Your support makes Blue Moon possible (Patreon)As he heard the door close, Jack slowly uncurled from the defensive ball he had taken on the floor. He could already feel his eye starting to swell shut from the punch that had knocked him down. Groaning as he set up, he wondered if he had broken ribs from the kicks…
Placing a hand on his side he could only think how lucky he felt that his twin sister hadn’t been home. Most people would never believe that it was his father that had beaten him while his mother set back and laugh. Ever sense his twin and himself had turned twelve he had tried to make himself the target of the beatings. Now at fifteen he had had enough. He was going to take his twin and they were going to run away…
Moving slowly to the back porch, he carefully set do and waited for his sister to get home from her after school activities. ‘As soon as their parents fell asleep they would run,’ he told himself.
Placing a hand on his side he could only think how lucky he felt that his twin sister hadn’t been home. Most people would never believe that it was his father that had beaten him while his mother set back and laugh. Ever sense his twin and himself had turned twelve he had tried to make himself the target of the beatings. Now at fifteen he had had enough. He was going to take his twin and they were going to run away…
Moving slowly to the back porch, he carefully set do and waited for his sister to get home from her after school activities. ‘As soon as their parents fell asleep they would run,’ he told himself.