Affected

Sharp

"I'm different." Ella was alone with her and everything was all in white even their dresses.

"Of course. You are capable yet you do not compete. You know the importance between your ego and your survival. You're height is way short but your dream reach up to the sky. You may seem weak... but deep inside of you is an eagle flying from above."

"I'm no one." 

"You are more gifted." Ella faced her. 

"How?"

"You...you're Sharp. And, you know what's different between us?" Ella saw her grinned. 

"You're real and I'm you...and I live here...in your mind palace."

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[ELLA'S POV]

"ELLLAAAAAA!!!!"

My drunk father screamed. I woke up in reality. I have been sitting there in meditation-pose. My vision of myself vanished. 

"Useless! What are you doing?"

"It's college's exam, I'm studying."

"You really that would help you? Buy me cigarette! Be useful!" He pushed me out of the door. 

When I was trying my best to get out of this poverty, people see it differently they wanted the easy way, but there was never one. They complain to gods of their status even though they didn't even believe in one. 

When other students study with their books. I study with my mind, the only resources I have. 

After buying it, I passed by Mr. Tony's welding-shop. Mr. Tony was talking to someone out of the shop.  I got the two metal rings in my pocket then then a broken edge of a knife. I entered the workingspace of Mr. Tony. 

This has been my project. I know my life is in danger. In this world, I am my own hero. 

I hide my small self and grabbed his welding materials then waited for the train to passby.  When the noisy train came, I attached the edge of the knife to the metal ring I have. Luckily for me. Mr. Tony went further away to urinate. Then I continued welding. 

"Hey!!!!! "

I stopped. He noticed my presence. 

"Your dead!!!" he shouted and chased me. 

I then rushed out away from his shop like flash. I know, I'm short, but my determination greater than his. My small build body was able to get in the piled trashes from the sideway. 

"Where's she?" Mr. Tony then run to the other side to find me. 

I was so happy to achieve something. I was even walking home while jumping from happiness. "I could actually be in an action hero movie. I just smell like trash!"

"Ahhhhh!" I heard my mother screamed. Then I rushed toward her while her screamed continued to eco. 

"Mom!!" she's on the floor. 

"Ella!" My father was holding with her a rod in front of my bleeding mother. 

"I told you to buy cigarettes!" He was coming toward me. My eyes were about to pop out as I saw how big the rod was, I step back but it was the door. I have only to choices to join my mother in my father's beating or to leave my mother alone. 

"Think, Ella! You're wiser than this!" "You're no ordinary" I heard myself talking. When my father was toward me, everything turned into slow-motion. I noticed the picture frame and vases my mother displayed on the side-table. My father was not wearing slippers he was to drunk to find his own mind how much more his slipper. 

Then it felt like the moment was played into normal motion. 

"No! please!" I acted and went to that table. I then stumble myself to the table and the pushed out the frames and vase to spread it out to the floor in front of my father. The everything was sharp and broken when he took a step toward me. 

"Ahhh!" he shouted in pain. He even took another step and I noticed one strong glass went through the flesh of his foot. 

"Oh! I'm sorry." 

I rushed out toward my mother. 

"get out of here."

"what?"

My father was cursing

"He sold you!"

"What?"

"Someone's gonna take you away."

I went to my pillow and tear it apart. Then I took out a lot of rings with sharpened knife like tip. Then I took out my high heels except that the heel was form as a sharp knife.

As I noticed a group of man were walking toward our house. I went out of my room to see my bleeding father in front of me. 

"I'm sorry." This time my tears were real. Then I grab the thread installed in my door and then a metal ball fall on his head. He lost his consciousness and I stormed out to get my mother. We rushed to the back door. 

"Hey! What happened here?" a man shouted when he saw the mess on our house. 

"They are escaping!" 

When we were on the dark place I then hid her somewhere.

"I know what I'm doing! I know this place better than you! "

I directed there attention from the other side of the way. 

"She's there." I run as fast as I can even through darkness. Once I got out of the shortcut, it brought me to an unfinished cement road. It was all dark.

"You made us all run."

"You're dead!"

"Are you now wearing your heels?" 

"Were not going to prom."

Then they all laughed. I was standing tall with my heels. they can saw me from the reflection of the street light way from the other side. 

"1-2-3-4" I counted each of them.

"Go grab her."  Then the street light went out living everything all blacked out.

"It's automatic." I speak out. 

"Ouch!!!" one of them screamed in pain. 

"What was that?"

"Ahhh. one of them shouted again."

Then the streetlight turned on and they saw me away from them still on the cemented road with my heels on. the other guys was on the floor with his tendon broken and bleeding, the other guy was holding side of the stomach also bleeding. 

"What happened?"

Then I show them my knuckles filled with rings that has knife edges filled with blood. "I hit them on the vital part it would be hard for them to move."

"You think you could finish us with that?"

"of course not, that's why I added some spices to it." I grinned and throw them the bottle. "Oh! don't touch that. It was venom."

"Grab her!" 

I  moved away. I'm still counting for the lights to turn-off. I kicked him with my knife heels and made a scratch on his face. 

He continued to attack me and almost got a hold on my arms. Then the lights went out. I was able to made a scratch of him on the neck. 

"One left.'

"I'm impressed. You're short  that's why you used heels to your advantage. You choose this cement road to move comfortably. You lived here in this urban jungle you must got a lot of poison from here. You know when the lights turned on/off" 

"You're wise"

"And younger plus handsome."  "I'm different just like you and that made us the same. That made me want to buy you. " Then lights turned on but he's gone. 

"See? I'm different." he spoke behind me.