Chapter 12--THE ONLY WAY OUT

Before I could react, he suddenly left her, and went out of the room, and out of the house. Soon, we heard his car zooming out of the parking lot. And I could finally breathe a sigh of relief. "Mom are you okay?" I asked. She turned her neck twice, and coughed. "Yes I am. I punched him!" She said and laughed. She laughed so hard that it started to make me feel bad for her. You know that kind of laughter with so much sarcasm and pain in it. "I told you he cannot hit me anymore. I've broken my covenant with him" she said and we rocked ourselves to sleep. I was so relieved that he didn't hit her, or yank me out of the window like I dreamed. What covenant did mom talk about? Covenant. That word made me remember Big Joe. It had been a while since I saw him in school, and I never cared to ask anyone his whereabouts. The last time I saw him was the day I kicked him hard. I started to rethink what he had told me. That he had arranged for me to be kidnapped. And that it was his father that fo