Under Bright Lights

Chapter Eight: Discovery pt 1

Brooklyn's POV

I walk over to the picnic benches where I see Monica sitting nervously , she looks over and I smile and wave sympathetically as I sit down in front of her

"Hey Monica, how you holdin up" I say comfortingly 

"I'm fine just disappointed and kind of upset" Monica says in a low voice 

"I get that, but if its ok, can you tell me what's going on and why you didn't react last night" I say quietly as people pass us, Monica sighs heavily before looking at me seriously

"I trust you Brooklyn so please don't tell anyone, especially your parents and siblings and friends" Monica says as she looks around 

"I wont tell a soul" I say as she takes a dep breath 

"Ok.....so as you know, I said this isn't my Moms first time cheating on my Dad, she's cheated numerous times back when we lived in Detroit" Monica starts 

Flashback with Narration ( regular text is Monica talking and bolded and italics is the flashback scene's and wording )

"My parents fought a lot back when I was a kid and I would always catch them in an argument but it wasn't always like that, my dad owned a record label and he was successful, we even lived in a pretty big house but my father got into drugs the everything went bad"

8 year old Monica walks down the stairs to see her father sitting on the couch with his head down, almost as if he's staring at something but suddenly she hears her mother come from the kitchen and hides knowing her mother told her to stay in her room till she's called 

"Marvin can you put the damn pipe down and help me with dinner" Tammi says coming into the room, Marvin finishes snorting the cocaine on the table and looks at his wife with goofy grin

"Come on baby, I need rest, the label has ben booming and I just wanna have fun" Marvin says as he gets up and puts the pipe behind his ear 

"Marvin......just clean all that up before our daughter comes downstairs" Tammi says as she musters up some patience 

"It continued on like this for two years till one day I heard yelling and crying downstairs, I get out of my bed and walk out of room, I creep down the stairs to see my parents shouting at each other, I had never seen my father that upset, he stormed out that night but it would only get worse over the years till I was 12 and that's where everything got out of hand" 

14 year old Monica wakes up to hear talking and laughing downstairs but she ignores it thinking that its her parents, she gets on her phone for a bit till she hears strange noises from downstairs, she leaves her room and goes to walk down the stairs but she hears moaning sounds and cringes 

She peaks around the corner to see her mother and man I've never seen before having sex, I move my head back as I feel my heart race and my mind spin as they finish up 

"That was amazing Thomas, you had me feelin some type of way" Tammi says as she puts her panties back on 

"Well like I said I can do what your husband can't" He says as he leans in and kisses Tammi

Suddenly the door swings open to reveal a cracked out Marvin as he walks in angrily, Tammi instantly gets up in shock an surprise 

"You bastard" Marvin says 

Flashback over 

"All I heard next was screaming and crying, form two people and brutal beating noises that I assume my father was causing, soon after that my mother called the ambulance, the man was carried out on a stretcher, it was all over the news and the mans family sued and the record label was shut down, we had to move, my father went to rehab and now were here" Monica says finishing off the story