STAY WITH ME

Chapter 1

Jeff's

"Where is Shalom?",my mum ask immediately she enters the house

"Resting", I answer, my eyes glued to the TV.

"Resting? By this time? Where is she?",my mum furiously ask.

I look at my mum and I can see the anger in her eyes and I wondered why she will be so angry. She has that serious look, so different from her bland and slightly melancholy look. Her blue eyes filled with rage and anger, her light skin has turned red and I feared for Shal. She drops her bag on the center table and looks at me with irk. She is wearing a t-shirt on a black trousers making her look slender. Her blonde hair is tied into a bun.

"She-",Jack interrupts,"Mum don't mind Jeffrey,you know he will always cover up for her. She has been sleeping since you left. I tried to put her to order but Jeff keeps interfering making her take my words for granted. She is still sleeping by now I think"

I stared at my twin brother so hard that I felt him shiver. He knows if my mum wasn't here,we would have fought about this. I look into his brown eyes and wondered why he can be so mean to his only sister. He looks away and crossed his legs as he sit beside me. She takes one last look at me before she stumps off to Shalom's room.

She drags Shal by the hair and push her to the ground. I and my twin brothers stands up as I breath heavily, waiting for the worst. She picks up our wooden table and threw it on Shal who is barely 14 and she yelp in pain as tears rolls down her cheeks.

I am too shock for words,is this how she has been abused all this years. I don't know my mum to be violent in nature and worst to her only daughter. Shal begs and cries for help, pleading with my mum to have mercy. I take two steps forward to save my sister before my brothers hold my hand to make sure I don't run to her rescue. I stand and watch as Shal cries, I shout and plead to my mum to stop but my plea falls on deaf ears. I hit Jack with my elbow and use my leg to hit Jo and I break free from their grip. I run to Shal and bent over her, using myself as a shield to protect her.

My mum loosen her belt and begins to hit me, she cares less about my presence. She let her anger cloud her sense of reasoning. She keeps hitting the belt on me as I yelp in pain indirectly telling me to leave but I couldn't. How can I watch my sister get beaten without running to her rescue? I rather get beaten up than watch my only sister get beaten to death.

I am in pain. She used all sought of things on me name it, belt, heels, slippers, etc. The woman who hit me,I don't recognize her, she is not the woman I have known for 18 years. With each strike I lost respect for her, with each strike I miss my dad, with each strike she felt like a stranger, with each strike I tried my best not to hate her. As much as I fail to admit it, she has changed.