Look out

The beating

Sarah was laying in her room when she heard her parents coming up the stairs. She wanted to run and hide, for she knew what was about to happen to her. Yet another beating for made up reasons, she had been enduring them so long, Sarah had just about had enough.
Curled in a ball on her bed, her parents came storming into to her room. They were yelling and screaming at her for making a mess in the kitchen, and not picking up after herself again. They smacked her in the head and her father beat her with his belt. It had happened so many times now she couldn't even cry anymore.

  Most of the time she would go to school in long sleeves and pants so that no one would see the bruises that her parents left behind. However, the next day when she went to school her teacher noticed that Sarah was having a hard time sitting down.  She, told the teacher what had been going on at home. They tried to help her, but no one else believed what was going on. After all, her parents were very important people in the community.
  That day as she was walking home, she could only imagine the vicious beating that she would receive from her parents, for they had surely heard that Sarah had tried telling on them. As she walked up to the house she could see her parents on the porch waiting for her to get home.
   That night Sarah received the most vicious beating of her life. Bruised and bloody she lay on the floor of her room clutching her favorite stuffed bunny in her arms. This night the tears flowed freely from her eyes. Sarah knew these beatings had to stop, she had finally had enough, Sarah had lost her mind.
   Sarah knew she had to stop her parents. Even though she was only 10 years old, she could not stop the evil thoughts that raced through her mind. She devised a plan, one that no one would ever see coming. Soon, the life she knew would come to an end, and a new chapter in her short life would begin. No one would ever forget the girl named Sarah or what happened in the house she grew up in.