EJ POV-
I shot up from my bed drenched in sweat from having a bad dream about my mom and dad, as usual. "This was the second one a had tonight"I have dreams about what life would be like if the three of us were together and happy but then they end up turning into nightmares and I always wake up sweating and sometimes even crying.
My dad was a firefighter and he was the biggest role model in my life. I wanted to be just like him. When he wasn't at work we would always play superheroes and pirates together, he even taught me how to play guitar. During those times mom was also really happy, never took her smile off her face. She owned a restaurant that was me and dad's favorite, we also got free food all the time. We were such a happy family, but then, my dad died in a huge fire when I was 6 and it really broke our hearts.
Mom was so stressed that she couldn't take care of the restaurant and it went out of business. This really made mom upset, so upset that she started doing drugs and took the anger out by using me as a punching bag. I would always go school with new bruises everywhere. My teacher would ask me how I got them and I would always say it was from baseball practice and they actually bought it.
I could've told my teacher, my aunt Debby or my Uncle Dennis, who I was very close with, but mom would tell me that bad people would come and take me and keep me in a sell forever which I believed, so I kept my mouth shut and it went on for two years. One night mom dropped me off at my uncle and aunts house to have a sleepover with my cousin Ashlyn. She was not only my cousin but my best friend and I could tell her anything. We both went up to her room and as soon as I put my bags down she tackled me with hugs. I hugged her back and tried to hold back my winces but I couldn't. She stepped back and asked me what was wrong but I just kept my head down and played with my fingers. When I didn't say anything for a while she asked me if I was hurt and I just started crying and told her everything. She asked if she could see the bruises so I took off my shirt and showed her. The sight of that put her in tears as well and she called for her mom and dad. When Aunt Debby walked in she gasped and held her hand up to her mouth with tears about to run down her face. Uncle Dennis walked in right after with wide eyes at the sight of the bruises on my body. After everyone stopped crying I told them what happened and the next thing I knew my mom went to jail and I was living with Aunt Debby, Uncle Dennis and Ashlyn.
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