I never knew that the human body could hold that much blood. I could not have imagined that blood could seep out of you with such rhythmic pumps, staining the floor underneath you in a red that was so dark that it almost looked like black.
Looking into the eyes of my abuser wasn’t the worse thing I have ever seen. There was something worse than him walking into your room in the middle of the night. There is something way worse than him pulling down your pants and raping you until you bleed. The worst was when you saw something you had wished for all your life, but realize finally that there was nothing romantic about it. That death could not save you. Death was savage and cruel, painful and quick. It wasn’t peaceful like sleep, where you felt the hurt going away from you. You weren’t jus
