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Authors: Danielle Dickson
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how could I have not?”
I wrapped my arms around her slender waist and picked her up to spin her around. I put her down as she carried on laughing and steadied her as she stumbled a little. “Phew! Those weights must be working! How does it feel to be sixteen?” She picked up the watch out of the box and wrapped it around my wrist.
“The same as it did yesterday! Hey, Red, how...ooft.” She hit me hard in the stomach.
“I told you to not call me that anymore! Even Tommy has started to call me it!” A burst of laughter slipped from between my lips and it got me one of Sammy’s signature looks. I looked down at the watch on my wrist, she must’ve spent a lot of her wages on this but I chose to accept the gift gracefully she would just argue with me otherwise.
“How’s that job of yours?” Seeing her face light up made me so happy. God knows that Sammy of all people deserved a bit of happiness in her life.
“It’s going good. Miss Debbie thinks I can start trying for a cosmetology license as soon as I turn sixteen.” The excitement in her voice was contagious.
“Sammy, that’s awesome! You’re still doing your school work at home though, right? You’re still getting your GED?”
She looked up at the sky, then back at me. “Of course I am! Piece of cake!” she replied with a wink and started walking towards our regular picnic spot under Old Oak.
I picked up the basket I’d packed with all our favorite food and followed her as she laid out a blanket for us to sit on.
After a few minutes of tucking into the food and drink, I felt the mood change. “Connor, you don’t have to talk to me if you don’t want to but I saw the bruises on your neck again. Why don’t you tell anyone?” As soon as she started the sentence, I knew what was coming. This was a regular conversation for us. I hitched my sweater up more to cover my neck and rubbed my hands down my shorts.
Sammy was my best friend but I choked up every time she asked about my step dad, I knew she didn’t judge me but it was still hard to talk about the fact I was sixteen and still got regular beatings off the scumbag who lived in my house. He always made sure to leave them somewhere that no one would see. I remembered the promise I made myself three years ago and reiterated it to myself; one day, I will be bigger than him , I wasn’t far off that now.
Over the past three years, I’d had an insight into Sammy’s life and hers into mine. Sammy didn’t have it easy, she chose to leave school and do her work from home so she could bring money in and look after her little brother Tommy. I’d never heard her complain once, she was a fighter and I was insanely proud of her.
“Connor?” Placing a hand on my arm, I looked up into her worried eyes and smiled.
“Sammy, you’ve got enough on your plate right now. I’m absolutely fine, I promise. Hey, look at me.” I took her hand in mine as I tried to reassure her.
“You know he can’t get away with it! One phone call and he’d be charged; you know that right?” Her wides eyes plead with me to consider calling the cops but she knows I can’t.
Of course I knew that, I’d begged my mom to turn him in more times than I could count. It still didn’t change anything, she was so scared of him and rightly so but she also still loved him. That was what angered me more than anything.
“Sammy, let’s not do this right now, not today.”
She sighed. “What was it for this time?” I couldn’t even look at her but knew I needed to tell her or she would keep prying, so as always, a vague but well voiced answer popped out of my mouth.
“I got in the way again, he wouldn’t stop hurting her.” Turning my face towards hers with the pull of her gentle fingertips, I couldn’t help but lean into her caress.
“You can’t keep waiting for the day to get one up on him, Con, he’s dangerous and it’s getting worse.” Hearing my own thoughts come from Sammy’s lips gave me shivers, I
I wrapped my arms around her slender waist and picked her up to spin her around. I put her down as she carried on laughing and steadied her as she stumbled a little. “Phew! Those weights must be working! How does it feel to be sixteen?” She picked up the watch out of the box and wrapped it around my wrist.
“The same as it did yesterday! Hey, Red, how...ooft.” She hit me hard in the stomach.
“I told you to not call me that anymore! Even Tommy has started to call me it!” A burst of laughter slipped from between my lips and it got me one of Sammy’s signature looks. I looked down at the watch on my wrist, she must’ve spent a lot of her wages on this but I chose to accept the gift gracefully she would just argue with me otherwise.
“How’s that job of yours?” Seeing her face light up made me so happy. God knows that Sammy of all people deserved a bit of happiness in her life.
“It’s going good. Miss Debbie thinks I can start trying for a cosmetology license as soon as I turn sixteen.” The excitement in her voice was contagious.
“Sammy, that’s awesome! You’re still doing your school work at home though, right? You’re still getting your GED?”
She looked up at the sky, then back at me. “Of course I am! Piece of cake!” she replied with a wink and started walking towards our regular picnic spot under Old Oak.
I picked up the basket I’d packed with all our favorite food and followed her as she laid out a blanket for us to sit on.
After a few minutes of tucking into the food and drink, I felt the mood change. “Connor, you don’t have to talk to me if you don’t want to but I saw the bruises on your neck again. Why don’t you tell anyone?” As soon as she started the sentence, I knew what was coming. This was a regular conversation for us. I hitched my sweater up more to cover my neck and rubbed my hands down my shorts.
Sammy was my best friend but I choked up every time she asked about my step dad, I knew she didn’t judge me but it was still hard to talk about the fact I was sixteen and still got regular beatings off the scumbag who lived in my house. He always made sure to leave them somewhere that no one would see. I remembered the promise I made myself three years ago and reiterated it to myself; one day, I will be bigger than him , I wasn’t far off that now.
Over the past three years, I’d had an insight into Sammy’s life and hers into mine. Sammy didn’t have it easy, she chose to leave school and do her work from home so she could bring money in and look after her little brother Tommy. I’d never heard her complain once, she was a fighter and I was insanely proud of her.
“Connor?” Placing a hand on my arm, I looked up into her worried eyes and smiled.
“Sammy, you’ve got enough on your plate right now. I’m absolutely fine, I promise. Hey, look at me.” I took her hand in mine as I tried to reassure her.
“You know he can’t get away with it! One phone call and he’d be charged; you know that right?” Her wides eyes plead with me to consider calling the cops but she knows I can’t.
Of course I knew that, I’d begged my mom to turn him in more times than I could count. It still didn’t change anything, she was so scared of him and rightly so but she also still loved him. That was what angered me more than anything.
“Sammy, let’s not do this right now, not today.”
She sighed. “What was it for this time?” I couldn’t even look at her but knew I needed to tell her or she would keep prying, so as always, a vague but well voiced answer popped out of my mouth.
“I got in the way again, he wouldn’t stop hurting her.” Turning my face towards hers with the pull of her gentle fingertips, I couldn’t help but lean into her caress.
“You can’t keep waiting for the day to get one up on him, Con, he’s dangerous and it’s getting worse.” Hearing my own thoughts come from Sammy’s lips gave me shivers, I
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