Tyler some Advil and a glass of water. He was still in a lot of pain from the beating he took from whoever. He pulls me down and hugs me. "You're the only thing keeping me alive right now" he says and my stomach fills with butterflies. I honestly didn't know how I felt about the guy. "I'll see soon in a bit" I say and open and shut the door to the apartment. 

"Maddy what is it?" I answer my phone after the millionth text and call that Maddy had sent. "I need you to come over and see something right now" she sounds urgent and I take a deep breath. "Okay I'll be there in a few minutes." I say and begin to jog towards the Perez residence. I make it in record time and before I even am able to knock Maddy is at the door and letting me in. I had never been inside Maddy's house. 

A lavender smell enters my nose. Her mom seemed to be gone. Her father was on the chair sleeping with a beer bottle in hand and Jeopardy plays on the tv. "Follow me" Maddy says and we both walk up the stairs to her room. She walks to her bed and opens up her computer. She takes a disc out and puts it in her DVD player. "Maddy what is this?" I ask and she shushes me and puts me on the bed beside her. 

I see my father in a hotel room with Jules... 



"What the fuck?" I say with my mouth wide open and I look at Maddy and she is wide eyed. "I know" she says and I try to formulate everything in my brain. "Where did you get that?" I ask. Maddy sits back against her mountain of fluffy pillows. "It was in Nate's room." she says and I give her another shocked expression. "Do you think he watched it?" I ask and Maddy nods her head. 

I begin to take in everything again and my mind rushes to my father fucking a seventeen year old girl, a child. I tighten my fist as I Feel angry boil up inside of me. I get up off of Maddy's bed. "You can't tell anyone about this okay?" I say and Maddy nods her head. "If Nate finds out you have it he will go batshit crazy, you know how violent he can get." I say and Maddy nods her head feeling her neck. 

I leave the room and begin to jog, no, sprint toward my house. It's getting darker and darker. I finally reach my house and walk through the door. The first thing I hear is screaming. I listen closely and identify Nate's screams and my father is also screaming they seem to be wrestling in Nate's room. I curl my fist and walk up the stairs. I open the door to see a screaming Nate and my father yelling at him. 

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