Chapter 23

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TIM POV: Telling Faith about what happened to me with my stepdad, was hard. It brought up all the bad memories, I've tried so hard to forget. But I felt she needed to hear it. "Tim, there's more isn't there?" she asked "yeah" "what happened?" "Well there was one time, I heard him coming home. I remember hearing them fighting. I heard my mom crying and yelling at him to stop.. I felt helpless" "But you were just a kid" "i know, but as a little boy, I still felt like I was the man of the house, Like I needed to try to protect my mom and sisters from this man. Anyway I went to their bedroom. I watched as he kept hitting her repeatedly. I yelled at him to stop. My mom tried to tell me to leave. But I didn't listen. I went to try to stop him. But instead he hurt me for the first time that night. I ended up with a broken arm" "Oh my gosh!" "yeah but watching what he was doing to my mom, was worse than anything he could ever do to me"  The nurse shortly after came and took Faith to a private room. "You should get some rest. So I'll get going" I said "No please.. Can you stay?" "you sure?" "yeah. I just don't want to be alone" I smiled "okay" I laid down on the couch. "Goodnight Faith" "Goodnight Tim"

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