Take it as it comes

**off I go*

I prepare myself for school and go have some breakfast.When I enter the sitting room I sense that something is odd.Dad and mum are staring at each other angrily.Seems like they have been fighting but I don't know exactly what about.I announce my presence,take tea and head out for school.

It's weird how everything around me seems like a long time memory and yet I can easily figure my way wherever I want.To be honest I just feel like here is where I belong.The day goes smoothly and it's evening already.I decide to walk back home so I can check the surrounding as well as be conversant with them as well as see what might have changed.

When I reach home everything changes.I suddenly freeze at the door.My mum is on the floor groaning in pain,my dad is on top of her punching her and yelling out insults of all sort.All my mum is saying is,"You are not the man I married.That girlfriend of yours has taken the man I knew and left me to deal with this excuse of a man.I am only dealing with you and taking it all in because of my daughter.If not I could have been long gone and left you with that mistake of a woman who doesn't know how to respect marriages!"

ooh no!what is happening?I have seen this before,I hated when this happened to my mum.i hate the fact that my mum is going through all this because of me.This is enough!I won't let my mum hurt anymore!

I don't know where I get the strength to get on my father's back.I tell him that he should stop molesting my mum.He should not fight at least in front of me.He quickly changes his glare at me.I feel scared because I am pretty sure that I will be the next on the ground.I have never done this before, Everytime they are on a fight I used to hide myself in my room untill my mum calls me out.But now it's different.I stand strong and stare back at him.After a long staring competition he turns around and storms out of the house.

I tend to my mum and make supper.I make sure she takes some pain killers and she eventually falls off to sleep.I sleep next to her hoping that when dad comes back he won't start to hit her again.To my luck,he doesn't come back untill later in the next morning.

I decide to make a change in this situation.I can't lose my family,my mum,my dad because of an outsider.No I can't!