Prologue
“Why didn’t you come home last night?” He asked me with all the anger plastered on his face. I didn’t answer him and tried to go around him. He pulled my arm back and shoved me into the wall.
“I asked you a question?” He said with his voice rising with anger. He was so close to my face you could still smell the alcohol on his breath. I clenched my jaw to keep from answering.
He took his big rough hands and put them on my shoulders and shoved me into the wall even harder. I shrieked out in pain.
“ANSWER ME!!” My eyes were filled with water. I couldn’t bare the pain in my back.
“I-I-I was o-out with Mel-Melanie”. I said through my tears.
He let go of his hands on my shoulders and turned around, his back facing me.
“I’m so-” Before I could even finish my sentence he had already slapped me with his back hand.
He slapped me once more. I couldn’t take it anymore; with all my might I slapped him back. But that was a mistake. Me slapping him made him grow even more angry. With each punch he threw at me, it made me even weaker.
I had to get out of this relationship.