Hear Me Cry

*school bell rings* "Damn girl, you gonna move or what?" That's all I could hear while standing in the doorway of Mrs.Green's English class. "Calm yo ass down Bryce, you definitely didn't do the homework so stop rushing me!" I said. I forgot to introduce myself.. I'm Elena Green, and you've probably guessed it by now, Yes, Mrs.green is my mother. I'm 17 years old and a junior at Northwood Academy along with my twin brother Bryce Green. Today was the last day of the school year and my 18th birthday is tomorrow, finally gonna be a senior and enjoy my summer without my ma and pa down my back because I can officially be grown now! "Okay class quiet down, let's all take out our textbooks and turn to page 112!" *class sighs in unison* "Ma, it's the last day of school you really about to have us do work?" Says Bryce. "Keep it professional young man my name is Mrs.Green, and yes we are about to do work, gotta keep them young minds fresh!" Being the type of girl I am I stand up tall and hit the desk so hard and start going off on ma. "Mrs.Green, today is the only day that we get to take a break from all this English work and actually enjoy ourselves, you need to start treating us all like adults and stop trying to make us work when obviously nobody wants to do it, your being a real pain in the ass ma! I mean Mrs.Green!" *whole class claps and cheers* "Damn Elena, you didn't have to get her like that!" Says my best friend Samarra. I look back smile and we high five eachother. Angrily ma looks at me and gives in to having us just chill for the class period. Everyone is talking it up and laughing when someone touches my shoulder from behind. "I really appreciate how you stood up to your mom to have us just have a chill time." I never seen him in class before but he slips me a sticky note with his number on it and me and my bestie start smiling and I put the note in my back pocket. Time goes by and the bell rings and you know what that means.... it's time to go home. I hug my best friend and Bryce try's to hug her too but she was not going for it, he always been fetishizing over Samarra but then again who wasn't. Light skinned with the big butt and hips, long curly hair, and green eyes. All the boys had the wants for her. Then there's me, short, dark skinned with hella acne and a wide ass. I'm apart of the pretty crew but next to Samarra I was a ant and she's the queen bee! But this summer was gonna be my glow up, daddy said he was getting me a car so I was gonna be out this summer, got my gym membership and a new skin care routine ain't nobody gonna tell me shit, especially not my hating ass mother. Me and Bryce push eachother back and fowards to ma's car after school I get in the back because I don't wanna hear what she has to say about my outburst in class earlier but yk big mouth Bryce had to say something about it. I put my AirPods in and listen to music to zone her out. I didn't feel like arguing with her. We all get home and I run up to my pa and hug him so tight to make ma jealous. "Hey baby girl, how was your last day of school?" He said. "It was good daddy I got some boys number today!" He looked very mad for a moment and walk away as if he didn't like that news. "What's his problem Bryce?" "Idk sis I don't think pa wants you dating anyone." Ma jumps in "you definitely should've kept that to yourself young lady, might as well kiss that car goodbye your pa is very possessive about his kids." Time passes and it's time to eat and open early birthday gifts at the table. Pa didn't join us for dinner tonight, he sat by the tv drinking beer watching the lakers play against the bulls. I can tell he was irritated by what I said but I felt like I could tell my dad anything, we always had a great relationship every since I was young, pa was my Prince Charming , I would always tell pa I wanna marry a man just like him when I get older, but somehow all my ex's are 100% different than pa and pa hates that. "Honey do you wanna come watch the kids open their birthday boxes or want them to come to you?" Ma said. "Naw baby I'm good I'm watching the game There's always more birthday eves." Pa said. The sadness in my face couldn't be hid but I don't have the guts to talk to pa the way I talk to ma. So I tell ma I'll open my gifts tomorrow infront of pa and Bryce agreed with me and we all went to our rooms for bed. I get on FaceTime with my bestie Samarra and tell her what just happened and she came up with the idea to add the boy to our FaceTime call. I got up and did something to my hair and put some lashes on so I wouldn't look bad on camera. You wouldn't believe what happened. Pa walked right in the room drunk asf and grabbed my phone and threatened the boy before I even got his name, he took my phone and threw it out the window and said, "yea little bitch go get your shit from outside, not about to be talking to them no good niggas in my house ever again!!!" I instantly started crying and ma ran in the room hugging me while rubbing my back comforting me. Bryce ran in the room too and took dad out the room. I was so scared that night, I never seen dad act that way towards me, I was his little princess. Fast forward to the next morning I didn't get out of bed till noon, mom was gone to clean her classroom up and Bryce went somewhere with friends, which left me and pa in the house alone. Pa comes in my room and apologized for last night. Me being the daddy's girl that I am instantly accepted his apology. As I go in for a hug I smell alcohol on him a lot worse than the night before. The hug lasted for at least 3 minutes then I started feeling pa kissing on my neck. "Pa what are you doing?" *pushes back* "it's ok baby girl just let it happen, remember you use to tell pa all the time that I was your Prince Charming!" I started crying and fighting pa off of me I didn't want what was about to happen to happen. No one was home so all my screams and crys were not heard. As I aggressively fought back I couldn't find anything to protect myself. As pa is forcing himself on to me and successfully raping me he gets up, kisses my forehead, throws some car keys, a purse filled with hush money, and the used condom with blood all over it on top of my bed and left the house and said, "tell ma to make my favorite for dinner I'm going to the office!" As if nothing happened. I sat there for a hour crying trying to understand what just happened. Why did this happen to me? Why now?