Rainbow.

What is a rainbow?

A rainbow is an optical and meteorological phenomenon in parallel form, multicolored light visible in the sky or other medium.

How did she find out? Of course, she looked it up on the internet.

Why did she want to know? Because she always wondered why she could see a rainbow one time and not another.

It was as if the rainbow only appeared at its will without anyone knowing.

Catherine was a twenty-five-year-old girl who lived with her three younger sisters. Her mother already gone since she was ten and her father stayed at the mental hospital for who knew how long.

The second daughter of her father was Anatasia, who was eight years younger than her. On the other hand, the third and fourth were the youngest, as they were twins who have just entered high school in New York City. They were Carolina and Elizabeth.

Since their mother died fifteen years ago, her father had fallen and became a heavy drinker. The older man completely forgot about his four growing daughters.

He considered that with his wife gone, he was living alone without caring for other family members.

Ten years old Catherine felt the world was unfair. She still needs parental love. After giving birth to twins, the mother experienced overexerted bleeding, resulting in death. Since then, her father considered his four daughters were nonexistent.

Young Cathy was required to become a mother for her three baby sisters.

At first, she did not care about her three younger siblings. She only cared about her dolls and lovely kisses from her parents. But the sound of twins crying disturbed her ears. Their outcry influenced a two years old Anatasia causing the baby Anastasia to cry as well.

Catherine threw down the toy and laid on the bed, covering her ears with the pillow. No matter how tightly she covered her ears, she still could hear the booming of her baby sisters crying.

BRAK!!

Catherine jumped in shock at the sound of a strange noise. For a moment, the crying of the babies stopped making her heart shuddered in fear.

Not having had time to think about what had happened, the sound of crying resumed. And this time, it was way louder than before.

Her curiosity made the best of her, and Catherine moved slowly out of her room. As soon as the door opened, she saw her father walking in wizard motion towards the babies' room.

How strange, why did her father walked like a snake? She saw his father walking not upright but shifting from side to side as if he was about to fall.

Catherine also saw her father carrying a drink bottle in his right hand. She even knew that her father had finished the bottle.

She felt something strange about her father's movements. She felt that her father was in a bad mood. If she came out now, she afraid her father would scold her and mad with her.

She better closed the door to her room and hid inside. That way, she will be safely protected from her father's wrath.

That's what she thought, and she was sure that's what she had to do. Alas, she did not know why her body disobeyed her brain and acted on its will.

Catherine's little feet ran towards her siblings' room and closed the door right in front of his father. She immediately stood straight with her back leaned to the door behind her as if she protected something behind the door.

Now her eyes met her father's dark eyes. Her legs were shaking while her vision began to blur with tears. She could still hear the cries of her younger siblings behind the door, even she herself wanted to cry. Somehow at that time, she felt scared standing in front of her father.

"HUH??" that's what her father hummed before raising his free hand, and...

SLAP!!

Cathy felt her body float to the side and hit the floor hard, causing her to groan in pain and a sting on her eyes. She couldn't hold back her tears any longer when she felt the burn on her cheek. Not only that, her head felt a little dizzy, and she could see two images of her father's reflection.

"Da... Daddy?" she sobbed, not knowing why her beloved daddy hit her.

"Who are you? Huh? So annoying? Noisy!! Everything is annoying!"

Catherine watched her father said some words that she couldn't understand. She even noticed his father's eyes were half-closed, and his hands swung directionlessly while speaking.

What happened to him? Where her loving and doting daddy go?

Where is mommy? She wants her mommy.

"Argh!!" her father threw his drink bottle aside when he found out that nothing left in the bottle.

Catherine's body jumped in shock at the shards of glass so close to her feet.

Her tears flowed continuously, yet she didn't dare make a sound. She watched her father anxiously and could only breathe a sigh of relief when she saw him walking away from her.

Even though she felt relieved, her legs and arms were still trembling with fear. With trembling hands, she opened the bedroom door slowly.

Seeing Anatasia and her two crying baby sisters, she got up and hugged her sister, trembling.

"Mommy... mommy..." sobbed Anastasia while clutching Catherine's clothes making her heart squeezed in pain.

"Here. Mommy is here. Please, don't cry," came the soft and gentle voice from a ten-year-old Cathy.

Not long after, Catherine forced herself to get up and left the room. She closed the bedroom door once again to prevent her sister from walking out.

She felt excruciating pain in her feet while standing on the broken bottle. Catherine bit her lip, thinking it might reduce the pain in her leg. Knowing that her efforts were in vain, she didn't care anymore.

Ignoring the pain, Catherine ran out of the house and sprinted to the place next door.

Catherine pounded on the house's door, calling the owner of the house in a loud voice.

As soon as the door opened and saw someone staring at her in bewilderment, Catherine swallowed hard to speak clearly.

"Please, help us."

"Cathy? What's wrong?"

"Lina and Lizzy... I don't know how to make them stop crying."

>>>>>> From author

Welcome my beloved new and old readers. This story is the prequel of The Flame Queen And Her Sly Lover. If you read my previous work and like it, you might like this as well.

I won't spoil anything so you can read it yourself.

Fyi, this story won't contain any fantasy genre as it happened before the Flame queen's time period. So there will be no flame queen, red wolf, etc.

It's pure modern contemporary romance with some action and mystery in the middle of story.

I hope you enjoy it and follow my ig @vorstinstory to know more about 'me' and my other works.

Happy reading and enjoy your journey with The Heir/Heiress series (ﾉ*>∀<)ﾉ♡

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