"Well I have a lot to be thankful for, and when life gives you 100 reasons to cry, show life you have a 1000 reasons to smile." I said as I smiled. "Ha awesome." "Yea, what about you? Your family I mean."
"Um my mom is a teacher, an her name is Emily. My dad works in the oilfield, his name is Mason. I have a little sister named Emily, who is 15. Plus an older sister who is 25. She got married to Troy, who is 26. And they had my little niece, Abbey." "Aww! Your family sounds amazing. I would love to meet them one day." "Really?" "Of course." "Well I would like to meet your family some day too." I smiled as the waiter bought us our drinks an Jaden said,"To our families." "Our families." I said as we put our glasses together. After we ordered our dinner we talked till it was time to eat. After we ate we had to leave. He drove me home. When we got to my house, he opened the door and walked me up the porch steps. "I had an awesome time tonight." Jaden said. "Yea? Me too and thanks for everything." "No problem." he said as he held my hands. Then he pushed a piece of hair that was in my face and kissed me. As if nothing could ruin the moment, my mom opened the door. "Excuse me!" "Oh sorry!" Jaden said clearly startled. "Thanks for everything." I said as I went inside and my mom shut the door. I went up to my room and a few minutes later I heard footsteps coming up the stairs. Thinking it was my grandparents to come yell at me for running away, it was my mom, with a belt. "You got into a fight?!" "Since when you do care what I do?" "Shut it or it's gonna be a lot worse." "Why are you even here?" "What else?" "To abuse people?" I said as she slapped me, then started hitting me with the belt. As I tried to get up she pushed me back onto the bed on my stomach and gave me 8 licks with the belt. Crying and sore I turned over as she left. After an hour of being in my room I was still sore, so I went and got a shower. As I got out of the shower I looked into the mirror to see if I had any marks anywhere. I found one where she had slapped me before, then one where she had hit me with the belt, and the rest of me was red. With trembling hands I put on some night clothes, sat on my bed, and cried some more. When I heard footsteps coming into my room,thinking it was my mom again, I stated where I was and said,"Please don't hurt me again. Please." When I didn't hear a reply I looked up to see my brothers there. "What are you talking about?" Jamie asked as I looked at Alex and then he punched my wall. "Alex!" I shouted. "What's going on?" With a sigh Alex said sadly, "Our mom is abusing Whitney." "What?!" "You're crazy!" "Am I?!" Alex yelled as he grabbed my hand and bought me over to Jamie. "She slapped her here, which made a little cut! And what else did she do?" "Well a little while ago, she came in with the belt and she started hitting me with it. And she gave me 8 licks with the belt. And she said it was my fault that we were separated from one another." Jamie just stood there as Alex angrily went downstairs with Jamie and I hot on his trail. Then he got in our moms face and shouted,"What IS THE MATTER WITH YOU!?" Then Jamie and I grabbed both his arms before he could try to hit her. Then she smiled and said," Oh Alex you worry too much." then she punched him in the stomach as he landed on his knees with a groan, holding his stomach. "I'm calling the police." Jamie said as he went to grab the phone. "No! Don't you dare!" our mother shouted as she stood in his way and I went to get the phone. After the police came and took her away, we had to explain to mamaw and papaw what happened. "Why didn't you tell us this before?" papaw asked. "I don't know. I guess I thought she wouldn't do it anymore since we only got to see her 2 days, so I just kept to myself until I told Alex what happened." "Well at least you told someone." mamaw said. "So........how did your date go?" Lizzie asked as she came downstairs and seen us all there. "Huh?" I asked. "Your date? With Jaden?" "Oh yea sorry. It was good and he asked to take me out again Saturday." "Ha! OH MY GOSH! Really?" "Yea." "And the day is still young." "Today is Wednesday." "Oh hey are we going to church,tonight?" Lizzie asked mamaw. "Of course we are!" mamaw said. I just sat there. "What's the matter, dear?" mamaw asked.
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"Something Different"
FanfictionThis is a story of how a girl is who is living with her grandma, is somehow found by her two older brothers and is forced to move across the country to live with them. She gets to make new friends, meet her mom,dad, and One Direction.
