The Hidden World

Chapter 7 & 8: New Girl ~ Changes

Hey guys! I'm sorry that I didn't update all week. I've been having a lot of stuff to deal with. And the song up above is really good with the story to me. Like when they show them videos of people being abused and stuff and they have that heart breakingly sweet music in the background, yeah that sort of thing.

Anyways.... I hope you like this new and longer chapter. Now... ON WITH THE STORY!!! Oh, and btw, this is gonna be two chapters in one if you couldn't tell by the title. :3

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Chapter 7: New Girl

"You little... BETHANY GOD D*MNIT!!! LISTEN TO ME WHEN I'M F***ING TALKING TO YOU!!!!" My father yelled at me.

I held my teddy bear firmly in my hands as my father towered over me. I wept softly trying not to let him see that he had once again broke me down. I could feel his hateful glare on my back as I slowly stood and began to walk away. He grabbed me by the hair and dragged me back down before I could so much as make it 3 steps away from his drunken self.

I yelped in pain, my hands never leaving my clutched teddy bear. I clung to it for dear life, as if it would make all of this stop. But I knew it wouldn't be able too. Not if it was going up against my father.

He dragged me across the floor with me crying freely now, until we made it to the t.v. set. He threw me into it with all the force he could muster. I felt my teddy bear wiggle free of my death grip I had on it and then I felt the sharp pain of my back colliding with the t.v. screen. I screamed out and fell onto the floor as some shards of glass fell on and around me while others were stuck in my back. I tried to get up but it didn't work. My father stepped on my back and pushed my back down to the ground when I was finally on my hands and knees. He grabbed my hair again and pulled my head back so that he could lean down and talk to my face. I cried out in pain again as he did this.

"Go pack up your things you little runt. We're leaving tomorrow and I don't want to hear a single word about it or I'll make sure you can't speak by the time this day ends." He spat into my face with venom dripping from his every word. I nodded weakly through my tears and he threw my head back down into the carpet. When I heard his heavy footfalls, the slam of the door, and his car starting and driving away, I finally let it all out. I screamed at the top of my lungs, cried my eyes out, and crawled up the stairs to my tiny bedroom to do as I was told before he came back and did it all again...

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I looked up from my perch in my favorite big oak tree and to the stars. They were beautiful at this hour. I just wish that I had someone to look at them with instead of by myself. I felt a few stray tears fall down my cheeks as I thought about my father when me and would go star gazing all the time. I must have been sitting in the tree for hours because I soon could here the strong voice of my grandmother calling out for me to get back inside the house.

I walked back to my house and looked up at the sky one last time before walking in the door, headed straight to my room to go to sleep like I was supposed to be doing. Before I could get to my room however, my grandmother walked over to me with anger written in her features. I knew what was coming and just stopped and stood there, staring at her with a bored expression on my face. She slapped me and watched waiting for me to face her again. I did slowly and all I did was stare at her with the same bored expression which only added wood to the fire already burning within her.

She started yelling at me about being out late at night and how I should learn to be a proper young lady and so on so forth. I stopped listening and walked into my room, shut the door in her face, and locked it so that she couldn't get into my room and bother me some more. She started banging on the door yelling for me to open it. All I did was turn on my radio and turn it up loud enough to drowned out her stupid ranting.