Laura by jk irving (books to read in your 20s TXT) 📕

LAURA
Hi my name is Laura I live with my parents Molly and Jeff,I am 23 years old and work in a travel agency, I have worked there for about 3 years and really enjoy my work. Lots of people come in and out for bookings and wanting holidays it makes my job very interesting. My best friend is Tina she is a great bubbly girl she is always the life and soul of a party when she is invited you know it is going to be great. She was coming to my house that night we were going night clubbing. T ina worked at an insurance firm and found it very boring , she was always moaning about it , she had every right to she had some terrible clients. She would usally come over with a blinding headache and say she had someone really bad on the phone today. Tina was the complete opposite to me she was very slim, tall. Very long legs and mousey brown hair , a great style in clothes. I was a little plump but I was on a diet with my mum. My mum had always been a big lady but was always very jolly. My dad was a taxi driver and he worked very long hours. A the weekend they would go ballroom dancing they really looked forward to it . Tina arrived at the house for a geat night out ,we sat down to tea which mum aiways insisted we had before we went out. Tina went in the shower first she always took the longest time in there, I often wondered what she found to do in there.It was my turn to go in the shower and I could hear her shouting up the stairs”come on Laura we are wasting valuble drinking time’’. I could not believe she was hurring me she had been ages.We said goodbye to mum and she told us to be very careful. We got the taxi and heade off to the town centre where all the pubs where, we went into the first pub and ordered a drink, we bumped into a group of lads which we knew they were always causing trouble, so we decided to leave the pub and go onto the next one. Tina ordered our drinks and I glanced around, over the other side of the pub was a gorgeous looking man to my amazment he was staring at me , he walked towards me, my heart missed a beat he said “would you like to dance” I sturrted a reply of”I would love to”.As we were dancing he asked to walk me home I said yes but I would have to speak to my friend Tina, I told Tina and she smiled and said she would see me the next day. As we walked home he slipped his hand into mine ,my heart was racing, as we got to my house he stopped and wrapped his arms around me and kissed me his lips were soft and he was very gentle he was a giant compared to me , he had a mass of blonde hair and great big blue eyes he looked about 30 and had a great style in clothes.He asked to see me agin and I was on cloud nine
I could not wait for Tina to call so I could tell her everything. Tina and I had been best friends since we were small and we told each other everthing. As expected Tina rang we must have spent a couple of hours on the phone she was thrilled to bits for me. I met up with Tony and we went out for a meal after we went for a walk in the park.We went to Tonys flat, I took of my coat and sat down, he offered me a drink and we spoke for hours, As expected we ended up in bed. I don’t know how it happened but I was pleased it did, it was sensational he was so gentle with me and it was just the way I imagined it to be. T he next ccouple of months we got really serious, I took him to meet my parents. I later found out mum was not keen on him there was something about him.We got married a couple of weeks later, non to soon I found out I was nine weeks pregnant, we moved into Tonys flat for the time being he was thrilled about the baby and everything was great. He had a great job as a diretor of a bathroom company . I kept the flat nice and tidy and craved Tonys company all the time , when he did come home after a long day he would slump in his chair with a drink, he never spoke much about his day and was really miserable, I was getting very disillusioned about our marrige and the next day I met up with Tina and told her everything about it. She said they were only teething problems we had not been married two minutes I had to give it time, your hormones must be all over the place give it time. Anyway I put everything to the back of my mind and started to look forward to the baby.Tony came home that night in a foul mood,I offered him a drink andhe said “for gods sake woman put down the drink and get out of my sight” I could not believe the way he spoke to me I went into the kitchen, started to wash up, tears flowing down my face when I felt a prescense behind me it was Tony. “why are you crying” he said I turned and looked at him and said “how could you be so terrible to me”. All I saw was his hand come over and land on my head, I saw stars, I was lying on the floor, hands around my stomach to protect my unborn child.
My head was throbbing and I was very scared. I had never known anything like that before, tony walked away with a scowl on his face muttering “you asked for that”, I could not believe this man would hurt his wife while she was pregnant, I pulled myself off the floor and went to bed, tony must have come up much later.
I never heard him come up I could not wait untill the morning to come, I got up early and rang my mother, she came over pretty quick.
I think she thought it had something to do with the baby. I opened the door to my mother and fel into her arms, she realized how upset I was and said “it’s the baby” we both sat down and I began telling her everything that had happened the nigh before, my mother was astonished and fururious, “how dare he strike you and your pregnant, ill be having words with him. “ don’t say anything mam im begging you this isn’t like tony I swear, it wont happen again”.
She checked my head, there was a bit of brusing coming up on my brow “you’ll have to go down to the doctors and have it checked out” said mam.
We popped down to the GP, he asked how I had done it and I said I had fell down and banged my head. He checked it over and said it was fine. My mother was glaring at me for telling lies, I did not want anyone thinking bad of tony. Along came the evening and I was dreading him comeing home. I had tea ready, the table set perfectly, there was nothing he could complain about. In came tony with a massive bunch of flowers, he wrapped his arms around me and cried, he was inconsolable. I could not calm him down. When he had settled we had our tea and when to bed and lay in each others arms all night. I felt safe and sucure.
I put what happened to the back of my mind, my mam could not forgive tony but put on a brave face for me. Everything had to be perfect for tony beds had to be made, house had to be cleaned and defently no dished to be letf. This was my job, to look after tony and his house.
Tina popped round round that day and we were having propper girlie time. I got really carried away with the time and before I knew it tony was home, I had done not a stroke of house work. He walked in with a big smile and greeted tina and offered her a life home. She declined the offer as she had brought her own car. Tina and I hugged each other and said we’d have to do it again sometime soon. I turned, his fist was in my face, I fell backwards on to the sofa, tony leaned over me and began slapping me very hard, I tried my best to cover my face but he was to strong for me. He pushed his knee against my throat and continued slapping me harder and harder. After what was only minutes that seemed like hours, he decided to stop. I was left devastated, blood pouring from my face. I staggered from the sofa into the bath room, I cleaned myself up, I had a swolen lip and a black eye. I made my way back into the sitting room. Tony was slouched on the sofa watching TV. He turned and looked at me and said “ don’t ever make do that again its really hard discipline you”
I went to bed thinking what had happened. Tony had swore never to hid me again. When I woke the next moring my mind was all over worst of all my mother decided to invite herself over. As I opened the door a look of horrer was on her face, she stood in disbelieve and was lost for