broken silence

chapter 5

I awoke to a knock on my door then my mom walked in. when she saw my face was still puffy from crying she said "sam whats wrong did you have another fight with parker, what did you do this time?" she was never concerned about me but concerned about what I did to parker. I tried to get up when a pain shot through my side. It was bruised pretty badly. "nothing we just had a fight everything is fine" I replied holding back tears. She didn't even miss a beat. "don't worry honey im sure he will forgive you, breakfast is on the table I have to go to work see you tonight" and with that she left.

I don't know what I had excpected her to do. she couldn't help me, no one could. The phone rang. "hello?" "hey babe, im sorry about last night. You know I don't like hurting you like that. Spring break is tomorrow, we should go away just me and you. And obviously you cant talk to chris ever again. I don't know what would happen to him if you did." I knew exactly what could happen to him if I did. "yeah sounds great. You don't have to worry about chris, I love you." He sighed with relief, "great! I gotta get to class then work after school then im all yours for the week bye babe." I waited till he hung up before I put the phone back on the receiver. A whole week alone with parker was something i wouldn't be able to get through. I had to get out of here before he could get here.

 I grabbed a bag and started packing. My head was throbbing . grabbing a bottle of Tylenol I took three. I wrote a note mostly for billy then got my keys. As I opened the door I jumped. Chris stood there his hand hanging like he was about to knock. "you weren't at school. Everything ok?" he eyed my bag. "yeah the washer broke I was just going to do some laundry." I lied. "looks heavy ill take it to the car for you." Before I could refuse he took the back from my shoulder making it pump into my side. I let out a groan, my side throbbing a searing pain. "I knew it youre not ok what happened let me see?" He asked looking concerned. Slowly I lifted my shirt reveling a purplish blue bruise covering most of my side. "dammit" he cursed, "he came last night after I left didn't he?" "yes, he saw us got mad you know the usual." I tried to act like it wasn't that bad. "you can't keep doing this Sam one day hes going to hurt you so bad you wont be able to heal from it or worse he could kill you." He had no idea. "I know that's why im leaving right now" I sighed. "im not doing laundry, im leaving town." He didn't hesitate. "im coming with you, or rather you can come with me, im going to me grandparents, my grandpa isn't doing so good again. I just stopped by on my way there to check on you. They'd love to see you" I had no idea where I was going to go I didn't really have a plan. "ok lets do it." I replied.