Oceane
I was hiding in the basement. I was already used to it because I had been doing it since I was six. Before that i never would've thought about what was happening right in front of my eyes because I didn't notice it and I was too little to understand. But when I finally did it was kind of too late. It was because my father was an addict.
Before I turned six neither me nor my mom noticed that he was taking drugs.
But we did after he started coming home really high and was mad. After that he was really abusive. But my mom couldn't leave him because we were too poor and she couldn't raise me and my siblings alone. She never told anyone about it because he threatened to kill us if she did. I would stay really long at school and come home late so I didn't have to endure him. In public I would act like my family is perfect but in reality it was the opposite. I was scared every time he came back home and if he was really mad I would hide with my siblings in the basement. That's how life was. I was used to it by now so I didn't know it wasn't really normal.
When sitting there in the basement suddenly I heard police sirens. I was surprised. My mom definitely didn't call them 'cause she was too scared just as I was. Who could've called them if we never told anybody about the abuse.
"Stay in here" I told my siblings. I needed to know what was happening upstairs. "I'll be back in a bit"
"Where are you going?" Asked Brooke
"To the toilet. Stay with Pearl. Everything's okay. Trust me." I answered her. Not everything was true but some parts were. "Right Pearl?" I winked at her secretly so Brooke wouldn't see.
"Yeah" She put on a smile. A fake one. "Everything will be okay."
I sprinted upstairs to see what was going on. The police were already putting my father in cuffs. Meanwhile my mom was crying. Our father was about to kill her, if they would have arrived even 3 minutes later she would be already dead. After my father was taken one of the officers came to me and my mom.
"Is anyone else in the house?" He asked.
"Yeah my two sisters are in the basement. I'll go get them."
"Thank you. And after that we'll take all of you to the station for questioning. Is that okay with you m'am."
"Yeah. Okay," My mom was definitely still shocked from everything that happened in the last hour.
I went to get my siblings. But when I came to the basement they weren't there. I looked around to see if they hid anywhere but then I saw the broken window.
I ran upstairs to tell my mom and the officer.
