Tatum Ashmore

Baptized in dirty water, by the hands of the devil himself. Between the banks of a whiskey river. Beside the highway to hell. #RINGOFFIRE 21+ #Pinky

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The Girl With Pink Hair

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wonder where @LivesANightmare is. He should be here by now...]

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blink back everything I'm feeling. I'm not a victim. I'm not helpless. I'm not weak. If only I could believe that. I glance around and I >

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never left my side. The back door of the club opens and I jump slightly seeing the performers beginning to wander in for their shift. I >

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knew about the abuse and the rape. Dear old dad is a doctor. Hospitals were a place I feared, but @LivesANightmare stayed with me. He >

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carefully up into his arms and I clung to him for life. Then I started to scream. What I failed to mention was the reason why nobody ever >

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point Trystan had called for an ambulance, but I don't remember when. As the wail of the sirens grew louder, @LivesANightmare scooped me >

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able to hide this from him any longer. "Can you hear me?" I couldn't speak, I just stared at @LivesANightmare and weakly nodded. At some >

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@LivesANightmare probably didn't want to identify.The first words he spoke came out laced with concern and somehow I knew I wouldn't be >

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myself into a sitting position, but I was slumped over, breathing shallow, my shirt soaked with blood and other substances >

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doing out. Probably coming to yell at me for missing his game after I promised I would be there. When he got close I managed to pull >

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was two blocks from the Munsters' home when my body gave out and I collapsed to the ground. I don't even know what @LivesANightmare was >

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ran until I couldn't any longer. I'd been trying to get ready to go watch @LivesANightmare play in a football game, but I never made it. I >

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But that night...My hair was a mass of caked blood. Red rivers were trickling down my pale skin and pooling on the ground beneath me. I'd >

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I ran I was battered and broken when @LivesANightmare found me. We dated all through high school and I never told Trystan about any of it. >

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He won't get anything. Nothing. The last time was the last time and I swore he'd never find me again. Neither him or my mother. The night >

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and I have to deal with it every single day of my life. I can't let it define me for the rest of my life. He won't get that power over me. >

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victim, who is helpless, who is weak. Not me. Except that is has. It did happen to me. That's the truth of the matter. It's happened to me >

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from it when drinking. It's not as clear when the alcohol takes effect. I can pretend it happened to someone else. Someone who is a >

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of my mind. Always, always, always playing. Alcohol makes it tolerable. It blurs the edges and smudges the pictures. I can distance myself >