SKYLAR
I Slowly opened my eyes after I passed out a while ago, because of a heavy slap from my step father. Abusive, selfish, a bastard, drunkard, cruel....all those words I can use to describe him. He deserves much worse.
"Skylar!!! Get down here and cook my breakfast" I heard him call me from downstairs.
What was the point of going down there when I knew he'll beat me up again. The scars and bruises I have all-over my body right now, all thanks to that monster..... mistreating a seventeen year old in such a manner.
But was strange about it, the bruises and injury pain didn't last long as I expected. Wierd isn't it?, for a normal human girl like me.
"Should I come up there and get you myself!" I heard his voice for the second damn time.
I slowly dragged myself up from the floor of my bedroom, to go downstairs. As I descended down the stairs, I noticed he had packed his bags and suitcases.
Was he going somewhere?
"Didn't I tell you not to take long whenever i call you huh!"he grabbed my neck, and pinned me to the wall.
"Why don't I kill you, so you can live me just like your mother, huh!" He continued to say... strangling me.
"P...please d..on't" I begged the monster.
"Now go and make my breakfast...little bitch!" He yelled, throwing me to the floor like I was some kind of trash bag.
Eversince my mom left, he has treated me like a punching bag. He has always blamed me for her disappearing and leaving now trace behind.
Why did I have to suffer for her actions? I knew nothing about my biological father, u couldn't even remember him,not even his face. All mom ever told me was that he died in a war.
But what kind of war? She never told me.
I finished making his breakfast, just the way he wanted it to be and put it on the table.
"Do you need anything else?" I asked in a low voice.
"Pack your bags, we're moving to a new home....and leaving this place" he replied.
"Where are we going?" I asked curious.
"Won't you pack your bags or do I have to drag you all the way to your room and make you do it" he replied angrily.
"No, I'll go"I said.
"Hurry up before I lose my patience, the car is almost here," he replied.
I rushed up to my room and packed my small bags quickly and headed back downstairs before he could he could get a chance to about and beat me up again.
For some reason, even though he beat me up, every single time he touched me, I could sense his deep emotions....he looked so tough and cruel on the outside, but deep down....he was in some kind of pain even I couldn't explain.
So many unanswered questions of mine, why could I be able to do such a thing? Was there something I didn't know, some kind of secret?
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"WELCOME TO SUNNTOWN"
The big poster we just passed by read.
I could feel the fresh air and a cold breeze....maybe because we were passing by a forest. My step father was bringing me to a new place....but it felt so familiar. It felt like home.
The chills and whispers from the forest, the lively environment....what kind of life awaited someone like me in such a place.
"You should be grateful I brought you to this beautiful place, from that dump you called a home" he said as the car pulled up in front of a house, down the street corner.
"Daddy, you're finally back home!" a familiar voice greeted the both of us as we came out of the car.
Hayley, his daughter and my stepsister...the father and daughter are no different from each other.
"Didn't I promise you I'd be back?" He asked.
"Yes you did, but you didn't promise you'd be back with her" she said, pointing at me.
Daddy's little princess hates me, and the feeling is mutual. I don't like her at all either.
"I had no choice baby girl, I couldn't live her all alone in that place" he replied.
"Dad, she and I don't get along, not now, not ever...."she said angrily.
"Don't worry Hayley, it won't be gone for long before she's gone out of our lives, just like her mother" her dad replied.
What was my mom thinking marrying such a horrible man?
"Is she also going to go to my school?" Hayley asked.
"I have no choice but to let her go there too" he replied.
"But dad....." He cut her off.
"Don't you have a date with Drey? you'll be late, better get going" he said to divert her.
"Ok daddy, I'll go now, bye bye" she said slowly as she walked to her car, parked behind the one we just arrived in.
She's practically a year older than me, she must be eighteen by now... driving myself around was also my dream....but it looks like it will forever be a dream.
Lucky Hayley, she even has her own boyfriend..and her dad knows about him, unlike me...who has nothing to call my own.
"What are you waiting for! Bring the bags inside" he yelled at me again.
Inside the house, it was more beautiful than on the outside.
Only pictures of my step dad, Hayley and her mom, I guess, were on the walls.
"Quit staring, hurry up!" He yelled again.
"This will be your room" he opened a door, leading to a small room, with a small bed and one wardrobe.
