Unbroken by Anai Gomez (the little red hen read aloud TXT) 📕

I was in my room rocking back and forth as I heard yelling, and things being thrown. I played the radio loud trying to block them out but nothing worked. I can still hear him yelling at her. My sperm donor, Liam Wight, he's probably drunk again. He tends to get drunk a lot lately. I don’t know what went wrong. We used to be a perfect family with the white picket fence and everything. Back then, dad was sober and he actually loved me. Something shattered, bringing me out of my trance and it was probably made of glass. The next words I heard made me feel indifferent.

"She's not my daughter, so tell me, Mia, who the hell is." Sobs were heard from my mother but he didn't care; he just kept on spreading his venom. "I should have known I mated a whore. So tell me who’s her father, or have you slept with the whole pack that you don't even know."

My blood was boiling now. My mother didn't deserve this. I got up from my sitting position ready to head to the line of fire. My fists ready like machine guns, but the voice inside my head stopped me. He's only going to get furious and take it out on her. She was right, so I turned the volume up and starred at the wall. I didn't leave my room until I heard a car turn on and the tires screeching against the concrete.

I knew he was gone and that’s when I walked out to inspect his latest tantrum. There was broken glass and plates everywhere. I was barefoot but contunued when I felt the pain coming from my mother. She was sitting in a corner crying. I suddenly had the urge to go to my sperm donor and cut off his balls. From here I could smell the blood and I knew she was trying hard to hide it. Don’t leave her she needs us. I sighed knowing my inner self was right.

I sat right in front of her. Lifter her up till I was cradling her. Her sobs came in harder and hugged me, placing her head on the crook of my neck. For two hours a sat there feeling every single tear drop. By the time she stopped, the whole right side of my shirt was soaked. We sat there in silence until her gaze lifted to meet mine. Her eyes were pink and swollen. She had a cut on the side of her lip with dried blood. I wanted so badly to take all her pain away but for now all I could do was hold her.

I brushed one strand of hair that had escaped from her ponytail to the back of her ear.

"I guess it's only me and you against the world now." She said putting on a fake smile. With that I smiled and held her tight.

My father has left other time but always seems to come back in a matter of months, but not this time. We got to get her out of here. Hell yeah we do!

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The next day I woke up and packed everything, all our clothes and nothing else. I place them all in the van. I ripped out the tracker underneath the dash board. Disabled the entire security system that kept us in and emptied all of the safes. By the time I was done it was already nine and mom was still asleep. I had to give her some strong pills so she would actually sleep tonight.

I walked right into the house to the living room where my mom was sleeping. She was on the couch and I swear if it wasn’t for the fact that I can hear her heart beating, you would think she was dead. Hurry before she gets up. I lifter her up in my arms bridal style till the van and thank god I’m stronger than most girls my age. I placed her on the passenger seat and already started to put her seatbelt on.

I went back inside to give Maria instructions on what to do. Maria was the maid in our house. Our home was three stories and filled with luxury but that didn’t stop it from being hell. Maria was in the kitchen drinking coffee.

“You’re finally taking her away from here,” she said placing the mug down. Maria was a woman in her late forties and would often tend to my mother’s wounds. She was my second mother and only family in this house, since my sperm donor took me out of school, and has me 'home schooled'. I walked up to Maria and gave her a huge.

“I can’t keep her here. He’ll end up killing her one day.” I squeezed Maria harder. She let go of me and handed me another cup of coffee that she probably already had made for me.

“So what’s the plane? Where do you plan on taking her?”

“It’s safer if you don’t know.” When I finished a tear fell but she quietly wiped it. She put her empty mug in the sink turned and lined on the counter.

“Mija, how long have you been planning this?”

“Every day since I’ve been seven I would write down ways to escape but I never really done anything till this week.” My sperm donor didn’t hate me until I was five.

“What do I tell Mr. Wight when he comes home?” Tell him to go to hell. Can you quiet down and let me think. I got it.

“Tell him that my mother committed suicide and took her life and the house with her. Matter of fact, don't tell him anything, just file a police report of the fire and our deaths.”

“Darling for you I’ll cross the whole country and back. There is nothing I won’t do for you and your mother. I’ll do it but I only have one condition.”

“And what exactly would that be.”

