The Girl In With The Scars

Ch 1. (Shelby's pov)

I slid to the cold tiles of the bathroom floor, blood seeping through the tears in my pale pink jeans. I'll have to throw them away now, I loved those jeans. My parents just came home, they're pissed. I forgot to mop the floors after I cleaned and bleached the carpets so they thrashed my thighs with their favorite weapon. My father loves his flogger, this one though......it's unique.....the leather strips are wider so that pieces of broken glass can be placed in tiny holes in the leather. My father has become monstrous, he was loving, happy and sweet before my mother died but her suicide destroyed him. He became mad at the world and since he rarely leaves the house and I don't go to school. I became the world....
My stepmother is worse than my father, she ties me up in the basement, chains my wrists to the rafters and uses the flogger on my ribcage and any exposed flesh she can see. Hopefully my brothers will come back home for a little while, my stepmother and father are going on vacation tomorrow and my birthday is the day after they leave. I jump as my phone vibrates. I told my older brother Lee what was going on, him, my brother Carlos and a man that Lee calls "Noah" are coming over. Lee is convinced that Noah can stay with me and keep me safe but I'm afraid that as soon as he sees what happens in this house that he'll go running the other way and I'll get beat for trying to get help. We'll just have to wait and see I suppose, I hope he doesn't see my legs and ribs and get disgusted. I won't let him see my scars, I won't let him get close. But........what if I want him to get close to me? No. That's impossible. I've never been loved by anyone by my brothers and that defiantly means I won't be getting a boyfriend any time soon. I mean look at me. You can't see my skin tone for all the scars that litter my body.....it's my fault I guess......I remind my father too much of my Mom, I should try to change, maybe he'll give me a chance then.

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So what did you think of the first chapter? I promise things will get much better. Let me know what you want to see later on in the book :)