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She quickly shut the message down so he wouldn't see and pretended to be doing something else. A "?" Came up from Matt. She thought, "Oh no, he must see that I've read the message but haven't responded and now he's wondering why. But if I open the message dad will see that I was with him at the movies. I can't open it yet." Praying that her father would quickly leave, she still focused on checking her email as a ploy. Time seemed to drag on and another message popped up. "So I supposed I rushed to say the L word? What are we doing this for if you don't love me back?" Dawn became nervous and thought, "I'm screwing this up again... Maybe if I just press send really fast? No, I'll need to revise my message to address why it was taking me so long.. Maybe if I just say 'hold on for a sec'? I need to do this quickly before dad notices something's wrong." She quickly pulled up the message pressed send and typed in "hold on just a sec, sorry" and pushed the close button as fast as she could. Her luck was running out though because her father saw that she was talking to Matt and wanted to know why she was acting suspicious. He couldn't see the message but he knew she must be hiding something and started to become angry. "Get off line!", he screamed, "You don't need to be talking to that boy all the time. Your whole world seems to revolve around him these days!" Dawn swallowed hard. "Okay dad, just let me tell him goodbye really quick okay?" Her father slammed his fist on the keyboard and ripped the cord from the wall, shutting the computer down before she could do anything. "Oh God," Dawn thought, "I didn't get to explain! What if he gets the wrong idea and thinks I don't even care about him?" She jumped down to try and plug the computer back in but her father was faster. He grabbed the cord and whipped her across the back a few times before wrapping it around her throat. She gasped for air and tried to wrench her fingers between the cord and her neck. She was starting to see stars in her vision and knew if she didn't act fast she would pass out soon. "Daddy," she wheezed, "I'm sorry! Please! I'm sorry, I won't do it again. I'll listen better I promise!" Finally he let go but only to whip her with the cord again. When he was finally done, he grabbed her face and brought it close to his and sneered, "If you like getting whipped just keep it up. I don't know why you want to keep on my nerves like this all the time. I swear one of these days, you're going to make me kill you." He tossed her face to the floor and walked out of the room.