"Luck" why me...

The next morning I get up, take a shower, put

my casual wear on and leave the house for

school. I walk halfway until I realize I was

missing something. "Oh yeah. My glasses." I

turn back and go for my glasses in my room.

As I am about to go back out, I bump into Dad.

"M-Morning Dad."

"What time should you be here?"

"Um 4:30."

"Not a minute..?"

"After."

"Good. Now get the **** out of here."

I put my glasses on and walk straight to

school. I reach about 8AM and class starts

that same time so I run to class. I sit down and

Veronica and Haley was paying full attention

to what the teacher's saying and I listen to the

teacher.

Lunch time me Veronica and Haley get our

lunch and sit at a bench.

"Ashley?" Veronica call.

"Yeah?"

"What happened to your cheek?"

"What do you mean?"

"It's swollen red."

Haley take a pic of it and show me.

"Oh my God," I say covering it.

"What happened?"

"N-Nothing..."

"It almost looks like a handprint."

I look away.

"Was it your-"

"No it's not-"

"Yes it is. Would Brad slap you like that? And I

know your mother wouldn't do such a thing."

"Don't tell Brad about this..."

"Why-"

"You just can't...

"Ashley, Brad can fix this problem-"

"I don't want him to. It's going to end up bad."

"I understand how you feel but we all know

you live pretty far so you can't reach home by

4:30 you know that."

"I can't tell him that-"

"You must Ashley-"

"He smack me cross the face, don't you think

he'd do it again?!"

"Haley, we have to talk to him."

"HOW will that change anything?!"

"Ashley we have to do something. We're your

friends and we can't just sit here knowing you

have a crack head dad who expects you to

speedy home and reach 4:30 when you can't.

We're talking to him and that's that."

"Please don't.."

"We're doing this because we care Ashley."

I get up and walk away. They call me but I

didn't answer nor look back. I get outside

of school until a boy push me down and my

glasses fall off.

"Hey, watch where you're going nerd."

I get up but he push me back down and

pick my pocket. He take my money out of

my pocket and walk away from me. I yell

Brad's name and mysteriously he came out of

nowhere and come to me.

"Ashley what happened? Who slapped you?"

"it's that boy over there, he slapped me to

the floor and took my money," I lied (because I

had to)

Brad gets up and charges after the boy. Brad

then grab him, take the money back, give him

couple hard punches and throw him through

a house window. He runs back to me, puts my

glasses back on me, helped me up and puts

the money back in my pocket.

"Next time be careful okay?"

"Alright, thank you Brad."

"Anything for you baby."

He kiss my lips and walks off to where he

came from.

Wow, lucky me. Now Brad knows that boy was

the one who caused the red mark on my face,

he won't think it's one of my parents. He can't

know about my dad.

Time pass school has dismissed and I hurried

home. When I reach inside, my dad was

already at the entrance and he hold on to my

collar.

"Fucking nerd! You're ten minutes late! What

was the fucking time I told you to come

here?!"

"I-I tried Dad I really tried-"

"Shut the **** up!" he yell throwing me to

the table and I tumble over everything. He

walk up to me and grab my hair roughly. "You

ruined the table you-"

"Larry! Stop! Stop hurting her!"

He throw me to the ground and slap Mom.

He then storm up to his room and I get up to

Mom. She hug me and cry on my shoulder.

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