[Diana's POV]
"Don't worry I am always besides you."
The person said that as my body started to turn into tiny lights. There are still many things I want to tell her but my vision started to get blurry as well.
And it didn't take long before my vision got completely blackened out.
No!!! Doll san!!!
!!!?
I suddenly opened my eyes and saw the ceiling that I usually see everytime I wake up in the morning.
"Ehhh??"
I was left staring at it for a long while not knowing what to say.
A dream??
Is all of that? all just a dream??
I started to think more about the dream but my memory is being so fuzzy...As if I am forgetting it.
Urghhh...
I slowly raised my body and sat on the bed before putting my hand on my face and lightly scratching my forehead with my finger.
All that I could clearly remember is me being embraced and patted....And that I was crying on someone's chest.
I remember being happy and warm. I felt safe and it was also peaceful.
Ehhhh?
Those memories from my dream....feels so real...
A part of me is saying that it was real yet a part of me also says that it's all only but a dream....
....
I kept thinking and looked around my room, I then saw my doll that was lying down besides me.
My doll...
She has white hair and a pair of yellow eyes, she wore a black dress with white sleeves....just like....that person in my dreams.
'First thing first.... I'm your doll....'
!!?
I remembered...
That person named herself 'Doll' right?
She said that she was my doll....What was she said again?
Vessel?....Spirit?....Escape?
!!?
Some of my memories from that dream started to come back to me.
I somewhat remember some of it now...
But still....
If that dream it really true then...
I gently picked my doll up and placed it on top of my laps.
"Good morning...."
I greeted the doll and stared at it for a while as I stroked It's hair with my hand.
I'm getting a bit hopeful on getting a response from the doll but.
....
....
There was no answer in which I felt a bit disappointed.
Ehhh? Disappointed?
Why do I feel sad?
No no no, I shouldn't be. I should be greatful that atleast there was someone in my dreams that gives me care.
Yes.....I should be thankful.
I then raised my head trying to get myself together and move on.
I then looked at the table and saw my so called food already placed there.
My food?
"Did I.... overslept?"
I don't usually wake up after my food is sent here. I always wake up early even before the food is sent here.
Anyways, I then placed my doll on the side besides the pillow and then stood up before walking towards the table where my food was and took a sit.
Let's see....
"Today is bread...."
My food on the table was two brown bread paired with one glass of water. I grabbed it and it felt super dry and cold. I then put it in front of my mouth and took a bite.
It taste like....nothing.
I also find it difficult to eat since the bread is not easily being torn as I bite it. It really feels so dry.
I continued eating the bread since I can't be choosy. After I'm done, I then drink the water on my cup before deciding to sit still for the rest of the moment.
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The morning and afternoon passed by as usual with me just reading the same books that I read everyday and looking at the window in where I could only the sky.
"Today is quiet.....Well I hope it will be quiet."
There are days when nothing much really happens....And those types of day are the days that I prefer because no one is coming to hit and hurt me.
Please...Let this day be like the others.....
Just as I wish that today will be peaceful, I then heard some footstep outside of my door.
And those footsteps are getting louder and louder as if coming closer to the door.
*Tak* *tak*
!!?
Those sounds! Could it be!?
I quickly looked towards the door with the feeling of uneasiness and fear.
It's..... her.
*Thud*
As I thought about that, the door suddenly opened with force making me startled and squint my eyes because of the light.
!!?
"You tried to escape didn't you?"
On that door. An adult woman with blonde hair who is wearing a frilly dress looked at me with a vicious look on her face.
"Hahaha, well well, I guess you should be taught a lesson then."
As she said that, Another woman who is standing behind her wearing a maid like outfit suddenly gave her a whip.
!!?
No.....
Seeing the whip, the strong feeling of despair started to appear on my face.
No...Please .....not that.....
".....please....No....."
My body started to tremble and the woman slowly walked towards me while holding the whip in her hands.
"That will not do you know....I must throughly discipline you haha."
*Whip*
She whipped the floor making a loud sound that made me more frightened causing myself to reflexively close my eyes while hiding behind my arms.
"Eek!!!"
"That's right scream! hahaha, but well even if you did, no one will going to help you anyway."
The woman laughed with an evil grin before raising her hand with the whip and walking towards me.
No....
I watched her getting closer and closer to me.
No....Don't come any closer.....please.....
"No!!!!"
I fearfully took one step back and then another.
*Whip*
*Eek!!!"
She then whipped the floor again making me lose my strength on my knees and falling the floor.
No I don't want this!....
I crawled backwards trying to get away from her but then my back then bumped the wall behind me as if telling me there was no escape.
