The night was cold. It was three o'clock it the morning and I couldn't sleep. I couldn't stop thinking about what my dad had told me the week before.
Ever since mom died dad had been a wreck. Every night he went out with his work friend jai and got drunk. But whenever he was to come back he would hit me and call me all these horrible names, but last night was the worst.
Last night my father had been more drunk than any another time. I was sitting on my raggedy mattress of a bed doing my algebra homework. Dad busted open the door as if it wasn't unlocked, he stormed into my room and gave me more than the usual.
He took his hand into a fist and slammed his cold hard fingers into the side of my face knocking me off my bed. As I lay there trying to recover he uses his steel toed boots to puncture my ribcage with a strong kick. During all this he screamed things at me. "Ur a useless piece of shit.! Its your fault! Everything that happened was all you!" As though I didn't know.
But it was the next thing he said that hurt me. As he kicked me one last time he screamed as clear as day "
I'm gonna kill you.!!!!"
Even though I was limp on the cold hard ground with bruises and blood, I couldn't believe what I had just heard. His words rang through my mind like a siren.
Now I lay on the silk couch at my bestfriend Lexys house. I had told her everything that happened and she quickly invited me to stay with her for, well, I guess forever. There was no way I was going back to my fathers house.
Suddenly I hear footsteps coming from the creaky wooden staircase in the next room. I felt myself tense only to realize it was Lexys brother Luke.
Luke was only a year older than me making him 18. He was perfect, in my image, he had curly brown hair that stuck up in the front, the most beautiful brown eyes, creamy tan skin, and his silver lip ring that he shyly bit. I've always had a huge crush on him but I doubt he even knew I existed. But then..
"Well hey there carter"
it was Luke. His voice sounded wide awake but a little husky.
I sat up to face him. "Your up late" I said finally. "I'm always up this late" he paused "wait.. Shouldn't you be asleep?" He asked. "Well I guess I should be but It's not easy when your down here" I smirked. It almost sounded mean but I couldn't let him know what I saw when I looked at him. Perfection. "Well I guess your not going to sleep anytime soon" I looked at him sternly. What did he mean by that? "And why is that?" "Because I'm staying down here" I was confused. "Don't mind me asking but why?" I said with smirk on my face. He didn't answer for what seemed like forever. "You know you look like you could use a bud." I looked outside. It was storming hard. "I'm fine by myself" I guess he had a feeling I was for some reason "flirting" with him. "Well, your lucky then ." I looked him in the eye and he just stared right back. We sat that way for about a minute until I finally looked away. "Hey let's watch a movie" he said with a smile. I was so shocked. Luke brooks was wanting to watch a movie with ME.! but I had to keep my cool. "Okay well what do you want to watch, Lexy said she has some good movies." I said pointing over to the book case that was piled with movies. He chuckled. "I didn't mean here." He said with a smile that made my heart beat faster than ever.
Luke's p.o.v
Carter Lynn was laying on my couch. I had heard a little of what had happened. Mainly about how her dead beat dad threatened to kill her and abused her. Man, if I ever see that no good son of a gun again id bust off his knee caps for laying his hands on the most perfect girl in the world. Carter with her sparkling dark green eyes, her silky beach-curled dark brown hair, and her soft golden skin. It's no wonder I've had the biggest crush on her ever since I met her.
