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Makes sense. I’m just a charity case.
“Your mother isn’t around, is she?”
All I can do is stare back at this villain while the mocking laughter fades. They’re no longer a threat to me.
The bigger threat is the man grinning with anticipation.
Darkness swarms his softened eyes, trying to make him look like a knight in shining armor.
I know better.
Always have… always will.
“Shall we go?”
He doesn’t need a reply.
A turn around and he’s heading to his secret sanctuary.
The study room. His personal study.
No one but he has access to…
Swallowing the lump in my throat, I dare to look back, as if someone would appear from the massive oakwood-craved doors and save me from what’s to come.
Only my bully remains.
The hatred in his eyes is as strong as ever, but there’s something else.
Something a child like me can’t understand.
Is it jealousy? Maybe burning rage?
It only makes me want to get this over with.
Looking away, the darkness corners me.
All I can do is look at my trembling hands, wondering when will it end. When I’m older? Eighteen? Twenty?
“You have to pay your debt, Gemini.”
There’s my savior’s voice. The one who saved me from the treacherous streets of the cruel, bloody world.
His reminder only proves what must be done.
It’s exactly why I take those first steps to the study.
Panic consumes me before I can reel it in.
My teeth clamp hard on my bottom lip, the pain needed to cut through the pulsing fear coursing wildly through my body and mind.
With a few rapid breaths, I force myself to sit up, even with how my body protests. I feel like I’ve run a few marathons in my sleep, but after pushing myself trying to win a game that’s premeditated and created to celebrate my failure, this feels like the short end of the stick.
It doesn’t ease my rapidly beating heart.
Not when I’m trying to reorientate myself as to where the fuck I am.
Scanning the dark room with blurry vision seems wasteful, but I need to claim some sort of control after that nightmare.Dreams reviving around my traumatic past.
