day : ruined

One to the face, One to the chest.

I mean, I had known this would be the result of my disobedience to their words, but they could not even have dreamed of me leaving Lilly here on her own. Lilly is my younger sister, or well, not my blood sister however, she means more to me than anyone in this world. She was five at the time and the purest person I knew and still know, she didn't deserve to let Mary and John's filthy hands get on her. Mary and John, my "parents". They weren't my biological parents, but I had to be grateful they even took the leisure of deciding to take me in. Not exactly the nicest folk out there but at least I had a roof over my head, right?

"Do you have any idea how hard we worked to gain all those business partners!"

I knew better to reply to their obvious rhetorical questions as that would land me in trouble for talking back and also the actual reason I was in trouble. John impulsively pushed my head into the cutting corner of the kitchen island, which caused the left side of my head to start bleeding. John's hand felt like fire against my skin, his rage had boiled his blood to point where the heat that was dissipating off him was able to reach past my hair all the way to my scalp. The callouses on his hand mimicked that of the scales on a snake and were a reminder of the amount of alcohol he had consumed over the past few years. I was able to manage closing my eyes before my head collided with a cold hard surface which I recognised as the sharp corner of the kitchen island. The blood felt like thick water sliding down the side of my face, it was slow and warm, falling drop after drop with no end. I started to feel dizzy and after losing the adrenaline in my body I could feel the intense throbbing pain that came with the collision, but I held in my scream whilst trying to stay conscious and focused. All of the muscles in my body were aching as if I had fallen off a cliff and into stagnant water. My legs couldn't handle the weight of my body anymore and finally gave in, forcing me to fall down onto my hands and knees. There go my legs…

"All you ever do is care about yourself! No-one else matters! You can't just listen to us for once in your god darn useless life!"

Mary then decided she needed to release her pent up anger and jumped in, digging her claws into the soft skin of my index finger and pulling it backwards. At this point I wasn't able to hold back my scream and I howled at the top of my lungs. I could feel the blood in my finger pulsing around, pounding to escape the boundary of my skin. It may not have been broken, but it was definitely as painful. There goes my finger...

At the sound of my scream Lilly rushed down the stairs and stood next to me, making us the same height. I could see the pain and fear in her eyes and it made my heart ache, she had to see her own parents hurt her sister. Lilly opened her quivering lips and shouted "P-Please stop, y-you're hurting her" whilst sobbing through her words. The next moment was almost in slow motion. I was able to see from my peripheral vision that Mary was grabbing the expensive glass, the one she was gifted from her boss with several different patterns of triangles built together to make a beautiful piece of work, on the side table closest to her right and lifting it above her head, her mouth opened in a scream state and her eyes showed pure anger.

It was almost as if-

I instantly covered Lilly by scooping her into me in a dome-like shape, exposing my back to the glass that shattered against my body. The hit made my body jerk forward in reaction to the pain. Still hugging Lilly, I whispered "It's all okay, just go upstairs and I'll talk to mum and dad, yeah?" At first she shook her head violently in protest but I gave her a strict look and with that she gave me one last pitiful stare, to which I responded with a full blown smile to assure her it was all okay, then she ran up the stairs wiping her tears and not looking back. As soon as I heard her door slam shut, I slowly stood up and turned around to face my so called "parents".

...There goes my patience…

I felt the anger rush through me, as if an electrical current had been passed through my body. I badly wanted to hurt them, do things to them they could never imagine in their wildest dreams, but if I did anything close to that it would mean torture for Lilly.

Therefore, I calmly sat down, my face still dripping with blood, my back sore from the glass with shards embedded in my body that still attacked me with my every move, I raised my hand pointing to the seats in front of me, beckoning them to take a seat...

They looked at each other confused but eventually decided to take a seat.After they were seated, I started "I'll leave..."

"Oh finally, and good riddance-" John commented, but I wasn't finished

"On one condition..."

"YOU THINK YOU CAN MAKE THE DECISIONS IN THIS HOUSE, YOU PIECE OF-"

"I can always call the police, if that's what you would prefer Mary..." I smirked; I knew they wouldn't retaliate to that. They always knew I could call the police and they would be rotting in jail with no effort from my side, it wasn't like I would have minded going to an orphanage, I only had one year left till I was 18 anyway. However, I didn't want to put Lilly through having to go to an orphanage and struggle for the attention and love she deserved so much. What if her next parents would be worse, what would I do then? We most definitely wouldn't be picked together in one family, I mean, who would want a stinky 17-year-old?

Thus, I would never call the police...

But they don't know thatttt. Might as well take advantage, right?

"You can't get away with what you did... You ruined everything for us!"

I guess I should explain why I was being beaten to death and forced to go to a boarding school... A few days before this incident, we had all gone to some stupid business party, where all the pretty perfect ladies and all the rich, loaded men agreed to show up. Mary and John had worked incredibly hard to even score a seat in the party let alone sit next to them and this party was meant to allow them to make many more of their business partners but it didn't quite go as they or I for that matter had planned...

Lilly had to go to the toilet, so she kept bugging Mary to take her, that's what any kind of child does, it was natural... but Mary, ohhh, she got mad because she was trying to seal a business deal with an important dealer who probably had 10 mistresses and was planning to make Mary the 11th one with the way he was flirting with her. Anywho, Mary grabbed Lilly's hand so hard that Lilly shrieked in utter pain, her hand was red and had the imprint of Mary's hand on it. Everyone looked to see why some little girl screamed like that then Mary went ahead and blew it off as a child tantrum, that was when I came in and tore Lilly away from her... True I got a bit angry and blurted, " Get away from her you good for nothing mother!" A bit too harsh I know, but considering the fact that I knew what harmful things Mary could do, it was completely justified...

That brought us to this...

"Fine, anyway when you're gone, we won't even get mad. You're the only reason we became like this. You tore this family apart... Always remember that." Mary said in such a low and meaning voice it actually hurt...

Is that what they truly believe? But I never did anything. I was always so obedient, I never questioned anything, only after Lilly was born I started 'rebelling', I think calling it protecting is a better and more fitting word.

Two hours later I had finished my packing and was just finishing up when I heard a tiny knock on my door.

"Come in Lills"

I turned around just as Lilly opened the door and saw her eyes completely red and puffy. She must have been crying a lot, I didn't blame her... I didn't want her to have to live like this. She deserved so much better.

"Are you really going?" Lilly asked, her lips quivering.

"I'm afraid so baby"

I lay down on my bed and opened my arms, gesturing for her to come and lay down with me. She slowly walked to me, sniffling. We both lay in silence, waiting for sleep to overcome us.

"I'll always protect you Lilly" I whispered just as everything, sleep and pain, overtook me and all I saw was black...