He is always there now. Chapter 3 All I can see is black, all I can hear are mumbles and..crying. My eyes flutter open, there is a window which shows me that it is hail outside, so school will have been cancelled. I move my head to the side slightly and then someone shouts. There is someone in the room with me, but I can't see who. Slowly I begin to recognise the room-Jaces bedroom. Jace and his mother are at the doorway looking at me with concern. "I should go home" I manage to say. "No,don't go Alexia" he says back. " Why, I just want to go home. I'll see you tomorrow." I say with a bit of a stronger voice. A few minutes later, his mum is asking if she can talk to me, so I say yes. When we sat at the table in the kitchen, she sends Jace away and then asks if there has been anything going on at home that she should be concerned about. After answering her questions, I left and went home. I walked in and locked the door, my dad was waiting for me in the room at the back of the house. I went to him, he stopped boxing with Alex, they both took off their gloves and came to either side of me. They started kicking and punching me. When Alex started kicking my ribs,I screamed and a few moments later we heard the door opening. The person came into the room and began getting them off me. Alex wasn't for giving up and even started fighting the guy. My vision became hazy as I slid to the floor, Jace knelt beside me and cradled me in his arms, he took me upstairs and packed a suitcase with my clothes and stuff. Then he helped me to his house after I changed into a dress. His mum was a bit stunned from Jace running out of the house and coming back with me. He explained what had happened while I curled up on the sofa. His mum was utterly disgusted by what my family do to me. When she asked about my mum, I shrugged, I've never met her, I've never seen her and I don't know who she is, her name, her age, her anything. As Jace held me in his arms, I broke down crying. A few hours later, I had cried myself to sleep, when I woke up I expected Alex to come in and beat me. A month had passed, I was staying at jaces house at the minute, school had been cancelled until Easter, with the hail and everything, my breathing was a lot better, my chest stopped hurting. However, one problem remained, I had to go back to my house at some point. At that point the doorbell rang, I went to get the door to find my brother. He put his hands round my neck and squeezed. He took me outside and to my house. He opened the door and shut it again. He took me upstairs and started beating me up. My father was downstairs shouting at someone. Jace stormed into the room and pulled him off of me. With Alex protesting, Jace carried me across the road. Chapter 4 I had managed to convince Jace and his mother that was fine. And that I couldn't possibly live with them anymore, it wasn't fair to them. They let me go back home. I shut the door, went to my bedroom and changed into jeans and a belly top. There was a knock at the door at I ran down the stairs.My dad had ordered pizza, I took it and the guy started to use his thumb to brush blood off my face from my split lip. My dad came downstairs and punched the guy in the face, pushed him outside and shut the door. Then put his attention on me, I told him that school had been cancelled until Easter. There was another bang at the door. Keeping his grip on my arms by twisting them behind my back, he opened the door to reveal Jace. My father invited him in and led Jace to the gym room. All the way, he kept his hands on my arms. My father sat me down on the chairs in the room. Jace looked ready to fight my father. And there was nothing I could do to stop it. honey.