The Change

Chapter 4

"What did you do to your hair?" my mom asked "I cut it then dyed it" I tell her "I know that but why"she asked "Cause I like it" I tell her "Ok lets go get your hair fixed right now before your father comes back home" my mom says "No I like it" I tell her "Well I don't and you have to fix it" my mom orders "No you can't make me" I say and Dalton's eyes go wide "What did you just say" my mom asked "I said you can't make me" I say one more time "Don't ever say that again" she says "You can't make me" I say one last time then my mom slaps me knocking me on the floor "Go to your room and you can't come out" she says and I run up stairs "Now you go home" she screams at Dalton, then I go to the roof and I start crying till I see Dalton's window open "Hey are you ok?" he asks "Yea I'm fine except for the fact that my mom hates me now" I say "She doesn't hate you shes just mad she'll get over it in a few days" he says and he climbs into the tree just like we did when we had to get the black hair dye "I hope your right" I say "I am" he says sitting next to me "I just can't believe she did that" I tell him "Your face has a red hand print on it" he tells me "It hurt" I say laying my head on his should "Do you ever get the feeling that the world would be better off without you?" he asks staring at the sunset "All the time" I tell him "I can't imagine you thinking something like that" he says "Why not?" I ask "Cause you are so nice and you actually get along with people before they even know your name unlike me when people look at me they think i'm weird or they get scared" he says "They do not" I tell him "Yes they do and you probably would have thought the same thing if you weren't kinda forced to meet me" he says "No I wouldn't" I say "You would I saw the way you looked at me when we first met and you acted like you I would kill you or something and you didn't even talk to me" he says and I feel bad for the way I acted that day "Yea I was shy but I didn't think that at all" I tell him but he was right I did think that but now I don't really even care "What ever" he says and I look at him "I didn't think that" I say "Okay" he says nodding his head a little and I kiss his cheek and he gives me a weird looks and blushes then he kisses my forehead, I lay my head back on his shoulder and he raps his arm around me "You wanna go see a movie with me tomorrow?" Dalton asked "Ya sure that sounds great" I reply "Ok its a date then" he says "I'm going to go to bed" I tell him "OK see you tomorrow"he says and I walk back into my room, then I watch Dalton crawl back through his window

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After I've been asleep for about an hour I hear my mom talk to my dad when he walked into the house "she dyed hair and cut it" I hear my mom say to my dad and I wake up so i'm just laying in bed "she did not" my dad said "yea she did and i think it's cause of the boy next door" my mom said and she only complains to dad when he is drunk, I start to feel scared cause if he drunks to much he gets mean, I start to pack clothes, shoes, blankets, my phone, charger, hair brush and other things that I really need and I even packed my make-up and I set my bags next my bed "WHAT!!!" i hear my dad scream then I hear him run up the stairs and swings my door open and turns on my lights "What did you do to yourself" he screams at me then walks over beside my bed where I was laying and I sit up then punches me in the eye and now I can't open it and I guess it's bleeding cause I saw blood all over my pillow then I start to scream then he slaps me "SHUT UP!!!" he yelled and Dalton's window opened and I saw him watch my dad beat me then my dad picks me up and throws me in the floor and I kick him in the stomach knocking him over, I get up and grab my bag then I jump out my window without climbing down the tree, I see Dalton walk out his front door with a garbage bag "Are you ok?" he asks wiping away the blood from my face "No" I say and he helps me up but I can't put any pressure on my left ankle cause I hurt it when I jumped out of my window "Ouch" I scream in pain when I stand then I look up and see my dad looking out the window "Get in my car" I command and Dalton helps me get to my car, I sit in the passenger seat and he drives away and as soon as Dalton cranked the car my dad ran out of the house "COME BACK HERE!" he yelled and I start to cry not because my dad just beat me it's cause my life is slowly fading away from me, "Where are we supposed to go?" he asked "Lets just go to my aunt Allie's house" I tell him "Ok where is that?" he asked "Just take the next left and it's the very last house on the right" I tell him "Ok" he says, after about 30 minutes of driving we pull into a gas station and I finally stop crying "You need to get some rest" Dalton says gets out of the car and I roll my window down and I watch him pump gas "It's freezing out here"I say "Go to sleep" he commanded "OK but take the next right and then keep going till you see a green sign that has a smiley face on it then turn left of it then its straight at the end of the street" I tell him and I rest my head on the door so I could go to sleep

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I wake up the next morning not knowing where I was but it looked familiar, I get out of bed and I walk down the stairs and everything looked so familiar and I walk into the kitchen and I see Dalton and my aunt Allie talking "Hey how did I get in here?" I ask "Well you were like passed out so I carried you upstairs" Dalton said "Oh, where did you sleep?" I asked "I haven't gone to sleep yet" he says "You need to go to sleep, go take a 2 hour nap on the couch right now and I won't let you sleep over 2 hours" I tell him and he walks over to me "Sweety I'm fine" he says and I blush on the fact him just called me sweety "Ok then" I say "Come here let me look at you" my aunt says and walk over there "We are going to go to the hospital in a few" my aunt tells me "Why" I ask "Cause you need to get your eye and maybe even your head looked at" she says "Why my head?" I ask "Cause I think its dented in a bit" she says and I feel my head and sure enough it was dented in "Ok then let me get changed"I say, I feel like I need a shower but I showered last night

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When we get to the hospital I am rushed inside,i guess they saw my eye and that I was in need on help at that moment, after we sign a million papers we are sent to a room, when the doctor came in he sat in a chair next to the bed I was laying in "OK so I see your head is dented in some and your eye what happened there, actually tell me everything" I doc. says and I look at my aunt and Dalton and they nodded there head "OK well this girl embarrassed me at school then I dyed my hair and cut it, my mom got upset about it then she slapped me for smart mouthing her which was ok cause I was being really mean anyways, then my dad came home drunk then my mom told him everything then he came into my room and beat me then through me on the ground and that what happened to my face then I jumped out of my window and hurt my ankle" I tell him and his jaw dropped and Dalton pushed his chin up and his mouth shut "OK can I talk to your aunt I think it is" he asked "Ya sure" I say and they leave, Dalton sits on the bed with me then I laid back so I was more relax and Dalton did the same and kissed my cheek but only on the left only cause the right one was bright red and sore from where I have been hit so many times then my aunt came back in "Ok you are going to be put into surgery in an hour so we are going to go get you something eat" my aunt told me "WHAT NO I DON'T WANT TO HAVE SURGERY!!" I scream "I know its scary but you won't even feel it" my aunt tells me and Dalton hugs me "It's going to be ok" he tells me "I hope so" I say and my aunt leaves to get food