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The four door windows were all rolled down in the car that evening. Mother was driving with all of our things again. She had left ym father once again for being drunk and beatting both of us brutly. Father had always beatten us when he was drunk, we were promised many times he'd stop but like Fool's Gold we were tricked with a false smile. I watched the street lighs flicker as we passed by them in the car. My MP3 Player's volume on 50 playing a song from one of my favorite bands. Faintly I heard my mother call to me.
"Aiko! Aiko-chan!" She repeated until I took off my headphones.
"Yes Mother?" I answered with a quiet shutter in my tone.
Mother looked to me form the corner of her eye as she slowly started to pull over towards an emty looking house not far from the highway exit.
"You sound horrible dear, did he really punch you that hard in the throat?" She asked me as the blue Mustang pulled into the driveway of the empty white house. The grass was dead, patches of dirt could be seen from a mile away.
Nodding to nswer my mother I said, "Yes. But it doesn't hurt that much anymore."
Soon my Mother's eyes filled with tears. I stared at her for a good fifteen seconds before bursting into tears myself. I lent over the shift stick and held onto my mother as she embraced me back holding me tight.
"This is the last time Aiko. The last and final time he will hurt you. I promise you. I promise! We're going to stay here, have a new start and keep your father as far away fom you as possible!"
That night we slept in the car crying ourselves to sleep. The cold air chilling us, but our body heat keeping us from freezing.

The next morning mother and I had started to unpack the little belingings we've taken with us. A suitcase full of clothing, another with some food, and the last was a small box full of photo albums from my childhood. I took those straight to my room to look at. It was then I realized how much my familly changed. My father was a good father up until he got promoted to vice president of Kiki's Soda Co. He became obsessed with working only to be stressed out when he got home and started to drink to become calmer.