No Place Called Home

"I wanna go back home!"  Irene asked, the girl seemed to be contacting her father.

 Every so often she wiped away the tears that ran down her cheeks and she seemed to be having a hard time breathing because of the water stuck in her nose.

 "No, you can't!"  rejected the male voice who might be her father.

 "Why, Daddy? I can't hold on again. That's fuck Edric always tortures me. He accuses me of being a bully even though he's the one bullying me," said Irene, reporting,

 She really wanted to go back home.

 "How could I believe in you if the one doing bullying is you, Irene?"

 "Daddy, please believe in me… believe in me!"  asked Irene who seemed to be crying even more and she screamed.

 Her tears came out uncontrollably and she seemed to be standing next to the table of a landline.

 "No. Just stay there because you have to get used to living by the Dorian family rules!"

 "Daddy…!"  the call ended up, "Daddy!"  And the girl tried to contact her father again but no longer connected.  "Oh, please...!"  She looked pleading as she continued to press his family's home number, "Pleasee…!"

 "You want to destroy my family's property?!"  And she was surprised when she heard the voice of Edric who had entered her room.

 "You– Why did you come to my room?"  Irene asked with a trembling body.

 "Fuck you. I was forced to bring you food, I was forced to be your servant, and now you want to forbid me from entering your room. Take this food and don't waste my family's food again!"  said Edric,

 "Ahhh!"  He stepped quickly towards Irene then pulled the girl's hair,

 "No, please… Let me go!"

 Then stuffed the sandwich forcibly into the mouth of the girl who seemed to be sitting on the floor crying and struggling.

 "Fuck!"

Plakk!  "Shut Up your Fucking mouth!"  He slapped the girl's face until the bruised face was bleeding, then he forcefully poured the milk which was still hot enough into the woman's mouth.

 "Feel it… Feel it, You Slut. I have spoken to you, I won't marry you, why do you not leave my house? Why do you keep here? Why do you have to study in my school? You embarrass me,  Shameless!"  cursed the boy while pouring the remaining milk over Irene's head who was still sobbing.

 Taarr!

 Then he broke the glass of milk right next to the helpless girl.

 After that, the teenage boy stepped out of the room and locked the door.

 "So do I… I… I also won't marry you!"  said Irene in a weak tone.

 She began to lie down on the floor and some of her skin looked injured from the broken glass on the floor.

 "Ahhh Mommy, Mommy… Please bring me to you! I also wanna die," she said as she closed her eyes.

 ********

 Irene smiled gently.

 That day, she finally returned to her family home.

 She would meet her father who was the only family Irene was still left with and would spend vacation time there.

 "Edric, stay here for a while! I will pick you up two days later," pleaded Edric's father who seemed to have gotten out of the car and Irene saw her father and Edric's mother were chatting a little away from them.

 "Why do I have to stay in this stupidity girl' house, Daddy. Shit… I can't believe you threw me away," said Edric, unable to accept his father's decision.

 And the boy started to look at Irene who was pale-faced with a look full of hatred.

 "Come on, Edric. What's wrong if you visit your fiance's house? Just two days, I'm sure you can be happy living here," asked Edric's father then he turned to Irene's father who had approached them.

 "I miss you, Babe!"  Then Irene's father hugged his daughter.

 It made Irene shed tears of joy.

 "Me too, Daddy," Irene said, hiding her face full of tears in her father's chest.

 "No worries! I'm sure Edric will be happier living at Isaac's house than at Dorian's," said Irene's father while smiling cheerfully at his two friends.

 "Oh… Isaac, you're really confident,"

 "Of course!"  replied Irene's father while Edric seemed to be staring at the girl standing in front of the door,

 "Ha ha ha!"

 "Ha ha ha!"

 "Who's she, Uncle?"  asked Edric, stopping the laughter of the adults around him.

 "Oh, Lucy,"

 "Lucy?!"  called the surprised Irene, then she let go of the hug for her father.

 "Lucy?!"  called the curious Edric.

 The man's eyes seemed tempted to look at the little girl who was still standing in front of the door and a woman had come out of her house carrying the little girl.

 "Daddy?!"  Irene's body was shaking, she had guessed the reason her father never wanted her to come back home.

 "Wow… do you marry someone else, Isaac?!"  asked Edric's father.

 "Hmm, I mean.. I married her before Irene's Mommy die,"

 "How could you do that to us, Daddy!"  shouted Irene with uncontrollable sobs and the girl started to get back into the Dorian family's car,

 "Oh, Baby, please, listen to my explanation!"  asked Irene's father at the same time as the little girl who had approached Edric.

 "No!"  And Irene answered with a loud cry.  She covered her ears.

 "Irene!"

 "No… No… please go!"

 ******

 Irene stopped her footsteps in the middle of the stairs when Edric blocked the woman's body down from there.

 They were at the Dorians' house and she had decided not to take a vacation at the Isaacs' house.

 "This the first time I will talk in good ways with you,"

 "That's Lucy?!"  guessed Irene who had understood that Edric seemed to be interested in the child from his father's illicit relationship with another woman.

 "Ahh… I notice you may be angry with my decision, but … I promise not to hurt you again, just…"

 "Do you want me to introduce Lucy to you, right?!"  guessed Irene with sad eyes.

 "Ehhmm… Ahhh yeah!"

 "Sorry!"  But Edric was surprised to hear the answer from the girl.

 His eyes were red and he couldn't take Irene's refusal.

 "Why?! Is it because you have feelings for me?"  snapped the man who had turned around when he saw Irene stepping down the stairs, leaving him.

 "No. If you want to approach her, just do it for yourself. I really don't care about your feelings," answered Irene, continuing to walk.

 "Damn you. I tried to be nice to you but you turned against me,"

 "I'm not against you. I just don't want to talk to the child my father cheated on. I definitely believe my mother died of depression after seeing my father's infidelity all this time!"  explained Irene in a high tone.

 She started crying for the umpteenth time and continued to walk down the stairs.

 "Die you… Just die.. if you die, I'm sure Lucy will take your place and marry me!"  cursed Edric then with high emotion he stepped closer to Irene, " Die you!"  And pushed the girl's body until Irene's body fell rolling down the stairs.

 "Lady...!"

 And without a hint of guilt, Edric stood looking at the panicked maid who seemed to help Irene's frail body at the bottom of the stairs.