Love, Horrible isn't it?

Flashback..

Theo and Lucy were having another fight. Well, Theo was mad at Lucy and Lucy was just being screamed at.

“Why can’t you ever do anything right?!” Theo yelled at Lucy.

“I didn’t mean to, it was an accident.” Lucy said after accidentally dropping and breaking his game controller.

Lucy thought that they were having a good time that night, he was showing her how to do a certain move on the game that he plays online, when she accidentally dropped the controller. Theo absolutely lost it because it meant he couldn’t play his game until he got a new one. Before when they were playing, they even had a few laughs together for once.

“God. I cant do anything with you, you ruin it all!” He said as he smacks her in the face.

He had almost always been an abusive person to Lucy but no one saw it or if they did, they said nothing about it. After all, it is hard to hide black eyes when you don’t wear makeup like Lucy.

“Please stop! I’m sorry I didn’t mean to!” Lucy screamed. She fell to the floor and curled up into herself, not wanting to be there anymore and trying to disappear.

“You’re pathetic, absolutely worthless. Get out of my f*****g face!” He kicked her in the stomach as she tried to get to her feet to leave. She got back up and scurried off to the other room.

‘God I’m so stupid. Why did I do that?! I didn’t mean to! He hates me now. This isn’t fair! I do everything to make everyone happy and nothing works. I just want everyone happy!’ She thought to herself.

She went into the washroom to survey the damage on her face. It wasn’t too bad, just really red and swollen. There wouldn’t be too much of a bruise at least.

She sat on the toilet and cried. She didn’t think she was that bad of a person to deserve so many horrible things happening to her. But alas, they were. She just wanted to be happy, but she keeps doing everything wrong.

“What is wrong with me? No wonder no one likes me.” She said to herself. “I’m useless."

She sat there for a few more minutes and then noticed the time, it was getting late and Theo was probably already in bed. ‘At least I don’t have to deal with him anymore right now. I don’t know what else I could do wrong right now but I’m sure I could think of something.’ She thought.

She snuck into their room and sure enough, Theo was sound asleep. Lucy crawled in gently, as to not wake him up. Then cuddled into the wall next to him and slowly fell asleep.

Shortly after she fell asleep, Lucy woke up to two hands around her throat choking the life out of her. She panicked and started fighting for her life. That was when she realized what was happening.

Theo was laying on top of Lucy, strangling her. She couldn’t move, couldn’t scream, couldn’t do anything but fight for her life.

She was doing everything she possibly could to get some air. Hitting, clawing and trying to pry his hands off her. After about 30 seconds he finally let go and then rolled over and went back to sleep like nothing happened. Lucy slowly rose to her feet after catching her breath, wondering what on earth has just happened. Theo was all she knew, she didn’t know what to do now. Did she upset him that bad? What made him go this far this time? She went into the living room and laid there, all night until Theo had woken up the next day.

“Why did you do that?” She said quietly when he walked out of the room.

“I just f*****g woke up. Do what?” He said as he walked towards the washroom.

“This.” She said with a scratchy throat as she pulled down the neck of her pajamas to show off the massive handprint of a bruise around her neck.

“Oh f**k off. I didn’t f*****g do that. And if you tell anyone I did, we are f*****g done. Do you understand me?” he said.

“I just want to know what I did wrong so I don’t do it again. I won’t tell anyone, I never do. I promise. Please don’t leave me.” Lucy said tearfully. ‘Why is this happening to me? Why did he say he didn’t do it? It’s never gone this far before. Did I upset him that much last night? I didn’t mean to, it just fell. He could’ve killed me, he wouldn’t do that though. He loves me. Doesn’t he?’ she thought inwardly.

“Stop crying. It’s annoying. Look, I got you something.” He tossed her a bag with her favorite chips in it. “Now go eat, Chubby.”

‘See? He loves me. I just have to stop messing up so much.’ She thought smiling. 'Everything will be okay if I just smarten up.'

And just like that, everything was forgiven..