Reconciling Love (A Bad Boy Love Story)

Prologue

Authors Pov

 5 year old Estelle rocked back and forth on her bed her hands over her ears tightly, her eyes shut tightly as her legs were pulled up to her chest  making her look like she was a ball. Trying to block out the screams that were coming from downstairs. Estelle closed her big green eyes tighter, pressing her hands tighter to her ears as the screaming from downstairs was getting much louder.

A sob ripped through Estelle’s lips as she heard screams and cries of her mother, she wanted to go down stairs to see what was happening but was scared to come face to face with her monster of a dad.

“Somebody help!” Estelle’s mother screamed loudly making Estelle jump with fear, she couldn’t just sit there listing to her mums scream of agony, slowly Estelle slide off her bed and walked slowly to her door grabbing the door knob she slowly turned it to the side, tears falling down her pale tanned face.

 Estelle opened the door and walked out; she stood at the top of the stairs where she heard more screams of agony coming from her mother, is this really how she wanted to spend her 5th birthday? Of course not! She wanted to spend her 5th birthday with her preschool friends, blow out her candles, receive gifts, eat cake and play around. No 5 year old wanted to spend their birthday sitting in there room crying listening to their mother and father fighting.

Estelle jumped out of her skin as she heard a loud crash coming from downstairs; she slowly stepped down onto the first step. 1 she counted as she stood on the first step only 10 more to go she thought, 2 she stepped down onto the second one, the screams from downstairs getting louder.

Estelle closed her eyes as she stepped on the third step, she wiped one of her tears away with her sleeve before walking down to the fourth step “Please stop” she heard her mother’s soft yet raspy voice, she couldn’t understand why her dad was this cruel towards her mother.

Estelle stepped down onto the fifth step as she held onto the railing she peered down to see a glimpse of what was happening, usually when her mother and father fought she would stay in her room, but now she couldn’t stay locked in her room while her father beat her mother. Estelle stepped down onto the sixth step her small blonde curls bouncing with each step she took.

She peered over the railing to see some glass broken splattered on the floor, she stepped onto the seventh step her heart race going up higher as she heard her mums loud sobs, she closed her eyes tightly as she let a tear slip down her face.

“Don’t, Jacob please” Estelle’s mother begged, Estelle let another tear slip down as she walked down the eighth stair her small handing holding onto the railing tightly “Why? Huh? Tell me why I should stop!” Estelle’s father screamed making Estelle jump and slip down onto the ninth step, Estelle squealed as she regained her footing on the step, she moved one of her blonde curls out of her face she looked over the railing getting a better view of what was going on.

Her heart beat rose as she looked at her mother who had tears streaming down her, her mother’s body was on the floor, her green wide eyes similar to Estelle’s eyes were bloodshot red brimmed with tears as she clutched her stomach. Her mother’s face and body was bruised with cuts all over her body showing that her husband had caused some serious damage.

As soon as Estelle stepped down onto the last step, the only thing that caught her eyes was her father who held a black gun which was aimed at her mother, “Please don’t” Estelle’s mother cried, Estelle’s father pulled the trigger of the gun loading it, looking at his wife dead in the eyes before pulling the trigger.

“Mummy!!!” Estelle screamed as the sound of a gun echoed through the entire house, Estelle’s green eyes widened in horror as tears streamed down her face before she could register what was happening next another gunshot echoed throughout the house.