Save Me From The Darkness

Chapter 4

As the bell rang, Lizzie and I got up to go to gym class when in the hallway we met up with Sara.

"Welcome back from the dungeon!" Sara cheered and caused all of us to laugh. We have this thing where we call my house 'the dungeon', because, well it was like one.

"It was so much fun! You know, every kid wants to get got because they had their music in too loud," I said pointing to my eyes.

"Aw Ocean, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring that up," Sara said apologetically.

"How many times have I told you, I'm fine."

"Fine, but if I ever make you feel upset I want you to tell me."

"I will," I said, but inside I knew that was a lie. I'm not the type of person who can just go and talk to someone about their feelings. For years my parents have abused me, and for all of those years I haven't told anyone how serious my situation actually is. My mother cut my legs one time and yet I never told anyone. What happened was I came home late from school because I was finishing a project, I had failed to call home so when I did get home, I paid for it. My father held me down so I couldn't move and that's when my mother cut me. All up and down my legs she took a razor blade and broke the skin. Most of the cuts were so deep that I have scars, and when people ask, I just say that I got in a bad biking accident. Not even Lizzie and Sara know about this because I'm too ashamed. I'm a really strong person about everything in life but that was the most victimised I've ever felt. I felt so ashamed. It's not like I can do anything about it either, I tried to call the cops before but my parents threatened to kill me if I did. The same thing goes for if I was to go live with Josh or run away. I'm stuck here until I'm eighteen, and that's when I'm moving far away from here.

"Ocean! Ocean, snap out of it!" Sara said, snapping her fingers in front of my face. "You okay? You zoned out there for a minute."

"Oh, yeah I'm fine," I mumbled.

"No you're not fine! You're thinking about Sara's cousin isn't that right?!" Lizzie teased.

"What? No, I don't like him! How can I like him if I've never even met him I said defiantly.

"When I told her your cousin was a boy, you could just see the look of love in her eyes," Lizzie cooed dramatically.

"Hey Woods, you better not be hitting on my cousin," Sara continued jokingly.

"I never planned on it," I say before flipping my hair and walking to the locker room.