“You have to call me every day or I’ll go out looking for you under the rocks.” I started to smile. Leave it to Maria to make me smile in any situation.

“Deal. Now come over here and hug me.” I raise both arms for her. She hugged me so tight that I couldn’t breathe but I wasn’t complaining. This will be the last time we’ll see each other. When she released me I saw that she had been crying but she wiped all her tears away and placed one hand on my check.

“My little girl when did you grow up to be so strong and smart? Mr. Wight is an idiot for not seeing how much you both are worth. Now when your mother wakes up tell her I’ll miss her.” She sighed and clapped both her hands together.” Leave before I change my mind and take you both with me.”

I rose on both my feet and gave her a kiss on the forehead. “I love you Maria.”

“I love you to April, know go!”

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It wasn’t until five hours into the drive that my mother started to wake up. It was already two thirty in the afternoon and neither of us has eaten anything. We were halfway to the apartment and I’ve been driving nonstop. I’ve only learned how to drive since I was eleven. My sperm donor would get to drunk and leave me to drive. I’ve never told my mother but she always knew. I think that’s the only good thing I got out when my sperm donor would drink while I was under his supervision.

My mother was finally getting out of the daze those drugs put her in. I took the first road out and pulled to the drive thru of IN-N-OUT. The lady at the window didn’t even suspect I was twelve. It was probable the glasses and a bit of makeup that made me look much older I got us both a cheeseburger, fries, and a large sprite to share. I paid for it in cash. I had enough money saved up to last a while. Also I took all the money from my mother’s credit cards and my College fund and put it under a card under Maria’s name. That way he really won’t have a way to track us.

In no time I was back on the freeway. I needed to give my mother a few more minutes to be out of it. From the corner of my eye I saw how she looked at all the luggage in the back seat. Then at me driving and finally the sign that said heading to New Mexico. She then studied the car and started laughing. I sighed. Laughing is good sign. I don’t know why but I thought she was going to yell at me or start throwing stuff at me.

I got the IN-N OUT bag from behind her seat and gave it to her. She took it and started to eat her cheese burger.

After a few seconds of silence she said, “I can’t believe you stool Maria’s car.” I nod my head side to side and reached in the bag for some fries.

I grave a fry and pop it into my mouth. ”You mean to tell me that you wake up from being drugged in your maids car, while your twelve year old daughter is driving to gods knows where and that’s your first question?”

“Well I can see you kidnapping me but stealing Maria’s car. Really? Where do you even plane to take your hostage?”

“First i didn’t steal Maria’s car, I bought it. As to where I’m taking you, I also bought a two bedroom apartment. I told the guy that sold it to me that I’ll pay double more than its original worth if he already had it furnished by the time we get there.”

She stopped eating and snapped her head toward me. ”Where the hell did you get that money.”

“I have saved up my allowance which is a total of six thousand and three hundred dollars.  We also have my College fund and your credit cards on this, plus anything that was in the house safe.” I took out the visa card under Maria’s name and turned to see my mother’s mouth open in shook.

“How did you figure the password to get access to that? “ My father put a code so only people who knew it had access to that money.

“I saw him use it from afar. He didn’t even know I was close. It’s a good thing I have silent feet, right?” She turned on her seat to face me completely with a goofy smile.

“What did I ever do to deserve someone like you?” Then lend her seat back still having that smile that was turning a little creepy.

“You had sexual intercourse with a jerk,” I told her and that smile was completely erased. Nice going dork you just ruined her day. I’ll make it up to her don’t worry.

I turned the radio on full blast to avoid this silence. We both sang to ‘Bobbly’ by Colbie Caillat.

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It’s been two and a half weeks since we left and my mother has been sick. She throws up, is constantly nauseous, doesn’t do anything but sleep, and has fainted once. She doesn’t want to go to the doctor but I’m not stupid. She shows all the symptoms of a pregnancy. How do I know this, well it isn’t the first time I’ve seen it. Plus I can hear the baby’s heartbeat.

When I was seven my mom found out she was pregnant and decided to leave my sperm donor and go back to California, to her parents. We stopped at a motel where my sperm donor found us. My mother tried to lock me in my room so my sperm donor wouldn’t take it out on me. I took the keys, tripped and ran for the door. I locked her in and moved the bookcase just