Darkness, that the only thing I saw, I turned around and saw the door of my room. I open the knob and enter. The decorations were like before… before she came.
Plain dirty white bed, dirty cream walls, and no other decoration on the floor except the cabinet. I saw someone open the door and it's... my mother. I feel like my body has become a kid again. I looked up to see her angry gaze and she said.
"Savian why can't you just be like Tia?! Look! She has good grades and a good personality! How about you? What do you have? Your grades are not good and what will your gloomy attitude do? Did I raise you wrong?! Did I?! Answer me!"
She slapped my face once...twice...I feel numb from her hits. Then she gets one of her slippers and smacks it on my butt until it bleeds, a sudden doorbell rang throughout the house. Finally, she stops hitting me.
"Don't you dare say anything about this, you hear me?!"
"..."
"Do you want me to repeat myself?"
"No mother."
She then opens the door and her expression has changed. I took a peek at my door and saw tia, she saw me and gave me a wave, I looked at my mother and she signaled me to get back inside the room then did. I overheard their conversation through the door.
"Auntie! I would like to play with Sav today! If that's okay for you?"
"Sure! Savian would love that! Let me just call her."
After hearing this I immediately ran over to the bed. My mother entered, she saw the trails of blood on the floor up to the bed. Her face was full of anger. I closed my eyes ready to catch another hit but after a while, nothing happened. She then goes to the cabinet and chooses the most pretty t-shirt and pants that I have. She threw it to me.
"Don't you dare put your dirty blood on that? Do you understand?"
"Yes, mother"
"Now change, don't let tia wait, be thankful that she was good to you."
Then she left the room. I wipe all of the blood off my body and change my clothes and go out. I saw my mother laughing with her, smiling happily. I came over and their smiling faces disappeared.
We bid goodbye to mother and went to the playground to play. Tia goes to the slide and plays, she asks me to join her but my bruises won't let me. I declined her invitation. She then goes to the swings and invites me but I decline once again.
Then she asked if I could swing her and I agreed. We both had a good time but good days don't last forever when the sun was about to set when we decided to leave.
She sat on the bench while I went to the vending machine to get some water. I gave her the water and sat beside her. Now I know where I am. This is the time where I told her about my mother. I thought that I have a true friend that I can lean on but I was wrong...all wrong.
After that day, she told my mother about what I said to her. Later that day, my mother punished me for my so-called 'wrong doings' my memory about that was still fresh.
Now I was in the living room of my mother's house cleaning then she came in. My mother was good to her only to her. I was a bit jealous about that but I hid it deep inside me and not showing any reactions about it.
I remember this event, she and her mother came into my mother's house and she asked my mother about her pe uniform. My mother agreed fast and after they left she punished me for not giving it to Tia.
Oh, now this sucks…I saw myself walk my way back to the house while holding my recommendation letter from the school I liked, I never let anyone know about this.
That's why I'm happy, I passed the scholarship exam and tomorrow I will go there. The school has a dormitory and free allowance to scholars and the course that like was there and there will be no mother and Tia.
I was so happy that day and when I got to the house Tia was about to leave, she bid goodbye to mother and me. I entered the house and my mother slapped me in the face.
"What are you thinking?! Why didn't you go to the same school as Tia Ha!? What if something happened to Tia!? You ungrateful brat!"
She pulled my hair and smacked it on the wall, repeatedly she did and the blood flowed out of my head. I wanted to help but I couldn't move. I watch in horror as she smacks a tube of metal at me over and over again. I watched as she stole my recommendation letter from my packet and dragged me to my room.
As I woke up I tried to wreck the door and succeed. I tried to leave but get stung by an electric shock. Over the passing days, I tried to break free from my room. The door was replaced with a stronger one, there are no windows, no food or water.
Watching myself like this suffered my heart. I see myself closing my eyes and tears start to fall out, I crawl into a ball and let my quiet tears drip into the abyss. That day has become the last day that I have run away.
The following week my mother saw me 'cool downed' and Tia was bugging her about not letting her see me and this day I was dressed in my t-shirt and pants and met up with Tia.
"Long time no see Sav!" she said as she smiled brightly throughout the room.
"Long time no see Eunice." and give her a small smile.