Saving Cat Valentine

Saving Cat Valentine by Paradoxmoonlight fanfiction.net

Chapter One

Cat lay in her bed, her hot pink comforter pulled over her head. She sniffled, paused, and slowly pulled the blanket down to the tip of her chin. She looked to her bedside table, where her clock lay, and read the time. 3:37 a.m.

She hadn't slept at all. At around midnight, she was washing her face when her father's red pickup truck pulled into the driveway. The engine could be heard a mile away, and Cat shivered as he heard the door of her house open and slam shut.

"Kitty," She could remember her father's words clearly. That's what he always would say right before he would-"Kitty where are you?"

She couldn't even think about it...she tried to block it out of her memory. Her father came home every night that he was drunk and he would do this (he was drunk most nights). Cat wasn't sure if he knew the next morning that he did this to her or not, but that was no excuse for him abusing her verbally and physically.

School tomorrow would be missed, she decided, realizing that she could not make it through the day on two and a half hours of sleep. Not only that, but after being beaten and called such names she did not even want to go anywhere at all. She would rather just sit in her room and wallow in self-pity. But who would blame her for that?

Tonight had not been bad compared to how bad her father has gotten before. He usually beat her until she would black out, but tonight was strangely different. He mostly called her names, and only kicked and slapped her a few times.

Maybe Daddy was getting better. Maybe Daddy would stop this altogether. With these final hopeful thoughts Cat slipped into a deep slumber and dreamt of before. When her Dad didn't hit her, when her brother, Mouse, and her mom were here, and when they were one big happy family.

Seven and a half hours later-eleven o'clock a.m., Tuesday.

Cat snapped into reality when her phone went off playing her ringtone I Must Be Dreaming, by the Maine (the irony). Cat groggily pulled the phone out from underneath her pillow, and stared at the screen for a few moments. Jade.

"Hello?" Cat spoke, trying to sound perky and happy, as she always did.

"Cat, it's Jade." The girl spoke back through the phone, her voice monotonous.

"Hi Jade!" Cat knew who it was, but decided that she needed to be herself, or at least...who she pretends to be.

"Hi Cat. Uhm, anyways, where are you? Today is Sikowitz's test. It's a big portion of our grade. Are you, sick or something?"

Cat paused, "Yes, that is it. I am sick." Cat lied through her teeth.

"Well. Is there anything you need me to get for you?" Jade sounded somewhat concerned, out of character for the Goth girl.

"No, I'm okay right now. I'll call you if I need anything though. Hopefully I'll be back by tomorrow. I think it's just a migraine, no big-E."

"Alright, well fourth period is about to start. I'll talk to you after school."

The line went dead.

Cat fell back onto her pillow, taking in a deep breath and staring at her star painted ceiling. She pulled her phone to her face and read the top: 9 unread messages.

Willingly, Cat clicked open her messages and scrolled through them: two from Tori, One from Andre, two from Beck, three from Jade, and one from Robbie. She erased all of them, not bothering to see what her dearest, and maybe only, friends were wanting.

Cat pulled herself off her mattress, and looked out her window to reveal the driveway. Cat was surprised to see her father's pickup still there, and quietly snuck through her bedroom door to the kitchen to make herself some cereal.