A story they'll never forget

Chapter 10

After is put on some more concealer is half ran-half walked out the house. I put my earphones in and blasted Fall Out Boy as loud as I could take it. It took me a little over five minutes to get to Anna's house but thanks to the little conversation with my mom it was past twelve already. I knocked on the door and waited patiently. Anna opened the door and immediately wrapped her arms around me and pulled me in a tight hug. "I'm so happy for you!"

Before she'd said that I was scared she'd somehow found out about my parents abusing me but now I was kind of confused. Why would she be happy for me? It's not like I had such an amazing life.

"Why?"

She pulled back and stared at me in disbelieve. "Well only because you met the guy you've had a crush in for two years two days ago."

"Oh that," I said. "I know right? I'm so happy!" I faked a smile and followed her inside the house. We walked straight to the kitchen, she'd already laid out most of the stuff we were gonna need.

"I wanna know everything! What happened right after you went backstage?"

I sighed while laughing and told her the whole story. She listened without saying a word while we mixed the ingredients in a bowl.

"...and he gave me his number so we could text. He's already send me a message, he said he liked me, liked me! And he can't wait until he can come back."

"Whoa that's amazing, like really, they sound so nice and just great and omg I wish I could meet then to!" She rambled.

I laughed at her excitement even though I felt the exact same way. "That can be arranged."

Her eyes widened and she opened her mouth to say something but there wasn't any sound, just her lips moving. "Eu Anna? You okay?" She was scaring me a little.

"OMG THANK YOU!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!" She attacked me with another hug and lightly screamed. I laughed and when she let me go I remembered something.

"Oh right, I have what you asked for."

She looked confused and waited for me to explain. I pulled a photo out of my pocked and handed it to her. I'd taken a photo of the guys and they'd signed it for her, just like I promised her.

"Oh this is amazing! Thank You!" She hugged the photo to her chest and then carefully put it away. "What about we put these little babies in the oven?"

After we put the cupcakes in the oven we went to the living room to watch a movie.

We snuggled in the couch together enjoying each others company. Halfway the movie the cupcakes were ready and we go them out of the oven. We both picked one out and went back to watch the movie.

Around six my mom texted me telling me to get my ass back home or I would be in serious problems. I quickly got up scared of what had upset her and started walking to the door.

"Ali? What're you doing?"

I turned around to face Anna, right I hadn't said anything. "I have to go home, my mom needs me."

She seemed disappointed. "Oh okay. I was just hoping you could stay a little longer."

I sighed. "Me too Anna."

She gave me a tight hug and kissed me on the cheek, the bad cheek, and I couldn't help but flinch.

"Whats wrong? Did I hurt you?" She sounded worried, little did I know she suspected that someone had been beating me for quite a while now. I shook my head and looked down.

"I really need to go home Anna."

She was looking at my cheek intensely, her kiss had smudged the concealer and you could see a light discoloration. She carefully wiped a finger over my cheek exposing the bruise. She gasped and looked at me in shock. "Ali..."

"Anna I need to go! If I don't get home my mom is gonna be mad at me."

She violently shook her head. "First you have to explain that bruise to me."

"It's nothing, I fell on the side of my bed." That didn't sound good at all. Anna grabbed my hand and pulled me up the stairs to her room and into the bathroom. There she grabbed make-up wipes and handed them to me. When I hesitated she pointed at my face and frowned. Knowing there was no way out of this I rubbed it over my face, removing all concealer. When I'd cleaned every inch of my face I turned to her, but didn't look her in the eye. It was to embarrassing, I deserved all of this but she didn't have to know. Anna tilted my head so that I was looking at her, she had tears in her eyes. "Who?"

I looked down again as I answered her.

"My mom mostly, sometimes my dad and.."

"And?"

"Me." I barely whispered. I heard her catch her breath and suddenly she wrapped her arms around me en pulled me close. I hugged her back, relieved I'd finally told someone. We stood like that for a couple of minutes before she pulled back and looked at me. "Why would you such a thing to yourself?"

That was an easy one. "Because I deserve it, because I'm worthless."

"You're not worthless! Look at what you did for me. Without you I don't know I would've recovered that fast. And you sure as hell do not deserve this!"

I didn't know what to say at that so I just looked at my shoes again. "Ali, you can't go back home."

"I have to! They'll kill me if I stayed away again."

She sighed, she knew I was right. "We have to tell someone, the police."

"I know, but I can't. And I've inflicted most of these bruises myself so I don't have a'y proof."

"So what? We wait 'till they hit you again so that you have proof?" She shouted.

"I don't know. I'm sorry I need to go." I said as I walked out of the room, down the stairs and through the front door into the streets. I walked as fast as I could, it'd been already ten minutes since I got the text and usually I'm home in five. After little less than five minutes I reached my house and quickly walked inside. It was quiet, there didn't seem to be anyone home but I knew there was. And when I walked into the living room strong hands grabbed me by my hair and dragged me to the other side of the room and threw me against the wall. My head was spinning from the blow as I tried to get up but I got kicked in my stomach and fell back down.

"I told you to come home fifteen minutes ago. Where were you?" My mom hissed.

"At Anna's. She wanted to see the end of the movie with me and made me stay." i quickly lied. She sighed and bend over me.

"How many times do I need to tell you to come home immediately after I ask you to?" She caressed my cheek before hitting it, again the bad cheek. "YOU TOLD HER?"

"No! No I didn't! I wouldn't!"

"LIAR! YOU DON'T HAVE ANY CONCEALER ON YOUR FACE! YOU HAD WHEN YOU LEFT."

I held my breath as she said that. Now you've done it. Her hands hit me in my face, on my arms, in my stomach, again and again. Black spots started dancing in front of my eyes and I felt myself become weaker with the second. She grabbed my hair again and smacked my head into the wall. The room was spinning and my head felt like it could explode.

Before I passed out I could feel her grabbing my ankles and dragging me to the stairs.