Unfolded Love: Slaughter

Prologue

"Here's your uniform," the school faculty handed the uniform to Chelsey as she smiled shyly. It was her first time attending school and her first time going out for school. Although it was not her first time to study, it flattered her the first time pursuing her studies not at home.

It was not her idea not to study in the outside world but her dad. At first, she was hesitant. Her dad taught her life would be cruel and so do people outside of her comfort zone. Life had been that way for her. She was just at home for most of her life.

"Shall we go now, Ms. Chelsey?" her nanny Anne asked. She has been taking care of her since she was a baby and she has been blessed around her arms. She treated her like her own mom now.

Chelsey stopped for a minute, she was thinking of something she could ask before proceeding.

"Can I walk around, just by myself, please?" She was pleased. She was trying her best. Chelsey knew that her Nanny Anne would not allow her to do so. Especially doing it alone.

"No –"her nanny Anne quickly answered but was intruded right away.

"Please?" she pleaded again before her nanny could finish her statement.

"Ms. Chelsey? You know how your Dad hates that idea. He will surely get angry if he knew about this." Chelsey stopped when she heard how her nanny Anne used her dad as an excuse. She hated it. Chelsey knew that her dad loves her but she knew there was something wrong with that kind of love.

"And he will not figure it out without you letting him know, Nanny Anne!" she answered, trying to win the argument. Her Nanny Anne then took a deep breath. She did not want to deal with childish arguments.

"Alright! I will be waiting outside, call me if anything goes wrong." Her nanny Anne said in disappointment.

"Surely, I will." She smiled. It brought her nanny a suspicious look and discomfort.

"What?" She frowned.

"Promise me, you are not doing anything Chelsey" Nanny Anne reassured again.

"Exactly! I promise." She sighed

Nanny Anne was assertive she would not do anything foolish. She could guarantee she could defend herself as at a young age she was taught to defend herself.

She started taking her footsteps away from her nanny. She found roaming around her eyes touching the ornaments surrounding the hallway heading to the facilities for the middle grades. In the midst of wandering, something took her attention, until she reached one of those establishments she has been eyeing on. One of those rooms could be her room, surely, and found it great. She took more steps to look closer for it. Indeed, she was quite surprised how the rooms looked like seeing those personally, impressive.

"Cawww... rrrr...rrrr"

Chelsey covered her mouth, trying to pull herself together from her shivering body, trying to take her tears away from falling down her cheeks. She was taken aback. She was just a bundle of nerves witnessing the scene. It is a craw, it fell from the peak of the building, wriggling violently, shedding its own blood over his body. It kept on wriggling, from its legs to its neck, and cawed for the last time. A fine cold breeze made her shiver at worst as her long blonde hair moved away by the wind before she could find herself again.

She took a glimpse of herself from the shadow of the sun rays over her composing herself to take another step away from the building, and went back to her nanny.

"Something went wrong?" her nanny asked in worry.

"N-nothing, we can go now!" she simply answered.

Chelsey was staring outside the car, on their way home. She could still feel how her body has not recovered from the shock it experienced witnessing the craw. It could be something that has appalling meaning as how horrifying it appeared out of a sudden.

"Ever find your new school interesting?"

"Hmmm.mmm" she hummed and nodded in agreement.

*******

"Dad?" Chelsey tried to knock on her dad's room but no one responded. She looked at her dad's door where it was slightly open. One was there. Where is her dad?

"Dad? I'm going to ask you something. I'm coming in."

Chelsey was thinking about his dad's idea of sending her to school. A real school, and not what she was used to–home-schooled. She didn't think of the slightest idea that her dad would do this.

Maybe because her dad didn't really love her? She noticed that. Everyone would notice that if you would ask me. Chelsey's mom died when she was a kid.

And growing up, all she wanted was love. Maybe not from her mom because they didn't spend much time together. She has always been longing for the love of her parents but having only her dad, she got nothing from him.

Chelsey would always doubt how she inherited her mom's face. It doubted her if it was her dad's reason that he never showed love unto her. She doubted when he would realize her presence.

She needs a change. She needs to make her dad proud. She needs to do something.

"Dad?" No one responded.

Her dad's room was in a mess. Papers, photos, documents were shattered on the floor and it looked like her dad had gone into the wild? She was searching for him around the corner. She could not feel his dad's presence. She thought of cleaning the room, and picked all those papers up.

For a moment, something caught her mind to think of a paper. She picked it up from where she stop it, and wondered what it was.

That was when she realized that she needed to go to school and made her dad proud. He will see.