Charlotte's P.O.V.

I was lying on a hospital bed with an ice pack on my stomach. I had just come out of surgery a few hours ago, and my rib was all taped up, nice and tight, now. I didn't feel a thing. My stomach was still sore, though. But the pain relievers they had given me were really helping. I struggled not to fall asleep as I laid there, listening to the beeping of the machines around me and watching the doors, knowing that any second they were going to burst through them, charging toward me like angry bulls. Sure enough, a few minutes later Doris and Selena burst through them. Selena was smirking, still wearing that evil smile and her eyes glinted as she spotted me lying there on the bed. Doris's face was red with rage.
"How dare you come here! Do you know how much this is costing me?!" she snarled in my face. I flinched back from the venom in her voice. Damn it!
"I'm sorry, I didn't have a choice. I passed out at school and one of the kids called 911," I said as quietly as I could. Technically, that wasn't a lie- I had passed out and somebody had called nine-one-one. It just hadn't happened in that particular order.
"Don't you lie to me, bitch. Selena saw you calling them and she heard you tell them what had happened. I swear to god, you're gonna get it when you get home. And next time you'll think twice before speaking a word against me!" she yelled, and then yanked my arm, pulling me out of the bed. I didn't feel any pain as she did this, only a soreness in my stomach.
"We're going home!" Doris yanked me through the doors, marching past the front desk and glaring at anyone who came close. None of the doctors dared approached us or tried to protest. Doris seemed to have gone crazy.
The whole ride home was silent as I sat in the back seat, praying like hell that Doris wouldn't do anything bad to me. But I could see that that obviously wasn't going to be the case as Doris yanked open my door, grabbed a fistful of my hair, and pulled me out of the car roughly. I cried out in pain.
"Shut up! Do you want the fucking neighbors to hear you?" she screamed and barreled through the door, throwing me down.
I struggled to get up as she locked the dead bolt, but she was too quick for me. She whirled around and her foot slammed into my stomach. I screamed and she kicked me again, harder this time. She did this over and over, until I started to cough up blood and then I felt someone on top of me.
Selena rolled me over and came down on top of my chest hard. All of the breath whooshed out of me. She started hitting me in the face, clawing at my eyes and neck, and pulling my hair.
"You almost got my mom taking away from me, you fucking whore! I hate you! You already killed my daddy and now you want to take away my mom, too! I hate you, I hate you, I hate you! I HATE YOU!" she screamed, punching me in the face every time she said a word, so as you can imagine, it took her quite awhile just to say those few sentences.
"Stop!" I screamed. "Please, please, please! Just stop! STOP!"
But neither of them were listening to me. Tears were streaming down Doris's face as she looked at her daughter and she came over to her, taking her off and then taking her place. I heard many bones snap as she came down on me this time, and I coughed up more blood again, screaming and choking, trying to breath through her heavy weight and the red liquid pouring out of me.
Doris took hold of my throat, her thumbs pressing tight, and my eyesight blurred. "How dare you make my daughter feel that way! You could've taken me away from her forever!" Doris suddenly lifted my head and slammed it against the floor. I felt my skull crack, but this time I had no breath to scream. I simply watched as the dark spots appeared before me. But even though I saw them, I didn't seem close to passing out. I was as alert as ever, even though Doris hands were tight around my neck and she was slamming my head into the ground again.
I just continued to stare at her, not moving, looking her directly in the eyes to let her know that I wasn't giving up- she wasn't about to win. I wasn't going to just give up and die so that she didn't have to worry about me getting her into trouble anymore. When she realized this her eyes flashed and her hands released my throat just to come down on my face, slapping me so hard that after a few seconds I felt blood run into my mouth from my cheek. But suddenly I felt her huge body lift off of me and I gasped, rolling over and trying to breath. Doris just spit on me and then walked by. Selena walked over me, stepping on my leg and purposely snapping it. I screamed and pulled it up, cradling it in my hands. Selena just laughed and walked on. I laid there for a few minutes, gasping and whimpering and sobbing and screaming, before I finally calmed down enough to crawl painfully to the front door and wrench it open.