Chapter One: An Abusive Marriage.

The tension in the room was something inevitable for Tullah, she could watch Saul burn in flames which depicted that at this verge he could do anything to her right now. She bit down on her lips nervously as Saul stood right in front of her holding the vase she had spent her savings to buy.

"Now will you tell me how this happened and who bought it or should I let loose of this on your head?" Saul asked, pointing the glass vase directly to Tullah's face who was already seated on the floor with a bleeding nose.

"Saul all I have ever wished for is to continue working so I can be competent enough to endorse you with our home snouts, is that so much to request for?" Tullah let out bitterly.

At this point, Tullah had these feelings of regrets written all over her at this wink, she couldn't wish for anything more than going back to her parents though she knew they would never take her back in, "Who would have?". She has been facing some ups and downs with Saul ever since they moved into the new town.

Living with Mr. & Mrs. Richard Fax, Tullah's parent made her feel like she's been treated so unfairly that she had to take the bold step of running away with Saul her loved college boyfriend, only to realize how big of a clown she was few months after she had became Saul's wife and she regrets ever letting Saul into her life.

Saul has always been a sweet type of person from the beginning, caring to some point that he figured out whenever Tullah was having a bad time just with a glance at her and that she would require vanilla ice cream to chill out and that he always got for her. He doesn't drink so much but not until the day he had decided to make Tullah his wife.

Things got completely out of hand when Saul became abusive towards Tullah, he beat her up at every slightest thing she did and for some reason, Tullah waited with the hopes that things would get better soon but unfortunately, IT GETS WORST.

"And all I ask you to do is make my food, do the laundry, and clean up the house. That's it, what's so confusing that you don't understand. Oh, I see, you are only trying to get on my nerves, right?" he chuckled half-heartedly.

"No babe, you know I could never do that. Just that I feel...." Tullah was shut up with a heavy slap across her face.

"You shut up and stop talking while I am. Just so you know, you are going to do as I say if not…" Saul dragged Tullah up to his height then made her head swing to the side as he pointed towards the basement door.

"No, Saul" Tullah let out a painful tear.

"Oh yes Tully, Yes baby" He threw Tullah hard on the floor and walked away. "Dare me, Tully" He let those last words of warning as he left the house after smashing the glass vase to the floor.

Tullah whipped bitterly on the floor but not for so long. Hearing Saul call her Tully made her remember how Saul used to treat her before they got married. She got up and started cleaning up the mess Saul had caused. She is tired of everything happening in her life right now but is so much in love with Saul to think otherwise. However she has thoughts of running away from Saul which she has four recorded attempts failed.

In no time, the house was back to normal. Tullah felt dizzy and needed to get some rest so she went straight into the bedroom where she lay down with the fear that Saul might be back anytime soon and start up another episode of his madness. She couldn't sleep, many thoughts in her mind, things that reminded her of when she was still with her parents and how she ended up with Saul. The sudden change in Tullah's body made her believe she was sick and needed some medications but at second thought, she reminded herself of her last miscarriage which hit her with another sense of thinking.

"No, it's not possible" Considering Tullah's current situation, she knew she couldn't risk getting pregnant. Having lost two of her child's to an abusive treatment was enough for Tullah to know that getting pregnant is not required.

Tullah straight at the clock, It was past noon whimeantans she had not less than an hour to leave the house which was not possible to avoid being beaten up again. She laid back while rubbing her hand all over her tummy.

"You should not happen, it's not like I don't want you, I just want to keep you safe for now so please, I hope you are just an imagination" Tears came rounding down Tullah's cheeks she let them flow out more and more. She couldn't say more as she was trying to console herself, the more she tried the more she cried.

Knowing that crying won't solve the problem, Tullah stood to her feet, wiped her tears away before leaving the bedroom to go prepare dinner for Saul.

The night was thankfully a very quiet one, Saul came back so drunk that he couldn't even eat the dinner Tullah had stressed herself to prepare. He passed out right on the couch in the living room, letting Tullah have the room to herself for the night. She was pretty cool with it cause it clearly wasn't the first time he's done such. Instead, she carried her food quietly to a corner of the house and ate all alone with her mind settled on going to the hospital by tomorrow.

Losing another child was the last thing Tullah could ever wish for that's if there was another little one right inside of her. Tullah went to bed with fewer expectations from the next day, she didn't want to think more about it just until she confirmed it.

"Oh Lord, I have a wish, please help me and see me through this. I honestly hope I am not pregnant. Amen." Tullah didn't believe God existed, at least not until she got married to Saul.