Ashley: “Ok. Are you sure you’re ok?”

Spencer: “Yeah.”

Ashley: “Ok. Bye Spence.”

Spencer: “Bye Ash.”

Spencer pressed end on her phone and set it on her bed. She then walked to her closet to grab the clothes that she would be wearing for the day and headed off to the bathroom. Right when she turned to look at herself in the mirror she shrieked. She had an already forming bruise on her right cheek.

She reached her hand up to touch the mark that her mother had made and shook her head. She couldn’t believe that her mother had slapped her across the face for only telling the truth. It was really stupid on her part. And her assumptions, that of course were true, that’s no reason to pretty much say you hate your own kid. Aren’t you supposed to love your family for this matter your damn child no matter what. If they like the same sex shouldn’t you be happy that they are.

Spencer couldn’t believe that her own mother would do this. She didn’t want to blow it out of proportion and make a big deal out of it but she had never been hit by one of her parents. It was more along the lines of time outs and getting down to eye level and saying ‘no’. Never had they hit any of their children and Spencer didn’t know how to react to it. So, she pushed it aside and remembered that she would be seeing Ashley in an hour and that made the smile come back to her face. So, she finally tore her eyes away from the pained truth and stripped of her clothes and got into the warmed water shower.

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Spencer felt a vibration in her pocket and pulled out her phone to see a text message from Ashley.

I’m here baby cakes.

Spencer giggled and yelled that she was leaving already. Before she reached for the door she looked into the mirror to the right of her to make sure that she had covered up the bruise her mom had left her well enough. She smiled at her reflection knowing that she had done a good job at hiding this so she turned to grab the door handle and right when she was about to open the door she felt someone pull her back and turn her around.