Teach me to love

14

Amy's pov

"Thank you for cleaning me up last night." I said as I woke up in Mark's arms.

"There is no thanks needed." He kissed the top of my head.

"Can we just lay around all day and do nothing. My tummy hurts."

"Of course, but you do need to eat, I can order some room service."

"I hope that meanie head doesn't touch it."

"If she does, I will get her fired."

"Can you get her fired for calling me that horrible name?" I looked up at him.

"I am shocked that she is not fired yet." He played with my hair.

"I don't understand how she is not, she is so rude!"

"Lets not worry about her, we have this whole trip to lay in each other's arms and do whatever we want."

I snuggled into him as he lifted the blanket over me .

"Get some sleep my sweet angel, I am here for you." He kissed the top of my head.

When I woke up the room smelt like bacon, eggs, and french toast.

"Food is ready when you want it." Mark said quietly.

"Thank you." I rubbed my eyes as I sat up.

"Eat up honey."

He helped me up and we walked over to the huge dining area, he helped me in my seat then filled my plate up with food.

We sat there and ate as I was still looking around at everything.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Yeah, I am just taking this all in. This place is huge! This hotel room has to be bigger than my mom's house."

"I don't think it is that big but it is pretty huge." He laughed.

"Well, from what I came from this place is the shit." I laughed.

"Well, you will never ever have to go back to that place. I promise. I don't care what I have to do but you will never be with your mother again."

"Thank you."

"How did you survive?" His voice was low.

"Blocked out her horrible words as much as I could, I took her beatings. I didn't try to fight back. That is what she wanted. And I snuck food. But I had to be careful how I snuck food, sometimes she would force me to throw up too see if I ate something without her knowing."

"How did she force you?"

"Pinned me to the ground then stuck her finger down my throat." I said as I played with a slice of bacon.

"Amy, that is horrible! How could she do that?"

"She is an evil bitch who doesn't care about her own daughter's well being." I shrugged.

"You will never have to deal with her bull shit again. I will make sure that she is far away from you."

"Silly." I laughed. "You are! Look at everything you have done for me. You helped me get away from her, you fed me and gave me a roof over my head. With clean clothes! You helped me get into school, and you are teaching me how to love myself. Mark, you saved my life! I wanted to kill myslef, I didn't know how to get away from her. She tore me down so far that I didn't think I could do anything right. That no matter what I did I was always in the wrong and that I would never be able to do anything in this world. Now look at me, Thanks to you, I am able to tell my mother to fuck off and I can shine. You helped me do all of this."