“That’s it!” said Tom as he was eating dinner, with his wife of two years Katie. The Smiths appeared as a well off suburban family, they were always seen at church and throwing the legendary annual Christmas party. What others saw were just lies. What happened behind closed doors? Why has Katie been away at her sisters for two months? What happened to the happy Smiths that everyone knew and loved? To tell that story we have to reveal the lies.
Tom and Katie were an older couple, who found a second chance at love. Tom’s first wife left him after ten years of bliss. While Katie’s first husband died in a car accident. When the two first met it was like they were finally happy and all the bad things that happened in their life led them to this moment. After a year of dating, they became inseparable of each other and finally got married. For the first year it was marriage bliss, they were truly happy, but then Tom started to get aggressive. He became easily agitated and snapped without warning. As understanding and sweet Katie was she thought he was just stressed from work.
She should’ve ran when she had the chance.
One stormy night when Tom came home from work, Katie knew something wasn’t right, as she tried to comfort her husband. He started to beat her, taking no mercy. After Tom realized what he had done, he felt instant regret and promised his wife it wouldn’t happen again. She believed him and decided to let it go and move forward. She didn’t get that chance. The abuse continued and Katie kept taking it.
Six months went by and the beatings became almost like a routine. When Tom came home from work, he seemed, more agitated than usual, but Katie didn’t pick up on it. As they were eating dinner Tom threw everything off the table and it crashed on floor. Katie became paralyzed in her chair and thought it would be over soon, but once again she was wrong. When Katie looked into her husband’s eyes, she didn’t see the man she fell in love with, she saw a monster. She thought it was finally over, but once she opened her eyes he was standing over her holding a chair. That’s when Katie realized that her husband’s first wife didn’t leave him, he killed her.
Three years later Jamie had a new wonderful husband who would be there for her until death do us part. Her new husband was Tom.
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