Shadows

When she wasn’t around him, she plotted ways to keep it that way. She had lived with him for 4 years now since her mother passed away, her stepfather Eric was the most disgusting man she had she ever had the displeasure of coming in contact with. Tabitha had slowly lost herself over the years since her mother’s passing she was now a shadow of who she once was , her stepfather would treat her as everything but his daughter , unthinkable things including taking her innocence, everything she did was wrong to him he found faults in her every move and she had no one to tell, her mother had no family and her stepfather’s family was just as useless as he was , she’d had enough, something had to change about her situation either he changed or she changed him and she had only one option

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The next thing he was going to find fault in was dinner. She’d been at school the whole day sorting out her final year project, she barely had time to sit and think to herself, now she’d just returned and this beast of a man was throwing a fit over dinner not being prepared, she tried explaining that she’d just returned from a hectic day at school and as usual he shut her up reminding her that “if it wasn’t because of the child protection services and it was all up to him she’d have left that stupid school a long time ago because girls don’t even deserve to be educated they are to clean the home and master the kitchen” , she looked at him as a familiar rush of nausea and disgust filled her, she said nothing to him and walked past him to prepare dinner in order to shut the barking dog up.

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She was so tired, she’d had enough and she needed to put an end to it all, while she made dinner she plotted her next move. She finished up and served the tyrant his dinner, she got to the living room and saw him sprawled on the couch, wearing a pair of shorts and a vest that struggled to be white, she curled up her nose in disgust and dumped the food on the table in front of him and began walking away “took you long enough “ he mumbled, she looked over her shoulder and suppressed the urge to smack the back of his head, she cleaned up and went to her room, unable to sleep, she lay on her back staring at her mother’s picture and wishing she didn’t have to leave, she was so fed up and she wanted to end it all….and she was going to. She got up and tip toed to her stepfather’s room the door was slightly ajar as it always was, she stepped in lightly and walked towards his bed she stared at him for a moment while he snored loudly, she picked up a pillow and pressed it down on his head, she felt him struggling underneath her but she pressed harder soon the struggling died down until he didn’t move anymore, she was slightly shocked that he didn’t push her off him as he was much bigger and stronger than she was but she was relieved she had put an end to it “Tabitha!?” She turned her head towards the door and to her utmost horror her step father stood there “what the fuck are you doing!?”

To be continued……