Tears are coming out from my eyes. And I started to feel like it's getting hard to breath as if I am suffocating with fear.
"Help..."
Please.....
I looked at her with fear. My isn't coming out and all I could is whimper and cry.
"HAHA, That's right! cry some more!"
She then stood few feet in front of me and then raised her whip again.
"Take this!"
The whip hit my arm and the strong feeling of stinging pain quickly followed it.
"AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!"
It hurts!!!!!
"WHAHAHAHA"
*Whip*
"GAH!!!!!!"
Another whip hit my legs causing me to hide it with my body making me completely expose my back towards the woman.
"Painful isn't it? That's what you get for being disobedient HAHAHA!"
*Whip*
The woman continued laughing as she kept whipping me. She whipped my back and the other parts of my body.
It hurts so much...it hurts...
I started crying more and more but the woman continued whipping me and didn't stop.
The pain kept coming one wave to another and some parts of my body and starting to bleed. But even from all of that , all I could do is close my eyes and curling my body trying to protect my front.
*Whip*
Urghhh!...help me.....help me...help.....He...lp....
The woman enjoyed and laughed as she torments me. For every shriek I made, her whips become much more stronger and heavier.
"You should've stayed quiet like a good girl you know, but oh well, whipping you gives me so much pleasure anyways."
*Whip*
I can't anymore...Please....Stop.....Somebody please...
As I begged for help because of the pain I then suddenly saw an image in my memory of a pretty person who smiled and hugged me in my dreams.
!?
Doll san....
All of a sudden, when I remembered that memory, a warm fuzzy feeling embraced me and before I knew it the feeling of pain started disappear from my body making me surprised.
[Sorry....]
Huh!!?
A voice!?
I don't know who it was but I definitely heard someone's voice from somewhere. But not only that I also felt something different.
Not painful?
Eeh!!???
The pain?? is gone??
Am I imaging this?
Confused....I looked towards the woman who again have the same look and smile as she hurts me. She raised her whip again making my eyes follow the end of the whip out of instinct, and when she then flicked it I reflexively closed my eyes and expected the pain to arrive.
"HAHAHAHA"
*Whip*
Eep!!!
I felt something hit my body so I let out a shriek but I suddenly noticed that something felt different.
!!?
Eeh?
The pain....didn't arrived to me...
*Whip*
Something again hit my body, but this time, it didn't hurt at all just like before.
What's happening?
I don't know why but the whip is not hurting me anymore, but even so, when I look towards the whip, I still couldn't help but feel scared.
.....
"Huh? Why are you not screaming anymore?"
*Whip*
"Hey!!"
*Whip*
The woman continued whipping me but when she realized that I stopped screaming anymore, she then stopped and kicked me towards the wall.
I was blown to the wall and fell back to the ground ,but again ,it didn't hurt....
"Huh??"
I didn't looked towards the woman anymore, instead, I just looked on the floor without saying anything.
"Hey hey hey, Are we done already? say something?"
....
"Tsk....broken already? Fine..."
The woman sighed and clicked her tongue before turning around and leaving the room while shutting the door, leaving me behind curled up on the floor inside the dark room with blood on the wall behind me.
I stayed lying down on the ground while listening to the footsteps of the woman that started to fade away to the distance.
Is she...gone?
After reassuring myself that she was finally gone away, I sighed a breath of exhaustion and completely surrendered myself to rest for a bit.
"Finally.....at peace....."
I stayed like this while not thinking about anything anymore, all I want right now is to catch my breath and rest.
I breathed in some air and relaxed my body. I don't want to waste this opportunity to finally get a rest so I stayed quiet and calmed myself.
After staying like for a few more while, I then have saved some of my remaining energy to allow me crawling back towards the bed and climbing up on top of it.
I then saw my doll that was just lying down there besides the pillow.
....Doll san.
I picked up the doll and then embraced it on my chest.
"Did you saved me?"
...
I asked her if she saved me but.....
.....
"Doll san?"
...
There were no answer coming out from the doll as I expected, but this time, I don't find myself being disappointed with it.
Rather all I could feel right now is being grateful and thankful to her....
Doll san saved me and that is all than enough for me. I am so happy that she is here with me just like what she told me back in the dream.
"Really....Thank you very much...."
I really want to tell her that. She was by my side and she didn't left me alone.
Really....
"I'm so...very....grate...full."
I felt my strength leaving my body. It seems like the exhaustion of the day is catching up to me.
....
...
"Doll.....san...."
My vision slowly turned blurred as my eyes slowly closed and after that, I can't make my eyes open anymore....
So...tired...
And before I knew it, I fell asleep because of exhaustion.