The Difference

Chapter 4

I burst into my bedroom, as painful tears ran down my face, large red marks across my arm and neck.

Dad had attempted to choke me. I squirmed and screamed in pain and agony as his hard rough hands squeezed and pushed into the baring of my throat, locking any air from coming in. I coughed and gagged, searching for the will power to breathe in, but there was nothing left. There was almost no more oxygen in my body to use to stay awake. I could feel myself starting to black out, then it would only take a couple more seconds to have me dead.

Cat was standing there, crying with all her little heart, begging dad to let me go. He didn't have it. In his efforts to stab Cat with the knife he had behind his back, I just managed to slip away in his drunkin daze.

I grabbed Cat before he was able to attack her, and carried/jolted her up to her room before I had to clapse on the floor.

I grabbed onto the solid window leading to the roof. I opened the small latch, and jumped outside into the warm midnight air.

The pain was far from subsiding. I could still feel the sharp injury of my lungs being squashed from my dad's hands.

I started consulting my life again. It was miserable, but it destracted me from the agony. I folded my knees up to my chest, wrapped my arms around them, and rested my head on them.

After a few minutes of silence, except for the soft chirping of crickets, the tree close to me started to russle. I didn't look at it. I knew exactly who was in it.

The tree stopped russling and his beautiful voice spoke the soft, simple words. "Are you ok?"

I turned to look at the boy standing next to me. A small smile lit up my face. "I'll be fine, Jaspen."

Uh hu. Yup. I know what ur all thinking. JASPEN! WHAT??? Well, don't worry. I know what I'm doing. (Not really...) And just in case ur wondering, it IS the same Jaspen. Let me explain. Soooooooo one of my besties, tdiagostino, gave me a GREAT IDEA! (Two ideas to be precise, but u don't know either of them, and you won't know either of them until the end of the series pretty much, unless u reread the book series and put two and two together.) So ya, I know ur freaking out, but it will all make sense soon! (Hopefully.)

Anyways, I love all of u! Have a good day!