Chapter 8

I looked in the mirror and hated the unfamiliar face that looked back at me, I had become a shell of a person I used to be. 

My green eyes now lined red,my once long sleek brown hair was now matted and looked dull. I had noticbly lost weight in my face where my eyes look somewhat sunken in as well as my cheeks my cheek bones a lot more pointe and pronounced  then they were before. 

I thought I would be fine with James leaving me for another woman but I really wasn't. I had thought that I had stayed for just my children. In reality I felt like my heart was ripped out. No matter how unhappy I was in my marriage I had never stepped out on James and never thought to either. Maybe I loved him more than I thought, maybe I thought my family was only whole if we were all together. 

I walked out of the bathroom into the now bare closet I grabbed a red sweater and a pair of black leggings. I pulled my hair into a tight ponytail threw on a pair of sneakers and walked down the stairs. I opened the front door, making sure to look up the house, I turned on my headphones and put them on and I started to run. I ran in the opposite direction of Ana's home. I needed to get out of the prison that was once my home. I need to figure out where I am going to go from here. 

I was not going to let James beat me down anymore. I am tired of being a shell of a person that I used to be. I was a fun loving person,  I had close friends that I talked to daily, I traveled and I exercised daily. I went dancing and to clubs I cooked and ate everything I could try. I became the one thing I did not want to be the doting wife. My life, my wants and my dreams went out the window the minute I said I DO. 

As I kept running faster and faster passed the identical homes on my street I started to get angry, all the pity and sadness I felt for myself just a few moments ago was gone and I couldnt help but feel the rage come out as my feet started to hit the pavement harder and harder. 

In what felt like an instant I was in the middle of the town, I slowed down and decided to do some shopping and stay out of my house for a little longer. Not realizing that in the next few hours my life would completly change.