Eternal Soulmate by Brooklyn Taylor

try to get into the door. I can’t get in. It’s locked. I know if I ring the door bell it will not be good. I am scared to do it, but, I am also scared not to cause my mommy is inside getting hurt. I finally ring it one time, and then run behind the bush on the right side of the door. The door opens up and my mom comes flying out the door. Nick had picked her up and threw her out. She hit the sidewalk and slid across the cement. I ran next to her and tried to hug her. She was crying, but trying to be brave for me. I helped her up and she hugged me back. She sat outside with me for the rest of the day and drew with me with my sidewalk chalk. Then we layed down in the grass and looked up at the clouds moving. She didn’t say anything and neither did I. I just could hear her breathing and I started to think how her breathing was keeping me protected. She was protecting me. She could not leave and she took the beatings to protect me.
    The doors opening and the lady’s voice wakes me up out of my flashback to bring me back to reality. I shake the lady and was able to get her up. She wakes with a jolt but sees she is safe. My co-worker comes into the room and then leave. I am in a daze myself reliving the feelings with my mother.  I call for some assistance and leave the room. Deep breath Ashlynn. 
    I decided to go put some gas in my truck so I don’t have to do it on the way home. It’s just down the block from my work and I can get a little fresh air. As I’m pumping gas, running my to-do list in my mind, I see a man in a truck staring at me. He hasn’t gotten out of his truck for gas and I haven’t seen him go into the store. Good Lord Ashlynn chill … He’s probably just waiting on someone. I finished pumping and get in.  I can feel his eyes on me the entire time. Maybe he’s just checking me out. Will I ever get to where I don’t assume the worse?
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    ~Nick~
    I knew I’d find her. Not that she was hiding in the sense of the word. My ex-wife just died, and now I can handle unfinished business with Ashlynn, the stupid bitch. She was fine as a little girl but as she grew up, she’d put her nose in my business. She was a big pain in my ass. I knew I had her mom trapped, and there was no way in hell she was leaving me. The lady couldn’t wipe her ass without me; I made sure of it. She even got to where she would fight me back and I got a little excited.  She didn’t have a chance, but it was funny as shit to see her try. She was one woman I enjoyed hitting. She just didn’t know her place. What I wanted was what I got. If she couldn’t follow my rules or my expectations, she was punished. Bottom line. After the years we were together, I thought I had her isolated enough that I had my woman brainwashed just as I needed her to be. You see, my father did this to my mother, my grandfather to my grandmother and on and on. This is how the men in my family operated. Women were to obey their men and if they didn’t, we would teach them to. I threatened Liz for years that I would kill Ashlynn if she didn’t obey me. This was one of the reasons I knew I had her committed to me. She’d do anything to protect her little angel.  Well looky here. Now Liz is not here to do anything about it. I have had dreams about how my fist is going to feel going across her face. She’ll be a fighter, too.  I’ll love that.
    I got the call, I’d been waiting for. Russell my buddy I used to hang out with, called me today. He told me he saw the little snatch at Copeland Dance Hall. She was with that rich bitch McKoy. Now, I’m just buying my time.
    I still feel the piece of my ear that is missing from her grazing it. Stupid bitch. Every time I run my hands across it I get pissed.  I should’ve and could’ve taken care of her earlier. Liz leaving that day was the best thing that could have happened to me.  She was drinking as much as I was, and we were fighting worse and worse. I probably would have ended up in prison from