A Day Never Forgotten (standard:other, 1270 words)
Author: Kittykat	Added: Jan 16 2004	Views/Reads: 3351/2192	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
She loves him, will she leave him?

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need to think twice, she takes the five steps to the door and makes a 
quick exit. 

"Thank God!" she prays.  "You have given me the chance to make things
better for my son and I," she says to the heavens.  She goes as quickly 
as she can across the yard. 

At the neighbor's house, in tears, she beats on the door.  She keeps
looking at her house waiting for him to open the storm door and come 
after her.  The neighbor looks out her window and opens the door with 
wonder on her face.  The mother, still holding her child, rushes in and 
asks if she could please use the phone.  The child is fussing, having 
been disturbed with new sounds and emotions he feels through his 
mother.  Without question her neighbor closes the door behind her and 
locks it. 

The entryway to her house is identical to three other houses that were
built side by side.  The only differences are the color schemes.  The 
floor plans in these four houses are the same with minor differences. 

Her neighbor rushes away and back again with the phone.  The mother
calls 9-1-1 and tells the dispatcher that her husband had had his hands 
at her throat and that she hit him.  She tells them her address and 
then tells the dispatcher that she's calling from the neighbor's house. 
She is asked to stay on the line until an officer can get there.  By 
the time she gives her name and her husband's three police cars pull up 
out front.  This isn't the first time they have been called for her 
husband's disturbances. 

She watches while three officers go to her yard where her husband is
waiting and another comes to her.  He's in a tipacle dark blue uniform 
with his gun to one side.  The officer waits with her until one of the 
others who had been talking with her husband comes over to talk to her. 


He states, "He says you hit him." 

The young mother tells the officer, "I was afraid he would hurt my
baby." 

The officer nods his head and turns to have the husband arrested.  He
doesn't say or do anything to keep the officers from putting the cuffs 
on him.  He's been through this before and always returns home. 

Before the mother and child get into the officer's car to go to the
station, she turns and tells her neighbor, "Never again, I'm sorry." 

Her neighbor returns her comment with a thin smile thinking, "He'll be
home in a few weeks." 

During her ride to the police station she wonders, "What do I do now? 
Should I call my mom?  No, Mom has helped me out of this same mess 
several times before.  This time will be the last.  I can't take the 
chance of him hurting my son." 

At the station she writes the report of what happened, including her
thoughts of what he may do to her son when he learned to talk back and 
disobey.  Those are her greatest fears, the uncertainty of what could 
happen to her most precious possession if she allowed her husband back 
into their lives. 

If she were to have one thing, it would be the knowledge that her son
would never be hurt by that man.


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