Tara Chione Crowther Abdelaal
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I also learned that she had tried to abort me, but didn't succeed, which made the pregnancy dangerous, and I was born premature at 6 months old. Also how she managed to have me in August, after having my half-sister in January 30th. She told me it all as if it was nothing, as if I was a robot with no emotions who wouldn't get hurt by her words.
To my credit, I managed to keep the tears away, that saved a bit of my dignity.
Then, they told me they would give me one year to learn everything I needed to know at 10 years, because they would send me to Hallstein Academy in next year, to act as their heiress, because their real heiress and their son were disguised as common students there. They needed the heiress to stand out at my expense. If I did that, they would give me a good monthly allowance for someone who was an orphan in the streets, and shelter me, feed me, and give me clothes and a room for myself.
But for that, I would need to learn everything and act like a Princess, like a heiress would. Of course, I accepted it, because it meant I would be able to learn things, to live, even if at a cost.
Then I met their kids... the heiress Cleopatra, and the second child, their son Chisisi, going by Cleo and Chian. At first, I thought they were good kids, my half-siblings, one older and one younger, but they were not, they were repulsed by me being a bastard, and they were mean, vile, and vicious to me. But I took it all, because it was better than the streets, than living in the edge, compared to the literal monsters I fought to stay alive, they were nothing.
That was when I was named Chione and given their surnames, and they prohibited me from ever pronouncing my real name again. I conceded. There was nothing I could do, so, I kept my real name in my heart, and I began to answer to be called Chione, and the irritating nickname Chi-Chi. I hated it, but I owned it.
But when I began to ace every subject they handed me, quickly and perfectly, they saw an even better use for me in the academy, rather than learning for myself, I would learn to do all of Cleo's assignments, since she is dumb and Chian isn't, and he was apparently the one doing hers before, which was a bit off hand, given how he was in a grade under hers. Not just that, but she would do mine and I would do hers, making me have the bad grades she should have gotten, while I would be responsible for giving her the top 1 stop in the academy.
Nerin assigned me a personality, a big and detailed file on how I should act, on how I should pick fights with Cleo and become the villain of her story there, while she would rise in everyone's eyes, and I would decay and be hated. Just like acting, I was assigned to act in a way that would make people perceive me this way.
When I turned 15 years old, I was given the left sole dorm of the golden tower in the academy, through the money of Nerin, as they freed the top of two of the twenty towers for the students of year 10, until the last year. One for girls, one for boys, each with two sole dorms, where one would be given to the top student and the other could be taken with money. Which got me in the top of the tower with Cleo, all she wanted to torment my existence.
Cleo has three types of magic: air, teleportation, and a mental ability that allows her to get into the mind of others and force them to tell her all she want to know. She always loved using the third one against me, to force me to tell her who I had a crush on in the moment, who I didn't like, who I thought to hate her, and other things I would not tell her, or anyone. Thankfully, she was not intelligent enough to ask me the right questions, and she can only use it on me until I'm able to control all of my power better than she does hers.
Which I can't do... since my dad sealed 80% of my power. The 20% I have isn't enough to fight anyone back with magic, so Cleo and Chian constantly bully me and put me back together so nobody will notice, since he has air, teleportation, and healing magic. And I have no idea how to unsealed it, since my dad did it in a... way that only his order knows, an order we fight against, an order he went against to raise me outside of their realm.
Then, Cleo goes and takes my crush, she dates them, makes them fall for her, them plays victim and breaks up, but in a way they will still crave for her. She does that just to prove to me she's better than me, that she has the power, and that now that I gave her the good girl fame, I'm alone, nobody will want to be with a wicked girl like me. She has no idea of how wicked I can really be, but I still can't fight it, not yet.
They have a plan to act like she's the lost real daughter and Chian too, and I'm an impostor, and they will put it in action in our junior year, when we turn 22, after winter, in the middle of the year, so they will spend half of junior year and our last year as Royals. I'll potentially lose my scholarship if I can't do anything until then, and I only have... six months.
Junior year started a week ago, we are both 22, Chian is 21, and they are all treating me even worse than before, they are certain they will get rid of me when that happens. Everyone think I'm magically weak because of the seal, Nerin believes that it's because I was born at 6 months old, extremely premature, and even the people in the academy look down on me because of it. If they knew... if they knew what I actually am, the power I have, who I am, they wouldn't look down on me.
There has been no precedent of any high ranking demon attacking a child, in fact, there's no record of people under 15 ever being attacked at all.