The Game of Us

Part 5

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Sinead opened the door of her house and got in like someone had been chasing her. She closed her eyes and let herself slowly sit on the floor with her back on the wall. She felt the tears falling from her eyes, and then rolling on her face.

Since they had moved in the city, everything was just going wrong. Not that her life had been better before. She slowly stood up and made her way up the stairs, she felt her footsteps being heavy, like she was sinking in the wooden steps.

Like she was under a spell, she walked with slow steps at her room, opened the door and fell on her bed with her wet clothes..

She put her head on her pillow and started sobbing hard.

 

“Where is mummy?”

 

“Sinead...I'm really sorry”

Sinead groaned as various thoughts filled her mind and she put her pillow on her head. She couldn't control her tears in her eyes though, something that made her worse.

“You little slut-”

 

“Unless you don't want your first kiss to be the only thing I will take from you."

 

“I hate seeing your face.”

And as the thoughts kept filling her mind, she slowly fell asleep and her face calmed...

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“Sinead!”

Sinead heard someone calling her name from the depth of her dreams and she slowly tried to open her eyes to see who was calling her.

“Sinead..where are you little girl?”

Shit.

Sinead's eyes shot up open as she realized whose voice was it. She jumped out of her bed fast and looked at the clock on the wall.

18.30 WHAT?

Sinead started panicking badly and tried to put the thoughts inside her head in a correct order. Her heart started beating fast as she heard footsteps from the corridor coming to her room.

Wait no-

“So here you are little Sinead” Sinead's room's door opened wide and her father stepped in, holding the door to keep his balance.

Oh no. He's drunk again, Sinead thought and her face paled. She did a step behind. Her father looked at her.

“Where is the lunch?” he said and did a step towards her. Sinead tried to move away from him but he grabbed her arm.

“Sorry I didn't have time to-”

She felt sharp pain on her cheek and her whole body had been thrown to the floor. She felt tears coming in her eyes and she put her hand on her burning like cheek. She felt his father's hand grabbing the collar of her shirt and raising her up. She couldn't control the tears that were falling from her green eyes.

“You ungrateful shit...I give you all these things..house to live and everything you need..and what do you do? You don't cook dinner for your tired father!” Her father's breath smelled like whiskey and made Sinead being unable to breath.

“I'm really sorry dad I didn't have time-”

“I don't care!” her father shouted and punched her on the stomach and let her fall on the floor. She was sobbing and cried in pain while she was trying to protect herself from the monster she called father.

“Pathetic shit” he murmured and kicked her on the arm before storming out of the door and hitting it behind him hard.

Sinead was left there. Helpless, wrapping her hands around her body like she wanted to protect herself, but still sobbing like crazy

Please, she thought and begged, please God...let me go of this hell...