Distance
Chapter 3
Jenna's POV
Every day is the same. I walk past the same groups to sit in the
same spot in the same room at the same school and do the same
work with the same pencil. The same people alway ssnickering not
at all discreetly as I shuffle along, trying to keep my head down
and ignore the insults and abuse as I was always taught. I slip
my sweatshirt sleeve over my hand as my arm had become uncovered.
The many slits would only provide further ammunition for their
taunts and raves. And they'd done enough already. I slowly
trudged home after another tiring day at school. I snuck around
the back gate, peekingn in through the windows to make sure Daddy
wasn't home yet. Through the miniature hole Ava and I had
drilled a couple years back, I could see Mamma curled up on the
couch as Daddy, drunk as always, shouted at her. Daddy was a
massive giant, who could easily take anyone who came at him.
Being that he was usually too wasted to haircut, his greasey,
coarse brown hair hung limply down to his shoulders. I crept
around to side of our huge house, quietly slipped tapped on the
window to the room Ava and I shared. Ava, being only 10, had to
grow up more quickly than I would have wished, seeing who she
lived with. Ava's porcelain face peered just over the
windowsill, checking it was me alone. After that had been
confirmed, she climber onto the step ladder we hid behind the
curtains and unlucked the window, opening just enough so I could
slither in. I shut it and lock it just in time to hear
Daddy's huge footsteps pounding down the hall towards us.
"The closet!" I whisper frantically, picking my little
sister up and diving into the piles of stuffed animals Ava
insisted on buying every time we went to the local mall. I manage
to punch the light switch and yank my hand back into the safety
of the closet just as Daddy stumbles into the room. "Hiding
from me, are you?!?" he slurs angrily,"That deserrves
some punishment dont you think?" I hold Ava tightly, as much
to stop my trembling as hers. "Come out, pretty Jenna."
I hear Daddy purr."Come out and I'll reward you."
Daddy's version of reward and punishment are pretty much the
same thign, and just the thought of both set my teeth on edge.
"I will find you." Daddy promises. Knowing
that I'm bringing the worst on myself, I quietly shift Ava
into the corner of our giant walk-in closet, overfloowing with
stuffed animals and clothes, so that she is unnoticeabble. I make
sure I'm not-well hidden, and I sneeze. The sneeze is muted
by the layers of cotton surrounding me, but still loud enough
that Daddy hears it. "I've found you!" Daddy
triumphantly screeches. he yanks open the closet door and throws
me carelessly onto the bed. I see Momma soundlessly pull Ava out
of the closet and into safetly right before Daddy obscures my
vision of the room.
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