Phantom Eyes

"You left me." his voice wavered as he spoke. "Ethen, it's not what you-"
"It's never what I think! Your late night drinking, the men, your weed," He was shaking now, tears streaming down his face.
"It's not what I think, it's what I know." With those words, his mothers face darkened and her eyes went steely.
"You don't know squat, just like that good for nothing man that left because of you." Her voice had hardened at the end,
and I found myself shaking in fear from my hifing spot. "He ran away from you, not me." Her hand shot out and slapped him. "LIES!"

~At the age of eleven, Mia Renolds witnessed the beating of her best friend, Ethen McClain. She had done nothing to stop it either, and kept the memory completely to herself, not even Ethen knowing what she had witnessed, they had moved a week later anyways, so what was the point?
Now at fifteen, he was back, no sign of his mother. But then what what were the bruises and cuts from, and why did he seem so down?~