Once I heard the door slam I knew it was coming from outside door so someone left. I'm pretty sure it's my dad because my mom doesn't walk out like that. It's my dad who leaves every time. "Baby don't go!" I hear my mom scream through her tears. The door slams again and I run to my window. What are they fighting about? I know it's me but why's my dad mad at mom? She's pulling on his hand and he looks calm but I notice tears on his cheeks. What the hell did I do? Was it even me? My mom points towards the house and nods to him. He wipes her tears and gets in his car. He drives off and mom comes back inside. I run to my bed and hide under the covers, I pull out my phone and notice I have one text from Nicole.
From: Nicole
Can you come over?
To: Nicole
I don't think I can... I'm in a lot of trouble
She doesn't text back, great. She's probably mad I can't come over.
I head down stairs because I hear something smash and i'm honestly scared. "Mom?" I peek around the corner of the kitchen and there's shattered glass scattered across the floor. I look further in and see blood dripping down the back of her leg and she's cursing to herself. She takes a drink out of a bottle and I get a chance to read it. It's vodka. "Fuck!" She screams and I press my back against the wall. I hold my breathe but I try to quietly breathe through my nose. My heart rate increases every second and I feel as if my head's going to explode. I hear a thud and then muffled sobs. "Wilmer, baby come home" At first I think she's talking to herself but then... "Please! Wilmer no! I'm sorry..." I've never seen her so hurt. I look around the corner and see her holding a towel against her leg, her phone in her other hand and a few alcohol bottles next to her. Glass is surrounding her body. She lowers the phone from her ear and she chugs the bottle of vodka. I hide behind the corner again. What is she doing?
Demi's POV
"Wilmer, baby come home" I cry into the phone. It's my fault he left. I screamed at him and blamed everything on him. I'm so stupid, what was I thinking? "I'm not coming home till you and Ariel sort this shit out Demi. I'm not dealing with that" "Please! Wilmer no! I'm sorry..." He hangs up and I put my phone down and take a drink of my vodka. Actually, it's Wilmer's but I kinda need it right now. I hear something from around the corner and I automatically know it's Ariel... "Ariel?" I hear her stand up and run off. Dammit. I feel like i'm losing everyone. Maybe because I am.
"Mom?" "Hm?" God why is my head killing me. And the pain in my leg, what the hell happened? How did I get in my bed? Actually the more important question is, why is Ariel talking to me? She sighed, it sounded like she's relieved. "What happened?" I moaned in pain and she didn't reply. "Ariel?" I finally open my eyes and she's gone. Where the hell did she go?! "Ariel!" If we get into another fight i'm done. "Yes?" She peeks around the corner. "Come here" She shakes her head. "Ariel please" "No" She shakes her head. "Dammit Ariel why do we always have to fight?!" "You passed out" She stares blankly at me. Shit. She starts crying. "Why do you hate me?" She chokes out and wraps her arms around her body. I don't hate her.. "What are you talking about?" I ask softly. "Y-You h-hate me" "Come here Ariel" I open my arms for her and she runs to me. "I'm sorry!" "It's ok Ariel... Don't cry baby. I promise everything will be ok" "B-But dad l-left" "And he's coming back. Everything's ok" She rested her head on my shoulder. "I love you" "I love you too" I rub her back. Her breathing is unsteady and I can feel her ragged breath on my neck. "I'm sorry for bringing up your past" She whispers. "I know you are. Just don't bring that up, ok?" She nods. "What did the school say?" "I'm sorry honey but schools can't talk" I smirked and she started laughing. "Stop! You know what I meant" "I know. They said that we'll have to have you there so we can get both stories. But Paige said that she didn't do anything which there's no way i'm going to believe her" She yawned. "You scared me" She looked me in the eyes. "When?" "You were screaming and drinking" I frown. "I'm sorry.." I look down and she yawns again. "Why don't you go to bed?" I try to lift her off of me but she holds on tighter. "I wanna stay in here with you" I smile and kiss her head. "Ok, go to bed. I'll be back" She nods and crawls under the covers. "Goodnight" She whispers and drifts off to sleep. She must be really tired.
I shut the bedroom door just in case Wilmer is wanting to start something. He's always violent when he's drunk. I saw him pull up to the house and stumble out of the car and inside. He groans and falls onto the couch. "You're going to be all over the internet" I tell him. "I don't care" He slurs his words. "You will when you're sober" I start walking away but he grabs my wrist. "Wilmer let go" He pulls me to him. I can finally see his face clearly and he has fucking lip stick on his lips and around his mouth. I slap him as hard as he can. He gasps and slams me against a wall. Honestly, it hurt like hell. I'm terrified of what he's going to do. He wraps his fingers around my neck. I'm lacking air and right when I think i'm going to pass out he lets go and looks into the hallway. I look and Ariels staring at us. She looks possessed but I know she's just really pissed off and she's crying. She's staring at Wilmer and she looks scared. He takes a step towards her but she shakes her head and looks at me, silently asking me to help her. His eyes go down to her arms and he quickly grabs them and she screams. "Wil-" I stop when he pulls up her sleeves. "No! Dad stop!" She tries to pull away but he won't let go. I look at her arms. Her beautiful arms are covered in thin red marks, up and down, it's covered. Recent ones, old ones. Ariel looks at me, the look of horror on her face breaks my heart but it also pisses me off. She lied to me. She knows she can tell me anything but yet she lies to me. Wilmer lets go and covers his mouth with one of his hands. I start sobbing. How can she do that to herself? She's beautiful...
Ariel's POV
Once my dad pulls up my sleeves it's like the Earth stops spinning. My whole world stops and I can't breathe. The looks on their faces break my heart, but it's my fault. I'm the one who lied when I could of gotten help. When my moms starts sobbing I can't stand it. I've made her cry a lot but this is the worst. My dads anger faded and it was replaced by tears. He's sad... Sad because of me. I don't know what to do. Half of me wants to hug them and talk to them but the other half of me wants to run away. Or I can just stand here awkwardly. I pull my sleeves back down and wrap my arms around myself. Why did he even have to do that?! I'm tired of fighting! I just want us to be a happy family.. All I want is to be happy. My mom starts screaming and dad looks back at her then he kneels down to her but she pushes him away. "Don't fucking touch me!" She flinches and he backs away. "Get out" She points toward the door. "What?" "Get out!" "Why?!" Here they go again. "Because you cheated. Now get out of my house!" Wait, what. "Fine" With that, he grabbed his coat and keys and left. He slammed the door on the way out. He didn't even deny cheating on mom... She relaxed a bit when he left and she finally looked at me and she looks disappointed, I just want to disappear. She stands up and walks over to me. I think she's going to hit me but she wraps her arms around my neck. I hug her waist. I could fall asleep like this but I know she's going to make me tell her everything. "Sweetie, we need to talk"
