"Over my dead body." Jert said in reply.  

Lizza's father smirked evily, "That can be arranged."

Her father lunged at Jert even though he was half drunk he still had a good swing. Jert was barely on the ground before he was up and punching her father in the stomach making sure he got no where near Lizza. 

Lizza was frozen to death but when her dad hit Jerk to the ground and her father was on top of Jert, she screamed. She got up and tried to push her father off of Jert. Her father with a hideous look on his face turned his attention to Lizza. Lizza stopped and started backing away. Jert shook off the punch that threw him down and came up behind Lizza's father and jumped on his back. 

"Get... phone...police." Jert said in between trying to stay on her fathers back while the father was swinging back and forth trying to get him off. Lizza ran to the kitchen to get a phone while Jert on her father's back was getting hit against the wall. Jert fell off but was up on his feet in an instant. 

Lizza had called 911. Now she was in the corner of the room watching this happen. When suddenly her father advanced towards Jert and taking  him by the neck. Lizza let a scream as she saw Jert trying to breath while Lizza's father pushed him against the wall only by his neck. 

"Daddy let go!" Lizza started tugging at her dads shirt and then she pushed hr father. He got angry and threw Jert to the ground and turned to face LIzza.  Lizza started backing up. Jert was knocked out on the floor. Lizza backed up slowly then started running up stairs.

 She ran into the attic and closed the door and put as much stuff as she could in front of the door. She heard foot steps and quickly retreated to the far corner of the attic and slid down on the floor. Lizza heard her father banging on the door and telling her to let him in. He kept making a promises that if she did he wouldn't hurting her. She touched her swolen cheek and remembered what he did to her earlier. She knew he was lying. Tears were running down her cheeks. She heard the banging get lounder and knew it wouldn't hold him long. She brought her knees to her chest and put her head in her knees and racked back and forth. 

This is it, She thought. I never got to tell Jert I love him. 

She heard a heavy entrance and hard breathing until the creaky of the wood floor stopped right in front of where Lizza was sitting. 

Lizza looked up at her angry sweaty dad and she tried to scoot up to wall more putting herself as far away from the monster she could go. Fresh tears started forming in her eyes. Tears that were preparing for what they knew what was coming.

She whispered pleadingly, "Daddy, please..." Anger was the only thing in his eyes. He took his hand up to hit her and Lizza couldn't look any more. She cowarded in fear by scrunching her head into her knees. 

Suddenly there was a sound of a glass bottle breaking and then a large thump. Lizza looked up to see Jert  with a broken beer bottle standing over her dad, who was now knocked out. 

Lizza was so releaved she jumped into Jert arms and almost knocked him over. Jert held her in his arms and he never wanted to let go.