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Lana

Things were OK when I got home, but now Kai keeps bringing up that I left him. He won’t stop asking me about people I met and where I slept – he thinks I was cheating on him. That’s the last thing on my mind but he doesn’t seem to get that.

I feel like I’m walking on eggshells around him. I don’t want to make him mad, who knows what might happen? He can be so unpredictable.

One day, for no reason, Kai shoves me hard into the wall and punches me in the stomach. I ask him why. He replies that I deserve it, and I “piss him off”. He says “What are ya gonna do then huh? Call the cops? They won’t believe you!”

I’m shocked, my stomach hurts and I start to cry; Kai laughs and calls me a ‘stupid, worthless, fat bitch’ and says he wishes I would just fuck off. He says he’s sorry he ever let me come crawling back to him, that I’m nothing but a ‘lying, cheating, good for nothing slag’. I’m distraught.

I don’t know what to do. I’m scared about what might happen if I stay, but I have nowhere to go. I’m too embarrassed to call the refuge again. They’ll just laugh and say, “I told you so”.