I did it

I Did It- Chapter 7

I sat in the living room, waiting for my mom. She texted back: I'll be home in 15 minutes. We can talk then, okay?

I still hurt. My wrists were killing me. I started to cry as I thought about it. I got myself together and sat in the living room, my eyes stuck in the kitchen, were I had my virginity taken from me. Mom isn't going to believe me. With my luck, she'll marry him and whenever she's gone, Nick will come after me. I just know it... I hear mom pull up and I get nervous. I start shaking and choke back tears as I prepare myself to tell her the whole story.

She walks in and throws her stuff in her room. She grabs a water bottle and then looks at me.

"Hey kiddo." She sat down next to me. "What do you need to talk about?"

I looked at her dead in the eye. "Mom, N-ni... Nick.."

"What did he do?" She scooted closer and looked at me in a daze.

"He, he, r-raped me..in the ki-kitchen." I started to cry.

She hugged me tightly to her and rubbed my back. I could feel her anger and sadness. She pulled away from me and looked at me dead in the eye.

"Now Jai, if you're telling the truth, I'll call the cops right now and break up with him. If you're not, tell me right now, or else you can get into serious trouble."

"I'm not lying!" I shouted.  I showed her my neck, my wrists, and where he punched me in the stomach. She gasped. I said, "He threatened to hurt us if I told on him."

"Well I'm dialing 911 right now. He can't do those kinds of things and get away with it. Make sure to show those cops those marks for evidence." She put her phone to her ear and told the story.

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After all of that, Nick ended up going to jail and Mom ended up being a single mom yet again.  I was still crying and shaking, but not as bad as when the cops were asking me questions. I sighed. My mom bought a new door lock and a window lock for all the doors and windows so Nick wouldn't be able to get in after he got out of prison. He got sentenced 15 years but there's a chance he could get on probation. If he breaks it, he gets an additional 10 years.

"I'm so sorry baby." She said as she gave me some tea. She hugged me close. "I didn't know he'd do that. " She gave me a pill. "Take this. It's the 'morning after' birth control pill."

I took it and swallowed it. I started to cry. My mom, for once in forever, hugged me to her and told me everything would be okay. She said she wouldn't allow him to hurt us anymore.

"I'll take the day off work tomorrow and I can take you shopping or something, okay?"

"Okay."

"I love you."

"I love you too, Mom."