I hate my life

EMILY

I opened the door gently and entered the house slowly closing it behind me. Inside was dark and quiet, too quiet.

I quietly tiptoed going to the staircase.

When a " You are late." voice boomed, making me let a small scream in fright. I turn around slowly to where the voice came from to see a figure sitting on the armchair close to the window curtain.

'Why didn't I see him there before?'

Joshua stood up slowly and started walking towards me making step back with every step he took, I stopped when I reached the wall behind me. He looked down at me with an angry expression written on his face. I could barely see his face thou but I knew he was very angry. 

" Why are you late?" He growled at me.

"I-I-Im sorry. I lost trac-" A punch at my face stopped me from completing my words.

I let out a scream of pain, it hurt so badly. "I'm sorry." I cried out.

"Oh, you are now whoring around, Huh? With who? Tell me!" He yells.

"N-no one." I stutter out crying.

"Liar!" He yells then punches me on the stomach causing me to fall to the ground out of breath then clenching on my tummy tightly.

"I'm sorry." I whimpered, tears soaking up my face.

"Oh, you will be sorry, so sorry when I'm done with you." He then started kicking me in the ribs till he got tired and left me, going upstairs to his room

"That will teach you never to come home late again, Slut." He said before finally entering his room.

I stayed on the floor for about 5 minutes before getting up and slowly walking to the kitchen to make dinner. When I was done, I slowly trudge up to my room.

Closing the bathroom doors, I turned on the shower and slumped down to the ground, hugging my legs to my self. With the water pouring on me, I cried till there was no more tears left to cry.

 When I was already starting to feel cold, I got up and strip off my clothes then walked out of the bathroom wrapping a towel around me. I put on my pajamas and crawl to the bed wrapping the blanket around me. I slept off with a word on my mind. 'I hate my life.'

***The next morning.***

The annoying sound of the alarm woke me up at exactly 5:00am. I turn off the alarm and got up from the bed, my body still ache a lot. I groaned when I felt a sharp pain at my forehead. I stretch my hands a bit towards the drawer close to the bed and brought out some pain relief, then I grabbed a bottle of water that I always keep on the shelf. I know, medicine on an empty stomach is not right but I took it anyways with water to push it down. After that, I walked to the bathroom to brush my teeth and bath. When I was done, I got dressed up in a blue long sleeve shirt, a black jeans trouser and a pair of white converse. I leave my hair down to cover up the bruises and red mark on my cheeks. I grabbed my backpack and went downstairs. I quickly make scrambled eggs and toast bread for breakfast. By the time I was done, I saw Joshua walk into the kitchen without noticing me to grab a glass of water from the fridge.

"Good morning sir" I greeted quietly but loud enough for him to hear which he only nodded to.

"Em...E-e-excuse me sir."

"What is it?" He glared at me.

"Um.. I was paired with a boy to do a project. Erm.. c-can I go to his house to do the project?"I nervously stutter out.

Joshua narrowed his eyes at me to see through me if I was lying. I gulped and looked down then I heared him sigh and grumbled a "Go"

"Thank you sir." I quickly grabbed my lunch and walked out of the kitchen, then grabbed my backpack in the living room heading out.

When I got to the school, I walked to my locker placing my backpack in it and bringing out my books before closing it back. Turning around, I saw Xavier, Chase and Ryan behind me.

"Ah!" I let out a small scream.

"Woo! Easy there."Chase said with a wide grin on his face.

"It's not funny. You guys appeared from nowhere." I glare at him which Ryan laughed to, making me glare at him also.

He quickly feigned a cough, covering up his laughter.

"What do you guys want? I asked sighing. I look up to see Xavier staring at me.

Remembering the bruises on my face, I quickly look down and played with the herm of my top. I don't want them to know about the bruises. If they know, then I bet they will know about Joshua.

"Emily?" I hear Ryan call out my name snapping me out of my thought.

"Huh?" I replied slightly looking up to him.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Yes. Y-eah I'm fine." I said looking back down at the floor. "I have to go." I slowly walk backwards trying to run off when Xavier grabbed my arm.

"Emily, look at me." Xavier demanded.

Geez. What will I do? Just when I was about to answer, the bell rang. Thank God. Seeing that he was distracted, I quickly ran off to the class. The class was still empty when I got there. I slid into the back row and sat down.

When the bell later rang for third period, I waited for the class to be empty before heading out, not before checking the hallway. 

I walked to the library, deciding to stay there for some time. Well, I planned on skipping the next class because I know fully well that Ryan is going to be there.

On getting to the library, a hand pulled me into an empty classroom making let out a scream.

"Shhhh! dammit Emily, keep it shut" A male voice whispered harshly into my ear with his hand covering my mouth and I instantly shiver when my name rolled out of his tongue.

My heart suddenly dropped when I recognized the voice, I know that voice so well.

When he saw that I was quiet, he let go of me. I quickly moved forward and turned around to see Henry standing by the door with a smirk on his face.

I blinked twice looking at him.

"Hello, Emily." He said as his eyes roam my whole face and body.