Chapter 5
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work and cought an fher home ||
When discharge day came sommard, Del was MIA. Iured he was just tied tips
The moment I hoped through the front door, Mran launched.
ly broken arm, and the pain
empty soodle bottle straight at me. It smashed against my already
She sat sprnsted on the couch, glaring at for like I was something she’d scraped off her shine. “Why could you just die out there and save everyone the
king back tears, I looked desperately toward the arcliner where dul sat scrolling through his ploose:[]
é this time, he didict leap to my defense, nodo 1 even look up||
his indifference, werd full paychin, the yanked away my crutch and showed me hard. I collapsed onto the hardwood floor, pain shooting through my broken leg
I looked up at her through tears. “Mom
did I ever do in you? Haven’t you headen me mough over the years? Will you only be happy when I’m dead?||
she havked and spot on the floor heatin
next to my face, then raised the cruich like a baseball bat []
Thabuerartly right. I wish you’d never been born! |||
The crutch came down across my back. Apain Again. My serrams bounced off the walls of our MC Masion, Inat no one outside would hear. The neighbors houses were too far away–one of the “perks of living in an upscale sudurch ||
“Dad just sat there, flipping through pages on his addet like he was checking the stock market while I was being murdered ten feet away
tuul I broke and called for him.
“That Piraser Help me?“||
1 experter him to rush over like he always had before. To pull Mom off ane, to stund between us]
“You’ve sport your mother,” he said flatly, not looking up. “The needs to get it out of her system. || His words hit harder than any low. The Fragile thread of hope I’d been clinging to snapped||
No. No way. Had he watched the video after ally
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Yuri promised you wouldn’t! You said you’d help me move outr
After I shouted that last part, I noticed Moar’s hand shake uncontrollally for a second []
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trritated sigh, walked over, and kicked me in the side:||
Cils shoe. All the love, all the warm–une
You deserve everything you’re getting. Your mother might as well finish the job: []
My father—the oor person I thought would never
– was telling my mother to kill me ||
Hedaren the video. He had to have
My sisters Charliea and
walked in from whatever Me
täris convention theyd i
sryd been attending. They glanced at
thuria epes in perfect syr, and walked upstairs to their rovata []
lying there bleeding, rolled
After what felt like forever, Mom finally stopped–not out of mercy, but because she was too tired to continue her little workout routine on my body |
und her waist and guided her upstairs to their ledram like thor di
at the office instead of attempting filicide ||
day a
probably created
me new ones. But nobody gave
no clue what I’d soppersedly done to deserve all
hodiewed out, like someone had somepet sud everything inside use
replaced it with
ker. In this house, even Hai had joined the a
enemy ramp
There was no point to stay longe anyone e
packed what little I could carry
fcarry and planned my midnight escape ||
As I trepi past Dad’s study with my duffle bag. I noticed the glow el a screen through the cracked door.
something pulled me closer []
1 eased the door open another inch and saw my mother staring at her phone, watching that podden vidden again |
1 sinod frozen, finally sering what everyone else had seen -and what I saw would haunt me for the rest of my life.||
I finally knew why my mother wanted me deaden|||
