that my house wasn't far from the crime scene. I was relieved that she didn't susp

's bloody, accusing gaze haunted me for the rest of the morning.

ad down, intentionally trying to be invisible. This

e kind and say hello. But when I began to stammer and stutter, the nice people would feel awk

iet and be as invisible as possible. But that n

ttering and had a very low self esteem. In high school, this made me the prime target for

hard, become strong and fight the bad guys

d weak and most departments didn't want to hire me until

en though people didn't physically push me around anymore, they l

say no, so I tr

that my only friend Eloise wasn't around. She was prob

escape notice, but before I could reach

tie! Ove

ticed me! I h

t hiding properly as I saw Bruce- my worst nightmare be

ease even the worst criminals if they bribed him with enough cash, he always abused his

his father was a politician. And no one dared

rush on me. One week after I started workin

ple to know that when he sa

I knew that he didn't care for me at all, he ju

called me a stupid bitch and swore to revenge

hen I discovered who his father was, I painfully kept qu

e, hoping to hide my discomfort as

e," I mumbled. I di

o bright and too cheerful for my liking. It felt

hese for us?" Bruce asked, roughly shovin

trying to explain that I already had my own work to d

mocked causing them to b

ot your tongue?" another taunted

little thing like you work here. How are you supposed to catch any bad guys with how we

sting of tears pricking at the corners of my

n doing it for as long as I could remember, ever since I was a

elpless girl that cried just bec

ng myself not to give them the

s and feed it to my dogs," I declared without a stutter, "And that would be a t

d and tried to lunge at me,

friends warned. They didn't stop him because they ca

nary, but I pretended to be unfazed until he and his friends

fear and anger. I had just pretended to be bold, but in reality, I knew

ucking joke. I felt smalle

person that was not me - That I could truly be confident,

glasses and a stutter that marked me as weird and unattractive. And no matter how hard I tried to hi

while since I had spoken to them, so I pu

was a little weird. Assuming they were bus

the one Bruce had graciously dumped on me and I let out

the station buzzed overhead, casting a hars

d under a mountain of boring lies and nonsense. In this station, we kn

the law. I served the rich, greedy and

to focus, to push through the exhaust

Closing time at the station, yet still, the endle

disappeared to their homes, or most likely, a bar t

ng to check the time, only to freeze when I saw th

anic washed over me. It was highly unusual for my pa

had forgotten to take my phone off sile

?! What was so urgent th

but a sudden wave of

ommon sense as I began to imagine my parents in an

ngers shaking as I pressed the call button, bu

my voice beginning to fill up

uring voice on the other end of the line

h possibilities, had something happen

rushed out of the station, my heart pound

some one suddenly yanked me back, roughly co

and I screamed

d until I caught a g

stinking Bruce th

eize me and I

ing to let you walk away with humiliating me in front

und and punched me right in the face. I felt m

s this how I wa