She Always Knew(Oliver Sykes)

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"and in the end I wish I had never walked into Stocksbridge High School, then i would'nt be stuck in this faceless memory of him. I would still be living a normal life if my parents never split and didn't make me go there and see the one person who literally changed my life"

The yelling never stopped, neither did the hitting. I couldn't take the torture anymore, or my mother. My dad grabbed me by my arm and we got in his car and never looked back.

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"Dad?" His face seemed concentrated and strained, the veins were popping out of his forehead. They reminded me of railroad tracks, I could run my finger across them and maybe trace a design or two.

"What," he said not really wanting to talk.

"Never mind," I didn't want to bother him. I wouldn't be able to understand what he was going through and if I was him I wouldn't want some 17 year old bothering him. Yeah, 17 years they have done fine until about a year ago when my dad stopped coming home at night. We all figured out that he was having an affair with the girl named Kate, she was a slutty blonde girl but they 'talked it out' and decided that they were going to have family meetings every week and my little brother and I had to join to. They said that it would benefit to talk out what was going on in our lives but in all reality it made things worse.

It has been about an hour since we have been driving and I don't know if we are driving in circles or if we are actually going somewhere. His face didn't look like it was going to explode anymore so I tried to give it another shot to talk to him.

"Could you maybe um give me an idea where we are going"

"Jesse's," he said quickly. Jesse was an old friend he had met in high school. My dad lived in Sheffield for 23 years and then moved to London where he met my mum. Sometimes I wish he never moved, i believe he would have been much happier if he didn't. He was absolutely miserable when he married my mum, he stopped everything he loved to do including writing which had a huge part in his life.

"Okay, um what are going to do about Ben," I asked him. His eyes widened to the size of Jupiter and pulled over to the side of road, slammed on his brakes, and put his hands on his head.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING EARLIER," he screamed at me. I was such in shock that we had forgotten my little brother. I guess he was just so mad that he grabbed the closest thing to him which was me. My brother never left his room when the fought and most of the time he would hide under his bed when dad started to get aggressive and hit mum.

"Me!? So this is my fault?!" I snapped. He sighed heavily and paced back and fourth on the quiet road we were on. It was almost 2 in the morning by now and I'm sitting in grass tracing patterns on my thigh as my dad is still pacing the street yelling at himself, saying stuff like, "I'M NEVER GOING TO GET MY SON BACK" and "HE IS STUCK WITH BITCH I WANT MY SON." When all i had on my mind and that I am not ever going to ever have mom again, knowing my dad he would never take me back to her ever again even if i wanted to, or threatened him with his life to take me back. He never would.

My dad was in no condition to drive so I took his keys and started towards Sheffield. I had no idea where Jessie's was but I figured he could tell me which way to turn when he calmed down, we have a while until we even get into Manchester I will stop and switch spots with him. Not even 5 minutes on the road and he has fallen asleep. I honestly don't know what I am going to do about my brother. He relied on me in every way, he could not live without me, not even for a second and once I find a pay phone in Manchester I am going to call home no matter what my dad says and I am going to get my brother back weather we are at home in London or if we are with Jesse.

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The roads are getting busier and I glance over at the clock to see that it is now 4 in morning. I wonder what people are doing up this early, god forbid they are going to work because I would literally kill myself if i had to get up that early to go do something I didn't want to do. I nudge my dad to wake him up and let him know that we are in Manchester.

"Hey, dad. Dad, get up we are in Manchester now and we need to switch because I don't know how to get to Jessie's from her let alone Sheffield," he lets out a groan. I pulled over to switch with him, I pause for a minute to look up at the sky, it was full moon. Figures. I take another glance to look at all the stars and notice how bright they are shining. They are blinking and some are really bright and others are dull, just like people, i guess. I shook it off and got in the car, i am letting everything that's happening get to me and right now I can't do that. I started to feel myself pull into a sleep.

"Honey come downstairs! Look who came!" My mother yelled. I came running down the old wooden steps to see my mum smiling from ear to ear next to the Christmas tree. She was holding a big red box. "Open this one first," I smiled up at her. I unwrapped like a maniac with the biggest smile on my face. It was the doll iv'e been asking for since I ever learned to talk. I screamed in excitement waking up Ben in my mothers arms at the time.

"Oh, don't worry little man iv'e got something for you too," she said bouncing him slightly back and fourth. She unwrapped his little gift while I was still in awe over my little doll, she was talking to him in this ridiculous baby voice I always hated. She took out this little plastic key ring for him to chew on like a dog. He giggled a little as she shook over his head, then handing it to him as he shook it a bit and then automatically put it in his mouth.

My dad then walked in with his coffee in his hand grinning as well as i opened the rest of my presents and my mom opened up Ben's presents for him. He wasn't even paying attention to what was going on except for the little plastic key ring he still had in his mouth. Then everything started to fade out and I was screaming no, grabbing my mothers hand dropping everything and she tried pulling me back but then I was in my dads car again.

"Evelyn love, love wake up," My dad was shaking me. The car was not moving so I guess we arrived at Jessie's house. I was more nervous than ever and I looked like a wreck but I could care less. All I could care about is my brother right now and I had to get to a phone as soon as possible. I ran inside through everyone that was there and asking where the phone was. A women who was tall and blonde pointed toward a the kitchen and there it was on the wall. There were so many people here, a lot of them passed out but there was still a lot of them. I quickly picked up the phone and dialed our phone and heard a weak voice on the other end.

"Hello?" someone asked.

"Mum? Ben?" I asked.

"This is Andrew your mums friend. She went out and Ben is still hiding under his bed and I can't get him out," he said.

"Give him the phone, he will know who this is and will get out from under the bed so do me a favour and let me talk to him," I demanded. I heard a lot of crackling and noises but it finally got silent until a high pitched voice spoke.

"Eve?" He asked.

"Yes, Ben it's me. I am with dad don't worry about me. We are with one of his old friends in Sheffield and if you don't know where that is, it is near Manchester," I explained. I heard a little bit of a gasp.

"What?! You're crazy how could you guys leave me!" he cried.

"I didn't want to! Dad just dragged me out! I would much rather be there right now but there is no way in hell dad would let me go back there. We will find out a way to get you out here or me go back to mums but don't worry everything will be okay," I said. He was still 10 so I had to stay calm so he would too because whenever i lost it, so did he because if I was freaking out there was defiantly something wrong.

"Okay," I heard a sniff and the voice was weak. I felt bad, really bad but I had to stay calm. I will get back to my brother one way or another, and I will fight.