To Be In
Love 1
“Get off of me!” I yelled, he had my wrist in his hand
so tight I thought it was going to break.
“No!” he screamed back at me, I flailed my other arm
until I got a hold of his cologne bottle and broke it over his
head, I just kept hitting him with it until he loosened his grip on
my wrist and pulled away. I called the cops as I watched the blood
dip over his face, I shut the door and locked it.
“He’s hitting me, I broke a glass bottle over his head
so bring an ambulance.” She said that the cops would be here
in a minute, and I wish did get there in a minute but I listened to
banging on the door, he hit it so hard it cracked and I grabbed the
glass vase that held scented oil and held the sticks in my left
hand. In the quick second I looked in the mirror I realized my
cheek as swollen, my eyes were red and puffy from crying and I was
bleeding on my arm. As quick as he broke down the door, I just kept
smashing him in the head with this vase, I maybe hit him 4 times
before the police opened the door and realized what was happening.
One last time I smashed the glass over his head and backed up to
the wall. Blood was everywhere, it was gushing out of him and I, he
was cut up and I was just beat up. Walking out to the ambulance
where I was being checked for breaks or fractures, the lady cop who
was much taller then me came over to me.
“Hi.” She said, she had a small smile on her face but I
knew that was only for me
“Can I ask you some questions?” I nodded and she sat
next to me
“What’s your name and age?”
“Sophia Upton, 19.”
“Where do you live?”
“233 Morris Ave, Armerin, New York”
“Do you know him?” she asked me and I paused because I
wish I didn’t
“He’s my boyfriend, His name is Joe, he just turned 20
in May. I don’t know what happened, he just started freaking
out and it just escalated into this.” I said gesturing to the
bruises on my body.
“This never happened before?” she looked confused
“Never. In the 10 months I’ve been with him and the 3
years I’ve known him, he has never done anything like
this.” I said angrily.
“Are you okay?” she looked at me, but she meant that on
a personal level, she meant is like a friend would ask her
friend
“I’m fine, I’ll live.” I said, “Good
luck getting the glass out of his head cause I beated him.” I
admitted and she smiled
“That’s his problem, my job is to make sure
you’re okay.” She smiled, the doctor said I was safe to
go home, take two motrin and I’ll be fine. I thanked the guy
and hopped off and wiped my face with my hands.
“Do you want me to take you home?” she said, I agreed
to her taking me home and I left. I don’t know what happened
but that’ll never happen again, it all happened so quickly;
it went from an argument to a war with glass smashing and punches
being thrown in every direction.
“Is it okay if I leave?” I looked at the lady and
without looking over at me she questioned
“Leave where?” she asked sounding concerned.
“New York. I want to go to Minnesota, my grandma lives there
and I want to get out of here.”
“Okay,” she said, she agreed that maybe it’s best
if I spent some time out of here and that if I left her my contact
information that I’d be fine. When I got to my house, she
explained to my mom what had happened and that it was a safe and
good idea to maybe send me off to my grandma’s to recover. I
thanked her and went to my room where I sat on my bed and starred
at the wall for 3 hours until my mom knocked on my door and came
in. I looked up at her smiled a crappy smile but it was all I could
give.
“Hey kiddo. I know you want to leave soon so I’ll let
you decide when you’re ready. Are you hungry?”
“Yeah.” I admitted to her, she wiped my sweaty gross
hair out of my face
“How about you go take a shower and I’ll make you
something, okay?” I nodded my head and got off my bed and
dragged my little body to the shower. I was sore and it hurt to
even move my arms. When I got out I smelt macaroni and cheese
coming from the kitchen and soft whispers of my mom and step-dad
talking, I got changed and made my way to the kitchen to eat, my
brothers were playing video games in the other room but they were
strangely quiet I only heard a few grunts and about 3 “Come
on!”’s I knew I wanted to get out of this house as soon
as possible so I asked my mom to make my flight for tomorrow and
hurried off to my room to pack. I couldn’t believe this was
happening to me.