Beautiful Escape

Beautiful Escape: Chapter One

Ajalon Cooper.

It was too quiet in my house to be this early and it was only a matter of seconds before daddy came home and ordered me downstairs. I've only slept a good three hours but yet I was wide awoke. I had to be up to hear his call or I get more then a couple of slashes like the last time I fell asleep.

"Ajalon!" The voice of daddy shrieked throughout the two-story house 'cause it definitely wasn't a home. "Get your good for nothing ass down here, now."

I sprang up out of my bed and descending the stairs taking at least two to three at a time. When I rounded the corner I saw daddy still in his work uniform with a pissed off expression written across his face.

"Y-yes daddy?" I trembled.

He scratched his shaven beard then glance around the kitchen.

"I thought I told you to clean this kitchen before I got home?"

"I did daddy." It was true, I spent four hours scrubbing the invisible dirty only he could see.

"Does this shit look clean to you?" He quickly grabbed my face and shoved it onto the marble counter top.

"No, daddy."

He picked my face back up then took me around the kitchen pointing out small things that were invisible to the normal naked eye. Before I had a chance to react daddy had me down on my knees with his belt hanging in his hand.

"Open your shirt." He demanded.

Without hesitation I slid my oversized t-shirt off my shoulders as he stood behind me awaiting the display of my whole back. Each whip I gave a loud cry of pain but never did I once shed a tear. I figured after years of doing this all my tears had just stopped which I was okay with because every tear shed the beating intensified.

"And your still going to school." He panted after he was finished.

I waited to hear his bedroom door close before I pulled myself up and slowly walked up the steps to my room. When I looked in the mirror of my bathroom I had in my room, the large whips weren't as bad as last time but they stung like a bitch, he even reopen some of the old wounds causing the bleeding.

Sighing I started the shower turning it as hot as I could stand it then carefully removed my t-shirt and submerged myself under the steaming water. My back began to burn but it didn't stop me from letting all my problems wash down the drain with the water.

Twenty minutes later I stepped out and began getting dressed for school. I'm a senior at Central High School along with my two best friends Jubilee and Amber. We've been tight since the sandbox days but they still didn't know about the abuse I undergo everyday and I've always tried to keep it a secret. All they see is the glamorous lifestyle my father provides and if I have it my way that's all they'll ever see.

I finished getting dressed in a floral sweetheart style knee length dress with a cute jean jacket. I added a pair of black combat boots with a gold rope chain and gold rings. My hair was down, which wasn't long, it stopped a little passed my shoulders with chinese bangs. I grabbed my car keys and bag then slipped out without so much as making a sound.

"Damn, it's about time you got here." Jubilee smiled as I approached her and Amber.

"Oh shit nah!" Amber beamed. "Who you tryin' look cute for?"

I smiled showing my small dimples. "Nobody here."

We laughed then the bell rang signaling class was about to start. Jubilee, Amber and I hugged then went our separate ways. When I walked into my chemistry class a wave of relief washed over me and it felt like I could finally breath.