Living With The Carters

Chapter One

I wake up to the annoying sound of my alarm telling me to get out of bed and get ready for school. Groaning I pull myself off the bed, my rib cage still burning from last night and head into my bathroom for my shower, trying as hard as I can to avoid my dad. I can't let what happened yesterday happen again. Ever since my mom had died from a car crash 11 years ago my dad had become an alcoholic and started to hit me saying that it was my fault that mom got into that crash. I had to go through 11 years of me being told that i was never good enough by my own father. I only have a couple more months until i turn eighteen and i can finally move out of here.

I start to walk quietly into the bathroom when someone yanks back my hair which i took out of my plait from last night. Before i can make a sound i see my fathers hand come into my view and feel an intense sting of pain on my left cheek. i can feel my eyes start to well up with tears but try to blink them away, knowing that if he sees me cry he will hit me again.

"Get in the shower, get ready for school and get out of my sight." he says in an intense whisper. he lets go of me and i bolt for the bathroom door and lock myself in there. As i turn on the water i can hear the front door opening and a loud voice calling for my dad. hearing it I instantly freeze. That voice belonged to my fathers life long friend Vince. Whenever he comes over both of them gang up on me and i get double the bruises and double the pain.

After my shower I throw on the clothes I brought in with me. I was wearing my black, ripped skinny jeans with my favorite Guns & Roses black midriff top and my white Adidas superstars. I decided to wear my hair down to cover up the small bruise on my neck from a few nights ago that Vince gave me and put some make up to cover up the big red hand mark that spreads across my left cheek. I hastily walk out the bathroom door and grab my phone, car keys, sunglasses and my school bag getting ready to leave for school.

Thankfully my dad and Vince are out the back, probably smoking and drinking like they usually do together. I get into my black 2016 Toyota Camry. I plug my phone into the aux and get ready for a 25 minute drive to school. I put on my favorite playlist and listen to my music.

"Cause we all just wanna be big rockstars and live in hilltop houses, drivin' fifteen cars" I start to sing as I pull into the schools parking lot. After I park my car and get out only to be met by the bone-crushing hug from my best friend Tiana Wills.

"Hi to you too T" I say as she lets me go.

"Hi Klara...what hold up. Are you wearing...make up?" she asks me while raising her right eyebrow at me.

"Yeah." I say sighing "he did it again." Tiana is the only one who knows what my dad does to me but she promised not to go to the police about it because dad has friends who are cops.

"Dude why didn't you call me?"

"I-I-I don't know T"

"Well you're coming over to mine after school ok?"

"Ok. Now lets put our stuff in our lockers before class starts."

As we go to our lockers I see Isabella out of the corner of my eye. She is essentially the messenger of the school for the front office. She usually only talks to me if she is telling me i have detention or to remind of me of ISS (In School Suspension) that i get almost very week because I start fights with other people.

"Hey Klara! Mrs Mac wants to see you in her office...now"

"Ugh. Here we go again. Well I'll text you later T" I say as i walk off to the front office.

As i walk down the hallways to the front office i get a few looks from some of the cheer squad. They don't like me because i got Axel, who is a jock and the head cheerleader, Anna, ISS for two months because he broke Tiana's collarbone. I walk into the front office and knock on the principle's office door.