Wilted Flowers (New Beginnings) by Sienna Grant

Author:Sienna Grant [Grant, Sienna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wingfield Designs
Published: 2023-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

Dusk is falling as I make my way home, and everything runs over in my mind. The way I told them so easily about my home life, the way Luna, someone I’ve literally just met, made me feel so different to anyone else I’ve ever met. I’ve never connected to another person the way I do her.

We live in the second house along, so as I turn onto my block, I can see our house, but my steps falter at the sound of shouting, a woman screaming so loud it sounds like she’s being murdered or something. My feet begin to move quicker when I realize it’s my mom screaming, I break into a sprint until I reach the door and push down on the handle, barging through it. But I stop dead when I see her in a heap. “Mom?”

“Where the fuck have you been?” Dad roars, stopping me in my tracks. Before I can help her, he’s grabbing me by the shirt and dragging me up until his face is in mine. His whisky smelling breath stings my nose, and I turn my face away, swallowing and gritting my teeth as hard as I can to try to be brave. “I asked you a fucking question!”

“Nothing to do with you.” I fire back, so much hate staring back at the man that helped to put me on this earth. I don’t want to be weak against him, I want to be strong. Why can’t I just stand up to him, that’s what you have to do with bullies, right? If you stand up to them, they back down. My back slams against the wall and my breath leaves my body in a sharp gasp. As he releases me, I slide down the wall and drop to the ground with a thud, urging my lungs to work. As the breath begins to filter through my organs, I scramble onto my knees, hoping to get to Mom before he can stop me, but his fingers wrap around my foot and he tugs hard, yanking me back. My palms plant to the carpet, hoping to get something to grip to but it’s useless. He flips me over. My teeth grit as I wait for the impact of the first punch coming towards me, and I take it. My face feels like it’s about to cave in on itself, my eye feeling like it’s going pop, and with my eyes shut tightly, I don’t see the one after.

“Where the fuck have you been.” He shouts, thinking I’m going to tell him now. “Tell me or I’m going to beat you so fucking bad, you’ll be drinking through a straw.” He screams in my face.

My eyes open, and I look directly into his, seeing the hatred that simmers there, then I think fuck him, and say it slowly. “I hid at the biker yard.”

He rears back slightly then narrows his eyes. “You think those pussies can protect you?” I don’t answer, I can’t because as much as they said to tell them, I don’t know if they will.

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