Crimson Aqua

The Party

Part three lets do this! Now the time difference between part one and part was about elven years, and while that is a big leap it was needed. I will be doing other time leaps but as of now it will only be a few days or even a few hours, nothing big. I will also inform you guys of the time leaps as I have been. Don't forget to comment if you like or even if you don't! Now back to the story!

1892 Saint Elizabeth's Academy Dorm Room

I quickly and quietly packed the rest of my belongings away in my bag and trunk. I would be returning home today for my summer break away from the academy. I sighed as I hoped I would be able to see my father more then I had last summer. He was the only family I had left, so when he wasn't home I was either with Miss Katlyn or basically by myself. Miss Katlyn had been my Governess since my mother's passing many years ago, she convinced my father it was best for me to have her as my Governess. Especially seeing how my father isolated us from the town of Masre after my mother's death.

My home was just right outside of Masre in a town called Misqic, which was smaller then Masre. Our house was set towards the beginning of ten acres of land that we owned. Most of that land had been plowed for cotton and tobacco plants, my father didn't want the land to be not used so he decided to invest in those particular plants.

The house was enormous, even with just my father, Miss Katlyn and I. When I had asked my father why he had gotten such a enormous house, all he said was he 'thought it would be better'. At the time I didn't question my father and just accepted the new building as our home, but as time passed I truly realized why he did. It was to paint a glided cage for me, when I was a child I was just excited to roam around the house to find new or different hiding spots when I hid from Miss Katlyn or the butlers and maids. But as I grew up I saw what my house was, a prison. My father being the protective man he was, wasn't about to let his only child be harmed by anything or anyone. Even if he was away a lot of the time, he made double sure that the house was safe, secure and guarded. I wanted for nothing, everything I needed was in that house, but when a bird realizes it is caged and will never be free to fly again, its spirit slowly breaks down.

I didn't want to remain a bird in a glided cage but what could I do? I didn't want to hurt my father and tell him I didn't want to be in the house. I held back my feelings and acted accordingly to what Miss Katlyn had advised. Over the years I had learned it was better to keep silent and act the perfect doll instead of speaking out. If it would keep my father happy, than who was I to try and do the opposite? My father had been through so much, I didn't have the heart to change things in fear of breaking the only family I had left.

Miss Katlyn had never been a kind woman to me, she would acted less harsh when my father was around but as soon as he was gone it was back to her normal witch-like self. Of course to her it was a 'necessary' thing to do, in order to turn me into a 'proper lady' as she called it. Her harsh attitude was just the start of her 'teaching methods', as I aged her punishments got harsher and violent. I had been beaten down so many times I had stopped counting and stopped getting up. I learned to just do what I was told in order to get away from her as much as I could, which helped but not always.

I had kept quiet about all of it but one time, not that it did much. The one time I had run to my father to get him to understand that she wasn't the good woman she betrayed, but my father didn't believe me. He just thought I was acting out as well as trying to get rid of her, I had tried and tried to get him to understand but it worked for naught. Either he didn't want to believe me or didn't understand how cruel she was to me but either way when Miss Katlyn found out, it didn't turn out well for me.

I sighed deeply as I reminisced about my past summers with and without my father when I heard a loud knock at my door. I placed my combs and brushes down as I went to answer the door and was displeased to see Miss Katlyn behind it. I quickly opened the door wide enough to let her in and closed it quietly behind her. Her eyes looked around the room at my belongings with a scowl on her face and when she was finished examining all of my things she quickly turned to me and scoffed,