What more could I expect?
"Filthy people like you deserve to be in places like this" he said to me again.
"When you're done freshening up, come downstairs, I'll be waiting for you" he added as he walked away.
Just my luck!
How was I going to leave like this? Being treated like a filthy good for nothing.....does no one really value me?
If I could be abandoned by my own mother at such a young age, worse things could happen to someone like me.
So sad.
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Skylar put her things into the new room her step dad had shown her.... wallowing with regret and anger, why didn't her mom take her when she decided to run away and disappear?
She unpacked her bags revealing a picture of hers with her mom when she was still very little....her mom was very pretty, with emerald eyes and long coffee brown hair like hers.
A small tear fell from her eye, she was once happy, but all her happiness suddenly disappeared one day.
She cleaned the room and finished freshening up.... noticing that most of the scars she once had weren't there anymore.
Wearing such long and buggy clothes to cover the bruises which weren't even there anymore. It still surprised her a lot.
She went downstairs before her step dad could yell at her again.
"It took you long enough, make me something to eat, I'm hungry" he said.
Such an arrogant man.
Skylar obediently went to the kitchen and made his food, and brought it to his table afterwards.
"Your admission to Sunntown High has already been approved, you can start on Monday.." her step dad said.
That was just one day away.
"You're letting me go to back to school?" Ariana slowly asked.
This man had stopped her from going to school before they moved, why did his decision change all of a sudden when they moved to Sunntown?
"Are you asking me questions?huh!" He asked angrily, grabbing her hand and squeezing the life out of it.
"N..no, I didn't mean to" Sky tried to say....but the next moment, she didn't feel the pain, instead she felt a punge of guilt, a guilty conscious from her step dad.
"Why, why do you treat me this way?" She asked the question abruptly, thinking he wouldn't answer....but his reaction stunned her.
Her step dad froze, like he was under her control and answered her question.
"I'm the reason why your mom left, it truly hurt me because I loved her deeply...and everytime I see you, I can't help but vent my anger and frustrations on you"
When Skylar removed her hand from his, he came back to reality but couldn't remember anything that he'd just said.
He was back to his normal self again.
"Why are you looking at me like that? Go back to your room! And don't come out until I tell you to!"Her step dad yelled at her.
Skylar was still amazed, he didn't remember anything at all. How was she able to make someone confess their deepest pain? And how was she able to feel how that felt just by touching them?
So many unanswered questions.
Skylar quietly went back to her room and locked the door.
Confused and hurt, she cried...she cried so much that she fell asleep for a little while.
It was hard for her and she could barely sleep when she knew he was in the house, but after Hayley returned home from her date with her boyfriend....she heard them both leave the house.
Peeping through her small window, Hayley's car had just driven away. She was alone in the house.
She went downstairs to grab something to eat but her appetite was just as helpless as her. She had no appetite and didn't want to eat anything at all.. especially if the food was in her step dad's home.
She wanted to go back to sleep, but couldn't find any sleep,yet it was close to 7:30pm, Hayley and her dad weren't back yet as well.
Where they went didn't concern her, he just spoiled his daughter way too much like she was beyond being something priceless in his eyes.
"Maybe, I should go for a walk outside....that will make me sleepy" Skylar thought to herself.
She went out of the house through the back, it was a bit dark and no one was around. Skylar couldn't care less about where she was going until she ended up wondering into the biggest forest in town, which she found beautiful and peaceful.
Midnight Forest
A forest like no other. A forest only known to supernatural beings.
The breeze called onto her,to come home and she just continued walking in, until she was in the middle of the mist.
She couldn't see anything now, she was completely lost.
Shouting for help wouldn't do in such a situation, she'd only attratmore trouble.
All she could do was cry for help through her thoughts.
Somebody, please help me, please
She tried looking for a way but couldn't find one and felt some movements in the woods. Something was coming towards her, she had no choice but to run.
Alone, in a deep dark forest and running. Running was all she was thinking about at the moment, she didn't know what was chasing her, nor could she stop and look behind to see what it was.
All she could hear were fast footsteps after her. She finally stopped when she reached a cliff, which was the end of the forest. But even if she didn't see what was after her, she could still feel it was there, just behind her.
She turned around to see what it was, and before she knew it....she blacked out.