She Is Broken

She opened her eyes and looked at her clock. It was two- thirty in the morning. She knew that it was the perfect time to sneak out. Her dad was asleep and so was her mom. She packed all of her clothes in a bag and got everything she needed. She quietly walked to the front door and unlocked it. She opened the door and walked out. She headed to the place she had been wanting to go all day. Her boyfriends house. She knew that her parents didn't like him so she had to sneak out to see him. She was sixteen and had been dating him for two years. She thought that he was the man she was going to be with for the rest of her life. She had to run away so that she could be with him. "Two more years until I can live with him legally. I just want to be with him." she thought. After one year of living with him she woke up one day to the sound of him yelling at him. She got up and he told her to make him food. When she told him no he slapped her and started punching her in the stomach. She was so afraid. She didn't even want to look at him.

A FEW DAYS LATER

She was sitting alone in her living room. "I'm sorry I won't hit you again" her boyfriend said as he was walking in. She did believe him. She thought that he would never touch her again. She thought that she was going to live with him forever.

She was sitting on the couch. She had not completed her daily task of doing the dishes and cooking dinner when he walked in. She realized what she had not done. He asked where the food was when she responded with a "no" he punched him like he had done the first time. She was shocked. She truly believed that he wouldn't hit her again. For the littlest things he would hit her. She had to wear very much makeup so that no one would question the big bruise on her eye or on her neck. She was so scared to leave him because she knew he would hurt her like never before.