The one who shook my world

Anais

  I knew this night would not be a successful one, I said, looking at the ceiling and waiting for the alarm to sound, what I expected, is the first day of my new adventure, dance school in New York, by the way, I think it's normal to be a little nervous. Still looking at the whitest ceiling ever seen when reality hits me.... Jennifer, my best friend, my sister, won't be with me today because, bitch, she      went on vacation with her boyfriend and is only coming back tomorrow..

I try to get up slowly, slowly from bed and get ready, considering that I have 3 hours and I do not have much to do anything else. "phone rings". Where did I put that phone? Ugh, one day I'm gonna lose my head... Aha, here you are.

Hey, how you feeling?? You excited? Tell the traitor to Jen as if I'm happy that she's not next to me.

like hell, that's how I feel. You know well what I think of all this that you're missing from the most important day for me.. You couldn't fuck one less day on this shitty vacation..

Don't be like that, I called you with us and you refused. It'll be fine and tomorrow I'll be by your side to celebrate.

Come on, I gotta get ready, bye!

I told you not to tell me I would...

Jennifer and I became friends at the age of 10, but we didn't get along, Jen was very chubby, she always thought she was superior, she always seemed the happiest being. I knew her life couldn't be so great, I was neighbors, I saw the conditions she lived in, but I didn't really know what was going on behind closed doors.

   Jen led a hard life, and she did her best not to know what kind of life she led, she and her mother were physically assaulted by her father every day. Her mother promised her every day that they would leave, get rid of him, bought a gun, but she never used it because she always stayed with him.

Jen's former life ended the day she came home from school in the hope that today will be the day she and her mother run away, the shock for Jen began when she entered the house and saw her mother on foot in a pool of blood hit again and again by her so-called father. Just thinking of saving her mother, Jennifer ran to grab the gun that was hidden in the couch sponge and managed to hit her father in the heart.

But her mother was not lucky, her body was already cold, her father had been giving in without stopping for some time.

   I found Jen in my copat box, I didn't know what she was doing there, when I saw her full of blood I had amutit, I didn't know what to do, I didn't know what to do, I quickly ran to her to check the blood that fortunately was not hers, I hardly picked her up from there and took her to my mother, after a hot bath in which my mother and I cleaned up Jen, amazed by the marks on her body, she was able to tell us what happened.

   We had other relatives, at least as far as she knew, convinced my mother to take her with us, and since then Jen and I have become sisters. I'm glad she's living a good life now and she's happy with Alex.