if we just had time.

chapter seventeen

mention of abuse and rape. if you are triggered by this please do not read this chapter. it will be disgusted a little bit in the net chapter for you to be caught up. this chapter is about Isabellas four years of being abused by her father. but if you do want to continue to read this chapter, please read with severe caution.

Isabella Evergreen

Four years ago.

Thirteen-year-old Isabella and her father, Glen,  just finished moving the boxes from the moving truck. Her mother and father just finished their court for their divorse last week. During that week, Glen was staying in a motel and looking for a place to live. He found a beautiful two story building with two beds and two baths. Just enough room for him and his daughter.

After they opened box after box, they were almost settled for their new home. Isabella had bought new decorations for her new room. She was excited to have time with just her father again. She never saw him for almost a year because her mother, Mary Ann, wouldn't let her see him. She was mad at her mother for not letting  her see her father for such a long time, because she loved her father very much and would do anything for him.

Isabella was bringing in the last box as Glen was cooking dinner. The box Isabella was bringing in was a box of all of her fathers trophies for football. Glen was a football player when he was in school and he was best on the team. He loved playing football and he loved his trophies. but had to stop because his soon to be wife was pregnant and he wanted to be there for his child. The minute he saw his daughter, he fell in love with her. He thought she was the most beautiful girl he's ever seen.

As Isabella was walking in the living room, she tripped on a box which made her fall with the box. She heard something break in the box. It was the trophies. She immediately got up to check the box, hoping that they didn't break.  They did. They broke.

Glen came into the room and asked what was all that noise. Isabella told him the truth. She told him what happened. When she did he got mad. Angry that the trophies he loved are broken. Then he did something Isabella thought that she would never have thought that her father would do in her lifetime. Glen had hit his daughter on the check. Isabella put her hand on her cheek as tears came and fell from her eyes. Her father was yelling.

Then Isabella figured it out. She knew why her mother left him. She knew why her mother wouldn't let her see him. It's because of this. Mary Ann was afraid that he would hit Isabella too. And, he did. He hit her.

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Three years ago.

Isabella was fourteen, and smoking. nothing has changed. Her fathers hitting became more common, and she didn't have the courage to tell anyone. She was inches away from going to her mother and telling her what happened to her the first three times, but she remembered what it felt like not seeing Glen for a year and how much she missed him.  Yes. She still loved her father. She just didn't love him as much as the time before they moved into the house, but she still loved him and she couldn't be away from her father forever.

But, what he did a month ago, removed a big chunk of love for him and more to the fear for him.

As Isabella went into her room after a hot shower, Glen was in the living room drinking. He was drunk by the time she came out of the bathroom. Really drunk. Mind you Isabella became more curver around the waist and hips. Isabella was getting dressed and the door flew open from her father. He wreaked the smell of alcohol. Isabella covered her half naked body with her bed sheet and told him to get out. But, he didn't listen. He said; "don't talk to me like that, kid."

Isabella sighed at him and waited for him to leave so she could get dressed. But he walked towards her and put his hand around her throat. He said something but she couldn't focus on what he was saying because she was more focused on her breathing. She couldn't breathe with his hand forced on her throat. He forced her down to lay on the bed and right then she heard something mettle hit together. It was his belt.

Isabella tried to get out of his grasp but he wouldn't budge. He was on top of her now. Isabella tried and tried to get him off of her. But he just wouldn't.

He took off her underwear and felt something go inside of her. She felt pain. He was going in and out of her.

Isabella was crying and pleading for him to stop. Hoping that he would. He wouldn't. He kept going in and out, in and out. Then Isabella couldn't remember anything else. All she knows is that it happened for an hour. An hour of pain. An hour of torture. An hour of her father being inside of her. An hour of her begging for him to stop. And three days of her not leaving her room. And three days of her not being able to sleep.

Isabella's period was late. It was never late. She did a pregnancy test. It was positive. She told Mary Ann she was late and pregnant. A week later she had an abortion. It was her own personal hell.

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Two years ago.

Isabella was the most happy in the last two years. She's going to a boarding school. That means time away from glen. More time for herself, and more time with her mother. She was at her mum's house that day. She was packing her stuff from there, since she didn't have much at her dads.

Mary Ann was excited for her daughter to have the opportunity to go to a school like she did. But for glen. He was pissed. He yelled at Mary Ann through the phone telling her that he doesn't want her daughter in a school for ten months and not being able to see her.

Isabella knew the real reason why he didn't want her to go to the school for so long. He was worried that she would tell someone the things he did to her. The hitting, the punching, and the raping.

After Glen threw his cell phone on the floor, he came into Isabella's room and started hitting her. Punching her until she was unconscious.

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One year ago.

The punching and the kicking became more uncommon. But she had to stay with her mother for the Christmas break and her summer with her father. Isabella wanted to switch it but her father would have hit her if she didn't listen.

Katherine and her became close. She was nice and sweet to her. Her mother loved katherine.  Isabella was happy with katherine.

It has been a week since school started again. Isabella came back from Glens for the summer. She came back with fresh bruises and she was about to hang out with Katherine so she had to cover her bruises with makeup. But as she was covering up her bruises she forgot to lock her door. Katherine came in and saw her bruises. All of them. So Isabella told her dad was hitting and kicking her. Katheine hugged her and Isabella didn't realise how much she needed a hug. Without a warning she started sobbing into her friend's shoulder.

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