My story

-Dream-
"Please don't take my dad to jail! Anna doesn't doesn't know where I live and I just got my daddy to pick me up in a long time!" I pleaded to the police.

Daddy and Anna have been fighting for a few hours again. Only this time it was worse. I started to get scared whenAnna told her oldest kid to call the cops. Daddy had started to throw things. I tried to tell him to calm down and think about the things he was doing, but I'm a kid, who would listen to a kid?

"We're not going to take your dad to jail we're just going to remove him from the house. Do you have anybody you can call to come pick you up?" The woman asked me.

"I want my mommy!" I screamed. I am so scared. The only other time I was involved with the cops was when they arrested one of my family members for stealing a car.

"I know sweetie. I'm trying To get your mothers number now but your dad won't tell us." The lady told me.

Wait, why would daddy not want to call mommy to come pick me up?

"I need to talk to daddy alone please. It's important really, really important!," I told the lady. I need to understand what's going on in his mind.

"I don't think that's such a good idea sweetie. Your dad isn't thinking straight right now."

"I need to! Please, pretty, pretty please?" I begged the woman to let me talk to daddy. If I didn't find out what he was trying to do then I might slip and say or do something he won't like. I don't want that to happen because he might just end up leaving me completely.

"Ok sweetie hold on let me go get him." She went inside the house. When she came back out she had an angry daddy with her.

"What do you want Alexis?" Oh boy daddy is really mad!

"I need to talk to you alone daddy." I told him pleading with my eyes for him to tell the lady to leave.

"Can you please leave us? I'm not going to hurt her if that's what you're worried about." He said with anger in his voice. She left us to go inside to get Anna's side of the story.

"What do you want Alexis? I'm not in the mood to talk to you. You're not helping the situation. You always cause so much trouble. You're only five and you cause so much shit in my already fucked up life." He said everything with pure rage. By now I was crying.

"I just wanted to know what you want me to say to the people. Do you want me to tell mommy? Do you want me to keep it all a secret?" Im trying to seem as calm as possible.

"You are going to keep all of this a secret. You will tell nobody. You will promise, 'cause of you don't I will never come see you or pick you up ever again. I will be gone forever I promise." Daddy said.

"Ok I promise not to tell anyone." I was trying so hard to keep my tears in and not cry. My uncle was more of a daddy than daddy was. Uncle Tony always told me not to cry in front of people. He said that it showed weakness and if you show weakness people will take advantage of it and hurt you even more. I still don't understand what he ment by that but I try to never cry.

"Good now wait here I called Cheeky. He's comin' to pick us up." Then he left to get some stuff from the house.

Now I was feeling a lot better. Cheeky was my favorite cousin. He was like a big brother to me. Whenever daddy would pick me up I would ask him to drop me off with Cheeky. Daddy never stayed with me. He would either take me to a strangers house and leave me there alone or take me to Cheeky.

"Alexis!! How are you baby?" Cheeky said behind me. I squealed, he scared me.

"Hi Cheeky! You scared me!" I ran up to him and hugged his leg. I was too small to reach anything else.

"Sorry baby I didn't mean to. So what's goin on here? Why are the cops here?" He asked, picking me up and bringing me to the car and setting me on the hood.

Daddy and Anna got into a fight and one of the kids called the cops. I'm scared Cheeky. What if they take him to jail? You're the only one who knows where I live." I started to get worked up again.

"Don't worry about it. It's all gonna be fine. I got you. You know that if you ever need anything all you gotta do is talk to me."

"Thanks Cheeky. I love you." I said hugging him.

Daddy came out then and told Cheeky to take us to his house. When we got there Cheekies sister Myra was there. I haven't seen Myra in a long time so it was nice.

"Come on Alexis.. We're gonna go to a store." Daddy said taking my hand pulling me to the door.

"Why are we going to the store daddy?" I asked wondering if he was going to leabpve me at another persons house.

"Don't worry about it." I didn't say anything because when daddy says don't worry about it, it really means to shut up and leave him alone. I learned that the hard way.

We got to the store. It was orange. "What does that say Cheeky?" I asked.

"It's Home Depot baby." Was all he said after grabbing my hand.

"Cheeky?" I asked. "Why are we here?"

"I don't know baby. Your pops wanted to come here."

"Alexis look for a steak knife." Daddy said.

When we found one daddy paid for it. After we paid for it he told Cheeky to take us to Anna's house. I knew going there would be bad. But I didn't say anything because I thought he would be even more mad again. We drove up to the front of Anna's house.

"I'll be back" daddy said.

"Can I come with please daddy?" I asked.

"Sure but don't say anything." He turned around and started to go down the gangway.

He knocked in the door. No answer. He knocked again. "Who is it!?" Anna asked.

"Open the door Anna!" Daddy shouted.

I started to get really worried when he brought the knife out.

"Daddy?" I asked. He cut both wrists. I started screaming. Daddy had blood streaming down his arms.

-end of dream-

"DADDY!!" I scream awake.

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Hey I know it's bad. I just want to try to write a story. If you have anything to say then go ahead say it. Should I keep writing? Do you have any ideas on who the characters should be?

Thanks for sticking it out so far!!
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