Hurricane E05

Hurricane Episode 5: Amy sat on the rickety steel steps that led up to Mike’s trailer and watched the sunrise. She had called home and told her mother she was staying at Deidre’s house. She only wished that she had. After Jimmy and Deidre had left Mike had started in on her. Verbal abuse, but it always lead to worse and it had last night. He had backhanded her and connected with the soft fleshy party of her nose. Her nose had begun to bleed and would not quit. She couldn’t go home like that. She had managed to keep it off her shirt long enough to get the shirt off so she would have to explain blood on it. That would be tough to explain at home. But that, removing the shirt, had been like an open invitation to Mike, who had the control of a ten year old. The mind too, Amy thought now as she watched the sun begin to lift up into the sky from the Bogue. She had ended up laying still while he did what he wanted. Her nose still leaking blood. A rag pressed to her nose to stop the flow. At l