Cold love {teacherxstudent, wlw}

Part 4

* Danielle's POV*

Marshall comes up to me "Hey kid, it's past midnight you know you can go now" of course I did, but my English teacher was wasted and passed out on the bar desk, honestly I was hoping she would wake up and then go but as I am seeing it right now she won't get up any time soon.

We are closing at midnight today, usually we are open till dawn but not today, Marshall told me he had to go home today earlier so that's why.

"Yeah I know, I will close don't worry about it, just go home" a grateful look crosses his face "Thank you kid, have a good night" he closes the door behind him.

Now onto Miss Powers "Miss Powers wake up" I don't want to touch her for obvious reasons but as I see it I have to, I shake her shoulders a little waking her up, she looks up at me, still clearly wasted, I know when somebody still has alcohol in their system which is still working

"Can you stand?" she tries to but falls back and starts to giggle "Okay, let me just take you home" she steadies herself still holding onto the table behind her "No, n-nooo you don't need to" I give her a disbelieving look "What? It's not like you can drive home, just tell me the adress" she groans clearly hating to lean on others even when drunk then tells me " Harlow street 243"

I grab her waist and navigate her towards my car, I try to ignore how her slim waist feels between my hands but it's really hard, it's like I feel it in every bone in my body, it's probably just because I never had sex with anyone and Miss Powers is an attractive woman to say the least.

I put her in the car and begin driving towards the adress she gave me, I can feel her eyes staring at me the whole time "You smell so good" she finally says, I'm glad she won't remember this because I'm sure she just got me blushing "Thank you" but she doesn't stop "Like a summer day and vanilla, just even better" I keep my eyes on the road

I get to the street she lives in and holy fuck I usually don't curse but I'm telling you rich people live here, and her house, it's an enormous modern white and black house with a waterfall falling for the side, how can she afford this with her teacher payment? I look towards her, she had fallen asleep again.

I wake her up, she thanks me and gets out of my car in a hurry, I'm guessing she is starting to sober up and some self  consciousness started to flow back into her, not that Miss Powers would be the shy type.

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I park my car into the garage, before I get out I see a diamond earing on the passanger seat, great Miss Powers must have left it here, I make a mental note to myself to give it back to her.

I go into the house and I see the lights are on, that means one thing.

"Where the fuck have you been??" He shouts at me "I've been at work Dad, I'm just gonna go up to my room"

Of course he doesn't let me, he grabs me by my arm and yanks me into the wall "Who the fuck allowed you to?" now his grip is on my throat "Answer me you useless piece of shit" I feel myself tearing up, this has been going on for 4 years, but I still can't get used to it

He starts hitting me, and by the time I realize I'm on the floor curled up in a ball and crying, he left me here again, I try to get up and I succed, I go up to my room.

I look at myself in the mirror, fuck my whole body will be full of bruises again, thank God he rarely hits my face it's usually everything else, I won't be able to wear a crop top for a while after this.

I try to sleep but I never can, the only person who can help is Ben, but only to an extent, he just makes me calm down a little. I write to him.

Me: Hi could we talk? I'm sorry I know it's late

Ben: I'm calling you rn
My phone starts ringing, I swallow the tears and pick up

"Again?" he asks raising his voice a little, I can feel how furious he is "It's not that bad really I just-" I can't continue because of the tears that are begging to be released

"Danielle you know how much I love you, but I really will have to kill him if he keeps this up" he says "No Ben, no you don't have to I'm- I'm just a little shaken up that's it"

"Dani please come over, let me be there for you" Ben says, I love him really I do but I have to accept that this is something I have to deal with myself.

"No Ben, but thank you, I just needed to hear your voice" Ben sighs I know that he hates it he can't do anything to make this better, he knows about like everything

He knows what happened to my mother, why my father is the way he is, he was there for every hit, everything, I needed to talk him down about helping me in any way because I already lost my mother I can't lose my father too, although he doesn't really act like one.

"Dani I can stay on the phone till you fall asleep if that's okay" I can never sleep after these, usually I stay up all weekend if it happens on friday, I tried staying at Ben's and sleeping, it helped because I felt safe with him, but I never could sleep, I knew this wouldn't work and I want him to go to sleep

"It's okay really, we'll just talk tomorrow" I know he won't like this, but it's the right choice, I hear him sigh "Okay, but just because I know I can't change your mind, I'm here for you Dani don't forget that"

"I love you Benny, good night" I can hear him smiling on the other end, our rule is that we always tell I love you to each other before sleeping, I know it must be weird and people can think we are romantically involved but we really aren't, and by the way I'm still a lesbian and he is still gay.

"I love you too Dani, sleep well"

Of course I didn't, as usual after a beating, I didn't get any sleep, but as always I just started learning, I'm not moving away yet because if I get into Harvard I will need the money for it and I'm saving for that, I've been saving for that for 4 years now all I know is that I have to get out of here, I just have to.