0005- A Deal With Carlos.

Hannah’s POV

I slipped away from his grip as he dragged me down the stairs, in the speed of lightning, I ran into my mother's room locking the door. My mother was on the floor shaking, her body was bruised and I ran to her while he came up and began to bank on the door.

Fear gripped me like a second skin as he banged the door furiously, I lowered myself to the ground where my mother lay and I held her.

“Mum, why do we have to put up with him?” I asked as tears fell from both my eyes, touching the wound on my lips and it stung.

She said nothing but I knew what her reply would be.

We stayed in the room until he stopped banging on the door and even when he stopped, I stayed in the room with my mom. The day had grown dark and I was sure that he had left the house to go waste himself somewhere.

I took warm water from the bathroom and with a towel I cleaned my mom’s bruised body.

“It hurts..” she groaned in pain, her voice was very low.

“Mom let’s leave here, for the sake of your health please Mom,” I begged.

Her blonde brown hair was all over her face so I pushed it away, tucking it behind her ear.

Her lips had bruises and just seeing her in that condition made me sad.

“We cannot leave..” she managed to say and I lost all sanity.

“You get beaten up by the man you say you love, you do all of the work and when you manage to get some money, he takes all of it and uses it to buy drugs then he comes back home and he beats you, it goes on like that and you still want to stay? Mom, do you want to die?” I yelled at her but she only looked at me with tears in her eyes.

“You won’t understand, Anna.” She mouthed and I sighed, digging my hand into my already hurting scalp.

“Then make me understand, Mom.” This time around I stood from the bed, folding my hand underneath my breast.

“Tell me what it is, Mom!!” She stayed quiet, her brown eyes were covered in tears and she looked too weak to even speak but I needed to bring her back to her senses.

“I also get bullied in school, Mom. Maybe if we could leave, we would no longer have to endure any of this.” I furiously wiped my eyes and waited for her to say something but she didn’t.

Maybe if I had the money I would take my mother out of here.

“I’ll be in my room, he has gone to get drunk again, I’ll use this time to do my homework.” I walked out of her room and went downstairs to get my bag.

I grabbed the bag from the floor where I had kept it and headed to my room.

Pushing my door open, I threw the bag on my little bed as I let out a scream.

Nothing was going well! Nothing was happening fine. I needed money to get my mom out of this mess she called home and at the same time I needed to calm down so I took my clothes off my body and went into the bathroom and let the water from the shower calm my hurting scalp.

I was done having my bath and immediately got clad in my pajama shorts and a top while letting my hair get air-dried.

I took my bag cause I had some homework to do including the one Mr Dalton gave.

My bag was in my phone and I pulled it out to see I got a text from Olivia and also a text from an unknown number.

**Anna, I’m texting to know if you got home safely, text me when you see this**

I read her text and I chuckled and gave a reply.

** I’m back home, Livy.**

I checked the other messages from the unknown number and it was Carlos.

**Hannah it’s Carlos, what have you concluded on?** I read as I bit my lips. I didn’t want any of Amirah’s problems but I wanted the money and if I hadn’t told Livy about it, she would have been super angry.

**How much is the pay, Carlos** I texted back.

*$1000 weekly.** Reading this I almost dropped my phone but I had to be smart. Carlos was one of the richest kids in school and could afford more.

*$2000 weekly and we can start tomorrow** I replied.

**Deal**

Fuck! I just got myself an $8000 deal.

**Okay then, let’s meet tomorrow after school** With that I dropped my phone not waiting for his reply and I immediately started my homework.

One hour into my homework there was a tap on my room window. Could these birds just let me do my homework in peace?

The tap came again but this time it was stronger, it was like a knock on my window; except who would be knocking at my window?

My phone rang and it was Carlos calling, why the fuck was he calling me?

I rejected the call and texted him **Why are you calling me?** I asked and after a second I got a text from him.

“I’m at your window.” I gasped and immediately went to my window, opening the curtain.

“What are you doing here?” I asked but he urged me to open the window which I did and he got into my room.

“Hi..” he waved at me as he looked around my small room.

“ nice room.” Yeah nice, my little room nice?

“What are you doing here? How did you even find my house? How did you get up here?” I asked all at once and he walked further into my room like I was not asking him some questions.

“You didn’t reply to my text so I came over, I have homework and you need to do it.”