Silence

We'll be a perfect family

   I'm a screw up, I'm a screw up. I don't belong here. My thoughts were drowning me and it was like I couldn't breathe. "Libby!!" Yelled James, My older brother who is a freshman in high school. "Get your ass down here now!" My thoughts were interrupted by his terrible screaming, but I new for my own safety I better get down there before I get a beating. I walked down very slowly down the stairs of are house. I held the handle bar for are circular stair case very lightly in a stroking motion until I reached the bottom. "Ugh Libby you are so slow that a turtle could beat you" whined Ava my older sister who's is a junior in high school. "I'm sorry Ava, it won't happen again". I murmured under my breath.

   "It better not or a swear I'll beat the shit out of you" She said in a superior tone. "Y-Yes Ava" I stuttered My siblings are very abusive. I know that that sounds crazy but it's true. Siblings even though they beat and hit at the end of the day they know that they love each other, but with them it's just hate. "Let's go Ava and James, were going out" my mom said while getting her purse. "Libby, ugh, your so messy this is exactly why me and your father don't let you out that much." "Y-Yes M-Mother" as quick as lightning a strength full slap went right across from my face. "Libby Cooper!" My father yelled. "Never ever stutter to your mother!" "She is your Superior God Damnit" he yelled as I was in the ground wiping the blood from my face while holding in my tongue and tears. "Now you go upstairs to your room and get on your dress and clean up that blood, we have a family picture together today"

   I look in the mirror and see brown hair and brown eyes. I just see that. I don't see the bruises and blood. I look past that. But it will be better one day, I know it. But now you know that I see things that no one else sees. And that to you we're a perfect family, the Coopers, but once you open the walls, you just made a deal with the devil, and if you tell anyone, all hell will break loose. But soon these scars will turn from a nightmare to a symbol that reads... I will survive.

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This story has a lot of heavy abuse. If you are sensitive about this topic I suggest you do not read this. I will try to post a chapter every week to keep it updated. Thank you to everyone that will read this. This book might teach you a thing or two about the world. ;)