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My hair felt like they'll be torn apart from my body.

Tears filled in my eyes and my visioned blurred. I begged her to stop but she didn't listen. My ears hurt from her screaming. and my heart wouldn't stop racing.

I looked up in pain and cried out loud because I was terrified of the anger she had in her eyes and voice.

Tanya was pulling my hair and dragging me across the house roaring"Because of you my boyfriend broke up with me. My 3 years of relationship is over because of you. You bitch! You should be thrown in a brothel and be raped by men every single day!"

Sadly, she was my cousin.

She held me up against the wall and grabbed me by the neck. Making me choke. I cried in pain as I couldn't breathe. She was stronger than me.

Melissa came behind her and in a calm voice, she asked: "What are you doing, Tanya?" She spoke like that seeing her daughter choking me meant nothing. Tanya looked back at her mother, letting me go. I gasped for air as she said: "My boyfriend broke up with me!" Turning back at me and pointing" Because of this whore!"

I dropped on the floor balling my eyes out.

She roared"He broke up with me because he saw her. He moaned Emily's name when we had sex! And when I confronted him, he got angry and said Emily is hotter than me!"

She pulled my hair again, causing me to stand up. I screamed as I felt like she had broken some strands directly from the roots of my head.

She screamed, "You will pay for this, Emily!" She slapped me across my face, screaming again"It's all because of your pathetic face. Wait till they see how ugly you can be."

She started tearing up the long simple dress that I had worn to cover my body. She revealed the marks that they all gave me and said"Wait till a man sees what's behind this long-ass dress. He'll kill you for being so disgusting"

I cried trying to get out from her stronghold around my neck. I begged, "I'm sorry!"

Even though it wasn't my fault. I only met the guy once but even if it's not my fault, I have to apologize. Because if I don't, they will get more violent.

I said, "I'm so sorry!" And she pushed me on the floor.

I looked down at a purple heel tapping on the floor.

I looked up, my anxiety was on level 8. I was shivering with fear. I couldn't even mentally prepare myself for the blow.

Melissa standing there with her hands on her hips. She said, "Get up!"

I slowly got up and she slapped me for no reason. She said"This is all your fault. Everything you do is your fault! Your parents died because of you! My brother was killed because of your ugly ass!" And she back slapped me. Causing me to hit my back against the clean white wall.

This was my mental torture. Because I couldn't forget them. Their dead bodies were imprinted in my mind.

Maybe they're right. I did kill them.

Tanya grabbed my neck and choked me again. Her furious brown eyes just waited to blow up on me and kill me right then and there. I begged for her to let me go because I couldn't breathe. Felt like I was losing my senses slowly.

It was getting harder and harder to breathe that I was sure my face was turning purple.

And then God sends my Angel, Curtis.

He came running and pulled Tanya away from me. He pushed me behind him and said"Stop it! Or else!"

Tanya was scared of Curtis and his mother too. He was the perfect human being. He loved me like a little sister and I loved him like my big brother that I never had. He saves me from these vixens as much as he could.

He gave me his blue pocket hanky to wipe the blood on my lips that were caused by Tanya slapping me non stop.

Everyone terrified Emily. Except for Curtis.

She wiped her blood as Tanya screamed in anger"Why do you always save her? She's not worthy of your sympathy, Curtis! Just like she's not worthy of breathing anymore. I want to kill her!" She tried to attack her again but Curtis pushed her back and roared"Enough! Don't you dare take another step towards her!"

They both stopped. He wrapped an arm around Emily and took her to her room upstairs.

If you call a broken mattress, sealed up broken windows and cracked walls a room, then that was Emilys' room.

While everyone gets to live in a Pinterest type of rooms, she lived in a room with a broken bed, cracked walls and boarded up French windows.

No heater, no cooler and no protection from rain or snow.

Curtis did help her make it a little worth living in. Like a small chest draw. Bedsheets. Fairy lights wrapped up on her bed. A 37-inch tv that he bought for her with his Netflix password.

But David broke that too.

Curtis placed her lightly on her bed. Careful to not hurt her.

She laid down and felt exhausted. Her head hurt, cheeks felt like they were on fire because of the slaps, nose bloody and body painfully numb because of Tanyas kicking with her Gucci heels.

He went into the bathroom and took out a first aid kit.

He gave her an aspirin then cleaned up her nose.

He kept repeating"I'm sorry, I wasn't home early. I would've been home all day if dad hadn't forced me to go to this business party of his." She held his hand and said"It's okay. It's not your fault. I'm used to this"

He looked at her"No one should be used to this, Em." and then got up. Going to the old chest in the room and bringing her new pair of clothes

He kept it beside her and turned around.

She took off the ripped apart dress and wore the shirt and sweatpants. Saying" You can turn around." Sitting on her bed again.

He turned around and said" Get some sleep. That's the only way the headache will go away." She could see the pain in his brown eyes.

She thought that it was funny that Tanya and Curtis have the same eye color. The same eye shape. But they were different. Hers had fury and he had nothing but softness.

She lied down and he put her duvet on her small frame. That he also bought for her.

He kissed her forehead and said"Sleep, okay? I'll come to check up on you later." She smiled at him and saw as he closed all the lights but the fairy ones and left. Closing the door behind him.

Slowly sleep took over her.

Nightmares flooded her dreams like rain and hurricane on a beautiful sunny day.

Before sleeping every night, she would ask herself:

Why do I have to live this life?

Did I do something to piss God off that he chose to punish me like this?

Why don't I just end everything once and for all?

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