Chapter 14
She jumped when she heard the door slam shut. She laid lifelessly on the floor, looking at the white, cold, porcelain that laid beneath her. Serenity then noticed a smug of red on the floor and then she noticed two more smudges of red. For a moment she wondered what they were, then she realized they were blood. She slowly turned herself over and tried to pull herself up with help from the counter. Pain surged in her body as she tried to use body parts and muscles that had been beaten to pulp. She pulled her underwear up over her sore behind, and then took a towel from the sink and started to wipe the blood up slowly. She then put the Pot away that laid on the floor.
After that, she carried herself to their bedroom and into the bathroom.
When she caught sight of herself in the mirror she winced from the sight. Her right jaw was swollen and it was now blue. There were welts on her head, her neck, her chin and on her Left jaw from the belt. She looked down at her arms and noticed welts on them as well, some of which were bleeding. Her right arm looked swollen. It was from the blow of the pot.
She thought to call someone...anyone, but part of her just couldn�t. As she looked in the mirror she thought to herself. This wasn�t the person she was, she could always take on anything. She wasn�t the kind of women that got beaten up by her boyfriend. Those women were weak. Those women were women who couldn�t stand up for themselves. She wasn�t that kind of person, she wasn�t weak, she wasn�t.
She couldn�t call anyone because then they would know. They would all know she wasn�t strong. She wasn�t who they thought she was. Only a weak person would let something like this happen to them. Only a fool would let a man hit them. Most of all she didn�t want to call someone because she was embarrassed. She was so embarrassed and ashamed of herself for letting something like that happen to her.
As she continued to stare in the mirror, she thought who the person was she was looking back at. It looked like her, but it just couldn�t be.
She wiped her eyes and she ran herself a hot bath and soaked in it for a while. Then she got into bed and cried herself to sleep, trying to erase all the bad memories from her mind.