I can hear dad looking for me, shouting my name. If he catches me he'll beat the living hell out of me but if I hadn't run away he would've probably killed me. I can hear him getting closer and I run until I see a tree with bushes around it. I hide there. Suddenly I feel a hand grab my shoulder and a baseball bat meet the left side of my face. I scream in pain and all he does is laugh, his wicked, evil laugh. He pulls me by my hair and we go back home.
He pushes me into the house and I fall to the floor. He grabs my hair and drags me. "I'm sorry daddy, I won't run away again." I plead and plead but all I get is "Stupid bitch, it's pointless. Where are you going to run to? Nobody does and ever will love you."
He starts kicking me in my face, picks me up and then throws me across the kitchen against the cutlery drawers. The pain is so excruciating but I have to keep my scream in because if he knows I didn't really pass out he'll do more than that to me.
I'll never understand why my own father does this to me and can actually still live with himself. Why? What did I ever do to him?
My father, the man whose lap I lay on as a baby, promised me the world but instead taught me the true meaning of temptation and hate.
He leaves his phone in the kitchen and I see him walk upstairs. I wait and hear his bedroom door bang closed. I call my mother and she doesn't answer until I ring for the third time.
"What do you want?" She says thinking it's my father.
I tell her what had happened and she starts crying. I get a happy feeling knowing she still cares but then all of a sudden "There's nothing I can do." She says and puts the phone down.
My heart stops, I didn't expect that from her. Did she really stop caring? Is this the last I'll hear from her now?
I pull myself together and call Grayson, he answers on the second ring. I tell him what was happening and he tells me he will fetch me.
I drag my fragile body across the floor and to the front door so I can wait for Grayson outside. I open the door as quietly as possible because if dad hears me I'll get another beating.
