Because of You

Chapter 9

Brief Author's Note

Announcement: I have entered this book in the Watty's 2016...wish me luck loves 🙏🙏

Also, I've been away for a minute, so I'm going to give you this chapter.

And also, I would love to thank everyone who has been supporting this book and continuously reading and voting, and I'm very grateful. Much love to you babies 💖💖💖

-Love,
DeDe_Lew

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Jacob

My legs felt numb. My whole body ached. I couldn't feel my fingers, or toes, but I could still feel this throbbing pain.

Bruises dotted my skin, splotchy and purple.

How could a woman allow something like this to happen to her child?

She hoed me out to him!

I felt dirty. I felt like no one would ever love me ever because I couldn't be loved at this point. I was too broken, and no amount of glue could put my soul together again. Nobody ever wanted damaged goods.

I lay curled in a fetal position on the floor, clutching a pillow to my naked body.

I'm sure I had been laying like this for hours, but it didn't matter.

My alarm for school rang.

I turned it off and continued laying there.

I wasn't going to school today.

I didn't have the energy to deal with the bullshit.

Peeling myself from the floor, I limped to the adjoining bathroom and took a shower.

I tensed up every time the water would land on my tired body.

I could still feel his fingers on me.

It was like he was in the shower with me, still feeling on me. I could see the memories playing over in my head of him on me, me crying and screaming, calling for help, and no one ever coming.

After about thirty minutes, I crept from the shower, and downstairs.

The house was still.

Everyone was still asleep.

The floor was cold, but my soul was colder.

The quick whoosh sound the butcher knife made as I pulled it from the block was comforting to me.

The handle radiating artificial warmth that was being supplied by my hand.

I turned the knob and opened my parents' door.

There she was, laying peacefully.