Because of You...

Chapter One!(:

 ***Pic of Selena -----> (;

 The song on the side really seemed to fit this chapter.

"the rage of an angel left silent and cold."

Because Of You...

Chapter One:

I laid still on my bedroom floor in the pitch dark I guess I should be used to this by now. It wasn't the first time my boyfriend, Chad, had beaten me up. I don't understand how he could ever hurt me. I was there for him through his parents divorce, his uncles death, and so many other things in his life and yet he repaid me by beating on me. How could he do this to me?

I climbed up off the floor and walked to the bedroom floor and made my way to the bathroom to look at myself. Each time he beat me the damage was worse and lasted longer. This time he beat me because I was late getting ready for dinner with his father because I went out with my friends. I was only a few minutes late but to him I might has well of been a few days late.

**Flashback**

“Look Chad I'm ready lets just go I'm sure your dad will understand.” I said still willing and ready to go. “I told you to be ready at 6 and now it's 6:15. You are such a pathetic excuse for a girlfriend. You can't do anything right!” he yelled slamming me into me into my bedroom wall. “Chad please it won't happen again.” I begged fighting back the tears. He slapped me hard. “I'll show you sorry.” he said and the beating began. I didn't even try to fight back because it only made things worse. Like always when the beating ended he blamed me. “Look what you made me do!” he yelled standing over my limp body. With that he left my room just to leave me laying there alone.

**End Flashback**

I looked in the mirror. I looked horrible. My lip was busted, I had a black eye, and my arms were bruised. I pulled my shirt off so I could see my torso and my back. From my neck clear down I was bruised and sore. My head was pounding and my face hurt. It hurt just to breathe. Why in the hell did I put up with this? Chad was supposed to love me and if he did he had a really effed up way of showing it. I took off the rest of my clothes and stepped into a hot bath. I cried the whole time not just because of the pain, but for the fact that I put up with it. I sat in the tub for what seemed to be forever before I got out and got dressed for bed.

While I laid in bed that night trying to figure out how I was supposed to explain my latest beating to my friends and family. I don't think falling down the stairs or walking into a door was going to work anymore. “Selena, baby were home!” mom yelled from the hallway. “Okay night mom night David.” I yelled back trying to hold the tears back. David was my mother's boyfriend. They had been dating for a while and he moved in a few months ago. He was actually really nice and he understood that he could never replace or be my dad. My father had left my mom when I was younger for some blonde bimbo that was like half his age and was a total bitch. My mother was my best friend but I couldn't even tell her about Chad because she loved him so much. As hard as I tried to I couldn't sleep to save my life. I grabbed a bottle of painkillers from my nightstand and took two. Even though they helped a little I still cried myself to sleep.

The next morning my body still ached and throbbed. I had to drag myself out of bed. I stood in a hot shower trying to soothe my body but after an hour it still didn't help. I had to convince myself to step out of the shower and begin my cover up. My eye was going to be hard to hide just like my lip. I used my makeup to hide the black eye, it still looked swollen though so I just hoped nobody would notice. As for my lip I just decided to say that I slipped getting out of the shower. Then for my clothes I threw on some gray sweats a tank top and a purple hoodie, today wasn't going to be fun at all.