Hidden Secrets

Chapter 1

Hidden Secrets – Chapter 1

"Hallie gets out here right now," her father yelled at her exceedingly early in the morning. Guaranteed he was drunk or high on drugs again, or worse yet, both. That was when the worst of the yelling and abuse happened from him. However, the woman also did drugs and got drunk on an everyday basis.

"Hallie where are you at?" came the slurred voice of her mother, as she started banging on her bedroom door. Hallie just groaned as she kept her eyes closed and pretended to be asleep. The next thing Hallie knew was she was being from the hard floor and threw against the wall.

Hallie went out to the kitchen to make breakfast for her parents. Today, she decided to make scrambled eggs for breakfast. Hallie was never allowed to eat. However, Hallie always snuck some food when her parents were not in the room because she was hungry. She ate her eggs quickly while waiting for her parents to come into the kitchen. Hallie absolutely hated eggs, she found them disgusting, but she ate them anyways. Unfortunately, her parents loved eggs, so she had to make them all the time.

"Where is my, uh, breakfast," Hallie's dad said as he stammered into the kitchen.

"It's on the table sir," Hallie said, as she pointed at the table. Her father stumbled over to one of the chairs and sat down. Hallie's mom then came into the kitchen.

"Hi honey, what's for breakfast," Hallie's mom slurred as she walked over by her.

"Eggs, they are on the table," Hallie mumbled as she went back to cleaning up.

"I don't want eggs, I want French toast," Hallie's mom demanded as she came over and pushed Hallie. Hallie's mom then smelled her breath and could tell that she had eaten something.

"Honey, did you eat anything, because you know you aren't allowed to eat anything," Hallie's mom slurred as she slammed her into the wall, by the sink.

"No Mam, I did not eat anything," Hallie said.

"Honey, come in here and watch this," Hallie's mom slurred, as her father stumbled into the room.

"Well, I think you did, so," Hallie's mom said, as stuck her whole fist in Hallie's mouth and down her throat, she kept on pushing until Hallie started gagging and eventually threw up. She then hit Hallie's back hard repeatedly until she had emptied her entire stomach and was left dry heaving.

"Now, clean up that mess, and make me French toast," Hallie's mom said, as she pushed her into the wall.

"Yes Mam," Hallie said, as she turned around and started cleaning up her own puke. After she had that cleaned up, she went about making French toast for her mom.

"Make sure to put extra vanilla in the French toast," her drunk mom stammered from behind her.

"Yes Mam," Hallie said quietly, as she threw in some extra vanilla.

Hallie knew that she needed to get out of the house and go somewhere far away from here and all the abuse she had been getting daily for years. She had been planning this for a while, she was going to make her break tonight.

Hallie just had to wait for her parents to be sleeping. Yes, she knew that she was running away, but her parents would not even care that she was gone nor try to come find her, they would probably throw a party or something. Hallie had been way too scared to run away up until now, but she knew that after the past couple of days and this morning, she had to get out of here. Hallie would wait until tonight when her parents were sleeping, and then she would make a run for it. Hallie would be taking her bike, she knew that she had to get out of the Midwest, she just did not know where exactly.