“After my parents were killed, the adoption agency divided us. Glen and Mia were taken in by my aunt however she didn’t have enough room, so I opted to live with my Uncle Steven. He was such a nice guy and I thought everything would be great, but it wasn’t. When I was about thirteen he found out I wasn’t into guys and let’s just say he wasn’t all gay happy; that was the first day he hit me.

Anyways to make a long story short, he started to drink and after he became abusive.” She said.

My stomach dropped, I wish I could kill that bastard for doing this to her, or at least go to the cops, but it wasn’t my battle to fight.

“Do you want to get out of here now?”

“Yea okay,” She said. I felt an arm pull me, I turned.

“Ashley you can’t say word about this okay?” Her voice convicted pain and fear.

“Spencer your secrets are safe with me.” I smiled towards her.

“So there’s only one place left I want to go before we head to my house.” I told her.

After about twenty minutes of walking we finally go to the last destination.

“Ashley what are we doing here.” There was something in her tone I couldn’t make out.

“Back home, I joined the gym so I could beat out the pain instead of cutting, so I thought we would come here for you.”  I told her.

“Come on it won’t hurt, I promise.” I took her hand and went through the door.

I swiped my card and went through the gate. We made our way to a bag. The instructor came by and introduced herself to Spencer and quickly started with the lesson. Spencer looked at me wearily but nodded her head to continue. After two hours of blood and sweat, we left the gym.

“So how was the experience?” I asked her. She smiled and turned at me.

“Thank you, I really need to beat the shit out of something.” She smirked and I laughed.

“So how about we call Raife to pick us up, my ass can’t walk anymore.”

“Your ass can’t walk anymore, imagine mine, I just got out of the freakin’ hospital.”