She Will Be Loved

Ch. 5

Christina was crying in her pillow for hours while matt was asleep downstairs, she tried her best to keep her tears quiet but failed due to the pain and all the sadness, all the hurt, all the memories...

max opened christina's door a little and peeked in, he saw his mom crying her eyes out, she had a big bruise on her back and that worried max. he tried not to cry as he stood there watching his mom go through so much pain, he wondered why she was crying and it came to him.. 'matt' he thought to himself, a few weeks ago he witnessed matt shove christina into the door and grab her by the arm hard after they were done arguing. max shut the door gently and ran to his room, he jumped in his bed and wrapped his arms around his knees as tears rushed down his face "no no no, not my mommy.. please don't hurt my mommy" he said to himself as he cried for a few minutes, he eventually cried himself to sleep that night and had horrible dreams of matt abusing christina

that was something christina didn't want, for max to witness such horrible things, for any 5 year old to witness such horrible things.

*max is 5 in this story because it's during season 5 o the voice, but in real life he's 6*

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Next day...

it was 8:30 am and Christina was downstairs in the kitchen with max, he was eating his waffles while christina was on her phone. a few minutes later matt came downstairs, he glanced over to christina and sighed softly before going to the fridge and getting himself some orange juice

christina's phone rang out of no where and it was adam, she answered it and said "hello"

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"hey" adam said through the phone "are you okay?" he asked suddenly

"yeah.. why wouldn't i be?" she asked in a calming tone

"because... matt seemed angry after i talked to him a few days ago, i-i just wanted to make sure you were okay"

christina let out a small sigh as she faced her head down a little "adam, i already told you-" he cut her off

"i know i know, but i just don't believe that you're okay, i know you aren't christina... you put on a smile and act like there's nothing going on but somethings wrong.. and i really want to know what it is" he said over the phone

"i'm fine, really" she said as sadness started overcoming her

"that's bullshit, stop lying to me"

"i'm not lying-" he cut her off again

"yes you are, christina please just tell me"

"it's nothing i can't handle adam, don't worry about me" she said in a quiet tone

he sighed once "you sure?" he asked sadly

"i'm sure" she said with a slight smile on her face because of how caring he was

"alright, promise to call me if anything happens"

"i promise" she said sweetly and they said their goodbye's to each other

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christina hung up the phone and put it on the counter as a small sigh escaped through her nose

"who was that?" matt asked as he took a sip of his juice and watched max walk to the living room

"adam" christina said in a low tone

"what'd he want?"

christina rolled her eyes a little and looked over to matt for a few seconds "nothing, he just asked how i was"