What the fuck is wrong with people…
Woke up to a voice mail today - A faint fragile voice on the other end of the line. A friend. One of those friends that I’ve spent a bit of time with over the last 5 years that never really became a part of the “group”, but also one of those people that I could always call, on a whim, to go have a drink and break away from whatever was bothering me or for no reason at all.
I assumed the weakness in her voice was the result of a heavy night’s drinking and cheering on the White Sox - she is a south-sider after all. She’d called me last night to see if I wanted to hang out and watch the game, but I turned her down — the last weeks been a rough one, so going out drinkin’ with an Irish south-side girl was the last thing I wanted to put my body through.
Reality hit me pretty fuckin’ hard when the words ‘he tried to kill me’ echoed over the sub-par cellular service I’ve been getting at home lately - I had to rewind the message to make sure I wasn’t hearing things.
She’d gone out to a local pub to watch her team win the series and wound up in the hospital, eyes swollen shut and on a morphine drip. She asked an on-and-off ex-boyfriend to join her for drinks, since I wasn’t up for the task, and he chose to follow up a night of cheering the home team with an attempted murder.
I should have been there for her … If I hadn’t spent the last week doing my best to destroy my liver, I’d have gone out last night. The voice mail this morning would have had the same tone, the same weakness, but rather than a morphine drip the prescription would have been a handful of aspirin and a bottle of water. A wicked hangover in place of bruises and broken bones.
I just have one question: Who the fuck thinks it’s ok to do something like this? To beat a girl to within inches of ending her life? I mean, for fucks sake, I can understand being an asshole when the Jager and Harp take over and spewing some ugly words, but what kind of a motherfuckin’ lowlife decides to try and kill a girl over a bad relationship?
I can’t help but feel guilty for not being there.
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