Chapter 11: XI.Flashback
The man told me to keep quiet and so i kept quiet.
The man told me to eat and so i ate.
The man laughed at me when i peed myself and i cried
Anytime i cried the man would beat me up and I'll cry more and more and more till he'd throw me in the pool with his hand forcing my head to remain under.
Mummy would tsk and hug me,hug me hard.She always smelt like chlorine and jasmine
Chlorine and Jasmine
Chlorine and Jasmine
Chlorine and Jasmine
She always smelt like chlorine and Jasmine.
I screamed and sprung up,i was still there,still in the dark prison on the flat mattress,i was still cold and wet from my last punishment as the woman who forced me to call her mummy put it.
Light footsteps resounded down the dimly lit squeaky hall,wicked red haired lady appeared and smiled at me.I didn't like her,she was weird,she smiled at me too much,even when that man drowned me many times when i did not call her mummy.
She wasn't my mummy,my real mummy had dark hair and pretty eyes and wouldn't let anyone hurt me.My real mummy was supposed to pick me up from school when that man appeared in the bushes and yanked me in it.
I started crying again,my blue Cinderella dress was dirty and heavy,wet and stinky.
"Oh Clara,what did I say?"She cooed and knelt in front of me,her white dress pooling around her,she was pretty and she looked like a princess,but why was she wicked?Was the man forcing her to do things she did not like,like me?
"M-m-my n-name is not C-Clara"I sobbed harder my body shaking at her close proximity "Please let me go,I'll be good"
Her smile dropped,her face instantly darkening in anger"What did I say Clara?!"She clenched my shoulder,tight,i wailed as n i thrashed,my hair whipping around.
I didn't like the way she touched me,she was hurting me,no one hurts me.
"Clara"She sing sang trying a different tactic"Do you want me to call Daddy?"
I froze,he wasn't my daddy,my daddy wasn't ghostly pale and pin straight like that man,my dad was brown like my favorite ice cream flavor and my daddy has big brown eyes that twinkled when he saw me.
"N-no…"I shook my head,anytime she called him he would take me to the pool.
"Good"She smiled again "What is your name?"
"M…Mirabella"
She yelled the name of the man immediately.
Blue body of water
Stinging smell of Chlorine
Bubbly screams of help
She came the next day,when I was curled up in a ball,cold and shivering in the wet dark room,the only ventilation was the little barred window high up in the wall,it made me know when it was night or day and anytime the sun came up I became more scared because she would come again with her bright smile and another white dress and ask me questions.
I didn't call her mummy again.
The man punished me again.
Then finally,when the sun had risen again and chirping birds landed on the window the scent of jasmine filled my nose.
I was half dead,flat on the mattress like a starfish staring at the mold filled ceiling,I haven't been given anything to eat,surviving on only gulps of water that flooded my system.
"Clara"It sounded like a whisper,but it wasn't,I knew it wasn't,everything just sounded like a disoriented whisper to me because of my ringing ears
"Mummy"I muttered and blacked out
When i woke up the ceiling was bright and white,the bed was soft,I wasn't in the Cinderella dress mummy has bought for me,I was in a white one with no designs and the wicked lady was sitting on a chair staring at me with a soft smile
"I'm happy you're awake,Clara"She softly spoke and got up to sit on the bed with a tray in her hands
I was weak,battered and lay still as she forced the pudding into my barely parted mouth.
"Say thank you to mummy,honey"She said when the large bowl was empty,my belly filled and my energy slowly building up
"Thank you mummy"
She grinned"What is your name?"
"Clara"
"Who am I?"
"Mummy"
She placed a kiss on my forehead as i drifted off.
Days passed,she took care of me when i fell sick,succumbing to a deadly fever
"Look Clara,look how mummy takes care of you when you're sick"She'd whisper as she snuggled into me,I would lay still,unable to move with silent tears tracking my cheeks,I didn't like pretending to be Clara but I didn't like the pool either.
Just the thought of it had me choking in air,clawing at my throat before everything would darken again.
I prayed for help,mummy,daddy and Elena would be looking for me and i waited for them to find me.
Then a day came when she was shoving chopped apples in my mouth,my gaze was blurry,I was dying,I wasn't getting better,nothing but a corpse with few breaths left in me when gunshots fired from somewhere in the house.
She had gasped and carried me under the bed,hugging me to her chest while cooing in my ears,tears from her dampening my neck.
"Don't worry baby girl,mummy's got you"I couldn't talk,couldn't cry,couldn't even scream,just a deadweight on the cusp of death only fueled by the panic in the air.
I remember thudding footsteps entering the room,deep voices yelling my name.My real name!
Her hand came up and clasped my mouth when i cried out.
Silence.
The bed was suddenly flipped over,large men,guns.
I remember her shouting,unwilling to let me go,i remember the death grip she had on me,then i remember the weapon directly pointed at me causing me to scream,the deafening boom of a gun as the bullet missed me by a fraction,the woman's voice fading,her hands released me,and blood,blood everywhere.
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