[ GETTING PUBLISHED IN 2017 ]

❝Get back here you bitch!❞

I ran to my room and closed the door, locking it in place. Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit.

"Bella, you dumb whore! Open the damn door!" He hits the door from the outside furiously. 

I can't let him tackle me again. I don't know what he is anymore. He's a different person when he acts like this, and it's really scaring me. He keeps hitting the door, making the door break in the center. 

Oh, my God. 

He barges the door open and I see his full figure, filled with rage. "I swear to God, Bella," he walks closer to me and I stumble backwards trying to get away from him. "What the fuck is wrong with you?" He slaps me in the face and I fall on the ground. 

I hit my head on the ground, feeing dizzy. He kicks my abdomen with his foot and I scream in pain. 

"You trying to fight with me?!" He kicks again. 

"AHH! Please stop!!" I begged, screaming. 

~

When Isabella Washington was five years old, she met a six-year-old boy named Aiden Cunningham at a school bus going to their first day of elementary school, and they became best friends instantly. 

Twelve years later, Isabella and Aiden are eighteen years old, and they are still "Best Friends for Life" as they named their friendship years ago. They are inseparable, and they never want anything bad happening to one another. 

But what happens when one of them goes through something frightening and repugnant that one can't do anything about it? 

Experience the lives of Aiden and Isabella as they grow up to see the truth about the real world. 

They never discovered the real world until now.

Copyright © Nikki Bettis 2016

COVER BY: thetallprincess