Clare and Avery: A love story

The Date

March 15 2018:
Today was the day, I was going on a date! My week had been pretty average, just the same old same old, but yesterday I went shopping to get a new outfit for the date, remembering opal green was Clare's favourite colour, I bought a knee length silky opal dress, it was beautiful. The date was at a small local cafe near Clare's and you had to have a pass to get in. The cafe was vegan and the food was incredible, I'd caught up with Clare, and we fell into conversation instantly, it felt like we'd known each other forever. Clare looked beautiful aswell, she had her hair in a top-knot with two braids, a style that really suited her, she wore a black skin-tight dress with flowers up the sleeves she said that it reminded her of her sim 'Lilith'.
After eating, we went to pick Eevee up from her dog-sitter, then went on a walk...
Whilst we were walking, we passed a pub. The scenery was breathtaking, until I heard a voice...the voice was so familiar...I saw his face...it had been so long. Suddenly, my vision began to blur and I went dizzy, I felt my throat close up, I knew what was coming, I was having a panic attack. I crouched down on the path. I could barely see Clare through the tears streaming down my face but I could fell her hand on my back and her telling me to breathe...my hands were sweating, it was getting harder and harder to breathe...and then it was dark.
I opened my eyes minutes later to see Clare's worried face looking down at me, she was crying. I felt a sudden weight on my chest but it was only Eevee. When Clare realised I was ok, her face lit up, but I could still sense her panic, I needed to get away, fast...
"Can-w-come on" I managed to say.
We rounded a corner and saw a bench, Clare sat me down and commanded Eevee to sit.
"What happened, are you ok?" Clare asked, her eyebrows furrowed with concern. I explained what I'd hoped to keep a secret. But I guess you can't hide your past...

12th July 1993 - 2010
Where I'd grown up, there was a gang lead by a leader. His name was 'Big Vhak', Vhak and his gang consisted of most men in the neighbourhood and they treated women atrociously, there was an old house that had been purposely burnt down, where they would take women they had drugged and do illegal things to them, they also picked fights with any women who tried to stand up for themselves...unfortunately this happened to my mother...

October 16th 1998
I might have only been five but I remembered this night so vividly, earlier in the day, my dad had left to go to Australia to see his sister who had just given birth. This left me, my brother, mum and grandma at home. The incident took place after my grandma had fallen asleep. Me and my brother shared a room and I often found it very difficult to sleep, I remember hearing the front door unlock and seeing my mum walk out. I watched out of our bedroom window and saw Vhak stood in the street, he looked so angry. I saw my mum approach him, she looked like she was pleading him for something, I saw her body tense as she got closer to him...and then he punched, he hit and kicked and tore at my mother out on the street, I was in tears, bawling and screaming for my mum, but I was too afraid to go outside, Vhak must have heard my screaming because when my brother came to look, he had run away. I'll never forget how awful my mum had looked after that, her face was bleeding and her jaw was out of place, I could see chunks of hair that had been torn out soaked in blood, her arm had swollen and turned a purple-y crimson.
It was because of people like Vhak that I began to question my sexuality and gender, I felt like I'd done something wrong to have been born a woman and I thought that all men would treat me like Vhak had with my mother and many other women. I changed my name to Avery to be more gender neutral, but now I identify as a woman. In 2008, Vhak was imprissoned for drunk driving, and I thought it'd be the last time I'd ever see him...it was not...