Me and Brett had been together for 2 years now. Atfirst it was amazing, he was crazily romantic, always bought me flowers, bought me chocolates, and i couldnt have been happier. Then Brett changed, he became more secretive about things, never bought me flowers or chocolates, and was always shouting at me if i didnt do the little things right. The first beating came when i made him dinner and it was cold when he ate it. And after that, he started calling me stupid and said i was ugly. Because of that i never feel attractive anymore. After ever beating hes always nice to me. He doesnt apologize for the pain he puts me through, its like he forgets, like he doesnt know he does it, and then i think he wont do it again, but he always does.
I crept down the stairs slowly, scared that he might see me. I peaked my head around the living room door, he wasnt there. I sighed with relief, but he could still be here which made my heart pump against my chest 50 times every second. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath.
"Brett?" No answer, opening my eyes i looked around, again taking a deep breath i spoke again. "Brett where are you?" No answer again. I smiled, picking up my purse i walked out of the door, locking it behind me. As i was walking down the street i got strange looks of people which made me feel more conceious. Was my bruises showing? Could people tell? I started to walk fasted down the street, until i reached my destination. I smiled as i saw my curly haired friend. He was deep in thought and didnt even realise i was stood beside him.
"Hellllooo, earth to nick?" I laughed waving my hand is his face. I only ever felt comfortable and safe when i was with Nick, i knew he would protect me from all the bad things, if only he ever knew what was happening to me, he'd kill brett. Me and Nick had been friends since we were only little. We met in grade 3, and as soon as we met we instantly became best friends, we didnt care that at that age everyone thought it was stupid for boys to be best friends with girls or the other way around, we always stuck by each other no matter what happened. Infact it was Nick that introduced me to Brett, and i didnt want to let him down by telling him what was going on.
"Oh im sorry, i was miles away" He laughed, snapping out of his daydream world and back to reality.
"So where did you go? On the Moon writing songs? To the Sahara Sunbathing?" I giggeled. He gave me a confused look which made me chuckle. "In your own world duhh!" The corners of his mouth turned up reaveling a very charming smile which made my stomach do flips.
"Nothing so exciting" He laughed looking at me for the first time since i walked in. His smiled turned into a frown.
"Sinead, Babe, what happened?" Nick came rushing over to my side, bending down on his knees and putting his hands on my knee, the restaurant started clapping, my head shot up and looked around, i looked back at Nick and realised how he was kneeling. I stood up shocked.
"NO! Wheres just friends!" I said whipping off my sunglasses reaveling some bruises showing through my make up.
