"She hides the bruises with the linen and lace"
Xander DeWitt has a knack for solving mysteries and gets his biggest case yet when his dad goes missing. After his mom sends him to live with his grandfather in Bixler Valley, he finds a surprising lea...
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A small girl with dirty blonde hair placed her cereal bowl in the sink and walked away, but was stopped by a tall man with a cigarette sticking out of his mouth.
"Did you clean that?" He asked her and the girl stared up at him with fear in her fragile blue eyes.
Her name was Rosemary and she lives with her abusive father in Bixler Valley.
Her father, Ethan, bent down to her level and she leaned back, feeling her body begin to shake in fear.
"I said, did you clean that?" He repeated and she shook her head.
"No..." She croaked out with her lip quivering, "I have to get to school."
"So, you're gonna leave all the dirty work to me then, huh?" He asked her and Rosemary didn't know how to respond to him.
He shoved pushed his daughter and picked up the cereal bowl from the sink and Rosemary held her arms close to her body.
"You're such a disgrace," Ethan snarled at her, before he threw the bowl at her. She yelled and ducked, causing the bowl to shatter against the wall and she held her head in her hands.
"I'm sorry," she apologized in a frail voice and lifted her head up.
"You should be sorry," he remarked and kicked her side, causing her to fall down and groaned. "Your mother would still be here if it wasn't for you."
Ethan walked passed her daughter and out of the kitchen.
"Now, get to school, you piece of crap," he yelled and Rosemary groaned, stumbling to her feet. She held her side and had tears pouring down her face.
She lifted up her shirt and checked her side to see a bruise already forming. Rosemary had already lost track of the number of bruises her father caused to her.
Her arms, legs, stomach, thighs, were all covered in bruises and scars from her father. From hitting and kicking all the way to burning Rosemary with a steam iron. That's when her father's in a bad mood and insists on taking out his anger on his daughter.
Rosemary is a broken and fragile girl with absolutely zero hope left in her. Her mother died ten years ago to Leukemia and her father hasn't recovered from her death. It's been ten years since Rosemary has had her mother and since she's been happy. She did nothing wrong, her father just believes that Rosemary caused his wife's death so he could have a reason to hit her and abuse her.
Rosemary didn't ask to be born, sometimes she wishes she was never born. If she was never born, she wouldn't be here and she wouldn't have to deal with her father's abuse.
All hope is lost and so is Rosemary
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Rosemary made her way into the school and dodged all of the people she passed by. She made her way to her locker and got her science book out for her first class of the day. Unlike all the other kids, Rosemary doesn't mind school because she's away from her father. Rosemary has one friend in this school and it's Kenzie Messina, the investigation reporter, she's the only one who knows Rosemary's full story and that her father abuses her.
