Billiard Ball #1

She's waiting on line at a grocery store    
She's buying a few items for dinner tonight    
When she pulled out her wallet, she dropped her billiard ball she carries with her at all times    
It was rolling away    
The number on it was "1"    
This was from a pool table she had many many years ago    
She kept it because it symbolizes a time in her life    
Her husband was a very very nasty and abusive man    
There were numerous times she was violently attacked & raped    
Many times their daughter witnessed this abuse    
One time in particular she was in the kitchen and her husband came home from work    
Always jealous, always picking on her    
He accused her of cheating because she left the house to get some clothes for their child   
Even by her showing him the receipts, he still had an issue    
He came up behind her while she was near the stove and put her in a choke hold    
This choke hold was making her turn blue & purple    
Their daughter who was no more then 8, grabbed the lower part of his leg and bit him as hard as she could    
He let out a scream and side smacked the kid across the face    
The little girl bit through his skin    
The wife then was able to break the hold, took his right hand and forced it into the boiling pot of water    
He let out a wail, removed his hand quickly and smacked his wife with his left hand across her face    
She fell    
She immediately took her child, while on the floor and scurried into her room, locking the door    
Things subsided for a few weeks    
Their daughter went back to school    
Things seemed quiet until one Friday night    
The wife's parents took her daughter out one Friday evening to dinner & to catch a movie she wanted to see    
She had the house to herself, until her husband came home    
They've been doing ok up until this point    
He came home around 7pm    
He was quite bitter and angry    
She offered him a drink    
He ignored her    
Then he asked where she was all day    
She told him that she was home and ran out to get some items at the local drug store    
He accused her of lying    
He smacked her once in the mouth    
She was bleeding from the side of her lip    
He continued on asking her who she was fucking    
She told him, in a panicky voice, no one!!    
He then grabbed her long brown hair and dragged her into the spare room    
The spare room had this pool table that was given to him as a gift from her several years back    
He threw her on the pool table    
He smacked her about three times in the face    
She pleaded for him to stop    
He didn't stop    
He stripped off all her clothes    
He continued on saying that he was going to fuck her good and raw whether your wet or not    
She continued to squirm a bit    
Finally she was able to grab one of the pool balls that was at the end of the table    
He wasn't paying attention    
She grabbed the pool ball with her right hand    
Leaned up a bit and took that ball and hit him on the left side of his head about four times    
The third time may have been the fatal blow    
After that shot, he fell on top of her like a sack of potatoes    
She was able to get to a phone and call the police    
The police realized that what she did here was in self defense    
No charges were ever filed against her    
She realized if this pool ball wasn't in arms reach, she could have died that night    
A few weeks later she had the pool table removed from the house    
She didn't want any of those memories attached to something she would see each day inside the home    
All she kept from the set was billiard ball #1