Chapter 1
Annabelle POV
Today… Today is the day I will finally close this chapter of my life, the hurt, the scars, and the nightmares will be healed and be removed from my life, I will carry on having a normal life and normal relationships with people who truly care about me.
I am on my way to my ex-boyfriends’ home to collect all my belongings that I protected for so long. He will not take them from me; he has already taken so much of me and my life.
My friends and family are gone and the only one I have left is my sister, but I was not allowed to see her because of him, I cannot let him have the last memories I have from a life full of happiness and laughter. He already destroyed my happiness, and I can kill him for that.
I prepared myself physically and mentally for this day. I trained my body, started to learn how to fight, stand up for myself and I made my mind strong, I know I am ready to face Derrick. As I came around the corner closing in on his house my heart started to race, but I will not let my fear get the best of me. Enough is enough. I phoned his office and made sure he will not be home, but I will be prepared for anything due to the office telling me that Derrick was fired two weeks ago for fraud and being drunk when he goes to work. Drinking was an old habit for him.
I parked my car and saw nobody; his car was nowhere near the house. I still had my house key as I only got out of the hospital a month ago from the last encounter Derrick and I had. I came closer to the door and held out my key, when I opened the door, the house was a complete mess. I walked in only having my belongings on my mind. I went to the bedroom and started to search for them. I know Derrick hid them somewhere as he always said it is trash and I should move on with my life. He never wanted anybody or anything close to me except for himself.
I searched everywhere, but the last place I searched was Derrick’s office and I found them in the drawer of his desk after I broke the lock. I was so glad I found them all in place and in one piece, I only snapped out of my happy state when I heard the front door opening. When I looked around the corner, I saw Derrick looking the worst I have ever seen him. His blonde hair was dirty, and he had dark blue circles around his once happy blue eyes, he was completely drunk. I felt sorry for him until he threw a bottle at my direction as soon as he saw me “What the fuck are you doing in my house?”
“I knew you would come back to me it was only a matter of time, I know you can’t live without me. You will always crawl back to me!”
“Derrick please listen to me you are drunk; I only came here to collect my photo albums. Can you please let me leave I don’t want to hurt you!”
The only thing I thought of was to try and reason with him, but I knew that will never work. The next thing I did was maybe not the smartest, but I was ready to face him, I had enough anger in me to last years.
“Wow you look much better than the last time I saw you. Not so much blood and crying I see. I would love to see how someone as small as you can try and hurt me!”
“You will be surprised at how much I changed since then, now let me leave and let’s leave it at that! You are a monster and if I didn’t have any dignity left in me, I swear I will fucking kill you now at this precise moment!”
My blood started to boil, I knew what this was leading to and I was ready! He will never ruin my life again. Today I will leave this house on my own two legs and drive away. I will not let the same thing happen twice.
“Annabelle, baby you will never leave this house without my permission you stupid Bitch!”
And with that Derrick jumped me and hit me in the face, I lost my balance, but got my composure before I fell to the ground. Without hesitation I grabbed onto the table on my right side and swung my fist and hit him on the nose, I felt bones cracking under my fist and it was pure satisfaction at that moment, he didn’t take that well and pushed me so hard I fell on my already cracked ribs on the corner of the coffee table. My first instinct was to grab my ribs, but when I did Derrick jumped on me and wanted to hit me again. He got in one shot to the ribs and one on my lip, then I got a vase from my right-hand side and hit him over the head. He fell off me and ended up on the ground.
“You Bitch you will pay for this I promise you!”
“We will see about that you Mother fucker!”
And with that I hit him again. After that he just laid there without any movement. The adrenalin pumped so much the only thing I could think was to run to my car and drive. I just hope I didn’t kill him! I was about 4 hours from my hometown, so I had enough time to calm my nerves before my sister sees me with a beat-up face again. I still remember her words “Annabel if he ever lifts a finger at you again, I will castrate him with a plastic spoon!” I love her so much and she is the only one still standing by my side after everything, but this time I left the house feeling in control, I knew I was ready to move on and that things will start to be better.
Wont it?
