TW: Abuse, Alcoholism & Self Harm
(Flashback to when Autumn and Reece were children)
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AUTUMN'S POV:
I had just walked out of my school building knowing I was about to be torn a new one about how my grades were rubbish and I should do better, but to be honest as long as he kept me at school the I was fine because whenever I went to school it felt like a shield and protector from my father and what was going on an home.
My father is the most ignorant, alcoholic, excuse for a man and in all fairness I don't know why he had children if he can simply not look after them, our mother probably left because she knew that she'd be much better off without a horrible man like him.
I walked through the front door and I immediately heard the beast shouting 'my child is a fucking failure!' I simply replied with 'whatever you believe father...' and tried to walk upstairs, the monster immediately dragged me down and threw me into the kitchen, I fell over near the washing machine while he smashed glasses and stomped and kicked my legs, not a single tear was shed until my brother came downstairs and my father started on him. I had to practically pull my father off of my broken brother before leaving my father on the floor and going to hug Reece, we went upstairs and Reece took me to his room, giving me headphones and wrapping me up in a blanket to protect me from my father.
Hours later, father had already said I wasn't getting dinner tonight but I was in my bedroom sitting at my desk with a pencil sharpener and a mini screwdriver in front of me, I took the pencil sharpener apart and etched small slices into my arm with the tiny blade. I never thought I was good enough but knowing my father thought that as well hit like a bullet.
Reece walked into the scene, Reece was 16 at the time however I was only 13. "Oh Aut..." he sighed, "come here," he told me, gesturing towards him. I immediately wrapped my arms around him, "let's get you cleaned up," he said softly, he dragged me towards the bathroom and sat me down on the lid of the toilet, he grabbed some tissue and wet it in the sink, before pressing it against the wounds that sat upon my pale arm.
Meanwhile, father was downstairs having his third pint of beer of the day. I could hear the anger within him even though he was all the way in his private office, the thumping of the vulnerable keyboard I just wanted to burst into tears and hug Reece. Reece had seen the look on my face and he just pulled me back into his room and put headphones on me while he wrapped a fluffy blanket around us and we hugged, just wanting to be safe from the hands of our desperate, enemy of a father.
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NO STOP I ACTUALLY CRIED MAKING THIS BECAUSE I SEE SO MUCH OF MYSELF IN AUTUMN. I LOVE AUT AND REECE SO MUCH, THEY ARE LITERALLY THE BEST DUO / SIBLINGS.
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