Fearless

Chapter 8

Ohãna

August parked outside of our job and turned off the engine. I had been staying with him for a few days now.

Today was Thursday and I first went to August's house on Friday, so it was almost a week. I got out first leaving him in the car as we discussed  because we figured it would be suspicious if we were coming in at the same time every day.

I haven't seen Darius yet, however he called me so many times that same day me and August went to the mall at about 8pm. I ignored all his calls and he hasn't really called me since.

After work I'll be going back to the house because I only packed a small bag, that Friday I ran away and I was running out of clothes. August offered to buy me some things but I couldn't accept it.

I was quite scared but if it works out how I planned in my head he'd be at work besides August said he would come in with me just in case.

"Hey Amber!" I said walking into the break room to put my stuff in my locker.

"Hey girl, I need to talk to you." She said looking up from her phone.

"Yeah, what's up?" I sat down next to her.

"Okay so erm Darius came up in here yesterday after you left, looking for you." She said looking at me.

Oh God, I should've known he would come to my job when he wasn't hearing from me!

"Oh" I said trying to play it cool. "Is that it?"

"Well, no. He was up in here shouting going crazy about how you was cheating with a 'nigga who worked here' and that you was 'avoiding his calls and he hadn't seen you since Friday." She said looking at me waiting for answers.

I sighed. I didn't expect to have to tell anybody my situation this soon so I wasn't prepared.

"Okay, well I don't how to say this but.. Yeah I have been avoiding his calls and no he hasn't seen me since Friday. I'm not cheating on him because I don't believe I'm still with him, and in terms of the 'nigga who works here' part, I've been staying with August since Friday." I said hardly taking a breath.

She looked as though she was trying to make sense of what I just said, so I started to explain.

"Darius well, he's abusive Amber. I been putting up with his physical and emotional abuse for the 1 year and few months we was living together. Nobody knew, but August walked me out of work last Friday to Darius's car. Then August left and Darius assumed I was cheating with August for some reason and hit me. He didn't realise that August had came back and saw him hit me." I said.

"August beat him up and begged me not to go with Darius after what he had seen. I couldn't just go with August no matter how much I wanted to because Darius was yelling at me to get in the car and I was so scared." Tears were forming in my eyes as I told Amber the story.

"Then August realised I wasn't going with him so he was like call me if you ever need me. When me and Darius got home he beat me up, kicking me in my stomach while I was on the floor." I stood up to pull up my work shirt and show her my healing stomach that still looked kind of bruised.

Amber gasped putting her hand over her mouth, with her eyes watering. I sat back down continuing my story.

"Eventually we ended up at the dinner table because he decided to make dinner but I couldn't eat or talk because my jaw was hurting from where he punched me. He kept talking to me and I couldn't speak so he got angry thinking I was ignoring him and he tried to hit me again but something possessed me to run from him and fight back. I smashed a vase over his head and he passed out. I packed a bag and ran out the house."