March 2007 - Age 19
He took a few confident strides towards my direction. My heart raced inside my chest and I anticipated the worst, so I took one final breath, closed my eyes and prayed to God that it wouldn’t be my last.
My boyfriend looked into my eyes and then introduced his fist to the side of my face with a destructive force. I held my jaw in pain. Andrew stood up, grabbed me by my hair extensions and dragged me back over to his mattress. He straddled my body and placed his hand over my mouth so that his mother wouldn’t hear me scream. My nostrils flared up in desperate need of air and my anxiety steadily increased. In one quick movement, his hands transitioned themselves from my lips to around my neck. I tried to release another outburst but I couldn’t. My vocal box had been interrupted by the pressure of Andrew’s strength. His muscular body hunched over mine and the look in his eye frightened me. We stared at each other while he weighed down heavily on my chest and his hands closed tightly around my throat. I kicked and moved my hips underneath him, but the more force he applied when he choked me, the more my muscles weakened and my body went limp. I looked back at him with dead eyes and when he saw the lifeless tear that slid down the side of my cheek, he finally let go.
He took a few confident strides towards my direction. My heart raced inside my chest and I anticipated the worst, so I took one final breath, closed my eyes and prayed to God that it wouldn’t be my last.
My boyfriend looked into my eyes and then introduced his fist to the side of my face with a destructive force. I held my jaw in pain. Andrew stood up, grabbed me by my hair extensions and dragged me back over to his mattress. He straddled my body and placed his hand over my mouth so that his mother wouldn’t hear me scream. My nostrils flared up in desperate need of air and my anxiety steadily increased. In one quick movement, his hands transitioned themselves from my lips to around my neck. I tried to release another outburst but I couldn’t. My vocal box had been interrupted by the pressure of Andrew’s strength. His muscular body hunched over mine and the look in his eye frightened me. We stared at each other while he weighed down heavily on my chest and his hands closed tightly around my throat. I kicked and moved my hips underneath him, but the more force he applied when he choked me, the more my muscles weakened and my body went limp. I looked back at him with dead eyes and when he saw the lifeless tear that slid down the side of my cheek, he finally let go.





