Why didn't my dad love me? That was a simple enough question right? No i suppose not. Besides i already knew the answer. My mom died giving birth to me. She was told that it could be dangerous but she didn't listen. She loved me that much. And for that reason my dad hated me. He resented me. He always said i looked just like her too. Maybe that's why he was always beating me. Maybe it was why i stopped talking at the age of eight. That drove my dad the most crazy. But i started doing it in hopes that i wouldn't sound like her and make him more mad. And everything I said just upset him more anyways. I tried to stay out of his way. And it worked for the most part. But some days something would set him off and he would always tell me the only way he could make it go away was to beat it out of me. So at school i'm the weird kid. I have no friends and everybody thinks i'm strange. I guess i am. I was getting ready to go to school that day and hurrying before the bus got to my house. I was hiding in my room and hopping my dad wouldn't come find me. If he did i'd have to put on makeup. I only bought some when i was old enough to realize. I know what you're thinking. In fact it's the same thing i'm thinking. If my dad didn't want me and he couldn't stand to be around me why didn't he give me away? Well he said that nobody would want me. For years i believed him. Maybe it wasn't true then, but it's certainly true now. Who want's a teenager? And one who can't talk for that matter. In reality i don't have attitude so maybe i'm not the worst. But you know everybody wants babies.

And if we have family i don't know who they are or where they are. I've never met them. I mean don't most people have family? I suppose i did but my dad and i din't talk ever. And it wasn't because i didn't talk. Even when i was younger and asked he didn't offer up any information.

"Lucy!!" My dad called out. Oh crap. I had to go. I jerked on the window but it was stuck and i mean stuck! My door rammed open slapping into the wall. "Lucy! Did you cook eggs for breakfast? You know your momma used to make me eggs for breakfast!!" I'm sure she made you a lot of things! I backed up against the window. "Go head, say something!" He sneered. "You know if you'd just talk i might take it easier on you." But he wouldn't and we both knew that. His fist came back and collided against my cheek. I winced in pain and grabbed my face.

He gripped my arm and pulled me towards his face. "Don't do that again!" Then why even buy eggs if you didn't want me to cook them? He gripped my face. "I'm gonna let you have it!" The bus honked the horn. I grabbed my bag and ran around him. "I'm not done with you!" He called out. Sorry can't miss the bus.

I plopped down in my seat lowering down into it. I tried my best to hide. My face was already starting to swell up. And it hurt. But i didn't have any time to get ice before i ran out of the door. I knew it would bruise by second period. The bus came to a grinding halt at the school. I got off the bus letting my hair cover my now bruised cheek.

As i was putting my books into my locker somebody bumped into me from behind. I threw my hands up in frustration. People were always doing this! I wirled around. And pushed hard on a leather jacketed guy in front of me. He spun around and furrowed his brow. "Oh did i just bump into you? I'm so sorry about that!" He grinned.

"I'm Zane." He said. Uh...I held a finger up. I pulled a notebook out of my opened locker and wrote i'm Lucy, nice to meet you. "Oh!" His eyebrows shot up to his hairline. "You're deaf?" He asked. I shook my head no. Ugh i hated new people. They were nice until they got to know me. Either they thought i was weird or heard they were supposed to think i was weird.

"Then..." He furrowed his brow. I wrote on the paper. Long story have a nice day. I slammed my locker shut and walked quickly down the hallway. "Okay, you have a nice day too!" He said clearly confused. I had never told anybody what happened to me and i didn't plan to start now. It didn't matter how beautiful their blue eyes were.