Secrets Cause Silence ✓ [Secrets Book 2]

[Chapter Two]

                        “I've heard that people stay in bad situations

                                      because a relationship like that

                                gets turned up by degrees.

             It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water.

                 Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time,

                    and he will stay until he is boiled to death.

                           Us frogs understand this.”

                                              ― Deb Caletti

Chapter Two

It had been two months since he hurt me the first time and since then he’s been so sweet. He tells me he loves me every day and I’m so happy with him, I don’t know why he did it but it didn’t matter, it was long forgotten.

We were cuddled up on the couch and my phone rang with a text.

‘When are we getting together?’

Kyle was a guy In my class I had been partnered with in science. We were doing this huge project where we tried to analyze the genes from us and we would create a family tree. We would ‘make a baby’ and then partner again with someone else in class and we would be grandparents together. We were being graded heavily on it, some traits were obvious and we had to look at our parents and grandparents too.

It was kind of complicated but fun and we had to sketch our baby and a family portrait. I sucked at Drawing but Kyle was good at it.

This was one of the fun projects we got to do this year.

‘Tomorrow after school?’

I had no events or clubs or practices then

‘Can’t wait to make our baby ;)’

He text back and I chuckled

‘I look forward to it, see you then.’

I said and I went to put my phone away but Than grabbed it

“What the fuck is this? Are you cheating on me, you said you were a virgin.” He snapped at me and I looked at him like he lost his mind

“I am and why would I cheat on you?” I asked confused and he threw the phone across the room. I flinched when I heard it connect and the sound of it breaking lingered around us.

“Fucking whore.” The back of his hand made contact with my face and I held onto it tight, it was just like last time.

“I swear I’m not, it’s a school project.” I whimpered in fear

“How the fuck is this a project?” he asked and he grabbed me pulling me to my feet and I couldn’t say anything I was frozen in fear “Exactly you fucking slut.” He hit me again

“I swear I’m not. It’s a science project. I have the paper for it, I’ll show you just please let me grab it.” I said and he stepped back and crossed his arms and nodded for me to go grab it.

I ran to my backpack and got the paper with the assignment and handed it to him.

“Kyle is my direct partner on it, I’ll have two more later on.” I whispered and his face went from angry to apologetic and I sighed in relief