Freaks

Chapter 5- Click Clack

That night Eden lied awake. She layed on the cold floor with an itchy yet comfortable blanket wrapped around her.

Her brother to her side, his curly head resting on her outspread arm and little hands wrapped around her torso tightly.

A calm Lina laid on the bed with a tired Lisa cuddling with the child. Both eyes shut, in another land of bliss which us humans call dreams.

Everything seemed so peaceful and innocent in the room, only if you were an outsider of course.

What sold it? The way the atmosphere was peaceful as everyone soundlessly slept. The little sound of whimpers and the slight breathing that was a sign of life.

Except a certain someone in the room could not relate, Eden, the whole night she couldn't help but to think of the events earlier and it didn't help that she had exams tomorrow that she had barely studied for.

Jimin, Taehyung, and Jungkook saw what had happened between her parents.She couldn't help but to feel embarrassed, they didn't even know her that well.

Her own friends didn't even see her family problems. She couldn't help but to scold herself  for letting them see her home life.

She wasn't one to care on what sort of "advice" people would give her.

Except a certain boy's.

Jungkook's words rang in her head all night long.

"that isn't love."

Is what the taller man said while holding a small child and looking deep into Eden's eyes. He's didn't look sympathetic, just telling her how it had to be said.

She knew he was completely right, that isn't love. She always thought that her parents yelled at eachother out of love.

That isn't true.

Her father slapping her across the face? Isn't love.

But she still loved him, and she knew he loved her too. He just wasn't the best at it.

She felt like screaming, crying , whimpering, hurting herself.....

But she couldn't. She was in a room with three other people. She couldn't make a sound. Silence consumed her. She didn't like the silence.

She slowly took her arm out from underneath the child's head.  Slowly placing his head onto a pillow by instead. Then slowly took his little hands off her and shimmied out the sheets.

She slowly opened the door to the room and walked down the hall, her bare feet touching the cold wooden floors that seemed to be freezing compared to the ones in Lisa's room. She then got to a specific door down the hall, she turned the door knob, and slid herself through the gap she had made for herself and felt so relieved.

She was in the bathroom.

The brown skinned girl looked up into the mirror, both of her hands clutching the slightly wet sink underneath her. As she looked at herself she couldn't help but to think how pathetic the other person in the mirror was, looking back with big glossy eyes.

She watched as the other girl in the mirrors face had a slightly red mark on her cheek, how her hands and jaw were shaking.

That's when it happened.

Tears falling from her beautiful eyes.

They fell and fell to no end. She bit the inside of her mouth, destroying it. Biting her lip, making it dry. Eden watched as the girl began to shake, shaking her head as if refusing the tears.