The Truth Within (Short Story)

Yulie was as ordinary as you can get.
She had straight A's in class, liked music, liked boys.

Everything was going great until one day her life changed completely.
Although her parents had fought before this time it was worse.
She knew where it would end it...Violence.
She had been through it before.
Whenever they started fighting she would cry her eyes out.
But today she decided to make the pain go away.
She got the sharpest thing she could find in her room
and started to cut her skin.
IT HURTED HER SO DAMN MUCH!!!
But at least it took her attention away from her parents.
She kept on making cuts in her arm, but when it got super close to her veins,
she stopped.
She got some bandages and went to get her sweater.
Of course no one noticed what she did.
How could they?
She wiped some of the blood off with a napkin and threw it away,
along with what she used to cut her self.
She crawled into bed, and did what she hadn't done in years.Cried her self to sleep.

The days passed.
Yet none noticed the cuts in her arm.
Although she did cover them as best as possible.

One day her parents went to a club.
She stayed home with her sister.
When her parents arrived, She noticed they were both drunk.
Of course, they started fighting.
Her sister and herself started crying and screaming.
She couldn't stop her emotions.
She yelled out," I WANNA DIE!"
Her dad grabbed her and slammed her against a bed.
There he started punching her.
She yelled for him to stop.
Yet he didn't listen.
When he did stop, she laid half unconscious.
Her lip was twice the size.
She was bruised.
She cried her self to sleep.

The days passed.
yet she was still sad.
Every one noticed the change,
the was not the once happy girl.
And although they saw this,
She still acted goofy,
all to cover her true emotions.

One day her mom comes up to her and tells her whats happening.
Her dad set up a mic somewhere in the house to listen to her phone calls.
He goes through a breakdown.
He doesn't eat.
He gets weaker and weaker each passing day.
Then one day the arguing started in the presence of the two daughters.
Yulie couldn't stand it,
Her father was accusing her mother of having a boyfriend and sleeping with him.
Her dad acts as if he is about to die.
Her mother tells him that shes moving.
So does he.

Yulie sits against a wall and pulls her knees up to her face.
She starts crying.

She uses her nails to make deep cuts in her leg.
Although her nails are barely sharp, she keeps scratching until,
she sees blood oozing out at certain places.
Then she does the next leg.
Once done with that one, she went back and forward between the two.

She stands up limping and goes to her room.
There she sees the computer on and decides to go on.
There she finds one of her friend who talks to her.
It calmed Yulie down a lot.

After wards she decides to go to sleep but first,
she puts some bandages around her newly cut legs.

She lays down.
Crying.
As she cried she thought of how many more days she would cry her self to sleep.

The END