Between Two Evils
Saturday
Between two evils, I always pick the one I've never tried before: - Mae West
In Grace's experience evil came in many forms. Throughout her years she had seen enough of them to know that sometimes things weren't as black and white as you wished them to be. The beginnings of her life had been etched in grey, her father had run out on her before she was born and her mother had turned into an alcoholic somewhere before Grace's fourth birthday. She didn't remember why that had happened all that she did know was that growing up had been tough, tougher than it should have been for a little girl. She had survived, that was the important part. Josh had always said that about her. She was the type of person who could come through anything and she clung to that thought like the security of a baby blanket. She needed his strength right now because she couldn't do this on her own.
Grace had suffered through violence before. As a child she had ended up in the emergency room far too many times before her Nana had realized what was going on and whisked her away. Now she was in a similar situation again and there was no one who could step in and rescue her. She had to do this herself. The only problem was that she had one place to go if she left Will and that would be unleashing a whole lot of evil in itself. She hadn't seen Josh since that awful night when she had left. She would be opening Pandora's box by turning up at his place and the possibility of unleashing those torrid feelings all over again frightened her almost as much as Will did.
Grace tried to reason that her and Josh were different people now, maybe they were adult and in turn more forgiving. The truth was she had endured Will's violence for far too long and she knew that if she stayed the likelihood was that she would end up dead.
In the face of these two evils, there was only one way to turn and that was the one that contained Pandora's Box.