CALIFORNIA, 2007
I was about to leave for my shift at the bar, when Henry came in, with a beer in his hands.
«When are you coming back?» he asked, drinking again from the glass bottle.
«I'll try and be back by ten, alright?» I smiled, kindly.
«You better.»
I got changed, and was about to leave the house, when I realized I didn't have my phone with me.
«Hey babe, do you have my phone?» I shouted, so he could hear me in the next room.
He didn't answer, so I rolled my eyes and searched for it myself, only to find it in Henry's hands.
«What are you doing?»
«Who's this?» he asked, visibly nervous, holding up the phone to my face.
«Just some guy I went out with a long time ago, leave it be!»
I froze. I had used the wrong words and the wrong tone, and Henry was already too drunk.
«Did you sleep with him?» he yelled. «I asked, did you sleep with him?»
«Three years ago, we weren't together at the time!»
«You are mine!»
He threw the bottle at the wall behind me and grabbed me by the face. I tried to resist, but he was much stronger than me, and honestly, I was shaking.
«Did you cheat on me?»
«Henry, why would I do that? I love you» I said, with teary eyes and a shaky voice.
He threw me to the wall, and I fell on the glass.
One second later, he seemed to have woken up.
«Are you okay?» he asked, helping me up.
It was always like that. He was violent and angry, until he wasn't anymore, and that's when he begged me to stay with him.
«I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry» he cried, hugging my legs.
«Get up.»
He did, and I took him in for a hug.
«I love you so much» he murmured. «I'll clean this all up.»
«I've got to go to work.»
I quickly checked my skin to see if any piece of glass had cut me, but fortunately I only had a bruise on my neck that could have easily passed for a hickey. I started the car and drove away, leaving Henry alone to clean the mess he had made.
When I got back home, Henry was sleeping on the couch, with another bottle of beer beside him.
«Babe» I whispered. «I'm going to bed, you wanna come?»
He nodded, and followed me to the bedroom.
«I have missed you.»
«Me too.»
He got on top of me, and soon we were united again, by only a sick need that we needed to fulfill. We just wanted to be loved.
After two weeks, I had just arrived at home, and Henry was not there. He was someplace else, so I started making lunch, until a sudden, scary thought came in my mind. I was late.
I quickly went out and bought a pregnancy test at the first pharmacy I could find, then rushed back home and peed on that little stick, that could have changed my life forever.
«No...» I cried, as soon as I saw those two lines. «No...»
I heard Henry's car pull up, and immediately felt a shiver down my back. I wiped off the tears and went outside.
Henry was getting some beers off of his pickup, so I approached him carefully. He seemed to be in a happy mood, but I hope it had stayed that way.
«I'm pregnant.»
«What!?» he exclaimed. «What are you planning on doing? You wanna keep it?»
His voice was getting louder.
«Of course I'm not! I just thought you'd want to know...»
I wasn't ready to be a mom, let alone with Henry. I didn't want my child to live the same life as me. I didn't wanna see my child come home to a drunk, abusive, violent dad, who would often break beer bottles and hit mommy every day after work because he was just angry about something she had nothing to do with.
I did not want a kid because I simply wasn't ready.
We both weren't there yet, and maybe we would have never been.
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