"Bandit, wake up! You had another nightmare. Just relax and I'll go make coffee.." my brother Eliot tells me, again for the third time this week. I always have the same nightmare so he stopped asking what they are about so he doesnt have to deal with me having a giant breakdown about how my dad is an abusive drunk who takes all his anger out on Eliot and I.
Before I could think of turning on Of Mice & Men Eliot walks back into the room with out coffee in both of his hands.
"Same nightmare, Bandit?"
"What do you think? How do you not have any nightmares about dad?"
"It just doesn't happen to me, I'm sorry love this happens to us."
"Don't be, it's not like you can change anything.." i say with a bit of sadness in my voice, because he actually can. Eliot is twenty years old, he's old enough to be a legal gaurdian. He just doesn't want to have his sister around for a year or two. I have a whole savings account hidden for if Eliot and I want to run away from our dad. Eliot isn't into it, he doesn't want to leave his girlfriend, Monica. Ugh, Monica uses all time and money then breaks up with him. But whenever she needs money she calls Eliot saying the same thing, "Baby, I'm sorry. I wish we were together. Can we try again?" he always says yes and then they are back at it.
It's scary being up at two in the morning because he could wake up at any moment and beat the hell out of us for being up.
he's very strict about bed times and such. Even though Eliot is an adult and I'm seventeen but my birthday is next week. All I really want to do is see Of Mice & Men live, which makes me really sad since they are coming to Houston on my birthday and I'd die to see them live! But my dad would never let me, I can rarely leave the house..
"Bandit! Eliot! get your asses in here!!"
Eliot and I look at each other and walk into the kitchen.
"Who the hell used my coffee and made a mess?!?"
Eliot tries to speak up but he has work tomorrow so I'm not letting him get a black eye.
"I did it, Dad. I'm sorry and I deserve what I'm about to get."
All he did was push me into a wall and screamed
"Do it again!" and then everything went black.
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Author's Note:
Hii. Sorry I suck at writing but I'll try to update a bunch (twice a week)
xoxoxoCamille Ashby
