Hoodie [Alejandro Rosario]

Chapter 37

It was halfway through summer. Christi and her mom's relationship hasn't been doing very good. Throughout summer, it was just yelling and fighting. Her daily routine was just wake up, fight, eat, fight, FaceTime her friends, fight, staying up, and more fighting.

Christi thought about running away, so many times.. but she couldn't. She doesn't have the gut to. She didn't know if it was the best decision, or if it would be the worst decision she has ever made.

Summer is meant to be spent having the time of your lives. But for Christi, it was honestly hell. Her mom has became more abusive, more and more often. She had developed bruises all over her body. Her thighs, stomach, neck, back, arms. She was in pain. She never thought of showing Alejandro and Kairi. They knew her mom hit her, but they didn't know how bad the bruises would get.

She was gonna see her friends once again next week. So Christi had one more week of dealing with her mom, they technically, a 'week off', then she'll have to return home once again. Christi hasn't told her mom about this plan yet. She never had the energy to, nor correct timing. They're always in fights. She couldn't somehow bring it up to her.

Christi woke up and her mom was sitting on the living room couch, awake, a bottle of alcohol in her hand once again. Christi then tried to bring up the question. Hoping her mom would agree.

"Hey.. mom.." Christi said fidgeting her fingers as she stood at the foot of the stairs.
"Yes..?" Her mom groaned looking at Christi.

"My friends, from New Jersey.. they're visiting here in San Diego.. and Ariel-"
"No." Her mom cut her off.
"I didn't even finish-"
"Christi. After these past few weeks, you expect me to allow you to go out?" Her mom cut her off once again.

"But mom, they're my friends, and they are flying all the way from Jersey-"
"No means no. Either go to you room, or we talk about another topic." Her mom cut her off again.

"Mother fucker.." Christi mumbled to herself.
"What did you say?" Her mom asked standing up, looking at Christi.

"Nothing.." Christi lied as she whimpered, she remained silent.
"I know you said something, what was it?" Her mom asked, raising her voice.
"I said nothing!" Christi yelled back, her mom then immediately punching her across the face, having Christi hold her face in the spot her mom hit her.

"What did you said?!" Her mom yelled, asking again, it was then clear to Christi, she was obviously drunk, already.
"I said nothing mom! Nothing means nothing!!" Christi yelled back.

"Christi.." Her mom paused.
"What?" Christi responded.
"What did you say?" Her mom asked once again,
"Why does it matter anyways? I said nothing!!" Christi yelled back again. Her mom then threw another punch, this time, to her stomach, making Christi immediately sick to her stomach, she held her stomach as she stepped away from her mom.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Christi cried as she ran upstairs.
"I should be asking you the same damn question!" Her mom yelled. Christi didn't respond. When she entered her room, Kairi was FaceTiming her. It was just Kairi. She picked up.

"Hey.. Kai.." Christi gagged, she was breathing heavily and felt like she could throw up any minute now.
"Hey- Christi.. are you okay?" Kairi asked concerned for the girl, he then saw that her nose was bleeding a little blood.

"Your nose is bleeding.." Kairi mentioned, Christi then ran immediately to her bathroom, noticing her nose was bleeding.

"Fuck. Fuck. Fuck." Christi rapidly said as she immediately grabbed some toilet paper near by and started to try and clean up the blood. She gagged a few times until she ended up throwing up. She lift up the toilet seat and threw up.