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I sla myself a puy a couple of times in my head, I turned and stalked to the door, a fierce deteret this done, sort her out and then leave and that would be it

I knocked while I still had the nerve and stood there waiting for her to come to the door I couldn’t help but wonder what her reaction to nise ot sent down, she didn’t once visit me in juvie The last tiuilty for murder and was led off in a pair of handcuffs while she watched fro for me

The door opened within a ht of her She looked older than I remembered, the five years hadn’t been kind to her, she looked a lot older than her thirty-eight years Ray was right about one thing, she was in a bad way Her cheek was bruised, her lip split and there was a little cut in her eyebrow Fell down the stairs my ass, you could practically see the fist print on the side of her face

Her brown eyes that were the exact shade of mine, settled on nition washed over her face and her ed, instead of the relaxed woainst the door frame in her slutty skirt and low cut top, she see off as her eyes turned hard

So nise rowled Her eyes flicked up and down the street, obviously checking to see if anyone sawat ry and sad at the same time, I didn’t knohich e She really didn’t deserve o back to the life that I was building for myself But I couldn’t, darapevine that you fell down the stairs I ca

You know, bread, milk… ard son to beat the shit out of the abusive pimp you obviously have?" I offered sarcastically

She sneered at me, "I have no son!" she shouted

I flinched internally at her words but didn’t let anything show on my face as I put my hand on her shoulder and pushed her out of the way so I could step into the house I slalaring at me with so much hate that I’m surprised I hadn’t burst into flames froain, shall we? I’otten yourself into this ti it Now tell o and sort it out!" I said sternly, looking her right into the eyes, ignoring how her good hand clenched into a fist at my words

"You can’t just come in here! Get the hell out and don’t come back! You stupid little shit, Jas out’, I never needed you to sort anything foroff of your own back and look where it got us! You go to jail and I lose everything!

Just get the fk out!" she cried, grabbing the door handle and yanking the door open angrily, and gesturing for me to leave

I smirked at her as I turned around and walked off down the short hallway I tried not to look at anything on e, I tried not to notice that the peeling wallpaper was the sa that I had done on the wall by the stairs I tried not to notice that the threadbare carpet still hadn’t been changed or the little burn where I had dropped a lit cigarette after being made to smoke a whole pack at once, apparently to teach me not to steal s but I just couldn’t help it

She was screa me what a useless waste of space I was, how I ruined her life, how I screwed her over and left her with nothing I ignored it all and stepped up to the last door on the left,over the handle, scared to touch it and open the door This roohtmare happened I was scared that I would walk in there and see Sophie laying on the floor, blood seeping from her head, her eyes open and vacant I was scared I would seelike I had never done before or after that rabbed the cold brass handle, pushing the door open in one quickat the wall that last time I had seen it had been covered in blood, the plaster cracked froainst it I really was expecting it to be the same, for it to still be there, but it wasn’t The rooed to a dark brown, obviously they couldn’t salvage it with the massive amounts of blood that had seeped into it that day

Thankfully, I didn’t have a long tih, because before I knew it,profanities at ainstelse away, I needed to focus on what I ca about Sophie I turned around and grabbed the top of her aret her to shut up and listen to what I had to say