Author's Note: New chapter! I don't have an editor :/ So i'm sorry if there are any mistakes, I have read through it a lot anyways. So, enjoy! Thanks, for reading! Oh, & The Quarterback's Only Weakness Ch.02 doesn't fit into the title box :/ So its just Quarterback's only Weakness now.
Sasha
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I sat trembling crouched under the kitchen sink listening to Ray throw open the front of our condo door shouting. Hugging my knees to my chest I peeked out between the tiny crack between the two cabinet doors to watch Ray slap my mother causing her to fall to the floor not a foot away from my hiding spot.
"Ray don't do this." My mother Heather pleaded her hair tumbled around her face as she stared at the floor.
"You bitch!" Ray shouted down at her as she lay on the tile floor. Ray was a bear of a man at 6'2 and easily 250 pounds, there was no doubt in my mind he could hurt her.
But, I was frozen in shock and fear. I wanted to jump out from my hiding spot and help my defenseless mother but he had been drinking and wouldn't think twice to throw me across the room either. And then there was the promise I had not made to her five minutes earlier..."No matter what he does to me don't come out, don't!" Her words kept on ringing in my ears.
"Ray." She sobbed. "Leave."
"After a year of being together you go and so we are over!" He roared."Did you ever really love me?!"
"I do love you Ray, just leave." She cried pointing to the door. "I'll talk to you in the morning about this!" Heather cried, tears of anger streaming down her cheeks.
"Fine!" Ray stated storming out of the room like a wild bull and slamming the front door behind him. After he left my mother ran out of the kitchen and locked the door, deadbolt, and chain and come running back to the kitchen. Opening the cabinet door she slowly illuminated the cramped space I was huddled in. Never will I forget the first sight of her face after that night, never.
"Alex." A soft voice murmured breaking into the walls of my dreaming. I felt a pad of a thumb wipe a stray tear from my cheek and a soft kiss took its place as I floated back to consciousness.
"J-Jake?" I asked a little disoriented by my dream that felt way to real.
"I'm here." He whispered interlocking his hand with my trembling one. I had blamed Jake for his father's actions for years hating him and dodging him at all cost but as it turned out he blamed himself too.
"I-It felt so real." I stated softly pulling the sheets up around me and leaning against him.
"Shh." He whispered as he kissed my forehead. "It's okay." Jake knew that I had witnessed his dad push my mom around drunkenly many- a -times and still had nightmares on occasion. But, part of me blamed her...why go back to someone who physical abused you so many times. I was just thirteen at that time and never had experienced the magic of love that made you forgive the ones you love maybe too easily.
Sighing I rolled to my side and pressed my face to his well tanned bare chest absorbing his warmth and reveling in the comfort he was offering.
Maybe a minute later the ringing of the alarm clock drew a groan from my throat as I was almost back to nothingness. The ringing abruptly stopped as Seth slapped the off button and hopped out of bed.
"Rise and Shine!" Seth instructed standing in front of his bed clad in only his boxers doing a series of stretches. Meandering over to the blinds he pulled them open blinding us all. "Who wants coffee?" He asked cheerfully moved about the room at top speed like a morning fairy.
"Go back to sleep." Jake groaned shifting beneath me without letting my hand go he grasped the nearest pillow one handed and catapulted it at his head.
"Hey!" Seth exclaimed as it bounced off the back of his head.
