As I walked into the house fear moved over me, like a blanket of dread. I slowly moved over to hang up my coat as I heard a click. The cock of a gun. The lights turned on and I was blinded for a few seconds. As I tried to cover my eyes from the blazing light I could faintly see someone sitting in an armchair in the den, watching me, and pointing something at me. It was my worst fear, my father.
"I... I..." I didn't know whether or not I should lie or not. Which one whould get me in more trouble?
"Tell me what you were doing with that boy!" He cocked his gun again, at this point I just wanted to start crying and pleading for my life so he would just leave me alone, like I always do, it's not like he hasn't threatened my life before.
"Please," I pleaded trying to hold back the tears, because I knew that if he saw me cry I would never live it down.
He slowly turned away to go back to his chair, "All right! just go! Fuck, I can't put up with this shit..."
I slowly walked up the stairs, flopped down on my big comfy bed and let the tears fall. The tears that I wanted to cry all day, but couldn't.
I laid there for a long time, thinking of what it would be like to die, if anyone would care. If someone would save me from myself.
"Arg, who is it?" I replied. Nickey gave me a stern look and put the phone in my out stretched hand. I wasn’t expecting to hear the person that was on the other end.
"Hey Sara, it's Chloe..." Great I thought to myself, what does she want now. Chloe was my old best friend, we stopped being being friends about a week ago and I hadn't had the strength to try and fix things. "I just heard that they're having a live band at the bar on friday night. Billy's band might be there, they might be in the line up, they get the call tomorrow."
"Well it doesn't matter," I wanted to say something else but I couldn't think of anything else to say, "I dunno."
"So, um, do you think you want to go with me then? Even if Billy's not there it can give us a chance to talk, you know, and try and work things out..."
"Yah sure I guess, I don't really have anything else planned, except one thing..." I prayed that she didn't catch on to what that other thing was.
"Yah sure, it doesn't really matter to me, but I should go before the parents get after me, so bye."