Excerpt 15

I wasn't ok! I answered the phone, she heard me crying. “Are you ok?” I didn’t want to speak. I didn’t talk because I was scared of what he’d do. No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. I mean emotional abuse is just as bad as physical. I’ve been a victim of both, so I didn’t know what triggers were anymore. I mean who’s to say which is worse for them. But me personally, emotional abuse is worse. Neither are right but, you can heal broken bones, you can’t heal a broken mind. You can only find ways of coping. And both are hard to cope with. Without me even speaking, she asked, “Did he hurt you in anyway?” “Yes,” I said. “Did he physically touch you, did he hit you?” “No,” I said. “Is he having one of his bi polar moods, did he forget to take his medication?” She really knew how to lighten the mood, I chuckled, through the tears that I tried to hold back so he wouldn’t attack me.