Truth
1636 Words
Emmett’s
P.O.V
When I first was her that very first day of school I knew I loved her, yip I wanted to marry her my little boy heart bust with excitement she was pretty real pretty.
At the end of the day I couldn’t wait to get home so I could tell mom all about Leah Lockwood, she reminded me so much of my mom, quiet, shy and very intelligent.
“Mom, mom I think I found my wife!”
I exclaimed as soon as I entered our home
“Hey hey slow down buddy, what no hug for momma?”
“Sorry, mom I’m just so excited, mom she’s so pretty”
I said as I hugged her
“Let me about her Em!”
“She’s got long black her with blue eyes and she wheres glasses, it makes her look so pretty. She’s so clever mom”
“She does sound very pretty Em.”
“Will you take me to school tomorrow so I can show you how she is?”
“I’ll ask your father okay honey?”
“Ask me what?”
My father asked as soon as he stepped into our home
“Dad can mom take me to school tomorrow? I want to show her this really pretty girl I like in my class please dad.”
“You’re to young to like someone!”
He said gruffly
“But dad…
“No buts young man, woman are liars and cheats aren’t they Marla?”
“I uhm..
He gripped moms arm and she forced a smile on her face
“Yes they are”
She said to me
“But mom you just said…
“Said what huh? ( he slammed his hand hard down on the counter making mom and myself flinch)
Tell me son do you know how to treat a woman huh?”
“Love them dad”
I said with a bright smile on my face
“And how do you love a woman?”
“I was gonna ask mom for some points.”
“I’ll give you some points boy! Woman loves a man to be ruff ain’t that right huh Marla?”
“Ruff?”
“Yes son ruff! They like to be treated like you own them, a woman doesn’t like a man to be nice to her, she likes a man to be in control of everything what she eats when she eats, shoved around a little, like showing her who is boss”
While saying this he pulled hard on moms hair and she groaned but with a smile on her face then he ruffled pecked her lips
“Like that dad?”
“Yes son just like that, see mom loves it don’t you honey?”
“Y..ye
“Speak b***h! Or I’ll make you”
“Yes Em just like this.”
“Never let her forget who the boss is okay son!”
“I won’t dad. I’ll love her just like you love mum!”
“That’s good and if you need more advice come to your daddy, your momma’s dumb as s**t”
“Alright dad.”
From then every day I’d come home and ask dad how else I could show Leah that I loved her and he’d tell me.
“Don’t ever tell her you love her, woman like to be shown love not hear it, tough love is what makes a woman respect you, this way you will know she will never leave you for some other man.”
He even demonstrated something’s to me with mum, like shoving her ruffly, punching her in places no one could see, love marks are what he called them.
“When you do that, give them love marks it’s just for her eyes so that when you not around she will have those to always think about you”
“All men do this dad?”
“Yes son all of them”
“But I’ve never seen dad show love to mum when others are around”
“That’s because it’s something private son something intimate between you and the woman you love”
“Thanks dad”
“Anytime son”
He said with a smirk on his face
My pet name for Leah was little miss brace face, and I’ve only ever showed her love for these years doing everything my dad told me to do so that she knew just how much she meant to me.
The locker accident was by far the strongest emotions I’ve ever shown her and then she had agreed to be my girlfriend.
Thou I still couldn’t understand why she would run from me every time, mom never ran from dad, she always did what she was told.
One night after I had left the hospital from visiting Leah, I dropped by Shaun my best friends place, and we hung out for a while until some movie was playing. The guy in the movie showed his wife so much love by hitting her then he would tell her that he loves her.
As the movie came close to the end, she called the cops and they arrested him, now I’m confused why would she do that, didn’t she love him in return?
“See boys this is why you shouldn’t abuse woman! They have so much rights today, I will never understand how a man thinks it’s okay to do this to the woman he claims to love.”
Shaun’s father said
“But isn’t that him showing her that he loves her?”
I asked
“What?
Shaun’s dad said
“Dude, in what world are you living in?”
Shaun asked
“What do you mean?”
I asked
Shaun’s father took a seat on the opposite side of me and looked me straight in the eyes, Shaun knew about how I treated Leah but he didn’t know why I did it.
“Son it is in no way okay to do something like that, in my opinion a man that raises his hand towards a woman is a coward, no matter what she does to upset him it doesn’t give him the right to lay his hands upon her.”
“I..I.. I don’t understand my father does that to my mother all the time, he said he gives her love meal like that so that she will always think of him when his out of town working, and mother never complained or cried.”
“What!? That’s bullshit! No woman deserves to be beaten Emmett!”
“It’s how he shows her love, Uncle Johnson!”
“Oh no… that’s not love dear, that’s abuse and your mother should report it to the police has he ever hit you?”
Shaun’s mother asked
“Uhm sometimes he would but he would say that he loves me and only wants what’s best for me.”
“Oh dear, your father has been manipulating you, have you never seen movies like these before?”
“No ma’am, we don’t even own a television”
“Where is your father right now?”
“Should be home from a business trip already.. s**t I have to go!”
“Wait Emmett what’s wrong?”
Shaun asked
“When my dad comes home from these trips he always gives my mother ‘love marks’ and if what your mom and dad is saying is true then I’ll stop him.”
I rushed off thinking about everything my father has taught me, was it all a lie ? But why would he lie to me? Why would my mother allow him to do this to her? Why hasn’t she ever said anything about it to anyone?
My mind raced a million miles a minute and I could rap my head around this, how could he lie to me oh god Leah! What have I done I’ve hurt her because of my bastard father!
How could I be so dumb to believe him? Stupid Emmett, my mother was being hurt all these years and here I thought it was love! I felt betrayed by both my mother and father!
Why didn’t she bother to tell me when we were alone? I could have gotten her help, stood up for her. Everything I thought I knew was a lie, how will I even make this right with Leah? I’m sure she knew that what I was doing was wrong.
She must hate me, that’s why she hid from me the way she did all these years. That son of a b***h will pay for what he has done to my mother, for what he has done to me!
I bust into the house to find my mother curled up on the kitchen floor, full of blood and crying, when she saw me she tried to hide her tears and wiped furiously at the blood.
Was this how it always was and I just never went up to her room to check on her after dad showed her love? f**k that this ends today!
I helped my mother up and put her gently on the couch.
“Where is he?”
I asked her
“Wh..what are you g..going to do?”
“Mother we will talk about this later! I know what he is doing and he will pay for this!”
Mother tried to call me back but I was angry for all the lies I have been told, for all the times he hurt us and made me believe that is was the right thing to do when you love someone
I found him in the shower, washing off my mother’s blood from his body.
“You son of a b***h! You lied!”
- Writer
