Moment in Her Life

Ashlee Griffith
11/28/06


Moment in Her Life

Ashlee hit the snooze button on her alarm clock and slowly fell back to sleep but she kept thinking to herself that this was going to be a horrible day, she just knew it. Ashlee didn’t want to go to school. All she wanted to do was sit in her room, relax, and take in this horrible day. But when the alarm clock rang again she woke up got in the shower and went to school. Sitting in class Ashlee would just look at the clock and watch the time go by slowly. Ring! The last bell rang and school was out finally. Ashlee was going to be able to go home and maybe get past this horrible day she was going to have.
When she got home all she wanted to do was lay down and not talk to anyone she wanted peace and quiet. Thirty minutes went by and now her whole family was home that means dinner would be soon; but instead while Ashlee was sitting upstairs in her room all she could hear was her mother and stepfather arguing and fighting again. Ashlee figured it was about the stupid “I worked this hard and now I come home and blah, blah crap.” Normally, Ashlee would ignore this fighting and bickering. But this was a different argument. Ashlee heard a different voice, it was a small pitched voice; it was her little sister crying and screaming off the top of her lungs screaming, “Stop, stop! You’re hurting my mother!"
Ashlee was furious, she jumped up from sitting in her chair and stormed down the stairs to the living room to find her stepfather that she already had hatred towards grabbing and shaking her mother. Ashlee glanced at her mother and saw her face it was filled with hatred, fear, love, confusion, and pain all at the same time. Ashlee hated seeing her mother in this pain so her first reaction was to protect her mother from this man that was hurting her and her causing her all this pain.
So Ashlee ran up to her mother and stepfather and yanked her mother from her stepfather’s hands that were gripped so tightly around her that she tore her mother’s blouse. But she did it to protect her mother that she loved. Then she looked at the man that she had such hatred towards and asked him forcefully, “What is your problem? Why are you doing this?” Ashlee could clearly see now that her stepfather was drunk and knew that when he gets like this its bad, really bad. But she didn’t care she could not take it anymore; all the horrible things he has caused her family and friends. And ask him “ Why do you have to be such a jerk and an awful father; look at what you are doing to this poor child of yours or at least you claim to say is yours”. ”Its not right you should be thrown in jail for what you have done to this family.” That just hit her stepfather’s last nerve and he started to come towards her. Ashlee didn’t know what to do at this point all she knew was she had to protect herself and her family. He came closer and closer until he was right in her face. What was he going to do?
Ashlee began to breath harder, her pulse and blood pressure rose to highest of high points. Then Ashlee felt saliva all over her face and in her mouth. He spit on her. Her stepfather spit on her. That hit a nerve inside Ashlee that she has never felt before she wanted to beat the living crap out of this man. Ashlee crunched her fist and raised it to hit him but he grabs it and swung her around. She was now locked in this man arms. Ashlee then forces her hand out and grabs his face with her other hand and tells her mother to leave and take Ella her sister with her. Her mother did what she asked and Ashlee gripped his face harder and started to scratch him till he bled; she could feel his skin going into her nails. He let her go but was furious came into her and tried grabbing her like he had her mother. Ashlee quickly lunges her arms at him and pushed him down. She just stood there watching the man she hated force his drunken body up. Ashlee didn’t know what was going to happen what was he going to say? What was he going to do?
Then he grabs her by the neck pushed her back till she was up against the wall “I don’t think you know who I am and what I can do” he began to grip her neck tighter to where she couldn’t breath. “ I am the man of this house and you must do what I say. And I am telling you little miss Ashlee want to be protector I am the protector you aren’t so if you have a problem with how things are run here then you can leave”! He wouldn’t let go of her neck or even loosen up his grip. Ashlee began to cry she couldn’t breath. ```Ashlee started to squirm but he just kept his grip around her neck.
Then her mother came into the room and saw how things were she couldn’t say anything she was scared he would come after her next. Ashlee started to fall to the floor, her eyes slowing closing as she fell, she wasn’t breathing at all, and there was no pulse. He had killed her and there was nothing her mother did to help her daughter when she needed it. After everything her daughter did for her and the rest of their family. She did nothing; tears fell down eyes everywhere. What was going to happen now?