My stomach felt sick I'd never actually seen the damage done before but I always new when it had been mother would wear a long nighty I don't even know what possed me to pull her night up but when I did my whole heart broke in two the welts bruising and dried blood along my mothers thighs where like nothing I'd seen before and nothing I ever wanted to again. My mother kept telling me things would be OK but how could they be father was never going to stop and when I was no longer in the house what would happen then. Atleast with me here mother had a distraction from the torture she endured she was shutting down i could see that myself the light that shone in her eyes whenever she looked at me was even dulling my fear is when I'm no longer here when my father no longer has a say over me and
