Andrianna was born out of a loveless marriage. She was the last piteous attempt of the couple to salvage the marriage that was long since dead.
Until after two years even that was not enough. Andrianna did not remember much about this. She did not remember the numerous nights filled with screams and cheating that finally drove her father out of the house to move into the arms of a much younger woman that if nothing else gave him satisfactory sex.
Andrianna did not know much about her father. The only men she knew in her life were the ones that heated her mother's bed late at nights and tiptoed out before the crack of sunlight. Occasionally they stayed a few nights longer but never did anyone last more than a month.
None, until Carlos Night.
Andrianna clearly remembered the night he walked into her drug addict mother's life. After all, no one forgets their first fuck.
It was late that night, Andrianna could not tell you what the date was, even today but she remembered it was raining that night.
She remembered the smell of wet earth and the loud pattering of water against the window sill of their large mansion. She remembered the thunder that lit the night sky. She could have sworn that there was something foreboding about that night. Like its vengeful downpour was sending a message. A message she wished she had heeded to.
Francis had tucked Andrianna into bed that night but she could not sleep. The shadows of the night kept her up. After a while, she was thirsty and walked into the kitchen when she heard the door give away.
The loud laughter of her mother almost instantly followed the noise. Andrianna knew better than to greet her mother. For she knew her mother had a guest. And she did not like to be disturbed when with a guest.
So, she peeked from behind the large frame of the kitchen edge. Catching a glimpse of the devil eyed man. His crooked smile was almost handsome. Age had worn off the otherwise sharp features of the man but he was still very handsome. His hand was around her mother's waist.
Andrianna was scared of her mother's new guest, she feared for her life because the devil eyed man would hurt her. She knew that for sure so she stayed. To keep an eye out for any trouble was it to present itself.
They moved to the living room. They sat down on the couch, affording Andrianna the prime view of the events that unfolded in front of her.
The devil eyed man had emptied a white powder on the table and had made lines of it before he bent down, letting his nose real close to the powder. His nostrils flared and a loud sound escaped his nose when he closed the other nostril and just like magic the white powder disappeared.
Andrianna knew now for sure that she should stay. For the devil eyed man knew magic, he would take her mother away for sure. He would hurt her. Good thing too, but he had nothing yet.
Her mother took in the magic powder after he did. They did this in turns for some time until the devil eyed man looked at her mother in a manner she had seen most of her mother's guests look before the weird noises started.
But his look was somehow more evil. The lust in his eyes was hellfire; one that Andrianna feared would burn her mother. But she waited. She waited for the fire to come, but it did not.
Instead, he leaned closer to her mother and lightly bit her mother's lips. Andrianna's mother, Susan closed her eyes in pleasure. Throwing her head back. Her beautiful long brown hair splayed across her heaving breasts.
The devil eyed man's lips moved to her mother's neck kissing her skin as his fingers moved under the straps of her red dress. Pushing it away letting it hang at her sides. Moving away from her for a good long minute he said, "Get up and take it off for me"
Susan got up from the couch, her back to Andrianna while her fingers reached for the zipper at the back, unzipping the dress letting the lace slowing fall of the ground. Standing shamelessly naked in front of the man.
"On your back in my lap, daddy wants to spank you," the devil eyed man said.
Her naked mother did just that. Her butt resting on the devil eyed man's laps. He in turn rubbed her mother butt. Running his palm in circles about two times, before his hand left her butt for a second before slapping it loudly. Andrianna's mother let out a moan that Adrianna mistook one of pain.
When Andrianna decided to step forward and protect her mother.
"Leave her alone!" Andrianna screamed as loudly and boldly as a scared child of seven years of age could.
Both of them looked up. The devil eyed man pursed his lips in displeasure. The look of pure anger at being disturbed. Before he burst into a smile that was the embodiment of evil.
It was a smile he would never let her forget. Of all the moments of this night, she would remember two things the most.
One was his smile.
And the other would be fear.
But clouded for eternity would be this smile and the pain that followed this very smile.