Breaking point//L.H.

4//

The older luke and Lydia got, the worse their lives became. Luke's father would come stumbling in the house at midnight and the fighting would commence. His explanation would always be that he had too much to handle at home and that luke triggered this.

Luke eventually began cutting. At first rarely, but it began to eat him alive and it seemed as though this was his only solution. He started wearing bracelets on his wrists to cover them.

Lydia's mother had lost her job and ceased to try to get another. She would stay home all day drinking and muttering about how her life was horrible and that her daughter was just a pain. She would throw glass at her and smack her around like a mangled rag doll. Lydia would write poems to keep herself sane. Every insult that was uttered about her, another Poem that would be written.

Neither knew about the others' struggles. Luke would see Lydia and it seemed like safe grounds. She wouldn't stand up to him. She certainly wouldn't tell anyone. So she was the perfect victim.

And this is how it went. Fighting. Screaming. Slurring. Abusing. Bullying. Crying. Writing. Cutting. Until senior year of high school.