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for these weekends now. Her days at work and her nights out were her only means of release. Harper couldn’t understand for the life of him why she stayed and put herself through all of the verbal abuse that her father dished out to her. But I knew Dee in a way that he didn’t. She remembered promising her mother to be a good girl for her father and that was what she was doing. Her mother had stayed with him out of love and Destiny stayed with him out of misplaced loyalty and duty.
    “Come on.” I said to the pair of them, hoping to diffuse some of the anger and tension that was radiating off of them. This arguing wasn’t going to help matters. They were both wound up and they needed to calm down.
    “I’m going home.” Destiny said. She had a hell of a stubborn streak in her that even I couldn’t always bend. But I had to try. Reasoning with her when she was drunk wasn’t going to be easy, but I would rather argue with her now than see her crying tomorrow after the cruel things that her father would be sure to say to her if he caught sight of what she was wearing.
    “Destiny…” I started to say but she just turned and started to walk away. “Wait up” But she didn’t even pause.
    “Forget it, Carrie. She won’t listen to reason.” Harper said with a glare in her direction. She was stumbling and I knew that she wouldn’t get too far without help.
    “I’ve got to try. You know the sort of things that he’ll call her if he catches her looking like that.” I had never been a big fan of her father, especially after we’d found out what he’d done to her mother. It just confirmed everything I thought about him. Even the accident hadn’t mellowed him out. If anything, it made him even more bitter and hateful. “Destiny!”
    She went over on the heel of her ridiculously high heels as she tried to speed up her steps to get away from me. She fell to her knees, using her hands to save her face from smashing into the concrete.
    “Shit.” She muttered.
    “Are you alright?” I asked as I crouched down beside her.
    “Do I look alright to you?” she snapped as she held up her mud and gravel covered palms.
    “Come on. Let’s go back to our place and get you cleaned up.” I said in a voice that I hoped was winning and soothing, but not too condescending.
    “I don’t need your help.” She grumbled as she struggled to get to her feet, falling back down to the floor. “I think I’ve busted my ankle.”
    Harper laughed and I could have smacked him myself. Laughing at her wasn’t going to help matters right now. “Are you sure you don’t need any help? Are you planning on staying down there all night?”
    Destiny pouted. She looked up at him with soft, dopey eyes. I smiled. That was about as close to an apology as he was going to get and he knew it.
    “If I do my back in, you are going to have to wait on me hand and foot, you know that, right?” he mumbled under his breath as he bent down to scoop her up off the ground. There didn’t seem to be any fear of Harper putting his back out. He carried her easily, like she was feather light.
    It was still a long walk home, but at least it was a quiet walk now that Dee had passed out in Harper’s arms.
     

Chapter Two
     
     
    The sky had dried up considerably and we walked the rest of the way home in silence. It didn’t actually seem to take too long for us to get there. I was just thankful that my heels weren’t half as high as Dee’s were. If they had been, Harper would have been carrying the pair of us.
    As we approached our apartment building, I ran ahead to enter the code to get us in the main doors. Standing to one side, I let Harper pass with Dee snoring softly in his arms. He rolled his eyes at me and I pressed the button to call the elevator. We waited in silence, only the snores of the drunken state in his arms pierced the night.
    Entering the apartment, Harper took Dee straight into his bedroom and placed her on his bed. He joined me in the