The girl heard every shout in her head. She knew that father won´t stop before he feel that he won the game. Of course this is not the first time when they are arguing. It happened very often almost every night. Tara did not sleep well from a long time. She could not concentrate at school. When teachers asked her about what is going on, she just said that everything is ok and they should not worry about her.
Tara´s family had a good opinion in the town. Father, even though unemployed, was a doctor. He worked at the town´s hospital but lost his job while drinking alcohol in working hours. He always had a weakness to alcohol and never tried to do something about it. At the beginning he tried to find another job. It was hard because it was a small town and had just one hospital. And from the time he lost his job, things went just worse; especially between him and Tara´s mother. Mother worked at the hospital as a nurse. From the time he lost his job, she had to work really hard to pay the bills and to buy food. The money was a subject of many quarrels.
Tara and her mother tried really hard to look as a normal family outside the house. However Tara did not have any closer friends. She could not speak openly with anyone. The girl thought that if anyone would know about a situation at their home, it would be a blame for their family.
Tara woke up. She was still sitting in the window of her room. Outside was a new day. There was no sign of the night´s tempest. The sky was without the clouds and the sun was shining. In the house was also quiet. She heard just the sound of the TV from the living room. It was Saturday morning; she decided to go for a run.
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Just from the threshold she heard the noises from the living room. She took of her jacket and shoes. Then she went directly to the living room. It was a big room with plenty of unnecessary furniture however it looked nice. It looked like a scene from an old film. The only thing which did not look on place was a modern TV.
In front of the entrance to the room was a fireplace. The fireplace was not often used now, however Tara remembered times when she was sitting there between her parents, looking at the fire and drinking hot chocolate. She was sorry that this times was just a history.
In front of the TV on the armchair was sitting her father. He was already drank and it was not even 10 o´clock. He was sitting there and watching TV: an old football game. Behind him on the floor were lying 5 empty bottles of gin. He did not see her. He was so interested into watching the game, that he did not see how Tara took one of the full bottles to her room. She did not know what she is doing. In less than 15 min she emptied the whole bottle. Tara did not drink any alcohol, not even at the parties. So you can imagine what the whole bottle of gin could do to her 17 years old body.
She did not know what she was doing. Tara entered the living room again. Her father was sitting there in the same position as before watching the game. The girl took a poker from the fireplace. She was holding it in both hands. It was hard for her to go straight because of the amount of alcohol she drank. She was going to the armchair where he was sitting. It was hard to hold the poker; it was heavy. She was standing few steps away from the armchair. She had to do just few steps more. He was sitting there with the glass in his hand. She could smell the smell of alcohol around him. He did not see her. She raised the poker and she hit him in his head. He dropped the glass and it broke in hundreds pieces. Suddenly he sank to the floor. She was still standing there with the poker in her hands.