No One Touches Her: Book 1

"Luck"y me

The next morning I get up, take a shower, put my casual wear on and leave the house for school. I walk halfway until I realize I was missing something. "Oh yeah. My glasses." I turn back and go for my glasses in my room. As I am about to go back out, I bump into Dad.

"M-Morning Dad."
"What time should you be here?"
"Um 4:30."
"Not a minute..?"
"After."
"Good. Now get the fuck out of here."

I put my glasses on and walk straight to school. I reach about 8am and class starts that same time so I run to class. I sit down and Veronica and Haley was paying full attention to what the teacher's saying and I listen to the teacher.

Lunch time me Veronica and Haley get our lunch and sit at a bench.

"Ashley?" Veronica call.
"Yeah?"
"What happened to your cheek?"
"What do you mean?"
"It's swollen red."
Haley take a pic of it and show me.
"Oh my God," I say covering it.
"What happened?"
"N-Nothing..."
"It almost looks like a handprint."
I look away.
"Was it your-"
"No it's not-"
"Yes it is. Would Brad slap you like that? And I know your mother wouldn't do such a thing."
"Don't tell Brad about this..."
"Why-"
"You just can't..."
"Ashley, Brad can fix this problem-"
"I don't want him to. It's going to end up bad.."
"I understand how you feel but we all know you live pretty far so you can't reach home by 4:30 you know that."
"I can't tell him that-"
"You must Ashley-"
"He smack me cross the face, don't you think he'd do it again?!"
"Haley, we have to talk to him."
"How will that change anything?!"
"Ashley we have to do something. We're your friends and we can't just sit here knowing you have a crack head dad who expects you to speedy home and reach 4:30 when you can't. We're talking to him and that's that."
"Please don't..."
"We're doing this because we care Ashley."
I get up and walk away. They call me but I didn't answer nor look back. I get outside of school and I see the three boys again leaning against the wall looking at me and approaching me.

At the same time I see Brad coming from the playfield over to where they were and immediately charged at the one who attacked me yesterday and knees him in the stomach then punches him to the floor. The other two boys run away from the scene as Brad continues to beat the other up.
"DON'T FUCK. WITH MY GIRL. YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Brad yells kicking and punching him. As the boy groans in pain and Brad walks over to me, he spots the red swole in my face.

"Ashley what happened? Who slapped you?"
"He did it just before you came," I lied pointing at the guy.

Brad goes back over to him even more pissed off. "YOU SLAPPED HER TOO?!"
"I-I didn-!" Brad gives him a hard kick in his gut before he could finish his sentence and he comes back over to me.

"Next time be careful okay?"
"Alright, thank you Brad."
"Anything for you baby."
He kiss my lips and walks off back to the playfield.

Wow, lucky me. Now Brad knows that boy was the one who caused the red mark on my face, he won't think it's one of my parents. He can't know about my dad.

Time pass school has dismissed and I hurried home. When I reach inside, my dad was already at the entrance and he hold on to my collar.

"You're ten minutes late! What was the fucking time I told you to come here?!"
"I-I tried Dad I really tried-"
"Shut the fuck up!" he yell throwing me to the table and I tumble over everything. He walk up to me and grab my hair roughly. "You ruined the table you-"

"Larry! Stop! Stop hurting her!"
He throw me to the ground and slap Mom. He then storm up to his room and I get up to Mom. She hug me and cry on my shoulder.