Living in The Dark

In the Beginning...

Chapter One

I guess you could say my life is normal. I mean my mom died and my older sister ran away, so I got stuck with an abusive drunk father. Normal, right? Until I met him.. The one who change my life, for the better or worse? Hell I don't know anymore. What is normal?

-RING RING RING-
"Hello?"
"Don't sound so grumpy, wake up it's time for school!" My only friend said through the phone.
"Scarlet, it is 11:00 at night on a Saturday. There is no school, why did you really call?"
"Okay okay, I called to check on you and I'm in your yard."
"What?!? My dad will kill me if he sees you out there! Literally." I screamed quietly.
"Get your butt out here then.  Oh and dress nice like go out nice. I'll meet you at the rocks."
And with that she hung up. Scarlet is the only person who knows about my at home life. The only one I can trust. I looked at myself, dark brown wavy hair that fell down to my lower back, blue eyes, curves no thigh gap, pale skin, and blue eyes. I put my hair up in a messy bun and a little bit of mascara and black eyeliner. I wore my black ripped skinny jeans and a red flannel. Pulled on my converse and was prepared to face the beast...
I went downstairs and grabbed my keys to my rusty red, old truck.
"And where do you think your going?"
"Out, I'll be back soon, I promise." I told my dad and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"This late? You didn't make me dinner nor did you clean this house." He smelled of alcohol all over.
"Okay, I'll make you dinner now and then I will clean."
"Fucking forget it, just like your mother, a worthless whore." He yelled.
"You don't mean that. You're drunk and you need rest. Here I'll put your show on." I went to grabbed the remote and the next thing I know my cheek stung. I looked at him and spit in his face. "Drunk or not, your a worthless piece of shit. You hit me all the time over stupid shit! I have bruises up my sides from your feet! Fuck you and this house. My mother is better off dead because of you and my sister I'm glad she got out."
"Get back here now! I'm not done with you!" I could here him yell at me as I ran out the door in the mud and ran. 

I got to to my truck and look in the review mirror, he was on his knees in the door way head slumped down. I bite my lip and drive off tears in my eyes. I lit up a cigarette and turnt up my music.

30 minutes later

I parked by the rocks and saw Scarlet run to the truck in excitement.
"What took so long girl?" Scarlet isn't your type of 'punk' kid as I am. She's more of what people like to call 'preppy.' She is the head cheerleader at our school and is dating the famous football player, Niall Horan.
"Long story, what's going on? Why did I drive the whole way here at this time of night?" I asked curious.
"You look pretty! But you need more colors like geez."
"You don't look too bad yourself, maybe less colors" She was wearing a bright blue half shirt with light blue skinny jeans and black heels, her long blonde hair was put up in a high cheerleading pony tail with a bow to match her shirt.
"Need a bow to match your shirt? I got any color but I prefer red with that outfit." She said eying me up and down. I insisted that I didn't need one but she ended up putting one in my hair.
"What happened? Did he do that?" She screamed in shock.
Shit, I forgot all about my cheek.
"Uh anyway why are we here?" I changed the subject and applied cover up.
She gave me a death stare before answering.
"We are going to see Niall perform with his band."
"Band?"
"One Direction."
I burst out laughing. I didn't know he was part of that band and that's not my kind of music.
"Korey drive, now." She was getting mad.
"Okay fine but there better be drinks." I replied and off we went.