Me and my Benj

Chapter 2

When we get to Mitch's he take me to the bathroom and hands me a wet rag. I start to wipe the blood of my face. I wince from the pain. My cheek and nose hurt. There's a big bruise one my cheek and nose from where my dad punched me. Mitch put his fingers on my chin and tilts my head up. "Your very beautiful" he says.

"I gonna pretend that I don't know your lying because nobody can look beautiful with all these bruises on there face.

"Well you do." Mitch says. I smile. I wince again at the pain from the bruises. "I'll get you and icepack." He says. He's so sweet.

He takes my hand and pulls me to the living room. I take a seat on the couch as he gets and icepack from the kitchen. He comes back in and sits next to me on the couch. He gently holds the icepack to my face it still hurts so I grab his hand and squeeze. Even when the icepack not there anymore, he still holds my hand and I hold it back. He looks at me. It looks like he's about to kiss me. Before he can though, Jerome walks through the door.

"Who's the girl?" Jerome asks.

"Oh my notch," I say, "it's Jerome." We all laugh at that.

"This is Michaela." Mitch says.

"What happened?" Jerome asks me looking at my bruises.  I explain what happened between me and my dad. How I met Mitch. The whole thing. "Where do you live?" I gave him my address and he takes my hand and pulls my to his car. I get in the passenger side and he gets in the drivers side. Mitch gets in the back.

Jerome drives me to my house. There's cop cars all around it. I forgot that Mitch called them. I get out the car and Jerome and Mitch follow. A police women stops us and asks who we are. Mitch introduces us all and tells her that he's the one who called the police.

"What's going on?" I ask her.

"Well he claims that your lying. That he hasn't done anything to you," she says, "but by the look of your face I'm guessing that's not true." I nod.

"Where's my mom?" I ask her. She says they haven't found her so I tried to call her. It went straight to voicemail. We told the police and they said they'd call me if they heard anything about her. "What am I going to do?" I ask Jerome and Mitch. "My dads going to jail, my moms missing and I hate sleeping in my house alone."

"You can stay with us." Jerome says. "If that's okay with you biggums?" He says to Mitch. Mitch nods.

"Yay!" I scream. "I'm gonna go get some clothes and things." I run inside to get my clothes. I grab a few pairs of jeans some t-shirts and sweatshirts. I also grab my computer. Maybe Mitch and Jerome will play some Hunger Deens with me.