!!!! **** WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING! SUCH AS CHILD ABUSE! READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! **** !!!!
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Trouble's P.O.V.
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I woke up the next morning feeling like sh.it. My body ached so badly I almost couldn't roll out of bed. I hoped the shower would help wake me, but it did little. There were bruises all over my back, and it hurt to breathe.
Not like it matters.
I dressed slower than usual. I tried to hurry my a.ss up so that I didn't miss the bus, but the pain was just too much. I'm used to getting slapped around by Steven, but he's been getting increasingly more aggressive. Almost like he knows what Alice has been doing and has been taking it out on me. One day he'
