Nights Like This

Chapter 1

 Life hasn't exactly been a fairytale for my sister and I, from living in several different foster homes, To sleeping on park benches we've had our fair share of obstacles. Our story began in St.Louis, July of 1998 is when we were born my mother gave birth to twin daughters who she named Ariana and Lashay. Our mother was killed  shortly after our fifth birthday and we then went to go live with my grandmother, Sounds good right? well my happiness was short lived. When I turned 12 my grandmother suddenly passed away, one day she was here the gone then next and at that point me and my sister realized we were all we had in this world and we'd do whatever we had to do to stay together. We were bounced around to different homes after they didn't work out for whatever reason and the one home that will be forever burned in my memory is the last one. After our 14 birthday we were place in the home of Charlotte and Dan Weber, The Weber's seemed like the typical american family at first Charlotte Weber worked as RN and Dan was a architect,They had no kids and They even had the nicest house on the street it was a red brick 3 story home with a white fence. When we moved in I remember shay and I being so happy when we saw our new room, The walls were painted pink with the exception of one purple accent wall, We had bunk beds with proud family themed comforters and pillows. I didn't notice anything strange until spring break. We had just finished a movie as a "family" my sister and charlotte had gone to bed already, once the credits came on I rose off the couch to go to bed and suddenly I felt Dan tug on my nightgown pulling me back down on the couch 

"where are you going?" he asked me "to bed, shay is probably wondering where I am" I responded nervously. Dan reached out and caressed my mocha colored skin then slowly made his way down to my thighs, at this point I got scared I attempted again to get up from the couch 

"I've noticed you watching me since y'all got here, you not gonna keep teasing me and pretending you don't know what I want"  he said as he pinned me to the couch and kissed my neck 

"please stop" i begged as he unzipped his pants and ripped off my underwear. The pain i felt when he entered me was unlike anything i had ever felt before all as he moaned in pleasure I cried in despair. When it was over I limped back to the room I shared with my sister, I did my best to clean myself up without waking my sister pulling off my bloody night gown holding back my tears 

"Ari what the fuck happened to you" my sister screamed at me  "who did this to you" shay demanded but I did not respond, instead I put on my pink suede jumpsuit and packed a bag

"where are you going?" my sister questioned "we cant stay here shay, We've been to five foster homes now each one worse than the last please trust me we have to leave" I pleaded 

"We promised mommy we'd never split up so okay then , i'm coming with you"  my sister agreed as she pulled on her matching purple baby phat jumpsuit. We packed our bags, ran and never looked back from that day forward I promised myself and my sister that I'd never let another man hurt us it would be me and my sister until the very end.