I could hear them out in the kitchen. I couldn’t hear what they were saying but they were arguing. Then it grew quiet and she started to cry.
Everything else was silent; no one in the kitchen moved and neither did I. Heart-shattering silence swept through the household like a plague. Such an obvious contrast to a usually cheery home. But I knew that this wasn’t my home anymore. I hate what the silence expresses. It can show people at their rawest. It breaks people. It breaks people apart.
A shot of light suddenly poured onto my hiding place.
'Get up,' came a horrid voice. I looked up, frightened of the monster before me. Dad bent down, stumbling from drunkenness but that only made his eyes piercing through me worse.
'We’re leaving. Don’t bother saying a word to your mother,' spat his words, still tasting of his night at the
pub. He slammed the door shut, trapping me back in the cupboard.
Rosie
Everything else was silent; no one in the kitchen moved and neither did I. Heart-shattering silence swept through the household like a plague. Such an obvious contrast to a usually cheery home. But I knew that this wasn’t my home anymore. I hate what the silence expresses. It can show people at their rawest. It breaks people. It breaks people apart.
A shot of light suddenly poured onto my hiding place.
'Get up,' came a horrid voice. I looked up, frightened of the monster before me. Dad bent down, stumbling from drunkenness but that only made his eyes piercing through me worse.
'We’re leaving. Don’t bother saying a word to your mother,' spat his words, still tasting of his night at the
pub. He slammed the door shut, trapping me back in the cupboard.
Rosie
